[T3] ] Inertia Reel Springs SOLVED
Jim Adney
jadney at vwtype3.org
Mon Jul 2 05:27:18 PDT 2012
On 30 Jun 2012 at 21:13, Keith Park wrote:
> Well I tried light oil I tried Grease, then I took Jims suggestion and tried
> a dry graphite lubricant. What a mess!
I think I would have done this OUTSIDE. ;-)
> I figured, what do I have to lose, why not try UNWRAPPING the spring, (going
> the other way) ya know, piss it off, and after some jumbling the spring
> around and getting it loose in there WALLA! When you pull the belt out and
> it UNWRAPS the spring (from the middle where the shaft is attached), it
> tries to wrap back up nicely and works perfectly now! (I just flipped the
> spring over to do this)
I'm not sure I understand what you did. Did you wind the spring up
backwards and then let it rewind in the original direction? I would
have thought that winding backwards might cause a fatigue failure and
broken the spring.
> This was getting to be an obsession... one of those things that I just had
> to finally figure out!
I'm in the same boat, but if you really have a solution, I'd like to
know what it is.
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Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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