I recently stripped out our skylight knob. I went to the bathroom and grabbed the Vasoline then down to the shop and grabbed the epoxy for plastic. Back to the Vanagon where I unscrewed and removed the skylight knob. After cleaning off any fragments of shreaded plastic from the shaft splines I applied some Vasoline to the splines and then wiped off the excess. I did the same to the screw. Then I mixed some epoxy and coated the area of mostly non existant splines on the skylight knob. I then pushed the knob onto the shaft making sure I didn't get any epoxy onto the internal threads of the shaft. After inserting in tightening down the screw I left it for a day. I haven't had a problem since (five weeks ago.) Tom Moritz *********************************** * * * From the computer of: * * Tom Moritz * * * *********************************** |
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