[Cammer-6]

I think that Norwood is gearing up to do this
Ive had good success with replating hinge assemblys and repressing the rivets on mildly worn ones.

[wheelspin]

I highly recommend Rowland's hinge rebuilding services as advertised each month in POCI's Smoke Signals magazine. Rowland has rebuilt my GTO and TA's hinges and he's also a good friend and fellow member of the SoCal Gathering of Goats GTOAA Chapter. Rowland offers faithful restoration to factory specifications of any car's hinges as well as custom finishes if the customer requests same. He welds up and re-bores worn egg-shaped factory holes and re-sizes their bores for factory correct rivets that are manufactured in his home machine shop. Rowland is a certified mechanical engineer, NHRA Safety Safari Member, and a fine old world type craftsman .

[eaglesan13]

Does he have a fixed price, or does he quote according the the condition of the specific hinges? Just wondering what it costs to get a set done.

[Terry M. Hunt]

My recollection is that we discussed by phone first, I shipped him hinges, he completed work and returned to me with an invoice, and I sent him a check. Of course, I knew what the cost was going to be from our phone conversation. I recall price varies by what finish you want on the rebuilt hinges and whether you want the original markings (concentric circles, certain stamped numbers,etc.) duplicated on the heads of the new rivets he machines specifically for your hinges . I asked to have mine returned bare steel, so he bead blasted them, did the rebuild, and sent them back to me. Seems like my invoice was $250. Not cheap,but a very good value, given the very careful, precise way he does this work. I suppose price could also go up if you send him a rusty,mangled set to rebuild.

[uttergto]

Originally Posted by eaglesan13

Does he have a fixed price, or does he quote according the the condition of the specific hinges? Just wondering what it costs to get a set done.

I charge $210 to rebuild your hinges. Marking the rivets heads is $25.00. The finish is: painting 15.00, plating (cad) 30.00 and powder coating is 40.00, manganese phosphate coating is 90.00. If you have any questions call me at (818)845-3574.

Thanks,

Rowland Hall

[66GTO Jim]

Originally Posted by uttergto

I charge $210 to rebuild your hinges. Marking the rivets heads is $25.00. The finish is: painting 15.00, plating (cad) 30.00 and powder coating is 40.00, manganese phosphate coating is 90.00. If you have any questions call me at (818)845-3574.

Thanks,

Rowland Hall

Hi Rowland, Welcome to the Forum! Do you have an approximate turnaround time for your work? (It probably just went up significantly due to teh interest from this thread..)

Jim

[floffy]

Rowland,


Sorry it's for a 1972 formula.

Thanks,

Daan Holman

[uttergto]

Originally Posted by 66GTO Jim

Hi Rowland, Welcome to the Forum! Do you have an approximate turnaround time for your work? (It probably just went up significantly due to teh interest from this thread..)

Jim

Jim, I try to turn around hinges in a week. Right now I have several sets of hinges to work on and have a few on the way. I rebuild hinges for all makes of cars not just Pontiacs. I also work for NHRA so I am out of town occasionally. If you have any questions call me at (818)726-9440.

Thsnks,

Rowland Hall