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Re: [ihc] (TIP) Anyone's tail/lift gate latches squeak



----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Stegmann" <steve.stegmann@domain.elided>
To: "Tom Harais" <THarais@domain.elided>; <ihc@domain.elided>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 10:17 PM
Subject: RE: [ihc] (TIP) Anyone's tail/lift gate latches squeak



I don't know how work-hardened the copper tubing is
when you buy it.  But, if it cracks as you straighten
it out, heat it to around 700 deg with a propane torch
to anneal it so you can straighten it.  You'll have to
experiment & try a couple pieces to get the annealing
right.
If I remembermy metaurgy correctly? In order to anneal copper after you heat it up to red color to soften yo then quench in water unlike steel, which you slow cool to anneal. Jim A (that has been busy trying to find a suitable replacement for the Mercedes that was totaled by a suicidal deer on Sunday evening the 10th of this month). No one was hurt but our dog seemed quite curious about the whole adventure.
>

Steve
--- Tom Harais <THarais@domain.elided> wrote:

Tom:

We want details.  All of them!

The tailgate squeaks:

1) Are the T-all latches same as on the
Scout/Terra/Traveler? (Gotta be
right?  IH was pretty consistent amongst all lines.)

2) You put the shrink tubing on the "fork" on the
gate or on the post on the
body?

3) Does anyone know if there is a replacement (I
know we've discussed this
before) for the Traveler hatch seal gasket
somewhere?

4) Does anyone know of a good reference on how to
deal with (as in make work
correctly) the latching mechanism itself on a Terra
tailgate/Traveler
liftgate?  On mine, the lock doesn't prevent the
mechanism from working,
even in the lock position and with a good jerk on
the gate, you can get that
mechanism to let the "forks" rotate and release
pretty easily.

The copper exhaust gaskets

1) 3/4" pipe "unrolled" created a sufficiently large
enough piece of copper
to cut out the gasket?

2) What thickness of pipe wall tubing were you
using?  "L" or "M"?

I'm seeing expanded applications of this low tech
solution to simple
problems.  I love this kind of stuff.

Tom H., '76 Traveler






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