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Parts Request
Anyone know where I can get internally threaded aluminum (or steel I guess) tubing for making endlinks? The only stuff I can find is for 3/4" heims and I need something smaller like 3/16". I can get the heims no problem, but just can't find the tubing.
Thanks,
Britt
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Done with school! But now I gotta work...
Vintage IMSA Cosworth Vega #0515
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Why not just buy the right size tubing and thread it yourself?
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George Roffe
Houston, TX
84 944 ITS car under construction
92 ITS Sentra SE-R occasionally borrowed
http://www.nissport.com
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try a kart, quarter midget or junior dragster shop near you.
Sometimes we can source parts cheaper than we can make them given even a minimum wage rate for our time. But a 3/16" RH an LH tap and tubing won't set you back too much at all. You can even make a spare set.
I made all the drop links for my sway bars on my FF out of 4130. Bought it at Aircraft spruce, didn't tap too easily. Bought a wall thickness that gave me an ID very close to the drill size for the proper tap. Made 4 drop links, buffed them up real nice, set me back about $20 and 1 hour for my time. The drop links were $36+tax+shipping each from a crossle importer.
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McMaster-Carr in Atlanta. If you don't have their catalog...shame on you. They have everything, including the threaded tubing you want (I used the 3/8" for sway bar links) in various links. Can search www.mcmaster.com also, but get a catalog!!!
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Chuck Baader
#36 ITA E30 BMW
Alabama Region Divisional Registrar
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It is my understanding that mcmaster-carr no longer has a printed catalog. I recently bought e-track for my trailer from them. They have a warehouse in Santa Fe Springs (about 30miles from my house) I asked about a catalog while I was there in will call. All 4000+/- pages of their catalog is on their website, search function works very well.
Sorry, I didn't think about it.
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Daryl DeArman
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I'm not surprised that MM-C has gotten away from a printed catalog. The last one I had (a couple years old) was on the order of 4.5 - 5 inches thick, and it's printed on tissue paper! I assume it's either online, or that you can get a CD-ROM
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SCCA 279608
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Try American Power Sports
800-262-0555
www.apskarting.com
DC
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Ah! Thanks, I found them on there. We have a local Kart shop, maybe I'll go check there. Thank you so much!
BTW thanks to everyone else too, I have a MM catalog, but honestly, I've never tapped and threadded anything, so I don't know how to do it! Embarassing huh? I guess I'll have to go learn now...
Britt
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Done with school! But now I gotta work...
Vintage IMSA Cosworth Vega #0515
ITA Cosworth Vega #0109 in progress
[email protected]
www.geocities.com/kiva75
Editor, Cosworth Vega Magazine
Cosworth Vega Owner's Association
