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Wooden grips ?

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PSweeney:
anybody make their own wooden grips for brake hangle and butterfly wheels ?  I plan on using a high quality birch plywood but I 'm questining how to attach them ?.   I know items like wooden steering wheels are riveted with brass rivets but I'm unfamiliar with the process or where to source them ?.  I'm thinking a coutnersunk brass slotted machine screw might work ?

ricci32:
true value hard ware makes a aluminium screw together fitting that looks like a rivet with a male and female end ,I have used them on several wheels. I don't recall the name one side has a blank head like a rivet the other has a screw slut they are in with the bins of bolts and hardware.
 

rooman:

--- Quote from: ricci32 on February 20, 2014, 03:06:18 AM ---true value hard ware makes a aluminium screw together fitting that looks like a rivet with a male and female end ,I have used them on several wheels. I don't recall the name one side has a blank head like a rivet the other has a screw slut they are in with the bins of bolts and hardware.

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They are known as "sex" bolts. We used then at JFR to attach the rub strips to the bottom of the front body lip. We counterbored the bottom surface of the UHMW rub strip and put the slotted half on the bottom so that on the readily visible top surface all that showed was the smooth end.

Roo

ricci32:
Great name

dreracecar:
Binding post, I get them from McMaster/Carr
Aluminum post and I use a SS machine screw

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