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02-13-2004, 11:56 AM | #1 |
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Repro Brown Bakalite...?
Now on auction :
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=36049 Never heard of this, before... Regards, Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" /> |
02-13-2004, 12:08 PM | #2 |
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Me either Pete... looks like someone (who apparently can't spell very well) made a mold of a genuine wooden mag bottom and is producing them with injection molding...
I am sure they are functional, but for what they are asking including shipping, you could just about have a handmade wooden masterpiece mag bottom from either GT or Viggo... For the same price, you can usually buy new Triple-K reprodcution mags on ebay most of the time... If they were $5.00 including shipping I would consider them worth it... but not $14.95 plus shipping...AND THAT'S JUST THE STARTING BID!
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02-13-2004, 02:39 PM | #3 |
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Hi Guys! The bottom pictured would be a product of a casting process using a liquid thermal setting resin with a catylist??... probably done along the lines of rubber mold, slurry casting like jewelers do for rings and settings and such... they just didn't use metal.. hence the reproduction of numbers, etc., in the casting... original powdered phenolic compression molded parts require pressure and heat (in a mold) to cause the thermal setting reaction in the plastic... which makes it "go off" so to speak... giving bakeolite (sp?) its shiney and perfect appearance.... nice effort, but pretty far off the mark! Don't know for sure, but this is what it looks like to me! til...lat'r....GT
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02-13-2004, 09:14 PM | #4 |
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GT I believe you are rigt on the mark, this is a phenolic casting not a pressure molding unless a centrifical spring mold was used. PRobably fairly low strength. Let us hope he does not get any better at producing these fake bottoms.
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02-14-2004, 12:33 AM | #5 |
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Hi:
My FXOs have black "plastic" bottoms, so why are these repos brown? Sieger |
02-14-2004, 01:49 AM | #6 |
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I Hate to be Caustic,... <img border="0" alt="[grrrrrrr]" title="" src="graemlins/cussing.gif" />
But in this case I'll Make An Exception !!! With a postage of $4.00 ea. the seller should throw in the Butts at no charge !... <img border="0" alt="[ouch]" title="" src="graemlins/c.gif" /> The quality would only deserve a failing grade in any "Fly By Nite Shop On the Chicago Loop's Back Alleys".... <img border="0" alt="[soapbox]" title="" src="graemlins/soapbox.gif" /> Just My Opinion ! ViggoG... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> |
02-14-2004, 10:46 AM | #7 |
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JS et al, I have plenty of black, white and brown (Swiss M29) plastic bottoms (MecGar, Franzite, etc.) available from mags that I have stripped for parts @$10 each or 3 for $25 postpaid. I also have a lot of chipped or repaired cracked original wood bottoms available at the same price. Sorry no decent FXO type available. TH
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02-15-2004, 12:00 PM | #8 |
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Too bad that no one has figured out a way to inexpensively produce FXO type reproduction bottoms for all those cracked and chipped originals!
I wonder how difficult it would be to make those out of wood? Viggo? GT?
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