[Spridgets] Bugeye door hinge

[Linda Grunthaner]

Wow bolt w/thread size too, Frank you are too cool, I feel like I am back in
my old hardware store when I read your posts.
Lin

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Frank Clarici <spritenut at comcast.net>wrote:

> On 9/24/2010 6:37 PM, Steven Guterman wrote:
>
>  Does anyone know the difference and if you can use the later hinges on an
>> early (1959) bugeye.
>>
>
> Side curtain cars used one type of hinge, roll up window cars used a
> different hinge. I think the hinges are the same but the early cars used a
> 1/4 x 28 pan head screw where the later cars used a 5/16 x 24 bolt on the
> door end of the hinge.
> All used pan head 1/4 x 28s on the hinge to body.
> So later hinges might work but with the bolts which might mean drilling a
> larger hole in the door where the rubber plugs go so you can get to the
> bolts.
>
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
>
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