How to put back window winder retaining clips???

billoddie

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This has to be the hardest job of them ALL!!!
How in the blazes do you actually put these things back in?

No matter how I try or which way i approach it, I am not even getting close.
What is the secret please?
 
Pay for my flights, give me accomodation for a couple of weeks, (preferrably when the V8 Supercars are racing there IIRC?) and I will allow you to stand and watch me as I show you just how easy it is, but don't blink, you might miss it, and to do it again I'll want another trip over.....
 
^^^^^^^Ever the joker :LOL:

Push the clip into the space it should sit in the winder handle, offer it up to the splined shaft and push hard until it locks into place.

If it doesn't lock in place then either the splined shaft is not sticking out far enough, the detent is too worn, there is too much material in the door card to allow the handle to be pushed in far enough or the clip is knackered. Have you tried fitting it with the door card removed?

Dave
 
OK, so everbody knows that one, but how about taking them off, avoiding hooking the clip out (as it says in the book) and watching the clip disappear never to be seen again?
 
How about getting them out when the person who put them on last time put the buggers up side down!! :shock:

Don't ask how I know this :? :roll:

Richard
 
harveyp6 said:
OK, so everbody knows that one, but how about taking them off, avoiding hooking the clip out (as it says in the book) and watching the clip disappear never to be seen again?

This is how I do it get a nice piece of mutton cloth or tea towel but I prefer mutton cloth twist it a bit place it behind the handle then wrap it round the base and twist the cloth. Handle/window winder pops off with clip still in place :) :wink: .

not sure if I've explained it properly you may have to elaborate Harvey :|
 
To get the handles off you don't pull the spring off, but do the opposite push the spring further on.

Sounds daft but with the shape of the spring it is the area that forms the top of the U shape that holds the handles on by push the spring further on you push the U to open up.

Try this with the handle off you'll see how it works.

1st time I took my handles off I pulled the springs off, took ages to find them as they sailed across the garage.
 
keanej said:
To get the handles off you don't pull the spring off, but do the opposite push the spring further on.

All these little secrets are becoming far too readily known these days....Must be that Interwebby thing!
 
Righht...push them ON eh...to get them OFF!!
I can see that now.
Still not entirely certain how to put the buggers back on...but at least the starting idea is there.
glad I am not the only one who has them fly off everywhere...what makes it worse is that I am working in an old yard that has blue metal stones as ground cover.
When those springs (or any part for that matter) hit the ground, it is a MAJOR mission in finding them again...crawling examining every minute mm and stone crevice.
Oh the fun.
Hopefully this new way will see the end of them flying off.
Your right Harvey...those secrets are getting out now! :)
 
Bill, I have a 'kin big magnet from an old TV on a string for small item searches on rough terrain. Amazing how many odds and sods it finds.



John.
 
I've only just realised that the question wasn't about back window winders, after trying to figure out why they'd be different from front ones.
 
I have a shingle drive and the big magnet trick works a treat so long as it's not a stainless item thats gone walkabout.

Graeme
 
I use the huge magnet from the back of an old speaker - works a treat.

When I bought a tool box from Halfrauds a few years ago, there was an extendible magnet which is a lot smaller but can reach down into tight spaces, which is also very useful.

Also useful to check whether an item is stainless or not (Why isn't stainless steel magnetic?)

Richard
 
Got it sussed!! :D
Eventually the penny dropped...I was TRYING to put the spring clip INTO the little slot and out the other side.
Was a WHOLE lot easier when i twigged the little slots HELD the spring.
Have wired a new pathway in my brain after that.
thanks for the help guys.
 
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