[DeTomaso] The coolest hardware ever!

[Michael Shortt]

Well, I like a challenge.

Hard as heck to find this stuff, took a good 20 minutes of surfing.

They are called laminated shims, they are used mostly in aerospace industry.

Most appear to be custom ordered by size from "Laminated Shim Stock" in
sheets in various materials ( plastic, carbon steel, stainless steel, brass,
aluminum, etc. )

They are very expensive

Get another handful and walk away really quietly.

Michael in Savannah




On 7/2/07, Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I had a scope mount about 20 years ago that used the same technology.  It
> was for a 454 Casull and I think was part of fitting the rings to the
> scope.  I guess a revolver with the power of a 30.06 needed really
> precisly fit scope rings.  I think the scope still moved some :  (
>
> Ken
>
> asajay at asajay.com wrote:
> Damn spiffy! I'm sure the search is on now.
>
> Asa Jay
>
>
> Quoting MikeLDrew at aol.com:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > As many of you know, I'm in Paris helping a friend screw his Pantera
> together
> > (it's been apart for almost 20 years, he's owned it for about ten, and
> > hopefully it will be on the road later this year). One of the joys
> > of working on a
> > car in another country is to broaden my horizons by seeing different
> tools
> > and techniques that are used to accomplish various jobs. Today one of
> our
> > tasks was to install the shift linkage, which (for those of you who
> aren't
> > intimately familiar) consists of a series of splined rods with
> > U-joints, culminating
> > in at the shift lever, which is supported in a sort of yoke, and pivots
> on a
> > pin.
> >
> > When all was said and done, I was highly dissatisfied with the finished
> > result. There was notable side-to-side play at the shift lever,
> > where the lever
> > could be moved to either side a measurable amount before any motion was
> > translated to the rods.
> >
> > We took the system apart, and found that there was visible play between
> the
> > shifter bearings and the yoke which captures the shifter on each side.
> What
> > we needed was a precision washer to stick in there and take up the
> slack. A
> > quick rummage through the washer collection revealed that all the
> standard
> > washers were simply too thick.
> >
> > Then Stephane had an "A-ha!" moment.
> >
> > Peelable washers!
> >
> > Uh, say what?
> >
> > Yup. He has a friend who works at Peugot Sport, building Peugot's World
> > Rally cars, and he gave Stephane a pile of trick hardware, including
> > something
> > I'd never heard of before--peelable washers.
> >
> > He showed me one, and to my eye it appeared to be nothing more than an
> > ordinary metric washer. In fact, it was comprised of TEN layers of
> > ultra-thin
> > material sandwiched together. With an X-acto knife, Stephane was
> > able to remove
> > one layer at a time, until we had a washer of EXACTLY the proper
> thickness to
> > fix the problem, perfectly.
> >
> > I was just blown away, and whenever I'm blown away I reach for the
> digital
> > camera:
> >
> > http://members.aol.com/mikeldrew/PeelableWashers.jpg
> >
> > Stephane gave me a handful of these things, so I can tighten up my own
> > shifter, plus the first one or two really messy ones that I come
> > across. But my
> > question is this--has anybody else ever seen these suckers, and does
> anybody
> > know where to find them?
> >
> > Two definite thumbs up!!!
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
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Michael L. Shortt
Savannah, Georgia


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