On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:54:59 +0000, Bill wrote:

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
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Bill wrote:
In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
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I'd guess it's some form of circlip. Can you identify it here?

http://www.springmasters.com/circlips.html

No, it's not a circlip. I've taken 2 fuzzy pics of the broken bits that
just about show where the clip is broken at one of the 90 degree bends.
The RH pic has the break at the top.

This may come out....

http://picasaweb.google.com/billaboard/Odds#

Sorry - that doesn't work here.

Hmmm, it works here on the machine I'm signed in on and also another
unsigned in machine. It also works with the # removed from the end. I
thought I'd done this sort of thing before and it worked.

The pics are pretty bad, so they may not help anyway.

The pics are fuzzy as you say but even so I don't recognise that sort
of clip .Is it "exactly"the same on the other jacks? Your best bet is
somewhere that repairs/overhauls jacks .