Need a specific TR4A Rear View mirror

[Foxer]

I'm ramping back up on completing this long standing TR4A build andmost all stalling points have been overcome with 3D Printing and Molotow Chrome.

I have one part I that can't locate anything similar or a pen end I could fabricate one from. It is very cone-like and seems there has to be some craft piece of tube cap I could find to use. The best part is I only need a driver side mirror! 

I'm just throwing this out to see if anyone recollects a similar mirror. Any help will be appreciated, no matter how silly.

Here's what I need ...

 

 

Edited April 1, 2018 by Foxer

[SfanGoch]

Fabricate it yourself. It's easier than you think. I just made one. I stuck a piece of 5/32" dia. sprue (or, styrene rod of a similar size would be a better choice) into my rotary tool and, using a flat jeweler's file, made a copy using the photo as a reference. I used the file to obtain the contours. It took all of five minutes and it looks like the pictured one. The bezel can be made the same way using a slightly larger piece of sprue or styrene rod. If you use 3/16" rod, you can make the mirror with the bezel attached. Another choice for material is 3/16 aluminum rod, which is soft enough to work with and can be polished.

[afx]

Looks like a Ray-Dot mirror.  There was an aftermarket company, who's name escapes me that offered them in white metal.  I used them on this build.

Edited March 28, 2018 by afx

[Foxer]

58 minutes ago, SfanGoch said:

Fabricate it yourself. It's easier than you think. I just made one. I stuck a piece of 5/32" dia. sprue (or, styrene rod of a similar size would be a better choice) into my rotary tool and, using a flat jeweler's file, made a copy using the photo as a reference. I used the file to obtain the contours. It took all of five minutes and it looks like the pictured one. The bezel can be made the same way using a slightly larger piece of sprue or styrene rod. If you use 3/16" rod, you can make the mirror with the bezel attached. Another choice for material is 3/16 aluminum rod, which is soft enough to work with and can be polished.

I'm leaning that way for sure, even the front mirror face should be easy enough. A pin with some filed plastic around it for the arm.

[Foxer]

14 minutes ago, afx said:

Looks like a Ray-Dot mirror.  There was an aftermarket company, who's name escapes me that offered them in white metal.  I used them on this build.

wow ... that is my mirror. Finding a copy would probably take 10 years, though.

[StevenGuthmiller]

8 hours ago, SfanGoch said:

Fabricate it yourself.

That would be my thought.

If I can scratch build a late 50s/early 60s Mopar mirror, surely, this on would be a breeze!

 

Steve

 

[Snake45]

Do you have any model airplane friends? I'll bet one of them has something the right size and shape in his box of spare/leftover bombs/rockets/fuel tanks. 

[StevenGuthmiller]

8 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

Do you have any model airplane friends? I'll bet one of them has something the right size and shape in his box of spare/leftover bombs/rockets/fuel tanks. 

A "Dagmar" from the front of a 50s car might be a good place to start.

 

Steve

[Foxer]

I appreciate all the help coming up with a way to make this mirror. After all the hem and hawing I just went down to the shop and stuck a chunk of sprew in the drill and shaped the main body. The large sprew even has a center void to allow drilling a hole down the middle for a brass pin! I found an old beadlight bucket in to Old Parts box and flattened the end after drilling a center hole. This is it at this stage and I believe it will look close to the 1:1. It's going to be tricky sawing the bucket to a small sliver, but a lot of filing may be in store near the end. I'll cut a disk to insert for the mirror in the end. The hole in the main cone will get a pin with a slot like the original.

Then. a brass pin where the arm is and trapped between a couple .02" flats which will be sanded to shape.

Where's my Molotow Pen?