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sventinker
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Thom, that is phenomenal fabrication!
I am impressed with the pictures especially, very nice home made tooling |
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thom
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:20 am Post subject: |
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Thanks!
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Thom,
It's been a while. Very nice Hitch work. Thanks for sharing the pictures of the ball bending jig. What steal are you using?
[img]http://astromechbuilder.com/mechloader/v/mjhenks/VW/Press+bracket.jpg.html[/img]
Hope that picture helps you for the press bumper.
The electrical holder on page 1 was made by me. I have not made them in a while as there was not enought interest. If i can get interest in a batch then i can re-make them.
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cris torlasco 
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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Hi all;
I have an original post pressed bumper Westy hitch, complete and with tag for sale for $1500 obo. It is in Germany, so it will need to be shipped to the US, unless someone in Europe is interested in it. It is stored at a friend's house in Frankfurt. PM if interested.
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crofty
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| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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Matt, Im interested in one of your electrical holders.
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thom
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| Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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Now I just need some measurements from an original pressed-bumper hitch. I looked at 3 buses with repro bumpers, and got 3 different sets of dimensions.
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1957 Porsche 356A Sunroof
1957 23-Window Deluxe
1957 Mercedes Westfalia single cab
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matthew henricks
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| Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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Thom,
Bug me Friday and i will try and get over to where mine is stored and get you some dim's.
Matthew |
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thom
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| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:53 am Post subject: |
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I still need to get this measurement:
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1957 23-Window Deluxe
1957 Mercedes Westfalia single cab
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matthew henricks
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| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:30 am Post subject: |
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| I'll try and get it this weekend. So busy and the hitch is not at the house. |
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thom
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| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| matthew henricks wrote: |
| I'll try and get it this weekend. So busy and the hitch is not at the house. |
Actually, I'm hoping that anyone else with one would chime in - it seems there's 2 or 3 variations on the theme.
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1957 Porsche 356A Sunroof
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thom
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What would be the best way to ship one of these to Nova Scotia?
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npbusguy
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:02 am Post subject: |
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| What would be the best way to ship one of these to Nova Scotia? |
You should be able to ship it door to door via FedEx freight. |
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thom
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:14 am Post subject: |
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| thom wrote: |
| What would be the best way to ship one of these to Nova Scotia? |
You should be able to ship it door to door via FedEx freight. |
Oye! I just ran it through their quote page: from 95608 to B0P 1N0 - $555!
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matthew henricks
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:28 am Post subject: |
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When i was shipping these in from Europe to the USA shipping jumped from ~$250 to over $600 when gas started going up. That was the end of that.....
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grailoc
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thom
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| thom wrote: |
| What would be the best way to ship one of these to Nova Scotia? |
You should be able to ship it door to door via FedEx freight. |
Oye! I just ran it through their quote page: from 95608 to B0P 1N0 - $555! |
try fedex ground, price should be lower than 555 usd.
Another company that has from experience interesting ground prices is purolator. |
I'm surprised - FedEx ground is "only" a little over $100 - I didn't even consider them because I thought they'd be a lot more. I read somewhere to avoid UPS because of bizarre customs charges.
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Ian
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| thom wrote: |
| grailoc wrote: |
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| thom wrote: |
| What would be the best way to ship one of these to Nova Scotia? |
You should be able to ship it door to door via FedEx freight. |
Oye! I just ran it through their quote page: from 95608 to B0P 1N0 - $555! |
try fedex ground, price should be lower than 555 usd.
Another company that has from experience interesting ground prices is purolator. |
I'm surprised - FedEx ground is "only" a little over $100 - I didn't even consider them because I thought they'd be a lot more. I read somewhere to avoid UPS because of bizarre customs charges. |
I just shipped 3 Porsche Fuchs to Switzerland. I went through the USPS, it was the most cost effective, least customs, easy to deal with.
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Major Woody
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| USPS is super easy. Go through them for anything that is not oversize. Each country has specific weight and size limitations. USPS website lists these. I don't think you can track the parcels, though. I could be on crack. |
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thom
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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So today I worked on created the bumper tab for a pressed bumper hitch.
Does anyone have pix of a pressed-bumper hitch actually mounted up? It seems like getting the hitch installed with the bumper on would be a PITA. You'd have to hook in the bumper tab, and then attach the hitch to the torsion tube.
6 hours of work to get this:
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MrBusCo
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| another really cheap way to ship large stuff is via greyhound. they are really flexible on teh packaging too.. like you dont need any of you dont want to. I shipped my rear bench seat to Cali from chicago for $60. shipgreyhound.com |
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