steering wheel repair

["A. Foster" <monkeypuzzle1@xxxxxxx>]

Hello All;

 It is rather interesting that this subject has come along again because I have just been in contact with a fellow who fixes old plastic radios as a hobby. He can take a cracked or chipped plastic cabinet and repair it so it looks like it was never damaged, right down to the colour. All that he uses is some two part epoxy, made by West industries, and mixes in the appropriate die mixture so the colour matches. Afterward it can be machined and polished so everything matches up. The reason that I was asking was because I wanted to reproduce some rather hard to find radio knobs but it may prove usefull for my steering wheel, if I can't find another one. I think that I will be speaking with this gentleman in future about his tecnique. Now how to duplicate pot metal parts, hmmm?

Best Regards

Arran Foster

1954 Imperial Newport

Needing A Left Side Taillight Bezel and other trim parts.

----- Original Message -----

From: Crestonave@xxxxxxx

To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 8:22 PM

Subject: Re: IML: steering wheel repair

In a message dated 5/25/2003 5:59:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, imperial1981@xxxxxxxxx writes:

Does anyone on the list know of a company that fixes or repairs steering
wheels? My beige wheel on my 81 is cracked and looks like heck. Any
help?

I had the wheel on my 60 New Yorker recast by www.qualityrestorations.com
They are expensive but did a great job.
Good luck
Tom
68 Imp Convert
60 New Yorker 2dr ht