Anyone sell a top quality window crank handle?
05-24-2019, 09:09 PM
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Anyone sell a top quality window crank handle?
Recently I ordered window crank handles (with red ***** for a '67) from a parts vendor in Fla. Upon installing one, it stripped the splines on the handle right away when rotated. What I learned is that the splines on the replacement do not extend nearly as far up as those on the originals. Not what I expected.
From personal experience, can anyone suggest a a vendor who sells a GOOD quality handle? At almost $40 a piece for red *****, I expect to get more than one use out of them.
From personal experience, can anyone suggest a a vendor who sells a GOOD quality handle? At almost $40 a piece for red *****, I expect to get more than one use out of them.
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05-24-2019, 09:41 PM
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Find a use good originals. And if need be swap the *****
05-24-2019, 10:05 PM
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There are good black **** 67 window cranks available, but the ones with colored ***** are junk. Paragon use to sell the colored *****, without the handle. They've discontinued them now, but last time I checked they still had some red ***** available. I think the price was around $8 a pair.
05-25-2019, 06:51 AM
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Quite simple. A past member on here who passed wrote a great tech article for his chapter NCRS that is available for anyone to view. It’s only a matter of drilling out the rivet that holds the **** and putting in a new rivet.
05-25-2019, 07:42 AM
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05-25-2019, 08:35 AM
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05-27-2019, 09:01 PM
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Thanks for information about how to make my own part. Too bad that with so many Corvette vendors in this country, not one builds or has a source for a good quality window crank handle. Probably a case of one Asian village makes it, everyone sells it.
If only I could do my own chrome plating, I would have good handles to start this project with.
If only I could do my own chrome plating, I would have good handles to start this project with.
05-28-2019, 03:36 PM
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I have red interior in my 67 coupe. The driver's side window crank had the orig **** and handle but someone had replaced the rivet with a phillips head screw. NCRS interior judges caught it. Richard Fortier who used to own Paragon can replace the rivet correctly. It has to be spun on using the right machine shop equipment. Not as easy task. he fixed mine and it looks perfect. Not a cheap fix but try finding correct, orig red handles and *****.