Sound about right Alvin, I bought a pair of reproduction door handles for my '50 cus the old ones had a few small pits in them. the square shaft was not square when they poured them and when you install them the handle points up about 10°. Ended up putting the old ones back on and living with a few pits.
I bought a new coil from JC and they made the socket ID to small and the coil wire clip would not fit into the socket. I ended up taking the socket out of the old Delco coil and drilling out the new coil so I could insert the Delco socket. Now the coil wire will snap into place like it's supposed to. Not to mention the chinsey way the lugs were made, thread was way undersized and nut wobbles around and lack of proper clips to hold the wires straight.
There is definitely a need for quality reproduction parts in this and other hobbies. You would think with the high profits and high wages that our manufactures would be able to turn out top notch parts, but that taint happening. There is lots of room for backyard cottage industry out there and with all the baby boomers retiring maybe some of them will start turning out some good parts. Maybe when all the jobs are lost to greed in this country and we get back to a reasonable wage and profit margin, we will start to see them manufacturing some decent quality parts again. We are living with a world economy now and you can't pay $45 and hour plus as much in benefits for someone to stand and watch a robot put cars together or pull the handle on a drill press and expect to compete with someone that is happy with a tenth of that. I'm afraid the American worker is in for a big adjustment in the next few decades as are their bosses and business owners. That's why you hear of so many executives grabbing all they can get now, they know that much of our industry is headed down the dumper in a few short years and the big buck salaries and bonuses just aren't gonna be that easy to come by.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
