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byegorge
Posted 2016-11-03 9:10 PM (#4084)
Subject: Shifter


Location: Olympia, Washington
(73.42.182.228)

Shifter knobs, fancy, wood or stock simply does not agree with what I have sticking out of my dash. It is 3/16" steel 1 1/4" wide with a 2" long slot down the middle sticking about 6" out of the dash. How do you screw on a knob to that? I suppose you could bolt together a 'T' handle through the slot. I never thought it odd before but talk of 'shifter knobs' has got me curious is this stock or a PO mod? Thanks

 

 

 

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dkarnath
Posted 2016-11-04 7:27 AM (#4085 - in reply to #4084)
Subject: Re: Shifter


Location: Medford, OR
(75.142.8.77)		Reads kinda like a tuning fork George! Start an album for 506 so we can see your knob (shifter knob). Lol
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B. Sitton
Posted 2016-11-04 8:12 AM (#4087 - in reply to #4085)
Subject: Re: Shifter


Location: Ignacio Colorado
(72.161.116.188)		Some of the original shift levers broke and were replaced with home made levers. My #412 parts coach has a lever that was replaced with a homemade lever. It is solid and was made to use the stock knob. Good thing as it still had the original wooden knob that now shifts #902.

Why did the original levers brake? My money is on lack of proper park brake use.
Bill
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BigRabbitMan
Posted 2016-11-04 11:13 AM (#4088 - in reply to #4084)
Subject: Re: Shifter



Location: Cottage Grove, OR
(97.94.227.253)		The original shifter levers were made of "pot metal" and started breaking early on. A machined one was developed and many/most of them have been replaced by either the one sold by RVS and MCR or by owner built ones.
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byegorge
Posted 2016-11-04 9:53 PM (#4090 - in reply to #4084)
Subject: Re: Shifter


Location: Olympia, Washington
(73.42.182.228)		Close the end of the fork and round it over that's pretty much it. The slot has rounded ends and takes up about a 1/3 of the 1 1/4". On closer inspection inside the dash it is definitely home built but a real nice job works perfectly fits the different gear notches. It lacks a good hand feel and it's not real pretty. I guess I'll go find a camera and take a picture of it.
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byegorge
Posted 2016-12-13 2:57 AM (#4222 - in reply to #4084)
Subject: Re: Shifter


Location: Olympia, Washington
(73.42.182.228)		Added more pictures to the "506 Shifter" album. The lever appears to be hand made from a bicycle part. In the process I discovered 506's secret identity written in marker on the under side of the dash. Has anyone else found a similar miss match on their coach.
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dkarnath
Posted 2016-12-13 10:00 AM (#4223 - in reply to #4222)
Subject: Re: Shifter


Location: Medford, OR
(204.10.247.1)		I think I solved the "tuning" fork shifter mystery George, and where your shifter steel began life..........

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Schwinn-Training-Wheels-18-20-US-Pa...
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byegorge
Posted 2016-12-13 7:15 PM (#4226 - in reply to #4084)
Subject: Re: Shifter


Location: Olympia, Washington
(73.42.182.228)		Good eye Dan! I couldn't quite place it, too big, hole too small for a coaster brake lever. Just tell me you were looking at the training wheels first. There is nothing wrong with the shifter it works perfect, just hard to fit a handle. Whoever made it did good work had to be ground down to fit the gate and a spring to keep it there.
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dkarnath
Posted 2016-12-13 9:08 PM (#4227 - in reply to #4226)
Subject: Re: Shifter


Location: Medford, OR
(75.142.8.77)		I think it's awesome! I wish I had the talent to build a shifter for an FMC out of an old kids bicycle training wheel! You could modify the end of it at put a Schwinn shifter knob on it? That's something I could "handle". Lol
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