I got a request for some Beltt Buckles, anyone have any suggestions on the Backside hardware... Something Very Universal, or even that I could change would be Killer, but just advice... I'm fishing here Thanks in advance V/r HT1
Tobho casts that hardware into the back of the buckle with his mystic powers. Gate latch parts??? I was sitting in an FBO (fixed base operator, place where private jets fly in) and thumbing through an eye candy magazine and there was a $100k belt buckle. The company that makes them is called Roland. http://www.rolanditen.com/ Maybe something there will spark the ol neurons. Took me a minute, but what's the occasion? Who's it for? That kind of stuff... As an ex C-130 flight engineer, I'd love to have a belt buckle that utilizes this little wrench. EVERY engineer I knew had one of these on a keychain. It was the ONLY tool you could use to swap or remove engine starter generators. Without it, you were seriously screwed!
Cool wrench! My dad was a tech rep for Lockheed, started with the C-130A in 1954 and finished as senior Lockheed Ga. tech rep for the C-5A based at Scott. Belt Buckle: I was thinking a nice cast in place bar on the back to loop the belt through would be nice, and a challenge. A little like Tobho's concept, and a hook with a very small mushroom head would be ideal.
There's a good look at the back side of one of Nudge's belt buckles here, might give you some ideas: http://www.alloyavenue.com/vb/showt...agull-outboard&p=210492&viewfull=1#post210492 Jeff
I was on 40yr old E models in Chermany. Air conditioning sucked big time. Doing low level crap, I'd pull the front and aft overhead escape hatches. You should see how fast you can make a roll of TP disappear off a pencil through the sextant hole. Miss the herk.
I grew up out west, most of my (ehem....!) hub cap buckles are cast first then the hardware like the loop for the belt and post to go through the hole appear to be soldered on after the fact... The part that attaches to the belt and the "hook" for fastening to the belt are created from what appears to be hardened and silver clad rod. One of my smaller pieces of hardware....