Barrie,
I found the following info in the Archives....
Charlie, I found the perfect material for the window and door handle pins.
At
Lowe's I bought 4 - 1 1/4" straight brass angle hooks like cup hooks only
straight. The diameter is perfect for the pins. I cut off the section in the
middle between the screw end and the angled end. They worked perfectly.
Richard Bittmann BJ7 Tacoma
As someone wisely stated earlier when assembling the door handles "the
springs
go in before any of the bearings, pins or rivets - don't ask me how I know
this". Actually you want to install the spring first, then the rivet
holding
the actuating lever to the handle, then the tubular bearing. The handle
stopping pin goes in last. A trick I learned while assembling my newly
plated
door handles was to not to initially try to get the spring in it's final
position - under tension over the backplate - but with the spring's u-shaped
end between the backplate and the handle. After all the rivets, pins and
bearings are in place attach a twist-tie wire around the end of the spring
and
through the opening in the back-plate - then with the handle in the full
open
position use a pair of pliers on the twist-tie to pull the spring's U end
through the back-plate opening and with the spring fully tensioned, pull the
back-plate back into the closed position, trapping the u-shaped end of the
spring in it's final position behind both handle and back-plate. I spent a
good deal of time trying to do this the "logical" way but there were too
many
pieces and too many forces at work. The way I arrived at is a "walk in the
park"!
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Barrie Robinson <barrie at look.ca> wrote:
>
> Please tell me too - I have handles off my current project and zi want to
> re-chrome them.
>
>
>
>
> At 11:42 PM 6/28/2011, I Erbs wrote:
>
>> I read
>>
>> Richard Bittmann great description in the archives on whatg to look
>> out for when rebuilding door handles, but I found no info on how to
>> take them apart without
>> breaking them. I have a number of them, and need to mix and match the
>> best parts to build two outside handles.
>>
>> So how do I get the pins out without hosing the parts?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ira Erbs
>> IT CONSULTANT
>> Portland, OR
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> Regards
>
> Barrie
> barrie at look.ca
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>
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Ira Erbs
IT CONSULTANT
Portland, OR
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thinking we used when we created them.
-Albert Einstein
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