Harley -Davidson Sportster turn signal,oil pressure,high beam,and neutral indicator lamps are fairly inexpensive and they come red,green and blue.they have alot of uses in the dash panel.
A bit off topic, I used a snow shovel handle to make an exhaust pipe for a Cushman truckster. Right dia and needed a very minor bend to fit perfect.
Heres one for ya,back in the 70s a freinds Dad was/still is into Cords/Packards/Pierce Arrows,anyway a week before a HUGE national concours he dicovered that the steering colum was to be chrome and his was black so he went to Pay n Pak (lowes) and got a piece of chrome drain pipe for under the sink and slipped it over the stock one,and the day of loading to go his son broke the outide mirror so he got one of those round stick on ones and poped it into the space..........ended up best of show and class to this day I doubt anybody knows the truth on that
they were called LEGGS my girldfriend used to get them we made a grill for my friends 55 F-100 looked bitchin.....
Has easter eggs been mentioned yet ,Also Dryer sheets ....................Lol Only thing that I have seen that caught my eye was bicycle chain a guy used for progressive linkage ....
If you have a guy you sell your scrap to, as I do, or the guy you take your beer cans to, ask him about aluminum sheet, stainless and old brass plumbing parts, they don't care about this stuff and only see a per pound weight, they only mark it up to the mills about double which is still cheap, you can find some real cool old brass shower heads out there and hell yeah they can be made into headlights. If you can ask him if he has other guys he knows that he takes his salvageable sheet to, some are smart and get max buck for stuff that is still useable, if you can't find nice shower head at the scrap yard go to the local faucet parts guy, we got a guy in Chi town here who has all this old stuff layin around, a lot of it looks like junk even to me, but you can pick up some cool handles and accessories that can be artfully adapted to fit your need and none will be the wiser.
If your new gages are a bit too small for the holes in the dash, go to the local hardware store and "Stanley " makes flush mount sliding door pulls, like you have in a sliding clothing door closet. Grind the back out, slowley so you don't dis-color the chrome finish and slip your gage into the door pull and you have a perfect bezel.
Don't waste your money on degreaser/carb cleaner. Read this and Pine Sol will be a regular on your shopping list: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=560117
best post of this thread, thats the difference between guys who build real cars, and gold chainers, the entire point of building your car, is to use what you can find, custom car guys have been doing it for years. if you build your own parts out of other peoples junk, you won't see the same thing on every other car. people have forgotten how much fun it is to use your brain, and figure things out on your own. I think it would be boring to use a catalog, anyone can bolt something together, if someone else makes the pieces. dumpsters are great!! you wouldn't believe what people throw away, I came home lugging some of those really heavy bed rails the other day, my wife wanted to know what for? have you seen the price of heavy angle iron lately? I can make all kinds of brackets and pieces from those.
I used the same stanley garage door hande on my 32,people asked me what it was cause of the "art deco" look and its about 20% smaller than a 32......always told them it was off a 1925 Jewett runabout................(yes there was a Jewett car)
I use propane fittings for electric fuel pumps and lines. same as AN fittings but heavier. The sizes are the same for 9/16 up but I think 3/8`s might be different. I have to degrease a engine block tomarrow, would oven cleaner work? or is that for painted parts. Mark
Don't put oven cleaner on anything aluminum or magnesium. I'm pretty sure over cleaner has to be cooked to work? Maybe i'm wrong...
no oven cleaner like easyoff will take the anodizing off of aluminum, thats if it has been anodized. i remember in my street bike days, thats how i polished my frame of my bike back in the day!
I used EASY-OFF to clean the axle setup under my 56,dont think it was ever really cleaned when the car was built in the 70s.it worked great just stay on top of it
had to replace hood lock cable (solid wire like old lawn mower throttle cable) on my stude, went to wally world got a tune up brake kit for a 10 speed bike, enough flex cable and sleeve to replace it with extra cable left over.
It`s a bare block. Too bad I can`t soak it in Pine-sol for a few days. Those carbs look nice. It supposed to be hot, so I think I`ll stick with degreaser and a pressure washer. Then maybe I`ll clean the block! Mark
LOVE the make what ya need philosophy on this thread. not exactly a walmart find but my little roadster started life as a phaeton and when i got it, it had no rear bulkhead at all. my solution was not just cheap it was free! i wandered a friends dead import selection and found an 88 isuzu pickup tailgate. cut away all the shit that didnt look right, welded it in and badabing! rear bulkhead. the cool part is i got a double wall panel outta the deal and put on inside facing backwards, it even looks right with all the factory strengthening ribs.
OK. For all you people looking for cheap stainless exshaught tubing, look for dairy supply or repair ( CASH talks) . If you want perfect weldes ,talk to the guy's who do the food grade weldes. Nice sh*t.
Go to Home Depot or Menards and head to the Floresent light fixture section and look for a sheet of the hard plastic 1/4"- 3/8' square egg crate replacement mesh that is for your recessed lighting. Looks just like egg crate mesh - anyway cut it to size for your inner front radiator housing and slide it between your radiator and radiator housing and walla - simple clean radiator grille mesh. It's about a 1/2" thick and even the biggest bugs hit the mesh and never make it to your radiator. Less than $ 10.00 or so for a single sheet Cob
Cant believe no one else has mentioned this yet, but here goes.............. Hand rails for bathroom stalls and showers, stainless, chrome, or powder coated, and many different lengths = Bed rails for a truck!!!!!
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