PARTS is PARTS! Show us your odd items used as bike parts!

[The Renaissance Man]

RRB members are not hung up on correctness when it comes to builds!
I thought it would be fun to see all of the unusual re-purposed things that end up on bikes.

Here's an example from Smoopy's using barbed wire for fender supports!

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Here's a 1948 Chrysler tail light that made it's way to the rear fender of Kingfish254's Firewing...

 

[Chris Crew]

Looser-proof gas cap--hose fittings from my neighborhood Ace Hardware, scrap chain, coat hanger wire

 

[Chris Crew]

and that's a piece of downspout that became the tank

 

[dragnusa]

Not to odd and though its not a new thing for me since this is my second year using it. This year Im using copper I got from an old power line that ran to a barn we tore down. It was so old there was no insulation left on it.

 

[aka_locojoe]

There is a similar thread here http://www.ratrodbikes.com/forum/viewto ... =1&t=34836

 

[kim_dude]

Gumby Rumpus' fire extinguisher battery compartment comes to mind.