Date:         Thu, 5 May 2005 22:35:37 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <j.michael.elliott@ADELPHIA.NET>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <j.michael.elliott@ADELPHIA.NET>
Subject:      Cable to top ventilation lever breaks
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When we got Mellow Yellow, our 84 Westy, I found that the top
ventilation control lever did nothing. After some inspection I found
that the wire cable that connects to the lever had broken off at the
point where it bends and goes into the little hole on the lever. So we
adjusted the cable a bit to get some slack and made a new bend in the
wire and shoved it into the lever hole. It worked great -- for about
five cycles of adjustment. Then it broke off. Again, it was right where
the wire goes through the hole in the lever.

This makes sense: I would not expect a bent steel wire to last long when
bent into a hole like that without some kind of bushing to protect it
from being abraded by the edge of the hole in the lever. But it looks to
me like there never was anything there to protect the wire. Am I
overlooking something? What's the secret this?

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR