Well, yes, I imagine they were thinking of painted or varnished metal
coat hangers, not plastic or plastic-coated hangers, when they made that
recommendation...<g>
The kind you want frequently has a paper wrapper with an advertising
message, something like this: "Friendly Cleaners -- Same Day Delivery --
Shirts 5¢ -- Taylor 5-9090"... or in other words, are about forty years
old...
Max (still has some in the back of the closet)
Jon Paulsen had this to say:
>Thanks for the input. After crawling under it and
>seeing how the hangers work, it's obvious that the
>stock type are needed to tuck the exhaust in nice and
>snug, and I feel stupid for asking. Unfortunately, it
>will have to wait as I have spent my allowance on a
>new top and more pressing issues like a water pump and
>air cleaner assy. So, meanwhile,
>as recommended by one list member, I've tried a
>bailing wire to coat hanger conversion... bad advice!
>the hanger just melted all over and made a lot of
>stinky smoke! Back to bailing wire. Guess they don't
>make coat hangers like they used too hehehe :O I'll
>get real hangers next order. Most of the original
>parts are there.
>
>jon
>
>
>--- Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com> wrote:
>> Jon,
>> Yes there is a difference. Buy the original MG
>> hangars. You will save
>> yourself a lot of grief.
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:20:32 -0700 (PDT) Jon Paulsen
>> <a77mgb@yahoo.com>
>> writes:
>> > Hi List,
>> >
>> > Hey, is there any value to the expensive stock
>> exhaust
>> > hangers compared to the various much less
>> expensive
>> > hangers you can get at the local (American) parts
>> > store? (Besides the restoration value; this "B"
>> won't
>> > get a true factory fresh resto anyway). Right now
>> it's
>> > got bailing wire exhaust hangers.
>> >
>> > Does everyone name their cars?
>> >
>> > jon
>> > (the newby)
>> >
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
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