Date:         Mon, 5 Sep 2011 20:02:09 -0700
Reply-To:     Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
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From:         Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
Subject:      Re: Floppy mirror...any fixes that actually work?
Comments: To: Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET>
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Take a 10mm wrench and tighten the nut on the stud a quarter turn or so.  Do
this annually or so.  After 10 years (or so) throw them away and replace
with another set of same (they're relatively cheap).  You're probably well
past that ten year window, by the way.

Karl Wolz



|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]
|On Behalf Of Rob
|Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 7:40 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: Floppy mirror...any fixes that actually work?
|
|A fix that worked for me on the mirrors was to put a piece of
|emery paper between the two friction surfaces. I take it
|apart, cut the emery paper round to fit and put it back
|together. It works.
|
|Rob
|becida@comcast.net
|
|
|At  9/5/2011 06:27 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
|>   My 84s "Flag" stock manual mirror on the driver's side
|sucks.  I had
|>it sort of fixed once, by drilling a small hole through the
|square post
|>inside that is supposed to be the friction axis for the socket.  Mine
|>had pulled down from too much tension on the spring....That sort of
|>worked, for a little time...but eventually the pin I put
|through there
|>bent....letting the spring post again slip down, losing
|tension on the
|>spring...allowing that irritating mirror to blow back against
|the window with wind gusts...(and
|>there are plenty of wind gusts in the Columbia River Gorge)
|So I tried
|>peening the socket surface to give it more friction, and epoxied that
|>post in after replacing the pin....."Flop!"....it hit the
|window again tonight.
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