I've got probably three sets from engines/heads that are never going back together.
Sculpture? Throw them at people? Other?
I've got probably three sets from engines/heads that are never going back together.
Sculpture? Throw them at people? Other?
I made a battery hold down out of some and made spark plug loom holders out of some. Threaded the inside for the holder to bolt to the end and welded a stud to the other end to clamp down the cover
Drill one end large enough to accept the refill from a Bic pen.
Mailbox post?
Got a crossbow?
Lawndarts! SRSLY hard-core chopsticks! Pushrods, but in an engine they aren't made for (hey you said "interesting")!
Jay_W said:Lawndarts! SRSLY hard-core chopsticks! Pushrods, but in an engine they aren't made for (hey you said "interesting")!
Ooo.... could turn one of them into an adjustable pushrod so I can figure out the distance for the new ones.
I'm pretty sure a pushrod is already an excellent slingshot...
Run them through the dishwasher then put on Etsy as environmentally friendly restricted flow diet straws.
Make a smaller replica of the Iron Throne.
could you make a pterodactyl?
Industrial strength pixie sticks.
Edit: Or industrial strength pickup sticks.
Save the environment by using them as drinking straws.
In reply to Toyman! :
oh man i loved that game!
AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:could you make a pterodactyl?
How about a brooch?
Go on Forged in Fire and make a Bowie Knife out of them.
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I used them to make struts to hold a front splitter once.
- Epoxy them together to make a shifter stick. Epoxy some more and turn them on a lathe for a shift knob.
- Poke them through a hood and use them as nitrous purge nozzles
- I keep old ones around for welding gussets in stuff
- wind chimes?
- Sometime when no one is around, google Dittel Probes. Maybe on a library computer or behind a really good VPN
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Definitely just searched for "dittel probes" on Incognito mode. They're what I feared they are.
I kinda want to tack them together at the ends and make weird geometric shapes with them.
Maybe I need to talk to my buddies at the art dept
Gather a few more engine parts and do this.
Mr_Asa said:Jay_W said:Lawndarts! SRSLY hard-core chopsticks! Pushrods, but in an engine they aren't made for (hey you said "interesting")!
Ooo.... could turn one of them into an adjustable pushrod so I can figure out the distance for the new ones.
A tap and a little bit of all thread and you have yourself a new tool.
I was going to suggest "fabrication stock". Pushrods make awesome little reinforcements compared to relatively soft/malleable bar stock. Way stronger, can do more with less.
Part of me wants to use them as exhaust hangers but they generally are not large enough diameter for that.
EDIT!! Just remembered something. Pushrod lengths are measured WEIRD. When you go to order, double check with the supplier how THEY measure them. I recall, last time I had to get custom length pushrods, that the specified length includes the end of the tip that doesn't exist. So if you measure a pushrod at 9.500" across the ends, then you would need to order a 9.520" pushrod, or some such. I am sure it makes sense from a manufacturing standpoint, because you really only care about the distance from arc to arc not end to end... but if you have non adjustable valvetrain and lifters with only .030" of travel then that is the difference between working and not working.
Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:I used them to make struts to hold a front splitter once.
- Epoxy them together to make a shifter stick. Epoxy some more and turn them on a lathe for a shift knob.
Ford Tempo inner tie rod ends make great shift lever material. The shifter in my black RX-7 started life as one. When those cars were common there was a lot of fabrication material in the scrap bins, with how often they went bad.
That is why the threads on it look weird... they were a different thread pitch than Mazda shift knobs. I kind of stared at it a bit, realized that it is not exactly a highly stressed junction, so I just ran the correct size die down it over the existing threads. So it is threaded 12x1.25 AND 12x1.5 
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