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    Question Restoring horn buttons

    I started disassembling a couple of horn buttons for my 914/6 steering wheel and I found something unusual. I have two that are built quite differently. The one I believe is the older of the two has a leather skin integrated with a formed foam pad. That was all between the pad and the plastic. The chrome trim ring is very thick and solid. What you'd expect of earlier quality construction.

    The "newer" of the two had a leather cover over a seperate foam pad that was pretty much disintegrated. These sit on a solid metal plate under the trim ring which was much thinner.

    I'm going to use the older of the two for my wheel cause it's lighter.

    A simple thing but, interesting. This was used for what 4 years , 5? Maybe two different suppliers?
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    The Newer one. The plastic bodies seem identical.
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    The "old" one looks just like the button from my '65 911.
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    You know until I started taking them both apart I never thought that they weren't identical. Its amazing to me that the integrated leather/foam pad is still very solid and the pad that was seperate from the leather was mostly dust. That's why I didn't even bother photographing it. The plastic housings and the wheel locking rings are identical.
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    What really struck me about the horn button was how many pieces it has. I don't think you could design something like that the first time.

    Nowadays, we're used to seeing plastic moldings. There's lots of engineering history buried in these cars.
    Jim Alton
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