I know this has been covered before, but damned if I can find it. How would I go about making my own shift knob. You can buy an 8 ball anywhere. Maybe even a Jesse James autographed one at Autozone. But I have a 2 ball. My thought was since my car was my Dad's first car and it's about to start the Second phase of its hot rod life with me, the #2 made sense. Sound dumb? Maybe. Give me a break... how many more skull and 8 ball shifter cars does the world need. My wheels aren't going to be red either.
Find a nut the size of the threads on your shifter. Drill a hole in the ball. PC-7 that little ol' nut right on in there. Screw it on. Turn some gears. JOE
I did one with a 5 ball. Put it up in the drill press, drilled the hole out and then tapped it. I ran a die over the shifter handle ( it was a column shift ) and threaded it on. Pretty simple actually. Doug
That easy huh? Cool. I thought I remembered someone saying the balls are prone to cracking when you drill them. That not so? Ric, did you just tap the core, or did you sleeve it? As you can see, I'm getting ancy to get my car going. My keyboard racing is at an all tme high. It doesn't even run yet! Once my buddies get back from the Round up and I can get back into his garage (where the car is) I hope to have good progress to report... in about 10 days.
[ QUOTE ] ...My wheels aren't going to be red either. [/ QUOTE ] Now, that's blasphemy!!! Shoot him, THEN we'll hang him! AND, what do you plan on using on the pool table Mr. Smarty Pants?!?
use the drill press, set the ball in a chunk of wood with a hole in it to keep it stable and drill right in the middle of the opposite number on the ball, thread the hole and yer done.. best part is they are free at your local dive bar! Paul
You shouldn't have any problem drilling or tapping the pool ball. No need to sleve it either. If the number is not square when it is threaded on, file a flat spot around the hole and use a jamb nut. TZ
I did a couple of poolballs for shifknobs . .. Took a 3/8-inch T-nut from the hardware store . . . basically a threaded tube with a flange; the flange has prongs that dig into a piece of wood so you can have threads in wood. I cut/ground the flange off, then drilled the poolball to the OD of the tube and epoxied it into the ball. Works good. Steve.
heres an alternate idea. I work for a lawn and garden R&D facility and at times I am given pistons that were in some small way defective. I carve flames and iron crosses in them and then add neon lights or sometimes I jest paint them or ingrave them. They look pretty cool I'll post a couple pics when I get the chance. Opps sorry I didn't mean to hijack the post never mind
[ QUOTE ] AND, what do you plan on using on the pool table Mr. Smarty Pants?!? [/ QUOTE ] Hahaha, somewhere along the line, my boss's pool table aquired an extra 2, 4, and 1. Yes that's right fellas. My office had a pool table right in the middle of the floor. It was lots of fun until someone invented a simple little thing... called the internet...
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