Date:         Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:43:58 -0400
Reply-To:     T Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         T Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Floppy mirror...any fixes that actually work?
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca>
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I'll second the rubber faucet washer fix.. That did it for mine.... plus I
had these handy from replacing this in an actual leaky faucet at home...

Tony

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> thin rubber washer with same technique works also.
>
> alistair
>
>
> On 2011-09-05, at 7:40 PM, Rob wrote:
>
> > 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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