Do you have any unusual uses for old VW parts?
I found one today, I had to mix up a batch of floor levelling mixture today. We have pulled up some tiles in an area where we are going to lay carpet. The floor became badly scored where tiles were, as their base had been laid using bond crete, I had to chisel of the reaming tile bed leaving some score marks which would have eventually caused unevenness in the carpet.
Knowing the mixture would have to be fairly thick I wondered around the garage looking for something suitable to fit in my electric drill to help mix the floor-levelling compound.
After looking at bits of wire etc I found this part of a Beetle sitting in my useful scrap metal bin. It’s the bit that you turn to adjust the rake on your seats. I have found these bits of metal very useful in the past, there two tubes in the rake adjuster, one operates they tilt lever to push the seat back forward for rear passengers, the other the rake. The inner tube is nice fit over a M8 bolt, so its useful spacers and sleeves, one that immediately comes to mind is the sleeve that go on the bolts that hold in the master cylinder on Beetles and Type 3s.
The outer sleeve takes a ½ hose perfectly so is ideal for making breather boxes etc.
The outer tube with its rake-adjusting handle was perfect for stirring up my mixture.
Steve
I made a paper towel roll holder out of a couple of 1200 rods 👍
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I used a torsion bar to smash a rusty exhaust outta place.
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69' baja: kombi box, thing spindles, irs, disc front, type 3 rear drums, 2 inch lift kit, 31x10 rears. 👍
New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
🤘 I used a 1200 block to make a thermonuclear devise !!
sorry just kidding ASIO... no need to bug my phone 😁
You could have borrowed my mixing tool
Have you been painting yr toenails or is that BLOOD ???
Last year my hubby come up with an idea for Klub Fest Trophies. We used VW Rocker Cover mounted on a block of wood. We even had an oil drip happening made out of black craft foam.
Looked pretty good
Moniek
vw54 wrote:You could have borrowed my mixing tool
And he could have walked to my place and borrowed my mixing tool!
Keeping it real !
When I sold my 59 beetle to an art student, she blew him up..salvaged it and cut him up... he became a piece of outdoor furniture...... twas heartbreaking, but pretty cool...anyone else seen/done this...I've heard others say they've seen similar
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I will give you guys a call next time I need a mixing tool. Dave has all lots of good stuff and Silver would have just about every known to man after what he did to his house.
Thats not nail polish, I dropped some firewood on my foot, lucky I was wearing safety shoes.
Steve
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69' baja: kombi box, thing spindles, irs, disc front, type 3 rear drums, 2 inch lift kit, 31x10 rears. 👍
New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
There is a well known man here in Perth who has made a barbeque trailer of the rear end of a Beetle. He takes it to car shows.
An interesting use of a Porsche 356 SPG Roller Crankshaft:-
And a normal 356 crank.
Cheers
Steve
A bit of Splitty Delux trim is handy as a bracket for your RAC badge
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beetle bonnets make great sleds for riding down sand dunes :thumb
A candy coloured clown they called the sandman tip toes through my room every night just to sprinkle stardust on my pillow go to sleep everything will be allright
1967 Type 3 square
1956 double door panel
1968 single cab kombi
Hmm thought of making comment about beetle bonnets but then realised it aint BA, so instead... I want one of those lamps. How much would it cost to chrome a 36horse crank and maybe anodise some rods?
i use vw hubcaps for cat and dog food bowls
marcel
I used a 6 volt headl light ring the other day as a base for a window in my amp rack the shape was perfect for what i wanted.
We use a gear from a T1 oil pump as a playing piece in Monopoly. Of course, I'm always the little Splitty! 🙂
So which one of you smarties is gonna be BA Baracus?
Used one of my roofracks for carryiing the heavy end of my Kombi motor, and a a back nudgebar and a rim make good weights to hold down tarps... 😁
1976 Kombi Trakka camper, "Buttercup"... driver.
1976 Beluxe Microbus, "Saphir"... resto.
1974 Kombi panelvan, "George"... shed.
1974 Superbug, "Schmeetle"... resto.
[img]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b366/cI used a brake drum as a frisbee
It sure messed up my dogs teeth:o
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Ive also used a conrod to ventilate a crank case
i thought of this thread today
the wiper arm on one of the tractors broke this morning and sitting next to it in the corner of the shed was my Lbug convertable
hmmm those wipers look about the same.....
formular blue wiper on an orange tractor
its a riced up Kubota 😂
-Joel
