New Spinners?

[jono]

My 3 eared spinners are okay but suffer the usual gouges from the injudicious use of a metal hammer by PO's

What is the best option - refurbish or replace?

In either case where is the best source/supplier and what sort of cost am I looking at?

Cheers.

Jon

[trw99]

Susan Miller, she does them on exchange

Tim

[GrUmPyBoDgEr]

I'm pretty sure that new ones are available at Paul Matty, check out the web site.
I sent mine to a plating company in Ashton Vale, Bristol.
They did a brilliant job of polishing out all of the dents & splashed on lots of chrome.
Cost 10 years ago approx. 12 GBP each.

Cheers
John

[steveww]

I recently purchased a set of new spinners from PM.

[alexblack13]

Hi Guys,
I can give a nod here to Susan Millar. No bother at all and quick with it. Great quality product. The four exchange items I got were (are!) lovely.
Go and buy the device for tightning/slackening them also or you will wreck your new investment with a hammer. Any one of them will do the job and will prevent you from belting the living daylights out of your bodywork. I have also clouted my knee a few times.

No more trouble now though. Big torque wrench set to 200 LBs ' ' Click' done = Brill....


Alex B....

[elansprint]

I found the PM ones are more pointed than the original spinners.
Ian

[elans3]

You should use a leather or plastic faced mallet, then you won't damage your spinners at all. I've looked at the new tightening tool , and think it's great, but I can buy a good few correct mallets for the price.
elans3

[msd1107]

The advantage of the knock off/on tool is that you use a torque wrench to tighten the spinner to the correct 200 ftlbs value, not some indeterminate value based loosely on how hard you hit the spinner.

By the same token, lug nuts should be torqued to a specific value. Not tight enough and the fastener fails or the wheel falls off, too tight and the fastener fails also.

David
1968 36/7988

[alexblack13]

All very well till you stirike the new bodywork you just spent a fortune on. I have both softfaced hammers and then some. Still got damage. Look at every Lotus you see. The ones with ruined nuts are hammer tightened (& to what torque??????)

There is no arguement here. Spend a bit of dosh on the tool. You know they are properly tight and NO chance of damage to body/Knees/or your nuts (Really bad aim !!!! )

To each there own eh!

AB...

[jono]

I have spoken with Prestige Electro plating of Mexborough. They know the Elan very well and obviously have a lot of experience of replating parts and seem very friendly and helpful. They even have a fixed price menu!

To reprofile and re chrome my 3 eared spinners is ?15 + theft each, not bad - I shall give them a whirl.

Jon