[T3] Beauty Rings

[Gary Forsmo]

>Yes, because it's an electrolytic dip process. It's hard to dip just
>one side. There are places who do anodizing in Milwaukee and also
>Green Bay. I don't think there are any in Madison. I don't know if
>there are problems with re-anodizing.

Jim, do you have the anodizing source names?

>I probably have a few of these somewhere. They would just be Monets
>(as in, they look good from a distance, but not close up) but that's
>all you need for a car.

What?  Are you referring to Oscar-Claude Monet ... as in the
impressionist painter?
Having been trained as an artist, art teacher, commercial artist, I
happen to think Monet's paintings look great up close, as well as at a
distance.
I want MY beauty rings to look close up.  "all you need for a car"?
It's not JUST a car; it's a Type 3.  :-)

>VW had different part numbers for trim rings for beetles and for type
>3s. The real VW ones have the # stamped near the inner edge. But they
>had at least 2 different versions, probably from different vendors
>and probably supplied in parallel at the same time. So just getting
>another original one from another '69 Type 3 does not guarantee
>getting a match.

My "originals" have a very small part number stamped in the edge.
I'll have to look at them and make a record of the VW number.

>The major difference I can remember is whether they had the grey
>rubber grommet around the valve stem hole or not. Some did, some
>didn't. Both were OE.

All of my beauty rings DO have the gray rubber grommet in the valve stem hole.

And, Dave, thanks for your input.
So after the aluminium is anodized, the anodized surface can be polished?

Gary "Frito" - '69 Variant, FI, MT
Rockport, TX (winter)
Lake Geneva, WI (summer)