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GerryL

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I am currently taking pictures as I dissasemble my TR3. I would like to find a tutorial showing how I can modify the digital picture to contain arrows with associated comments. This would help me when I go to assemble the TR3 in the future.
 
A lot depends on what you are using for software. Most I have seen have an edit feature. Once you open it you should be able to add text and draw in arrows. You can never have enough picture or notes. Things that look so familiar when you take them apart look really foreign a year later when you go to put them back together. I know I keep saying this but go to an electrical supply and pick up a book of wire markers they can be used on wires and terminals and just about anything else. I even took pictures of things like my solonoid with the markers on the wires.
 
The wire markers/numbers worked great for me. Where ever I removed a connection I put a small piece of wire where it came from with a number and on the actual wire a corresponding number. It made re assembly of my dash pretty effortless.
 
I use MGI Photosuite. Its an old one but still works for me. Probably something better. Have you looked at Google's Picasa. Not sure if you can draw or write on the pix, though. Never tried to.
 
I find the factory Service Instruction Manual pretty handy in this regard, although I'm a big fan of digital pix as well...
 
I have used Picnik in the past if I needed to lable and upload a photo.

https://www.picnik.com/

Cheers,
M. Pied Lourd
 
When I pulled my car apart, it was before I had a digital camera. I would take things apart and put small associated pieces with the hardware in clear plastic bags, like freezer bags, with an index car stuffed in there with whatever info I felt was necessary. Since there is a lot of specialty hardware on these cars, that proved to be a godsend when putting things back together. I also had a log of the <span style="font-weight: bold">order</span> that I took things apart. I just followed it in reverse order putting back together. This way I wasn't sitting there looking at the wiper cable assembly after I had the whole dashboard in! Since I had parts spread out throughout the house and garage, I also had in the log the location of the parts. When I bought new parts, they went into the location log as well.
 
Microsoft Paint is ok, and I use it at times, but I prefer to use Paint.net a freeware product in that it is much more robust.

https://www.getpaint.net/
 
I had good luck with the "baggy" method also. I separated boxes of bags for dash, rear, engine comparment, etc, so I wasn't searching thru dozens of bags when it came to reassembly time. I found,however, that as the "freshening" process moved along I felt uncomfortable putting some of the old hardware back, so I put the new stuff in with the old. Ended up with a lot of baggies but a better looking car, I think.
Gordon
 
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