Yeah, I have to say you are high up on my list as well
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It would have to be a small one to fit through the hole.
I still have 2 of these supposedly nos pushrods. Been wondering what to do with them. Probably should be chucked in the scrap pile but I sure would like to know why they are not hardened. Or how to test that.
I took a fine half round file (a good Nicholson...not some China made crap) to a used original and dragged it across the center with the half round side and there's no drag on the file. If you lay into it, yeah, there will be some but not much and it marred the file. Then I took the flat side to the edge of the tip and it dragged a line in the file! That's a good sign it's hard. How much does a 'new' one cost? I'd like to do the file test on one of them just to see and if I can feel more drag than the original, then try to hardened it would be my next thing. If there's not much carbon in the steel, then getting it as hard as needed might not happen.
I have very little oxy/acetylene in my bottles and they are so out of date that probably no one will want to even bother testing. They are the smaller 80 and 60 cubic foot bottle iirc and bought them used in the mid 70's. Always meant to get a larger oxy bottle and did get one recently but the guy that gave it to me came back for it. Seems like that's happening more and more these days lol. Anyways, have a couple bottles of Argon/Co2 mix and hear that the valve can be changed and used for oxy....and figured I'd try that once one of them are empty.....guess it's time to get to work on the car and use it up!
Exactly.
