Hi Patrick
Nothing from Stuart is ever cheap, those are later plain metal, the ones I'm looking for have rubber footrest cover and a tapped hole in the end for a bolt to hold the rubber on.
Hi Barry, the Original early ones are very hard to find, but you can easily adapt a postwar one. I weld up the rounded end a bit, make it flat and tap 5/16 BSC threads in it.
The washers should have a diameter of 50mm and I make them out of 3mm sheet. Jeff Hunter used to sell the correct rubbers:
Hi Ron
Thank's for the contact, I would really enjoy going to Kempston and some of the other swap meets but as I'm in New Zealand it's a job to justify. Is there a list of the various swap meets that I can access?, I plan to be in the UK possibly next year and try to do a couple if it works. Cheers Barry
Apart from the fact they are a malleable iron or steel casting the footrests would be difficult to manufacture due to the fine internal spline they have to allow for adjustment...That engages with a matching spline on the footrest support tube...
To accurately reproduce the cross hatch pattern of the military footrests from solid would also require access to a CNC mill...Ian
My intention would be to use the ones I have, reduce the footrest to fit inside the rubber then drill and tap the end for the bolt, is there any reason that this wouldn't work? Cheers Barry