Car parts used for something around the home
01-11-2008, 08:22 PM
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Car parts used for something around the home
Bit random this, but anybody used car parts to make/fix/bodge something around the house?
I used a couple of exhaust clamps at home today...
For this:
Anyone else??
01-11-2008, 08:25 PM
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lol right thing for the job
01-11-2008, 08:26 PM
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01-11-2008, 08:30 PM
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lol right thing for the job
Well it holds my weight LOL
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01-11-2008, 08:36 PM
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i will soon have a 4x4 layshaft as a door stop & at the garage we have a twisted prop & snapped BD10 cam as paper weights lol
02-11-2008, 08:04 AM
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twisted prop
How??
02-11-2008, 08:12 AM
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ive seen a block used as a table, had a bit of glass on top of it.
seen it on top gear as well
02-11-2008, 08:54 AM
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i used to have a flat above a shop and the stair were too thin to get the setee i had up them, had 2 recaros in the front room for a couple of months
02-11-2008, 09:29 AM
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How??
there's the cam
i will get a pic of the prop up when i find it lol
it was twisted on a hard launch at pod earlyer this year at classic ford well the day before the show
02-11-2008, 09:32 AM
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02-11-2008, 09:39 AM
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its ment to be on the back of that left cam
02-11-2008, 09:43 AM
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i have a bleed valve set to about 2 psi on the fish tank bubbles! lol
made to much bubbles for my tiny tank so was ideal to get rid of some air from the pump...
02-11-2008, 09:48 AM
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I was in Singapore a few weeks ago and there was a market stall that had converted car parts and made replicas of car parts as household objects. There was a replica of a DCOE and the trumpets were removable and made into a salt and pepper set, looked
02-11-2008, 09:55 AM
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Ive got a rare rear silver OZ F1 wheel that was on the Jaguar car, the silver was only used in the Monaco race,
02-11-2008, 10:56 AM
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Ive got a rare rear silver OZ F1 wheel that was on the Jaguar car, the silver was only used in the Monaco race,
right.. so what do you use it for?
02-11-2008, 11:43 AM
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whats it connect to?
My clamp? Nothing, just poked up - it'll be ok right?
LOL, I've got angle brackets screwed to the joists in the loft. Looks quite neat I thought
02-11-2008, 12:04 PM
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i've got a pair of aston martin vanquish wheels and tyres as flower pots in the back garden
am hoping to also get a v8 block to use as a herb garden
02-11-2008, 06:24 PM
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i've got a pair of aston martin vanquish wheels and tyres as flower pots in the back garden
am hoping to also get a v8 block to use as a herb garden
Pics?
02-11-2008, 06:27 PM
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OMG in the ceiling? lol nutta.
I was thinking V8 block and make into funky coffee table. But i dunno...
02-11-2008, 07:02 PM
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Pics?
just had a look, and i don't have any. it's not that exciting. imagine a pair of wheels and tyres stacked together upside down with a big bowl in the top one with earth and flowers in it
02-11-2008, 07:03 PM
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right.. so what do you use it for?
coffee table
04-11-2008, 07:00 PM
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garage door stop
havent found a use for the lay shaft yet but third gear will be a goob paper weight
04-11-2008, 07:19 PM
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4th gear looks a bit mash up and crash as well
04-11-2008, 07:26 PM
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ye that was just damage on the lay shaft that i have changed
04-11-2008, 07:33 PM
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