Homemade shift knob help?

[AlarmedBread]

Give the cube to the shop, ask them if you can buy a piece of round bar stock to make a shift knob with.

[Stephen]

I'm sure you can, if you can make sculptures out of it, but i dunno how else short of a chisel. lol

[cferb]

I think I have a marble egg somewhere, can you drill marble? lol. It's got good weight to it.

[Stephen]

loll

[alpinaclone]

Well i probably wont given the time involved and the time of have left...

but all is not lost,


Because the Chicken Egg Shifter is the next big thing.

Fuck yeah, my balls are as smooth as eggs.

[Stephen]

Well i probably wont given the time involved and the time of have left...

but all is not lost,


Because the Chicken Egg Shifter is the next big thing.

[alpinaclone]

Thats true someone outta sell aluminum spheres...

mcmaster.com They sell all sorts of that shit. Aluminum, brass, steel. I just went with brass for the weight, and it seemed like a good idea at the time.

[Stephen]

Haha, call me crazy but id just keep the UUC knob...

[kronus]

Thats true someone outta sell aluminum spheres...

Just drill a hole in an 8-ball.

[Stephen]

Thats true someone outta sell aluminum spheres...

[alpinaclone]

Chicken egg FTW.

I bought a 1 7/8 brass ball from Mcmaster Carr, Drilled a big ass hole in it and then 2 tiny holes and put set screws in them. It has some nice weight to it and is a good size.

[Stephen]

dildo shape...its yer best bet.

it'd be one hell of a chode dildo made outta a cube..

[cferb]

Haha, maybe a few specs here and there...


hey, off topic but how is the "e30 scene" in seattle, im going up there for school in about 10 days...

unfortanately my e30s not going up, at least not for now

Apparently it's bigger than anywhere else, just look at the e30 picnic, there was what? 180 cars? I'm in Pullman now though, almost Idaho.

[golde30]

dildo shape...its yer best bet.

[Stephen]

It would have to be a 3 part operation.

step 1
You can chuck the square end and turn the other end round. Its going to take some time on a hand lathe. CNC would make quick work of it.

step 2
Drill the hole to size on the lathe, again CNC makes quick work of this operation.

step 3
Change the chuck from a outside to a inside chuck, flip the part, chuck from the hole you just drilled and work on rounding out the opposite side. Without ripping it off the chuck.

Again CNC lathe would be the only way it would turn out perfect, or a 5 axis mill :)

Their are other strategy's you could use as well. But again only a CNC is going to give you what you desire.

I'll see if i can get my hands on one of these, and someone who can use it...

maybe