I have reached the height of cheapness-homemade axle nut caps

dawg · #1 11-28-2007, 05:01 PM

I wanted some axle nut caps to go with my recently powdercoated front forks, but I couln't find anybody that sold already black ones and I couldn't see spending the money for chrome ones just have them stripped and powdercoated. So while working at HD one day I took a set out of the package and measure the ID, OD and height. Armed with that info I went to Home Depot and picked up two metal pipe caps with the same measurements and a few set screws for a whopping $4.05. I then came home and ground the nubs and whatnot off the caps and sanded them smooth. Then I drilled and tapped a hole for the set screw, primed the caps and then painted with high gloss black engine paint because of its good adhesion qualities. Voila! The finished product looks great. One could also paint their caps color matched to their scoots!

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Badbagger · #2 11-28-2007, 05:14 PM

Ya NEED to put that in my thread "Best Mods for under $100" damn nice job!

Dalton · #3 11-28-2007, 05:17 PM

Whew, started reading and thought you were gonna install em with bailing wire and chewing gum

Really nice job though, very original thinking !

NICK56 · #4 11-28-2007, 05:26 PM

SONOFABITCH IF THEY DONT LOOK GOOD!

NICE

Geoff · #5 11-28-2007, 05:26 PM

Nice job!

RonH · #6 11-28-2007, 05:29 PM

That's terrific! If possible I'd much rather make something than buy it - those look great

engineer · #7 11-28-2007, 05:30 PM

Any chance you could let us know the dimensions that are need for the pipe ends?

rocknrod · #8 11-28-2007, 05:34 PM

They look great.
God job Dawg

RD GLD · #9 11-28-2007, 05:37 PM

Wow, would never have thought of that. What are the dimensions??

dawg · #10 11-28-2007, 05:41 PM

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ORIGINAL: engineer

Any chance you could let us know the dimensions that are need for the pipe ends?

I measured HD pn#44117-07 and came up with the following measurements: ID= 1 1/8" OD= 1 3/4" and the overall height was 1 1/4" The pipe cap that I used I believe was a 1" pipe cap at Home Depot. It coincidentally had the exact measurements as I had measured. I ended up buying two packets of set screws because they are sold in pairs and I wanted the longer one for the nut side and the shorter one for the hollow axle side. The ones I got were 10-24 X 3/8" and 10-24 X 1/2"