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I am currently finishing off projects that have been hanging around for a while.

I needed some door handles for a couple of coaches and found that I didn't have enough to do the job. Being an immediate sort of chap I wanted to do the job now, not later in the week so I looked at what I could make.

Several ideas were tried with copper wire used to make rings.

I even tried drilling and soldering some hollow square section. This did work but proved very fiddly and hard on the eyeballs.

Eventually the design that i felt looked the best for the least effort was a simple 90 degree bend. This takes seconds to make, is incredibly cheap yet took two hours of thinking to get to. Funny how we always seem the most difficult way first.

The three failed designs.



Drilled and soldered handle, hurts the eyes to do and far to fiddly for big fingers.


The final most simple design (The one in the middle)

Being an immediate sort of chap I wanted to do the job now,

Could be the mantra for the scratch builder Jim. Buying something means getting changed, driving in traffic, or waiting for the courier or postie, looking around the scrap on the bench and using a few brain cells gets you there with much more satisfaction. Funny, that the best and often simplest solution is generally arrived at last though!
Grant.

Big Jim its really nice to know i'm not alone in this I spend hours and hours designing doodling sketching and even as far as trying idea's only to find like yourself the kiss principle always works but usually last

Steph

I have improved the design since the picture was taken. I will post some pictures when I back to the shed.

Just added to the simple design.

Strip of black microstrip with appropriate sized hole in it.



Not quite as professional as a brass casting, but much cheaper.

Works well and looks good, can't see any problems with that, its all I use too, but without the black bit, lol.





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