Drain Plug solved!!

[Kneale Brownson]

At 11:16 PM 11/13/2002 -0500, Huw Powell wrote:

>It makes sense to me for people to make things we want that aren't
>available the way we want them (schrapnelknobbi, EFI computers and fuel
>rails, QLCC chips, recharging bombs, etc.) but it seems odd to try to
>make something that can be readily bought in finished form.  Granted,
>the price as quoted makes it seem a bit egregious to do so, but wouldn't
>it be cooler to make a part that Audi *doesn't* make or have anymore?
>Like new covers for the late type 85 bumper mount, for instance?

My thought was to find the appropriate plastic in a size and shape that
could be filed or turned on a lathe to the outside diameter of the thread
and cut it with a die.  Not pay a machine shop to turn it out.  As you say,
Huw, if you're going to involve a machine shop, a chemist, an injection
molding, etc., you might as well pay the $35 for a 10-cent plug.