Re: keegan's Rhino bushings

Posted by Keegan Chaput On 2008/10/29 23:00:59

Hank,

I'm glad you got it alright! Just let me know when you get to the point of needing some more and I'll be happy to send some your way. I just sprayed 4 large steel hockey goal frames for a local hockey arena and they wanted them in red. I'm tempted to make a casting from some of the left over material, then I can tell people that Prothane just came out with a Packard line of bushings!


HH56, I'll try to get some more pics up this week of a couple other bushings that I made. One was with the original washer and sleeve molded into the bushing.

As far as the shoulder is concerned, I was thinking that you could just chuck up a hunk of this in a lathe and machine the correct shoulder that you wanted. It wouldn't take that much time. I've been looking for a small machine lathe here in MN, but I don't have a ton of money to invest. I've been watching craigslist, but so far everything's been way too big, or way too expensive.

I'm pretty confident that they would machine quite well based on the curling I got from boring the bolt holes on the drill press. A person could probably turn quite a few out in short order.

I suppose you could machine the part, then cast a flexible rubber mold for quick and repeatable parts. Then crank them out night and day for the millions of Packard lovers world wide...


I might be getting ahead of myself just a bit.