another wild goose hunt for a little plastic bit

[DeWitt Harrison]

Has it come to the bailing wire and chewing gum phase
of 5000 maintenance already? Where have all those years
gone?

Well, I'm not quite ready yet. I got a close look at that
little plastic ball socket today and was able to make out
the p/n as 443 837 171. It may be NLA but it's worth
a shot.

DeWitt Harrison
'88 5kcstq

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 11:53:50 -0400
      "Evan Parker" <Evan at nextgenrealty.com> wrote:

> Go get a pack of guitar strings :)
>
> On Behalf Of Joshua van Tol
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 9:31 PM
>
> > When presented with this problem, I found that a small piece of
> > springy wire, (piano wire might work) bent into the right shape could
> > replace the little keeper cap. I did have to slightly enlarge the
> > groove in the rod end to give the wire a place to sit all the way
> > around. Works fine, and is almost free.
> >
> > On Apr 3, 2006, at 5:06 PM, DeWitt Harrison wrote:
> >
> > > If one is forced to muck about with the 5000CS door handles
> > > - I guess we don't need to go into the reason(s) - it is sometimes
> > > necessary to disconnect the two operating rods from the ball
> > > ended levers of the handle. It seems inevitable that the tiny plastic
> > > keeper caps that release the plastic ball socket ends of the
> > > rods break off.