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an idea is only stupid if you think about it rationally.
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 571 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 571 | Thanks guys. I just used one strong magnet used to pick up loose screws on the end of a broom handle. I cut a bracket out of sheet metal and it screws on throught the center of the magnet. I got about $10 in it. My front plate has an old car surround on it. I would have to take that off and install the plate on another bracket which I may do sometime down the road. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,893 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,893 | nice... and good thinkin' as usual shipwright. can we get some up close pics of the bracket setup? -W | | | | | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 703 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 703 | Shipwright,
That looks nice there.
Safer too. You know those thieving guys we hang around, they'd be stealing it off the plate. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | Jed, that is an idea,, he has a red truck too. Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 571 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 571 | Here are some close ups of the bracket deal. I was thinking that too, Eric. They ARE awful purdy. <table border='0'> <tr><td align='center'> <table width='420' border='0' cellpadding='1' cellspacing='0' bgcolor='#000000'> <tr> <td align='center'> <font face='Arial' size='2' color='#FFFFFF'>My Pics</font></td></tr> <tr><td> <table width='100%' border='0' cellpadding='2' cellspacing='0' bgcolor='#FFFFFF'> <tr><td height='23' align='right' valign='middle'> <a href='http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=8508309&uid=4087459'> <font face='verdana' size='1' color='#0066CC'> </b></font></a> <font face='verdana' size='1' color='#0066CC'></font> <a href='http://www.picturetrail.com/uid4087459'> <font face='verdana' size='1' color='#0066CC'><b></font></a></td></tr> <tr><td> <table width='100%' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='2'> <tr align='center' valign='top'> <td><a href='http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=10&imgid=133329773' target='_blank'><img src='http://pic19.picturetrail.com:80/VOL1028/4087459/8508309/t-133329773.jpg' border='0'/></a></td> <td><a href='http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=10&imgid=133329777' target='_blank'><img src='http://pic19.picturetrail.com:80/VOL1028/4087459/8508309/t-133329777.jpg' border='0'/></a></td> <td><a href='http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=10&imgid=133329775' target='_blank'><img src='http://pic19.picturetrail.com:80/VOL1028/4087459/8508309/t-133329775.jpg' border='0'/></a></td> </table> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr></table></td></tr></table> <font face='verdana' size='1' color='#646464'>Free Image Hosting by PictureTrail.com</font></td></tr></table> | | | | | Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 310 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 310 | O boy, I wish they had them too with 4 cylinders, but it's the stovebolt here, so I, and my truck, will have to live with it, maybe I'll make one, once my casting skills get better. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,893 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,893 | | | | | | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 703 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 703 | Looking at that first picture, it about looks like you could attach a bracket to the screw that holds the seat back also.
It would put it in the approximate/same location and might not move if you hit a big bump.
Of course that's probably too easy, and the person in the middle would smack their head on it, going over that same big bump.
Does it rub the window? | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 571 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 571 | "Does it rub the window?" No, it kinda rests on the rubber window seal. The sheet metal I used for the bracket bends pretty easily, so you can get it where ya want it. After some hard driving today,  I found that it does not move. I was worried that it would, so I got the strongest magnet at the hardware store. No problems yet. Gotta get out and put some more miles on it and get back to you with solid report.  That's a good idea about anchoring it to the seat bracket. I bet that would work.  | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 | hey that is a great idea!
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