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Re: Gear shift knobs

To: MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Gear shift knobs
From: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:37:31 -0800
Maybe you could buy one of those logo keyfobs and have that emblem set into
the top. Just a thought.


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 11/27/05 2:34 PM, Barrie Robinson at barrie@look.ca wrote:

> A wood local turner made me a bird's eye and ebony gear shift but due
> to bad glue (weak crazy glue) it came apart.  Now he says he can make
> another and I have decided on solid black Indian ebony.  However they
> only sell it in 2" X 2" X 18" pieces - enough for 6 knobs!   Is there
> anyone out there that would want one of these.  The cost of the wood
> per knob works out at $8 and I think he would turn them for $15
> each.  So allowing for postage the bill would be roughly $25.  They
> would be solid with a hole into which you would have to fit a 1/2"
> wide 7/8ths long tapped nut which I have found in the local hardware
> store.  I  need a 5/16 NC 18 pitch one as I have a Rover SD1 gear
> lever but others must be available.  The hole would be just over
> 1/2".  Nothing on the top as I cannot find those gear shift pattern
> things as normally appears on knobs.




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