Distributor Cap: $200

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 06/25/2019 at 09:07 • Filed to: None

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pip bip - choose Corrour > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/25/2019 at 09:16

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CP!

but then again, just looked at rockauto.com and they don’t stock it, so i’m guessing if you own a vehicle that needs that cap. you have not much choice but to p ay it

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/25/2019 at 09:24

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That’s a bit telling, isn’t it? There are cheap project cars but if that cap is any indication, the person needing it doesn’t own one of them.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/25/2019 at 10:10

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Suckers!

Mine cost $6.05 for a Beck/Arnley Cap.

Hell I can buy a complete distributor for $43.......

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: 06/25/2019 at 13:07

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I like how you put that.

I am after an aesthetic that is not rat rod nor roadkill, but functional and tidy . You look at it and if your eye is practiced at all, you recognized that someone put thought into it. I don’t want a project car that’s worth 1/50th or 1/100th of what you’ve spent on it and which you’re afraid to drive because it’s too nice.

kanadanmajava1 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/25/2019 at 13:12

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Distributors caps can be fairly expensive for obscure vehicles. Here’s a reproduction cap for a Duesenberg M odel J. It’s priced at $2000. I wonder what a NOS part would cost...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > kanadanmajava1 06/25/2019 at 13:21

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The $200 price tag on the other cap didn’t surprise me much, but it did spark my curiosity. The part above looks like it’s made of Bake lite...

Bakelite

Bakelite, or polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, is the first plastic made from synthetic components. It is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from a condensation reaction of phenol with formaldehyde. It was developed by the Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland in Yonkers, New York, in 1907. (Wikipedia)

But you prob’ly already knew that...

kanadanmajava1 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/25/2019 at 13:57

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I do know the stuff but not the origins of it. It was pretty important step for making electrical things. The alternatives for making distributor caps weren’t well available. I think ones out of glass were used in some applications.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > kanadanmajava1 06/25/2019 at 14:26

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I knew of Bakelite, famously, Bakelite telephones. And there are rabid collectors out there of the stuff. I’d never thought of distributor caps, though.