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M38A1 Battery Tray and Drain Tubes
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 10:55 am
by STXM38A1
A posting on the G503 M38A1 site has some excellent reference pictures for the M38A1 battery trays and drain tubes.
http://g503.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=222739
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 1:06 pm
by wilfreeman
Is anybody repro'ing the hoses now? Been a while since I looked for them.
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 5:15 pm
by wesk
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 5:18 pm
by wesk
I believe John Bizal at Midwest Military has them.
Hoses
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 8:39 pm
by G740
No, MWM does not have them. I priced out the tooling to get them made and almost had a heart attack. Not in my plans anytime soon.
John
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 1:42 am
by chrisk
Wes, thank you.
For posting photos I always have little patience.
Chris
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 2:24 pm
by madmike
This was also discussed a few months ago on a forum, either this one or the G, and I managed to make the firewall thru hose out of irrigation plastic hose found at True Value Hardware. I heated the hose with a heat gun and got to fit well enough for my needs. Fortunately I had the original battery tray hoses and the copper tee fitting. Although the hoses were fragile, I managed to get them on and then reinforce the outside with epoxy. They will still come off but should not break up on me.
If I recall correctly, the previous post on this described a process of using copper elbows, a 90 and a 45, and the irrigation tubing. The elbows made the bend for the tray and were soldered in place.
The only down side was I had to buy an entire roll of the tubing to get the three feet I needed. My neighbor now has the remainder in his yard. Not expensive stuff though.