Hard-Drive

Active Member

• May 16, 2017

• #1

I was out for a run the other night and ran past this in somebody's scrap metal pile outside their house. I offered to give it a better home than being weighed in for scrap, and was told to help myself. Plan is to be able to tow my little lad around behind the garden tractor.

Anyway, a bit (ok a lot) of work and it now looks like this...

However I'm now looking for a very specific type of Landy style dropdown tailgate antiluce fastener. It needs to look exactly like this...I want to screw it to the "end" panels, which are fixed, so I can drop the "side" panels.

I think it's called a cranked antiluce, and although I can find them in New Zealand, I can't find a UK supplier...

All I can find in the UK is the standard weld on (no good as I can't weld to wood!) or bolt on (which means I'll need some kind of right angles bracket anyway.

Any pointers people?

 

Flossie

Well-Known Member

• May 16, 2017

• #2

I would just knock up the brackets for the bolt on type.

 

Shippers

Well-Known Member

• May 16, 2017

• #3

Have you checked farm equip parts suppliers?
You might get more suggestions if you show it with the panels in situ.
Cheers Rob

 

neilly

Well-Known Member

• May 16, 2017

• #4

Silly question,

But why not get a std antiluce and weld a bracket onto it?

Cheers

 

Hard-Drive

Active Member

• May 16, 2017

• #5

Not a silly question at all people, but my welding isn't great, and I'd rather get something already pre-fabricated and galvanised.

 

The Mad Hat Man

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LZIR Despatch Agent

• May 16, 2017

• #6

whats difficult about getting them from NZ?

 

Hard-Drive

Active Member

• May 18, 2017

• #7

...I could do that, I was just hoping someone was going to say "xyz supplier has them" or "ah, what you want to ask for is double cranked galvanised widget grommets as that's what they are called in the UK".

I'm in no hurry so the NZ option might be my best!

 

ivancrx

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• May 18, 2017

• #8

Hard-Drive said:

...I could do that, I was just hoping someone was going to say "xyz supplier has them" or "ah, what you want to ask for is double cranked galvanised widget grommets as that's what they are called in the UK".

I'm in no hurry so the NZ option might be my best!

Click to expand...

http://www.brit-car.co.uk/product.php/223774/5497/tailgate_retaining_post_s111_def

The closest I can find.

 

ivancrx

Well-Known Member

• May 18, 2017

• #9

They are called Antiluce Fasteners if that helps. Just re-read the post and you already know that

 

freelance

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• May 19, 2017

• #10

Agricultural hardware store perhaps, or look at indespension or ifor williams trailer spares catalogues ( online )

 

listerdiesel

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Events Planner

• May 19, 2017

• #11

Albert Jagger is a UK business based in Wolverhampton, they should know where their NZ subsidiary company gets them from.

http://www.albertjagger.co.nz/motor...product_details&category_id=74&product_id=226

Peter

 

Hard-Drive

Active Member

• May 20, 2017

• #12

Thanks listerdiesel...I didn't know that, so I'll give them a call on Monday and see if they can help. Nice one!

 

Alan Crossley

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• May 20, 2017

• #13

I think our local farm shop stocks them. I'm in Ireland so the postage costs could be high. However, if you can't find locally, give me a nod and I will get them and send them on to you. At your cost

 

Hard-Drive

Active Member

• May 20, 2017

• #14

That's very kind Alan. Let me see where I end up with a couple of other options first before anyone goes to any trouble! Although I work for an Anglo Irish company, so you could always post them to Dublin and I'll grab them next time I'm over at head office!

 

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rickdulas

Active Member

• May 24, 2017

• #15

Try a Glasgow based company called John Adams Supplies.. they have pages of trailer bits