Maverick1701
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**this is a cross post from the conversation section**
I was hunting around for some vehicle delineators for my M35A2. For a vehicle of it's size it blends in especially well at night.....even more-so out here on our dark rural west tx roadways. With only two small red tail-lights I wanted something to help avoid being rear-ended by some idiot...so I started shopping for delineator panels.
The prices for "real" military delineators were....ok...but the shipping was astronomical (usually shipping was priced equal or higher than the cost for the panels themselves).
The guy who does our vehicle striping at my Sheriff's Office also does sign work. He has done a few things for me in the past (on the personal order side as well as the SO side) involving metal wall hangers.
I got the bright idea to have him whip up some panels for me after I gave him the dimensions, specs (super-mega-highly reflective), and pictures of the "real" models with which to copy.
I picked them up today and could not be happier. I paid $36 for the pair which is about 1/3 of the prices I was seeing online....and I was able to support a local business. So it was a win-win.
If you have a local sign guy and are looking for a set of panels for your MV, he can probably save you some money.
There are already 4 holes in the upper mud flap/steel support area so I didn't have to drill more holes in my truck. I decided to use those holes so I wouldn't have to 1. move my license plate and 2. deal with unbolting/re-bolting the mud flap supports.
I wanted a way to space the panels from the upper mud flaps so they wouldn't bend on the ribs already imprinted on the steel mud flaps. I used 5/16 coupling nuts as spacers between the mud flaps & the new panels.
If there are any interest in these let me know and I get have some more sets made for my fellow MV-ers.
I was hunting around for some vehicle delineators for my M35A2. For a vehicle of it's size it blends in especially well at night.....even more-so out here on our dark rural west tx roadways. With only two small red tail-lights I wanted something to help avoid being rear-ended by some idiot...so I started shopping for delineator panels.
The prices for "real" military delineators were....ok...but the shipping was astronomical (usually shipping was priced equal or higher than the cost for the panels themselves).
The guy who does our vehicle striping at my Sheriff's Office also does sign work. He has done a few things for me in the past (on the personal order side as well as the SO side) involving metal wall hangers.
I got the bright idea to have him whip up some panels for me after I gave him the dimensions, specs (super-mega-highly reflective), and pictures of the "real" models with which to copy.
I picked them up today and could not be happier. I paid $36 for the pair which is about 1/3 of the prices I was seeing online....and I was able to support a local business. So it was a win-win.
If you have a local sign guy and are looking for a set of panels for your MV, he can probably save you some money.
There are already 4 holes in the upper mud flap/steel support area so I didn't have to drill more holes in my truck. I decided to use those holes so I wouldn't have to 1. move my license plate and 2. deal with unbolting/re-bolting the mud flap supports.
I wanted a way to space the panels from the upper mud flaps so they wouldn't bend on the ribs already imprinted on the steel mud flaps. I used 5/16 coupling nuts as spacers between the mud flaps & the new panels.
If there are any interest in these let me know and I get have some more sets made for my fellow MV-ers.
