So I thought this was a cool little aesthetic mod

[Hot COCOAL]

Like the title says, I thought this was pretty neat, worth sharing, easy and cheap

Looks like a regular old dispensed .45 shell, right, your wondering WTF does this have to do with a truck.....


Shezam

. Now it's a valve stem cap

I noticed that the ID of the shell was about the same size as the standard chromie cap, so I checked it out, and whataya know, it was a perfect fit, so after shooting I came home and put some translucent yellow 2stg 5min epoxy in the powder area of one of the shells, mixed it good and let it sit, now i took the chromie off and wrapped the valve stem where it was not covered by the cap with blue tape, during the taping time i was letting the epoxy set up till the shell casing was getting hot and the epoxy was more like a gel than a liquid, at this time I slipped the shell over the chromie that I re-threaded onto the valve stem and then I let it set up for about 10min, then I unscrewed them, and it worked like a charm! Just how I wanted

I will post a pic tomorrow when my wheels are clean but I think it looks pretty damn cool, and it's a really cheap little aesthetic mod that not allot of people will have, well, at least for a while:roflmao:

This little process doesnt take long. After the first "trial run" I got the other three done in about 20min

 

[dirtymaxer]

Very cool! I like it! :thumb:

 

[Hot COCOAL]

BTW, it's kinda hard to tell in the pic, but the shell casing is stainless steel and shiny like chrome, it looks really cool against the black wheel, and I also have little machined accents on the lip of the rim that closely resemble the end of a center fire shell:thumb:

That's what caught my attention in the first place, I was looking at a shell in my hand standing by my truck, and I said to myself, wow, those accents on the rim look the the end of this bullet, so I held it up to the rim and then noticed the valve stem cap was about the same size as the ID of the shell, and here we are :angel:

 

[Hot COCOAL]

Very cool! I like it! :thumb:

THANKS:thumb: