Need help: large steering wheel center insert?

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Trying to find a nice 21/2" diameter Insert (fits into a 21/2" opening in the center of the steering wheel), with the ridges on the rim.   I have one that I did reproduce fine, and can make, but the original I borrowed was well worn, badly nicked & scratched in places where I just can't repair it satisfactorily (they are OK, but they need to be almost perfect; the mold we made & casts are shown below) (Terry will be making the decals).  This style insert was used on the GT-14, (also on CASE, Bolens, Sears, MTD & Ford garden tractors, late 60's thru the 70's) **.  It looks just like the Wheel Horse 2" insert, only 1/2" larger - can be any color, it's one of those things that everybody seems to be missing.

 

    

 

There are some nice perfect ones out there, because a person in Indiana had a bunch of blank ones reproduced for Bolens & CASE and sold out in '09, I would love to borrow one of those inserts but can't locate him, he retired & moved.   If you have one or know someone that may have a perfect one, please let me know so I can get in contact.  Would like to work out a deal to borrow it and duplicate it, I only need it a few days.

Thanks,  Glen

Here's some Inserts I'm making for CASE tractors now (same style as WH, late 70's).   **Tractor companies did not make their own steering wheels, but bought them from another company, a supplier that may have sold the exact same style to many tractor manufacturers, and the same style inserts.

Available, $10 (plain) or $15 (2-color), [+$2.50 shipping]-  GlenPettit@icloud.com  fits all 113/16" 3-spoke Steering Wheel openings.

Edited June 29, 2014 by GlenPettit