pick one up wrong just use the other one.

 

On a couple of occasions I have opened a brand new case of beer only to discover that all the cans were made "upside-down".  Once I got the cans opened they tasted just fine though.......
T.

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Post a couple pics of that handle.If no one has an IHC handle maybe we can match up some of the reproduction resto car stuff or hot rod stuff thats built for the old sqaure shafts.John

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John Costley

ATHS Online Division Charter Member

Sabattus,Maine

 for your IH handle there are a few ways you can do this yourself if you have a little bit of patience.

 get a piece of 3/8" square tubing or a piece of 14 ga sheet cut out a strip  find a piece of 5/16" key stock use as a mandral to form a socket form a piecs of 3/16" round into the approximate shape of hte handle use the opposite side as the patern. so the round would be hidden inside of a new casting. weld it to the socket at the angle needed. then buy a small bag of green casting sand to pack into a mold.  use the good handle as a mold model to make an impression in the sand. place the new handle core in the sand hold suspended by  a couple or 3 very thin wires so it does not touch the sand anywhere

 collect about 10 or 12 aluminum cans shread them into small pieces then put them in a ladle you can make a ladle out of  the shell of an old Cat 631c Cab mount and a piece of 3/8 rebar for a handle.

 use a torch to melt the cans pour into the mold be sure to over pour suffeintly to have enough material to trim away and file to size. after fileing and sanding to propper shape polish the new handle until bright now get a 20 Amp battery charger  a 1 gallon plastic bucket  some potatsium cloride powder or granuals.

 a copper bar about 1/2" in diameter heat it to just before mealting and let slowly cool sand it until it becomes bright copper color again use your file to file some of the copper into the bucket about half a cup full should be enough. mix 3 table spoon full of the potatsium cloride into  half a gallon of water in the1 gallon  bucket stir until as much of the copper is suspended as possible hang the handle in the solution by a 10ga copper wire connect it to the negitive lead of the charger make sure it is completely imersed connect the 1/2 inch coper bar to the positive lead put in in the solution making sure it doesnot touch the handle switch on  the charger wait until  you see a steady flow of bubbles from the handle switch off  remove and inspect after abouit 5 to 10 minutes. repeat as needed until the handle has a nice coating of copper coveringit everywhere. polish it again be careful not to polish through the copper plateing.

 clean up your bucket completely mix a new solution  this time you need as pure nickel bar as possible or you can file down  a roll of nickels take the thinned down blanks that you have left over and hammer them together into a bar you can melt them a well taking care not to induce too much carbon into them. repeat as with the copper this time after polishing  palte for 2 or 3 more times. the last time you can file some chrome into the solution taking care to only get the top layer of chrome from the doner metal use this only if you want the chrome look instead of nickle.

 when you are finished install your now perfectly new hand made one of a kind door handle.

 by the way have good ventelation and do not breathe the fumes

 Potatsium cynanide solution works best for chrome but can be deadly

 

As for the handle, a little research on eBay and Google  showed that this handle was used on lots of IH trucks in the 1960's to include Scouts.  Found a pair of new ones for about $10 plus shipping.   Good old IH spread their parts around as this handle is for my Transtar 400

Life  is like a roll of toilet paper --the closer  you get to the end, the faster it goes!  Enjoy each day.

1972 KW925 SC350 12513 240WB, restoral in progress, 1936 CAT RD4 w/LPC 4A blade restored ground up

What happened to the nicely formatted write up you had on home plating?

Eddy Lucast 

ATHS Online Division Charter Member

if not  I will try and find it again

 however I believe you are probably reffering to the use of electrolosis to remove rust from old siezed up parts for plating the process is reversed you still have to mix a solution of salts depending on which type of finish you are trying to acheive. for plateing if you can get the correct compounds you can have just about any plated finish you are looking for. with the exception of something like HARD chromeing. a home set up is just too difficult and without knowing how to control the process you can wind up being a statistic. but you can obtain a better quality than Barjin products I would reccoment to anyone who wants to do their own plateing to buy the platers bible you can find it online by a Bing or google search or click on the words above it is downloadable and has a wealth of information contained in it.

 

1972 KW925 SC350 12513 240WB, restoral in progress, 1936 CAT RD4 w/LPC 4A blade restored ground up

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 I also have an exothermic metalizing spray torch that works a lot like a paint spray but with an Oxy /act flame the torch tip looks sinilar to a rose bud but with a blow hole in the center where the powder come out . it is great for building up shafts or wear plates gear teeth and such you heat the part to the desired temp then spray on the powder for some things a bonding metal has to be used first I have built up shafts for transmissions in Cat equipment with it I have used it to build up worn hydraulic cylinder rods that had deep gouges on the 6 way dozer blades. When I worked for Arthur equipment Roland said it was better to pay me 4times my normal hourly rate than to have to send the shafts or things out to be redone and I was there every day. the other contract welders couldn't understand why when work was slow I was never cut like they were even if he didn't have anything for me to do he would toss me the keys to one of the trucks to go haul something in or I might crawl on a dozer , scraper,  motor grader, backhoe or anything. 

 like the door handle that started this thread you have to learn work arounds if something is not available. 

 

 one of the very few vehicles that ever offered as standard equipment both power and a crank for windows  was the Fascel Vega

 

   By the way, it was one of the best rideing cars I ever owned... too bad they didn't do a better job of rust-proofing.