Re:(1)window help needed ASAP /Binghamton NY area listers?

["Doyt W. Echelberger" <Doyt@nwonline.net>]

>To: BrutKobain@aol.com
>From: "Doyt W. Echelberger" <Doyt@nwonline.net>
>Subject: Re:(1)window help needed ASAP /Binghamton NY area listers?
>In-Reply-To: <0.b4f196d5.2569786d@aol.com>
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>Maybe you can't shut it, but you can seal off the cabin from the rain with
SaranWrap and tape.
>
>Without ANY tools, it is going to be a very temporary job.
>
>You could tape SaranWrap over the top edge of the door opening, and smooth
the film down against the window, past its top edge, and then tape it with
clear tape along the bottom and sides.
>
>Get the all the stuff at an open drug store. Use the new easy-tear clear
shipping tape that doesn't require a knife or scissors, if you can find it.
>
>A little more advanced solution would be to drive to a builder supply
store open on weekends, like Lowe's, and get a thin piece of stiff clear
plastic about the size of your window. I'd go there with a paper or
cardboard pattern of the window opening (requiring scissors, which are
tools,but you can buy some scissors at Lowe's) and drop the problem on the
employees at the store. They have lots of small hand tools and cutting
devices, and can give you some advice and help if you go in with a pattern.
>
>They should be able to help you get a cut-out of clear plastic that can
keep out the rain until you can get the car repaired (2-3 days?). And they
will sell you the aluminum-clad metallic furnace tape to hold it in place.
>
>While you are there, you could buy a screwdriver with multiple heads, to
try to pop a working switch out of its socket, to swap in place of the one
that controls your faulty window. On my car, that means prying up the
entire switch assembly, cover plate and all, out of the arm rest, using a
flat blade or even a dull table knife..... the wires to the assembly are
long enough to allow you to pull off the connections and substitute the
working switch.
>
>If the substitute switch doesn't make the window go up and down, you can
look for a problem of broken wires in the cable that passes from the door
to the body, near the hinges.  You need to find the broken wire and splice
in a length of good wire.
>
>And if _that_ isn't the problem, it will require taking off the door panel
and finding the electrical or mechanical fault or faults.
>
>When I had this problem, my mechanic popped off the panel and used an
auxiliary battery to probe the wires and get current to them, which made
the window go up and down and proved it was not a mechanical fault.  Then
he traced the wiring back to where there was a broken wire, and he fixed
the break.
>
>I'll send you some other solutions by private post.
>
>Doyt Echelberger
>87 5kcstq
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>
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>At 11:31 AM 11/21/1999 EST, you wrote:
>>I need help ASAP with my 91 100, drivers window is stuck halfway down,
switch 
>>will work going down, yet when press for up only buzzing.  Car will be
parked 
>>outside in rainy binghamton weather. I have no tools what can i do?
anyway to 
>>shut window until later time manually?
>>
>>TIA
>>Ian
>>