I have seen reproduction wheels that are made from the same material as the wheels were from the factory has anyone purchased one of these? What do you think a good replica of the original?

 

I haven't seen one in person, just in ads. Is yours too bad to restore?

 

It has quite a few cracks, no chunks missing I would need to do a lot of filling with epoxy and sanding to get it back in shape.

 

One of the Guys in my club does them, some times two or three a week.

send me an email and I'll hook you up.

 

the ones I've seen are really nice, some of the best repo parts I've ever seen, they even have them for 57-60, and one is on my list to buy, I've hated my cracked original wheel for years

 

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I'm new to this forum and have really enjoyed the tips and suggestions (and comments) I've seen and I've used some on my '52 F1 project. One good turn deserves another......if you're interested in an original steering wheel, I'll be glad to give you mine since I'm not going to be using it. It looks extremely nice, looks to have very little wear. It does have 1 small spider crack at the left bar to wheel junction that is almost unnoticeable; should be an easy fix. Interested?

 

If anybody winds up with a repairable steering wheel they don't want could you please throw it my way. My wheel has a section missing where it goes over the column.

 

Dan, welcome aboard!

Since you've been reading a little of the forum already, you know there is a lot of information and even a little humor here. If you get a chance, set up your gallery so we can see your project.

As far as your original steering wheel goes, that's a wonderful offer. It would be best if any of the other fellas that need it (Rod???) contact you through the FTE private message system or via e-mail. That way you won't be getting inquiries about the steering wheel in five years - since the posts in these threads stay around on the web (almost) forever.

 

I just purchased one of these off of Ebay (today). I will comment once I receive. Mine was looking a little rough, so hopefully this will look very close to the original, I'll let ya know.

$149.00 seems like a pretty hard deal to beat.

 

Let me know how you like the wheel, is that one of the reproductionss?

 

I recently did the steering wheel thing. I did what I read about on this forum...I ground out the cracks so that I could make a good cavity to fill with epoxy filler. Then I got the epoxy smoothed out flush with the ebonite and painted the thing. I guess that the epoxy has a different coeffecient of thermal expansion or maybe the ebonite swelled up when I hit it with paint or maybe the epoxy shrank, but all the epoxy filler patches show up as shallow depressions. Overall, the repair was a really messy job (sanding ebonite is akin to sanding a block of carbon lamp-black). And when I was done, the results were less than great. Are there certain paints that should be used or any other tips from the pros that might guarantee more success than I had?

 

Yes I purchased one of the reproductions from a seller on Ebay selling them for $149.00. Supposed to be reproduced using the same material as a stock wheel.

 

POR -15 has a putty they advertise and they show repairing cracked steering wheels as a feature of the putty.

 

Thanks, Earl for the welcome. Christopher2 was the 1st to respond to my offer, so 1st come 1st served. I tried to email an reply but am restricted because I haven't been a member for the 15 day waiting period, (or else I'm doing my usual brilliant screw-ups with computers). C2, if you'll respond to me again with some way I can contact you, I'll need your shipping address etc.