I had like 45 minutes of my lunch break left yesterday at work and I was bored so I grabbed a piece of chrome stock off the shelf and started messing aorund in one of the lathes...
Ever since I moved my cb up under my dash I haven't had a TC shifter handle b/c the stock one was too tall and hit the cb.
I machined it down from a 1.750" piece of chrome shaft then chamfured all the edges...next I used the knurling tool and pressed the pattern into the larger part...next I ground down one of the tool bits we use for our portable line boaring and mill work so it was just a tiny point...chucked it up and used it to put the small parts in the lower section just for some decoration...
Then I cut off the extra in the chop saw, faced the top of it and finally I drilled and tapped the end 7/16" NC so that it would just thread on to my TC shifter...
I think it turned out pretty cool and is a heck of a lot better than paying $20 for one at the parts store
Ok onto the pics...
Ever since I moved my cb up under my dash I haven't had a TC shifter handle b/c the stock one was too tall and hit the cb.
I machined it down from a 1.750" piece of chrome shaft then chamfured all the edges...next I used the knurling tool and pressed the pattern into the larger part...next I ground down one of the tool bits we use for our portable line boaring and mill work so it was just a tiny point...chucked it up and used it to put the small parts in the lower section just for some decoration...
Then I cut off the extra in the chop saw, faced the top of it and finally I drilled and tapped the end 7/16" NC so that it would just thread on to my TC shifter...
I think it turned out pretty cool and is a heck of a lot better than paying $20 for one at the parts store
Ok onto the pics...
dealie
I make stuff out of the scraps in the metal bin 
