[tcb] Re: Go%#*^!m Mirror
- From: Julie <julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 20:37:04 -0600
With my crazy brute strength I snapped one of my new Wolfsburg West mirrors to
render it useless. I found some older ones and they stay in place, no wind
floppage, and I have yet to break them. Call Derrick.
On Mar 1, 2011, at 8:28 PM, "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have looked at the pictures of the mirrors being supplied by Wolfsburg West
> and West Coast Metrics and they are all the crap I bought before. The new
> ones have a kind of dome that uses a bottom nut to lock down the mirror
> pivot. It is …POOP! The real one looks like a bullet and screws down onto a
> threaded arm. There should be a thread on each end of the arm. One for the
> door hinge and the other to accept the bullet shaped thing that attaches to
> the mirror with three screws. God, this is so hard to describe.
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> I would like to make it to Galveston, but I spent all day building a new
> mirror from the scraps in the shop and a bunch of JBWeld. It looks like
> hammered dog crap, but for the first time in a long time I have a mirror that
> doesn’t flop around in the wind. It seems that my part of the classic car
> hobby is making parts I can’t find.
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> All I need is a mirror arm with a threaded part that is the door hinge with a
> thread at the other end. That’s all I need. I have the other parts and I have
> a mirror guy that will make me a new piece of glass for $5.
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