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The defroster flapper thingies that you open up or close to get defrost. I took mine off a few years ago during the rebuild and sandblasted them and painted them but all the stuff was gone that holds them open or closed. I can see a place for a pin or spring or something on the housing and the flap but what is it and what does it look like?
 
Tis a spring. Two long arms with a spring circle. No pic and I have no way to get one without takeing car apart.
 
Here you go Kim, I hope these help. Shows the spring in the open and closed position! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif
 

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Thanks mike, that was just exactly what I was looking for. I need a couple of these springs. I saw nothing in moss or vb listing these. I might have to get some springs off something else and convert them to fit.
 
Does anyone have one of these for sale? I'm looking for one as I messed one up working on the heater shelf.

Thanks.
 
I made some springs to work for it. Opens and shuts tightly now and already installed. I robbed a couple springs out of some cheap mouse traps that I bought 6 for a dollar at the dollar store. The coil was smaller but it works well.
 
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Innovate! Adapt! Overcome!


Nice MacGyver, Kim! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/iagree.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/winner1.gif innovation of the day/ week/ month! This may actually be a first - we've had milk jug gaskets/ mouse pad gaskets/ bicycle cables/ dryer ducts/ road sign body work/ but not mousetrap springs!

Congrats
 
That's the way Kim...build a better mousetrap!!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
JPSmit said:
/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/iagree.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/winner1.gif innovation of the day/ week/ month! This may actually be a first - we've had milk jug gaskets/ mouse pad gaskets/ bicycle cables/ dryer ducts/ road sign body work/ but not mousetrap springs!

Congrats
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This would make an interesting thread...a list of "Mcguivered" parts used on Spridgets!!

I can add vacuum-cleaner hoses for defroster ducting to the list above! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
On Herself's MGB I used a "pool noodle" as the padding material for the facia crash pad... Looks bespoke.

I've often cobbed carb linkage pieces from old computer frames/cases. Used an Atari bit for the Alfa. Der Benz has a wood bead as a replacement for the throttle shaft bushing at the firewall... Long list of good, durable bodges.
 
Ha, I wasactually looking through my junk for something else when I came upon the mouse traps and got the idea. I plan on driving this car and it might be at night part of the time so I wanted some inerior lights when the doors are opened up. I don't care for the original light that came out over the radio speaker so I put one one each side in the footwell area. I had already replaced the door switches once and they just seem to be flaky still so I mounted a microswitch on each door jamb and they seem to work well. The switches cam out of ice makers that go in refrierators. Just some of the junk I have left over from when I was a Sears appliance tech years ago. I like to keep things as original as I can provided that original is durable enough to hang in there. I changed the headlight switch too because I replaced it once and it didn't last and those suckers are expensive.
 
Fun isn't it?
 
Yep. I need to take some more pics. I'm slowly running out of stuff to do until my shipment arrives on Wednesday and hopefully I will be back to work on Tuesday. Still, I should go back on day shift and will be working 7-3 so I should have the evenings to piddle on the car. Gonna ask some real questions when it comes to replacing the rubber on the windshield. I already have all the seals for it. The seal that goes around the glass is all wadded up in a plastic bag and I figure I will have to soak it in hot water to get it to limber up and fit right.
 
regularman said:
The switches cam out of ice makers that go in refrierators.
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oooooooooo does that mean airconditioning too? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banana.gif
 
I dunno 'bout AC but that is <span style="color: #33CCFF">REALLY COOL</span>! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
Didja switch the electrics to 110V? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
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Didja switch the electrics to 110V? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
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Yes Mike, he did. But, in the finest Lucas tradition, the frequency is random! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
Jeff
 
bugimike said:
I dunno 'bout AC but that is <span style="color: #33CCFF">REALLY COOL</span>! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
Didja switch the electrics to 110V? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
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Now Mike, that would require a whole nother thread about mounting the inverter and all. Let just keep it simple for now. It would be very possible to go with 120v but the errors would be shocking /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
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