Aww $h!# !!! I can't believe that &#$%!^& happened!! Is that kinda what it went like? Sorry to see that! Good Luck with it!!
Thats awful.I feel your pain man,getting a new one cast aint a bad idea though.Maybe get a dozen made up.Its cheaper when you have someone make a bunch instead of one.Sell off the others to offset/recoup some of the cash.Man that hurts to look at.I would buy one.
it still bolts onto car so im sure u can fix it....i hate that chit, i was polishing a speedo lens and buffer wheel caught it and slammed into into ground...shattered it i was pissed
caswell plating has a do at home kit,dont remember the price. i have there chromeing kit,have not messed with it much though.
Sorry to hear. Knew it meant alot to ya. I'd near kill for a early Stuckey Ford (Hollidaysburg Pa) Might want to practice on a scrapper first. Good Luck
JB weld with thin metas strips across the cracks on the back side. Then make a mold out of clay and pour it with polyester resin with powderd fiberglass mixed in. Paint with chrome paint and sell to your friends.
Cool ... I'll have to check the hobby shop near me ... an special clay needed or just standard modeling clay?
Sounds like you have a couple of solutions at your disposal ,cool hope it all pans out.Next time you want to polish something on a buffing wheel heres a tip for you.Tape it to a peice of wood so you have something to hold onto.If you can bolt it down (like your frame)do it,you wont be sorry and its alot easier to manipulate the part against the wheel that way. I know its too little too late but,It wont happen again if you can secure the part to a piece of wood.Good luck.
OK, I have no Idea what the attachment is to that particular LP frame is but actually making a new one would be pretty easy, if you really wanted to go that route. I would like to know what is special about that one though.... make a wooden box about an inch or so bigger than the outer dimensions of the LP frame, get yourself some really good play sand, NOT the white sand (too coarse) but the orange colored stuff that is really fine, if you wanted to get real cheap you could go to the beach and get sand as long as you sift it real good. Anyway fill the box with the sand and spray it with water to moisten it so it will pack really well, press the two pieces of that frame into the sand very firmly and then lift it back out without messing up the impression in the sand.Maybe use a magnet to lift it straight out. Get yourself an old small sauce pan. Stainless steel would be best, but really anything that doesn't have coating on it would be ok, aluminum might be too light. again, anyway buy yourself a couple bars of solder 60/40 works well and will polish up really nice... melt the solder in the pan and pour it into your sand mold, an Viole!!! you have a new LP frame, polish it up and clear coate it like you planed on doing to begin with
Thanks .... how do you pour the molten solder without disrupting the sand? is there trick that would make the lip that wraps around the license plate? The importance of this frame is that: 1) Super rare 2) My Grabber was originally sold at this dealer 3) Russ Davis was a sponsor of numerous famous drag cars ...
it's like that..."in the eye of the beholder" thing . it's only...rare...to you, no one else is looking for one. ......
Actually ... I do know some Mustang and Boss 302 folks looking for this particular frame as well. I won't tell them I busted it ...
