Can anyone identify these windshield hinges 1 pair is black and brass
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Can anyone identify these windshield hinges 1 pair is black and brass
Going through some more original parts I ran across these odd and large car windshield hinges one is brass and steel the other all steel, anyone have any ideas? Bob
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Re: Can anyone identify these windshield hinges 1 pair is black and brass
Given the overall look of it? I believe the brass piece is a replacement sand casting. Original piece may have been lost or broken?
Half a century ago, hobbyists got really good at sand casting replacement parts! I knew people that could make a sand mold so nice that hardly any metal finishing was necessary before painting. They would ever so carefully shift or alter the mold in ways to allow for thermal shrinkage, making nearly perfect replacements!
I suspect that is what this one piece is. The rest of it? Some wonderful car? But I do not recognize it.
Half a century ago, hobbyists got really good at sand casting replacement parts! I knew people that could make a sand mold so nice that hardly any metal finishing was necessary before painting. They would ever so carefully shift or alter the mold in ways to allow for thermal shrinkage, making nearly perfect replacements!
I suspect that is what this one piece is. The rest of it? Some wonderful car? But I do not recognize it.
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Re: Can anyone identify these windshield hinges 1 pair is black and brass
Thank you, has anyone ever seen anything like these pairs, would like to know what car the belong to, might have to put add in aaca? Bob
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Re: Can anyone identify these windshield hinges 1 pair is black and brass
The AACA forum has a "What Is It?" section. It is amazing how some of those people can recognize some really obscure stuff!
https://forums.aaca.org/forum/66-what-is-it/
Since so much of "the hobby" has gone to really modern stuff? It is surprising how many real experts on the early stuff are still quite active in that club and on that forum!
From the general design, I would expect that windshield frame/brackets would be from the mid 1910s. But I do not recognize it from any specific automobile. Any one of a couple dozen regulars there might know it?
https://forums.aaca.org/forum/66-what-is-it/
Since so much of "the hobby" has gone to really modern stuff? It is surprising how many real experts on the early stuff are still quite active in that club and on that forum!
From the general design, I would expect that windshield frame/brackets would be from the mid 1910s. But I do not recognize it from any specific automobile. Any one of a couple dozen regulars there might know it?