markbognor
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Sept 25, 2008 13:54:01 GMT
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Multi PCD Checker, 4x 4 stud, 4x98, x100, x108, x114.3. Could also do imperial four stud and metric and imperial five stud etc. How does £4 a pop sound? This isn't a for sale thread yet, just gauging interest really, suggestions for the most worthwile combinations would be good also.
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ThePollitt
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Sept 25, 2008 13:58:53 GMT
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Great idea...you clever sod.
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Mr K
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Sept 25, 2008 14:04:01 GMT
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Double as wheel spacers!
they looks smart!
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Sept 25, 2008 14:04:02 GMT
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If you can do an 'all in one' I reckon it'd be very useful. There was some form of pcd checker for sale on eBay a year or two ago but nore sure what they looked like.
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Sept 25, 2008 14:08:16 GMT
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All in one would be hard, as the holes would start to overlap. Its a nice idea, but I tend to use vernier calpers across the holes for four stud wheel pcd. Quick, accurate and universal. A five stud version would be good, they are harder to measure.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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markbognor
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Sept 25, 2008 14:11:31 GMT
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If you can do an 'all in one' I reckon it'd be very useful. There was some form of pcd checker for sale on eBay a year or two ago but nore sure what they looked like. There is only space for so many on a ring, and there is lots of interference between four and five stud sizes so keeping them to a set seemed best. It also makes checking between sizes easier - is that metric wheel really the same size as that imperial hub? Obviously if there's a combination of metric and imperial sizes that work well together then that could be done. Mr K, i hope that your tounge was firmly in your cheek
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markbognor
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Sept 25, 2008 14:16:02 GMT
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All in one would be hard, as the holes would start to overlap. Its a nice idea, but I tend to use vernier calpers across the holes for four stud wheel pcd. Quick, accurate and universal. A five stud version would be good, they are harder to measure. Yeah of course, fours are easier to measure, i hadn't really considered that, its no harder to draw the cut path for fives though I recon the four could still be good for the less engineerinally minded.
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Sept 25, 2008 14:21:24 GMT
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Cracking idea! I deffo get one was and when you decide to sell them. We quite often get sent the wrong PCD wheels at work and this would be an ideal (idiot proof) way of checking them
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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street
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Sept 25, 2008 14:23:55 GMT
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Very clever! Good to stick in your pocket and take to autojumbles etc. I reckon you could shift a few
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kee
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Sept 25, 2008 14:26:25 GMT
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genius idea, can you cut in 3D? i ask as for testing on wheels it would be better to have raised sections to slot into the bolt holes to make life that little bit easier
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Sept 25, 2008 14:31:15 GMT
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top idea. 5 stud would be of more use to me, and its harder to measure with a caliper or whatever unless you can remember the conversion maths!
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markbognor
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Sept 25, 2008 14:33:19 GMT
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The design in its current state is quite easy to make. I'd love to be able to sell something simmilar but with four (or five on the five lug) tapered inserts to screw into the holes for the pcd you are looking for, then it would be easy to check, and the taper would take up any difference in bolt hole size on the wheel. With a fixed raised stud you could only have one size on each side, because the other studs would stop the ones you want going in the holes.
If I make more i'll make them in clear or translucent so that the hole, if larger than the hole in the disk can be seen through it making lining up on the holes you want pretty easy, but not instant.
Oh and no i cant do 3d, I'd etch a ring on the gauge, and cut a disk the same diameter out of the waste and glue that on in the position of the etched ring.
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Last Edit: Sept 25, 2008 14:36:17 GMT by markbognor
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Sept 25, 2008 14:40:59 GMT
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Mr K
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Sept 25, 2008 15:24:27 GMT
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Tounge well in cheek.
if you did a set with loads of different sizes (4 and 5 stud) I would be interested .
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Last Edit: Sept 25, 2008 15:25:11 GMT by Mr K
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Sept 25, 2008 15:27:52 GMT
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Theres another type available, a slide type. Pop browns sell em I'm sure.
Measures all PCD's, 4 or 5 stud metric or imperial.
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Sept 25, 2008 15:33:27 GMT
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if you did a set with loads of different sizes (4 and 5 stud) I would be interested . You could do them is some kind of presentation box........ *in the best faux posh QVC voice.........
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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ThePollitt
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Sept 25, 2008 15:47:44 GMT
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Lol ant Robin! ;D
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Sept 25, 2008 16:05:30 GMT
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just gauging interest really, ...if you'll pardon the pun!
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kee
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Sept 25, 2008 16:22:44 GMT
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it seems i speak before i think. i just realised myself after reading back my post that the studs would be in the way ;D DUH! i think this is a cracking idea though as said, useful for autojumble's etc
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Sept 25, 2008 17:19:41 GMT
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