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dcsgguy:
I did a real jimmy rig on the job.  Basically I gorilla glued the metal tabs to the bottom sides of the holes, then filled in the holes from the top with bondo.

Sanded it all down and voila, a blank CP.  Except now I have those metal tabs on the bottom that I don't think I can get off.  Plus I don't know what will happen when I drill new holes through the bondo...

So where can I get a new metal CP?  Can I just take my existing one somewhere and they can recreate it?

waveryder:
Thats what I did. I just took mine to a fabrication works and had a few laser cut one for me out of steel, wasnt expensive. I didnt have any luck patching the original this is probably because my button layout crossed heavily into the patches. I would wait to see CheffoJeffo's. If a patch is possible without weakening the panel it would save you a lot of time. My £0.02

CheffoJeffo:
Sorry -- I'm not yanking the panel out of the cab (and it's not that interesting with the plates on the bottom and the overlay on top).

There are some links in the wiki that I referred to above that show the process those folks have used (which I copied).

FWIW, I would never think of removing the metal plates I used as backing (even if I could) ... is that the difference ? I can't see how, between an adhesive CPO and the backing plates, that the fill would pop out.


dcsgguy:
Ya I did what one of those wiki's suggested about a year ago.  bad news for me is that I was going through a divorce and I wasn't thinking too straight.  I should have just left all the holes like they were and patched the ones I didn't use.

Instead I thought it would be better to patch everything then and just redrill new holes when I was ready.

So anyone from here near Pittsburgh that knows a fabrication shop I can get a new piece of sheet metal for this made?

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