The previous owner of my latest vanagon used an ingenious combination of bailing twine, electrical tape, and safety pins to graft the broken rubber pieces back together... Joe T.
>From: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> >Reply-To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Glove box door nose-dives >Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:54:49 -0700 > >The little strap (or straps, maybe there are two of them) which support >the door on the glove box when it is open have failed and gone to glove >box door strap heaven. Unless you support the door by hand when opening >it, everything tumbles to the floor in a messy pile. Are these straps >available? Is there some clever replacement involving (it is hoped) >chewing gum, bungees, dental floss, shoestrings, and fishing hooks . . . >or at least one of them? > >-- >Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott >71 Type 2: the Wonderbus >84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") >74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano >KG6RCR _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ |
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