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Plastic Odometer gear

Since the odometer in my 528i has decided to die, I pulled the speedometer
today and of course the little plastic gear was cracked.  Since I don't
want to spend alot of money, I recall that people have glued them back
together.  Since the gear is probably nylon (a fun nonreactive plastic
that is almost impossible to glue) I know that superglue is not the
solution.  I seem to remember someone on the list using a glue made for
nylon????  Other than that has anyone found a source for these gears yet,
other than sending it out to a VDO repair shop to get fixed.  I could pull
one from a junkyard but the gears there are probably all plastic and probably
also broken. 

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Walt Barie (wgbst4+@domain.elided, barie+@domain.elided)
Graduate Student
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

'79 320i DSP Solo II Car
'80 528i now without a working odometer:(

    "You gotta first spin the dice in order to win the game" - esp '95

Of course what I say in no way reflects the views of the University....
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