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"Bob Minchin" wrote in message
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Bill wrote:
In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
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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.
Pretty certain that this is not a standard part. You will have to
improvise a solution- try string, sealing wax, or baler twine!!
Good Luck

Bob

If it started life as a single piece it looks like a bit of box section with
a hole in buy a bit and drill a hole in it.
Nothing to lose and its not as if it is load bearing

Tony

Ahhh, Tony, why didn't I think of that?

I think it actually started out as a piece of Meccano-thickness steel
that was pressed from a sheet, bent and then presumably heat treated,
but starting from a piece of box section is the now blindingly obvious
way to make a replacement. Thanks.

All the jacks have a very similar clip, which is why I thought they
might use a standard, known part.
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Bill