Home Center steering wheel bullet center cap thingy

So I was bored this afternoon and took a trip to one of them Home supply centers, and found myself in the chain link fence section. There on a shelf with the rest of the ugly hardware is a box full of those aluminum post caps. Hmm, looks like it would make a fine steering wheel horn cone! Paid the $5 and off I go to the garage. I cut a ring from some s**** exhaust pipe, and a circular sheetmetal disk, grabbed the mig, and, well, here's some pix. Not bad for 20 minutes of work and $5.

Here's the fence post cap.



Here's the exhaust pipe ring and circular disk.



After welding from the backside and bolted up to the removable steering wheel/hub.



Cap installed via friction-fit!


And the finished product installed on the column.



A little polish, and 1 step closer to finished!

 

Man I would be scared of that in a wreck!

 

Sammy Davis Jr. would've loved it!

 

You guys do wear seat belts, right?!

 

huh..looks like it came off my fence post..whats up with that?

im just messing with you..

 

you should have completed the theme and covered up that nice column with a fence post.

 

lol!

 

i wonder what it would look like in a wheel ,as a center cap?

 

I tried it. It looks great! If I didn't already have baby moons, I'd do that.

 

glad you have thick skin and humor!!

 

That looks ***s or *** at least

nice turn sig switch too

sometimes you have to think outside the box , that's a nice simple tech piece.

 

Oh heck yeah. And I can laugh at myself too. My psychiatrist says that's good.

 

Hahah! I absolutely LOVE the turn signal switch! Awesome quality. It's probably the nicest part of my truck! Thanks, dude!!

 

Very creative!

 

Ilove it! I made one for my T from a bullet i bought at a swap meet.

 

That's what I used on my wheel, but I cut off the "ridge" and everything below it. Sometimes less is more. $1.47 at Home Depot.

Bob

 

Nice. How did you mount it to the wheel?

 

Very cool .Now your fence post is missing a cap I take it.

 

Similar to your method. A plate with a sleeve and hole for a screw to hold the cap on, held down by the bolts that bolt the wheel to the adapter. Here's a not so great photo that was on my iphone.

Bob

 

Now that is a true hot rodder mind at work !
Good job and way cheaper that the ones at the car shows !

RetroJim

 

Nah. My neighbors' down the block!

 

Whats the diameter on these??? You say they fit as a center cap on wheels too???

 

That is cool! Great idea.

**** make a grip of em and sell em on Ebay!!

 

The inside diameter is 2-3/8", OD is probably about 2-5/8". To fit my rear axles, I'd need to make a bushing on the lathe; the axle hole is a bit larger. Same for the front, but the opposite; would need to turn an adaptor to fit over the bearing hub. Both would be easy to do on the lathe. Maybe if I get bored again......it would give people more reasons to make fun of me, anyway!

 

I like that. Could be a good housing for a tachometer.

 

Yep Or tail light housings.....or for a clock. All sorts of cool ideas! Keep em comin!

 

pretty cool idea!

 

So you'd need to fab something up to press it into the backside of the wheel???