Are those the orange polyurethane ones, a common material for
bushings these days, or the slightly softer White Delrin ones that I
spoke of earlier. Delrin is much more expensive than the polyurethane
is.
Rich
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> From: Schotland[SMTP:schotbus@cyberenet.net]
> Reply To: Schotland
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 1997 6:21 PM
> To: anitabrt@mindspring.com; tigers@autox.team.net
> Subject: Delrin bushings
>
> Jim:
>
> You can buy a complete set of upper and lower A-arm bushings from Doug
>
> Jennings of Tiger Auto, Dayton, OH, for about $70. He'll probably
> sell you the lowers alone, if that's all you need. His phone # is in
> the suppliers section of the Tiger website.
>
> Gary Schotland
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi all,
> > The other day I stated that I was going to try to melt some
> acytel
> > (Derlin) into an old A arm bushing to replace the rubber. Well
> forget it.
> > I tried. I cleaned the inner and outer shell of a lower A arm
> bushing of all
> > the old rubber and rust. I then built a Jig to hold everything in
> alignment.
> > I used a second outer shell above the one in the jig as a resevoir
> to hold the
> > initial unmelted acytel resin. I heated the thing in the oven to
> 375 F
> > (the previous days test of melting point). The plastic was too
> viscous
> > to run down into desired area. I took it out and attempted to press
> the
> > resin in with a wooden dowel. No luck except for about 1/2 ".
> > I then increased the temperature to 400 F hoping it would thin down
> > and flow. The plastic simply boiled out of the mold and from the
> > arid smell, it apparently had started breaking down. I just wasted
> 2"
> > of Derlin.
> > Still need a source of lower A arm bushings.
> > Jim Barrett Tiger II 351C and others
> >
> >
> >
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