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Bayliss Thomas
Joined: 25 Sep 2009 Posts: 557 Location: SUFFOLK
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 10:56 am Post subject: Window winder arm snapped |
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Way before electric motors made light work of opening car windows we used window crank handles, as we all know I'm sure. Well my handle has now snapped in half, I do not want to replace it with a mis-matched repro so would it be possible to have the winder repaired and where in East Anglia area or further afield by post. Thank you. |
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Bayliss Thomas
Joined: 25 Sep 2009 Posts: 557 Location: SUFFOLK
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Problem now resolved. |
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PAUL BEAUMONT
Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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How??
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22447 Location: UK
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Bayliss Thomas
Joined: 25 Sep 2009 Posts: 557 Location: SUFFOLK
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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A fellow enthusiast of the A7 club Norfolk fixed it for me. He drilled a very fine hole into each section of the broken arm and pinned it, joining the two halfs bach together using an epoxey resin. I have now swapped the window winder arm from the back door to drivers door and the repaired one to rear passenger door. It all works well and will now give years of service again. |
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MVPeters
Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 822 Location: Northern MA, USA
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:39 am Post subject: |
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I need to do essentially the same to an old ticket punch & was considering using the same technique.
Can you find out how to accurately drill the 'fine hole' in both broken pieces so that they both line up? I'll bet there's some neat trick to doing this! _________________ Mike - MVPeters at comcast.net
2002 MINI Cooper 'S' |
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Bayliss Thomas
Joined: 25 Sep 2009 Posts: 557 Location: SUFFOLK
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:37 am Post subject: |
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Hope to see the fellow this Sunday at a car show. All I know at the moment is that it involves a pillar drill and careful manipulation, he did say it was a fiddle of a job. |
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P3steve
Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 542 Location: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:56 am Post subject: |
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Might be worth taking the door trim off and giving the winder an oiling as it could be running a bit tight which caused the extra strain on the handle, I pulled the glass out of a runner on my standard ten once because the glass was a bit tight in the channels. _________________ If the world didn't suck we'd all fall off |
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Bayliss Thomas
Joined: 25 Sep 2009 Posts: 557 Location: SUFFOLK
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:50 am Post subject: |
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standardsteve wrote: | Might be worth taking the door trim off and giving the winder an oiling as it could be running a bit tight which caused the extra strain on the handle, I pulled the glass out of a runner on my standard ten once because the glass was a bit tight in the channels. |
Thanks for tip Steve, now resolved the issues leading to the breakage as well. The handles and escutchins are made from mazak metal, this metal deteriorates with age and corrodes. The internal corrosion within the escution caused this item to swell and close the hole in which the winder slotted through, we are talking microns here. This in turn made winding down the window very stiff as the winder had almost 'frozen' up in the escutchin, it was this that strained the handle which itself has been weakened by internal corrosion. At some point in the future all of the handles and winders will have to be replaced but I think now after the maintenance they have received they should be OK for the next twenty years or so. |
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