1943 Hand Crank Fabricate / Copy

I just plain enjoy fabricating parts... you can buy them for about $50.00

A buddy (John) loaned me his original crank to copy.

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The head is made out of 1" round stock. It is line bored 1/2" and 5/16" cross drilled. After that is done make a saw cut down to the 5/16" hole.

I then used a power hacksaw to rough cut the angles. After that it was just hand work with files to make it look like the original.

The shafts were turned down to 1/2" to insert into the heads. Then will be welded.

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Comparison Pictures of original & my copy

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Bending Shafts and welding heads on. Both painted & One Stamped as for a MB

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Crank in it's business position

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Crank, Hand, Engine Starting

Willys # A-289

Ford # GPW-17036

Fed # 8-C-8322

Pictures of original markings on both MB & GPW cranks

    MB

    GPW

Storage of Hand Crank

 Hangs from clamp on inside of Rear Body Panel

Hand Crank Brackets - The Hand crank hung at an angle against the inside of the Rear Body Panel. It hangs vertically on a bracket with a threaded stud on it welded to the rear body panel. Over this threaded stud a curved clamp bracket (#A-2853) is placed wrapping around the round metal of the hand crank. The Clamp is secured by a wing nut at the top. Welded to the floor pan are 2 small "L" shaped brackets which also secure the lower ends of the crank.

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My Bracket for Storage

The stud for the clamp had been cut off. What I did was to drill & tap the old bolt that was cut off.

I did it to 5/16 coarse thread. I then made a stud the proper length, threaded it in to the drilled & tapped hole and put a 5/16 jam nut on the back side.

 I then made a clamp 1/8” flat stock. Here is mine clamped up…

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