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On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 22:44, jmailliardfleming@verizon.net wrote: > http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=107808 > Here is a photo of the progress made thus far. I wish I had a photo of > the way it looked when it was extricated from the housing the first > time. > The spring doesn't apply pressure evenly to the top and bottom > contacts. if the piece is too wide, it the spring isn't strong enough > to push the piece into the contact. If it is too narrow it comes out > too far and catches on the contacts and gets bent out of shape. > There is not much room to work with the part in place and taking it out > re-mangles the part. Is there any more advice. I am pleased with my > progress and can't give up now. > Thanks, > Josephine > It is looking a lot better, but I don't think you have a heavy enough spring. I uploaded some more pictures of the the NOS one. If your monitor is big enough, and you have enough internet bandwidth, those are some high resolution pictures if you keep clicking on them. http://classicvw.org/gallery/just_stuff/dscf0015 http://classicvw.org/gallery/just_stuff/dscf0016 -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~