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Old Jun 25, 2012 | 07:55 PM
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New Rear Wiper Arm

So one day in March I overlooked my car to find the rear wiper arm had been ripped off in the college town I live in. They left the wiper motor shaft with the nut but everything else was gone. I have been without a rear wiper ever sense until a couple days ago. I cut this out of 1/8" aluminum on my college's CNC plasma cutter. I used Autodesk Inventor to draw the 3d model and drafted it as a .dxf file for the CNC program and wola. I then wet sanded a polished look into the arm and bent it to fit the wiper blade by matching the front wiper arm. Now I have to figure out some sort of cover for the Nut. And I am undecided if I want to paint it. It would probably be painted body color or black.


Im in the process of resizing my pics I post more later. Sorry.

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Old Jun 25, 2012 | 08:00 PM
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Retro look.. I like!
Old Jun 25, 2012 | 08:09 PM
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Nice work it will take just as long for yours to rust as mine, and its missing.

Kev, what is that thing in your avatar son ?
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Old Jun 29, 2012 | 09:06 PM
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Sorry about the mix up here is the album link to Photobucket.

http://s167.photobucket.com/albums/u...20Wiper%20Arm/

Here is a 3D model and Assembly of my next attempt using Autodesk Inventor



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Old Jun 29, 2012 | 10:36 PM
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Now I have to figure out some sort of cover for the Nut. And I am undecided if I want to paint it. It would probably be painted body color or black.
You could add a stainless acorn nut, to accent it, or paint the acorn nut also..

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The avatar pic of Kev's looks to be the Chevy Dump Truck he is probably driving now..
Old Jun 29, 2012 | 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted by sleeper
You could add a stainless acorn nut, to accent it, or paint the acorn nut also..

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The avatar pic of Kev's looks to be the Chevy Dump Truck he is probably driving now..
Looks like I'm going to get an Acorn Nut tomorrow that's an awesome idea.
Old Jul 7, 2012 | 06:48 PM
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Got the Acorn Nut today





Old Jul 8, 2012 | 12:33 AM
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Very Cool, looks good !!!
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