Re: Vibro axe again.
I'm afraid I've had little luck with that part. I've asked around here, posted all over, looked all over town, and can't get it all in one place.
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I've had to resort to making one.
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I had some brass hose connectors laying around here. (I got them at lows, in the gardening section, there about like the one on the POSW sight, but lows, and ACE both have the screw on kind that is a little bit closer to the actual metal tip on the real deal. ) So I mounted the part on the my dremel, in the drill press holder I have for it, and used files to lath off the knurled rings, and the extended inner threaded part. In short I chucked it up and lathed off anything that didn't look like the metal tip of the real prop.
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(and before you say, I don't think I can do that, I'm half blind in both eyes, with nothing more then my dremel, and old, cheep, files, if I can do it anyone can.
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Then I found the gray rubber part at Lowes, but it had the metal threading at the top, and the wrong clamp for like $5.
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I bout it anyway's, and found it pretty easy to get rid of the two part metal bit that makes up the threaded section. Once that's done it loose like the gray rubber part of the real thing. And, if you take the two part threaded part well enough, you will wind up with a little brass piece that you can stick up in the rubber part, and it will leave a little bit left sticking out the top, to attach the metal top piece to. (I think you could fake the rubber bit with some different size pieces of pipe, for a lot less though.
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Now, I'm going to have to make a clamp.
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I'm thinking of using these little copper straps you find in the pluming section, to bound pipes to the wall.
Well that's about as clear as mud. :lol I'll see if I can get some pics some tine soon. (it may be a week or so, because I wont be able to get to the store to get the rest of the parts of the clamp for a few days, at the least. )
That said, if someone does come up with the real thing, then FOR GOD SAKE PM ME!
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