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[dugalblues]

Hey folks,
In the process of building a front pushbar out of steel flat bar. I understand that the real police pushbars had hard, half round, rubber pieces bolted to the bars. Any idea on where to buy this rubber bumper ?
Cheers
dugal

[antblues]

hiya

may be goto a scrap yard? sometimes where i go to get bits found some wicked stuff for my speaker mount so am sure if u look there is going to b somethin.

ANT

[ChiTownJohn]

it takes some engineering but I used this rubber threshold stuff that looks awesome until right on it to see what it is (only cause I didnt caulk the to yet.
I beleive it was for designed for an overhead door, ya know what i mean? anyhow i cut the two inner flaps so I could form it around another piece of metal which i then bolted to the uprights on the push bars. which almost makes my uprights a total of a half inch which is sturdy enough, hope that helps, the treshold stuu was like 2 and a hlf or 3 inches wide, but when i cut the inner part it makes it about 2 wide, later!

[yellowrr]

When I made my pushbars, I put them on the front bumper and drove over to a local shop called "Hampton Rubber" that does anything and everything to do with making high pressure hose assemblies, o-rings, sheet rubber for gaskets, etc. and told the guy behind the counter that I needed some rubber hose that was about 2" inside diameter and had a bit of a "spiral" look to it. (Check out the Nazi bridge scene, or the scene where they pull up to the Holiday Inn to get Murph & the Magictones). The guy looks at me with a strange look, and asks "Well what are you putting through this hose? What temperature? What pressure?" I figured that it was easier to show him than to try to explain it. When we got outside to the parking lot, he broke into a huge smile and said "I think that I can find you something! No problem." A few minutes later, we had a few feet of some sort of hose that is used for a larger boat's engine cooling systems (something like heavy duty radiator hose).

As an added benefit, he liked the car so much that he sold me the hose for probably half of what it was worth! As he was writing the ticket, he winked at me and said, "I'll give you a little better deal than most people get!"

Check your telephone book for a shop that can make hydraulic hoses, or one that sells all sorts of industrial rubber products. At worst, let me know, and I'll go buy you some more of the stuff that I got.

One last thing... I had to put small pieces of PVC pipe down inside the rubber hose to fill up the gap and to hold it straight on the push bars, because when it is manufactured and coiled up, it tends to want to stay curved and it looks odd.


Good luck!!!

[Monaco74]

Dock rubber. The solid rubber bumpers put on loading dock walls work perfect. The internet is lousy with companies that make this stuff in all different dimensions.

[ChiTownJohn]

thats a good idea there too, nice!

[59 strat]

I|m no Bluesmobile expert,but.Any standard marine Rub Rail would be perfect Its sold in many diffenrt sizes,not expensive and can be cut to any lenght Its half round.|I|ts advertised in boats and harbors,and Ill post a suppliersname if any ones interested.|Its on every fiberglass shrimp boat in Louisiana. |Further on up th road 59 Strat