Team Doorhandle beats me to the punch! :(

[Kneale Brownson]

At 07:14 PM 02/04/2003 -0800, Andrew Buc wrote:
>So, after sounding out the list (a few days ago) about the right tools to use
>in Blau's procedure for lubing doorhandles, I was thinking I'd tackle the job
>this coming weekend.
>
>Wouldn't you know it, the doorhandle has gone non-operational on me. (It KNEW
>what I was thinking, I just know it did!) So the question is: any point in
>still lubing it, or should I just replace it? TIA

Depends upon what you mean by non-operational.  If the "trigger" will move
with resistance, I've found I could lube it up (spray lube into the handle
body around the trigger and onto the innards through the grommet hole in
the edge of the door, as well as everywhere inside the latching mechanism)
and get it working again.  If the trigger just flops, something has broken
in the linkage.