michael kitching
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| posted on 16/1/12 at 10:24 PM |
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gear stick knob
 
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turned myself a gear stick knob from ali today. what do you guys think to it?
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keith777
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| posted on 16/1/12 at 10:28 PM |
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Don't really think it would be wise to say you like another guys
knob on this forum !!!
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designer
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| posted on 16/1/12 at 10:42 PM |
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Why doesn't anybody turn a nice WOOD knob?
It would be lighter than alloy!!
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matt_gsxr
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| posted on 16/1/12 at 11:09 PM |
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Are you pre or post IVA. If pre then I'd worry about the radius of the corner on the underside.
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austin man
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| posted on 16/1/12 at 11:18 PM |
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personally I cant keep me hands off Coozers knob
Life is like a bowl of fruit, funny how all the weird looking ones are left alone
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coozer
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| posted on 16/1/12 at 11:23 PM |
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1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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Proby
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| posted on 17/1/12 at 08:03 AM |
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Nice, do you want to turn me one next?
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Fred W B
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| posted on 17/1/12 at 08:27 AM |
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A major advantage of wood over ally (in sunny climates at least) is that the wood does not burn you when you have left the car parked in the sun for a
bit.
Cheers
Fred W B
You can do it quickly. You can do it cheap. You can do it right. – Pick any two.
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michael kitching
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| posted on 17/1/12 at 10:24 AM |
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i could do one for you proby. i`m a precision eng (toolmaker) and am thinking of starting myself a little business if i can generate enough interest
for items like this.
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loggyboy
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| posted on 17/1/12 at 10:36 AM |
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Looks cold....!
I had a momo competizione in a few years back and had to use a sock over it all winter so my hand didnt hurt! And that was in cars with good heaters!
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 17/1/12 at 12:34 PM |
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I had a Momo Gearknob in a car a few years ago. I forget the model name, but it was a spherical one and quite solid/dense and that was freezing cold
too!
Didn't heat up in the sun hardly at all!
My first few gearknobs in KC's like the OP's only much taller never got too hot or cold, and I suspect it was just down to the mass of
them...
Then I went over to turned Ali and Carbon and they were the best of all.
Still got one left somewhere (I think!)
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michael kitching
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| posted on 17/1/12 at 01:07 PM |
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there`s not a lot of mass to this one and the ali i used came out of cold storage and didn`t feel too cold at all. i have turned another variant today
of this which i like better but cant seem to upload it.
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blakep82
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| posted on 17/1/12 at 01:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Fred W B
A major advantage of wood over ally (in sunny climates at least) is that the wood does not burn you when you have left the car parked in the sun for a
bit.
Cheers
Fred W B
when i was little, we lived in north carolina in america for a bit, my mum had a ford pinto with chrome seat belt buckles and chrome metal piping
round the leather (or vinyl?) seats. lovely in the hot sun...
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Ciprian
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| posted on 21/1/12 at 09:07 AM |
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im just about to install my momo spherical one, oh boy, should of thought of the cold, duh!
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