On 7/21/2018 11:19 AM, Nil wrote:
On 20 Jul 2018, Bob F wrote in
alt.home.repair:

That's my kind of home repair solution. Good job!

Thanks! It all depended the spring inside the switch being like one I
had on hand. If I had had to shop around for some weird-ass size or
stiffness of spring, I wouldn't have bothered trying to rebuild it.
Luckily it turned out to be almost just like the one in a ball-point
pen. I opened up three different pens before finding just the right
one.


I bought a packet of 2 springs a couple of weeks ago so I could cut one
shorter and bend a couple loops out 90 degrees, to replace a missing
sliding door latch spring on my recently acquired used minivan. I
couldn't find any springs at HD, but Lowes had a bunch of different ones
near the screen door parts. The alternative was $40 for the whole mechanism.