Stantion Bushes

[Dunx]

Any one have any idea where I could source some top hat bushes for the gaurd rail stantions for my Hunter Horizon? All the chandlers round here look blankly at me and try and sell me new stantions... Thanks

 

[wotayottie]

Do you mean the bits of plastic that fit in the sockets to insulate them from the stanchions? If so, chop up a margarine container - no need to pay for something like that.

 

[Tranona]

Don't think they are being evasive. Never seen them sold as separate items (assume you are talking about the caps in the top) as there are as many types as there are makes of stanchions. So find out who made your stanchions, hope they are still in business and contact them direct. Alternatively get some machined out of a plastic such as Delrin or from Tufnol.

 

[Ardenfour]

plastic pipe inserts for plastic plumbing pie (lot of p's?) Try the ones for 10mm pipe, might have to be shortened so they can sit back to back, depends on your stanchion thickness

 

[Adamastor]

IMHO, as an ex-stanchion-seller, the manufacturers of a certain brand of stanchions had it right... They supplied a piece of shrink tube to isolate the ends where the stanchions go into their bases.

 

[Dunx]

Thanks,

Thanks for the replies so far. The bushes I am looking for are the ones which the guard wires pass through horizontaly, specificaly the lower wire as the top wire passes through the cast top of the stantion.

There are two plactic top hat fittings which fit either side of the hole to isolate the wire from the upright metel post and the wire is chewing into one of the stantions where the bushes are missing.

Appreciate the help thus far

 

[ianat182]

A length of plastic electrical cable outer covering, in white ,black, grey, or orange, should give you plenty to cut to size(10mm diameter) made long enough to protrude through each stanchion wire hole in the stanchion itself will make a neat job of it and won't pop out either!


ianat182

 

[Poignard]

I made replacements for mine from s/s tube. Using a lathe*, I parted off pieces that were slightly longer than the diameter of the stantion. These were fixed in place by flaring the ends slightly, by placing a steel ball on each end and squeezing in a vice.

* a tubing cutter would do

 

[Dunx]

Thanks

Thanks one and all I have some ideas to work with

Regards,

Dunx