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Those break off easily, try peening it elsewhere or expoxy. JB weld is an epoxy, not necessarily the best one for this application. Be sure to use a slow set epoxy and sand the surfaces beforehand and clean them with alcohol. Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback 65 Squareback 75 Opel 87 Golf 88 Rx7 10th Anniversary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Hoopes" <dan1@hoopes.net> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 2:40 PM Subject: RE: [T3] '67 Ignition switch problems > Next problem on the electrical part. Please see updated pictures as of this > morning on: > > http://www.hoopes.net/dan/square/current.html > > The one thing that was sacrificed in this whole deal was that I accidentally > broke one of the little tangs that hold the electrical cap in the end of the > assembly. There is a kind of hooked fitting and two pieces of metal that > crimped inwards to hold the cap in and on. I broke the hooked fitting (one > of the crimped pieces will be onto JB-weld that I will add because the cap > got cooked there so not even those are very good), so it may be able to stay > with only the two crimped pieces, but I'm wondering if anyone has any > suggestions on how to hold the electrical end cap on. > > I thought about just JB-welding the whole deal (not electrically conductive, > right?) into the end. That would make it a bear to remove next time. > Hopefully there never will be a next time. The fit is really tight around > the outside of the assembly, so it makes it much harder to come up with a > good way to keep it in there. > > One other option might be to make my own crimped pieces by cutting a little > notch in the housing so I can fold a little piece down to hold the cap on. > I hate to do this, though, because it will "irreversibly alter" (two words I > don't like when they have to do with Stanley) my ignition assembly. > > Thanks, > > Dan > '67 Square, Stanley > > ------------------------------ > Daniel M. Hoopes > 652 South 1050 East > Orem, UT 84097 > 801-836-3411 > ------------------------------ > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > >