Still plugging along.
I tend to jump around a bit...
Center console is the highlight of the interior.
Very difficult to re-chrome well.
For this reason, we're considering sending it to Sherm's in Sac.
Those teeny-weeny ribs get the pot-metal popping little corrosion pits underneath.
And there's not a lot a chromer can really do about it.
We're sending it off to them to get it stripped at least and see.
Maybe the emblems as well because Sherm's is the best of the best.
Won't even say what they quoted these parts at.
Obscene.
Going to be the single most expensive part of the car yet by far.
So.... Another question.
Since the shifter shaft is right next to the console and chrome.
And has a chrome button...
And they're both all pitted out...
How would you guys go about extracting that button/guts/spring from inside there?
It's been entombed. Welded into place forevermore.
Wondering how on earth it was even made...
I could cut the welds at the bottom, and also destroy the pivot pin,
Make up another on the lathe and welding it all back together afterwards,
But then there's this pin sticking out the side......
Maybe just cut the whole shaft in half right below where the chrome stops?
Then, I'd have to veeery carefully weld it back together without fouling the spring or pin inside...
Ugh.
Any of you guys cross this bridge before?
Wondering about getting another,
Sectioning one the one way and the other another to join later?
Make something from scratch?
Any of you guys cross this bridge?
Can't have a tatty shifter shaft after getting the console done...
