I took the easy way out....I had a spare, pristine after I scrubbed off the smoke stains, unit I got from a burned out westy :) alistair PS I'm with David, no easy fix that I can see. Someday I will fix up the original one, but I suspect my lathe will be working to make the fix
On 3-Jun-11, at 6:03 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote: > Nice pics. You wrote, "So what to do? A copper bushing as Neil did > or a bronze shaft as David did? Or both? > > Will report back." > > Anything to report? > > > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 17:38 -0700, Alistair Bell wrote: >> >> I have pics too >> >> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/west-pop-top-lifting-assembly-problem/ >> >> alistair >> >> >> On 3-Jun-11, at 4:56 PM, David Beierl wrote: >> >> > At 07:40 PM 6/3/2011, Rocket J Squirrel wrote: >> >> Neither your solution nor his are "everyman" fixes, requiring >> >> special skills or tools. Neil said to check the Samba. I'll do so, >> >> though finding the keyword to do the search might be tricky. >> > >> > Ain't no everyman fix as such, it's a high-loading joint with a big >> > spring pulling on it. You need to fixture it while you repair the >> > tube, or else remove the frame entirely. The fixes on the Samba >> > involve welding. You have to be fairly handy. >> > >> > But your gas struts should take some of the load off, and if you >> can >> > sneak in behind and get some spray grease into the critical area >> that >> > will drag things out considerable I would think. Pretty sure you >> > have to come from the canvas side, get the grease outside the >> > cross-tube, but maybe you can get in between the flanges. Neil >> has a >> > better head picture of the joint than I do right now, so over to >> him. >> > >> > Yrs, >> > d |
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