it finally warmed up over 40 degrees today so I made the best of it. I started with the creation of my copper spoon, cut apart the pipe and banged it flat.
Works amazingly well. It is nice I can bend it to fit the panel I am working on.
Here were the holes I filled it with it.
and cleaned up the disaster of a hole I made on the panel.
It should make for an interesting patch panel. After that I moved on to the inside of the door pillar, there was less wind sitting in the car over the open garage door. Still have alot of grinding left before that section is complete. The panel doesn’t line up very well. It will be hidden behind the kick panel and a speaker so I am not to worried about it.
At this point I found I had hit my welders limit on the duty cycle so I turned my attention to the recently removed shifter (today). It looks like a Hurst shifter but the inlays don’t have any label on it. not sure if it was a sticker or a look-alike shifter. Will have to do some research on that.
So as the title suggest I cant leave well enough alone. If it can be disassembled you are damn sure I am going to disassemble it. You would think a shifter can be that complicated, but with a reverse shift lock out in the handle it adds a few cables and springs over a Plain Jane unit.

In the last pic you can see a tiny (.07mm) wire that pulls up on the release to allow you to shift into reverse…well I broke it. I pulled the whole thing apart and cleaned and checked every part, start to put it back together and forgot to add one of the white plastic pieces before locking in that cable, so I proceed to remove the cable and broke that bent over piece. Now it is in short to work. Now I get to play the fun game of wandering lowes to find something I can use to replace that cable.
During this whole I the shifter bar itself was in bad condition. The chrome was all pitted and in some spots missing and covered with rust. I decided to grind all the chrome off the bar and either have it re-chromed or painted or something. Once I ground it down it looked kinda cool in its brushed look. I finished the main piece and then proceeded to the lock handle. Because it is more complex then the main piece I had to break out the dremel, and all I had was a finer grit paper, so it is now a different (shinier) look then the rest.
You can see the reflection of the flash is greater on the lock out handle. Still haven’t decided if I look the handle. Either way it wont be going back in the car because of the 901.