Solid Wood Dash
Peter,
I am not sure if the following applies to your situation.
My late father's 400 dash was broken into multiple pieces. The old fellow took the the broken parts to an outfit who had a CNC router and he commissioned the shop to make a new dash in the timber of his choice - in this case, good quality Western Australian "Jarrah". If the timber is good enough to make railway sleepers, it is mechanically strong enough for dash boards!
My dad noted that the 400s have particularly thin timber in the 400 dash and the Aussie sun really punishes the wood of course.
Father stained the timber to match the matching reclaimed wooden trim.
He also also used "Araldite" (wood to metal glue) to glue a 1.00mm aluminium backing plate onto the wooden dash in a bid to keep the thin replacement dash board wood straight. I figure that the replacement dash should last another 60 years or so.
B.
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