Custom horn caps

[Andy4639]

I've been working on these for the past week. On and off between funerals.

So I started with the ramp truck pulling the old standard column and installing the tilt column. I decided to take the horn cap a part and clean it up and repaint it. While I had it a part I had a idea. So I started looking and happen to run across some cool idea's. So I ended up buying the emblems at Hobby Lobby for $2.50 each. I took the magnets off of them and it fit perfect. I painted the ring and well here you see the out come.
So after getting the idea for the ramp truck horn I figured I could do the 64 SS Impala the same way but with a SS emblem. So I ordered the emblem and did it as well. I opened up the horn ring to let the SS emblem lay flat and Epoxied the retaining ring in it. I was going to file the emblem down but decided to do the ring instead. So now all my emblems match.
I think they both turned out great and they are the only ones I know of for now.

[JamesMayberryIII]

You can make homemade out of alum. using a home foundry (see you tube) and cast them with the text (ss or whatever) as part of the horn button and not a sticker/decal.
If you don't have alum. scrap laying around. ask your friends and neighbors to save you cat food cans. cleaned.. cans.
Make a buck out of carved wood.(either hand /dremel or router) carved in a mirror of what you want the end piece to look like. and pour your button(s)

[corvettedad]

Andy that's a great job, as always you make neat custom stuff.

[DanStokes]

Looking good! If Mutt had a horn I'd consider it but with a removable wheel he just gets a foam cover thingy.

Dan

[RockJustRock]

If I was going to do something with molten aluminum this looks the most fun. I like the way the hill percolates and smokes a bit after the pour.

[corvettedad]

If I was going to do something with molten aluminum this looks the most fun. I like the way the hill percolates and smokes a bit after the pour.

Got a buddy that I worked with on the paper machine that did it, made some impressivel works of art.

[Andy4639]

These are not stickers are decals! I'm not melting any thing either. I'm just making some cool horn caps!

[DanStokes]

[QUOTE=RockJustRock;n1228915]If I was going to do something with molten aluminum this looks the most fun. I like the way the hill percolates and smokes a bit after the pour. /QUOTE]
Anything that kills fire ants is good with me! And the castings ARE interesting.

Dan

[Loren]

I had done a custom horn button 'way back, putting a '67 Chevy II one on a Superior (aftermarket) wheel. Was quick, fun, I always liked the way it looked. It later went on a Vega, the emblem changed to something cut out on a bandsaw. Doing the Challenger I had the problem of having a GM steering column with an adapted-on Mopar-type wheel, and nothing available would work. I'd recently bought a small rotary table for the mill and figured that making one out of alum. bar stock would be a good project to get familiar with the tool. To do raised letters I'd need to come up with some-sort of "program" method for X-Y-Z and degrees both, after a while I sorta worked it out. I didn't come out perfect but, close enough at the time. Of-course the back side is all machined out to work with standard hardware, the cap held on with a set screw rather than snapping on. 2 days work, when all done! I sprayed it the interior color when I did everything else, Gail painted the letters. Pardon grainy pic.

[fatguyzinc]

stock gas filler door emblem turned into horn button on white vette.
little bit of work with a dremel and a touch of clear silicone for adhesive.
and the tele/tilt still works.......

[tedly]

That's a cool idea, nice little touch that you don't see everywhere.

[Andy4639]

Loren, fatguyzinc those are nice caps. That's the kind of stuff I wanted to see. Anybody else? Lets see what you got.

I started on the steering wheel this morning getting it ready to fill the cracks in and maybe cutting it down a bit. Haven't decided on that part yet.
The RotoZip made opening the cracks up very easy and fast to!