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Subject: [Healeys] The little rubber strap
From: tahoehealey at hotmail.com (Richard Kahn)
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 08:21:22 -0700
References: <375f7.84e68ba.3b191a97@aol.com>, <325439.93002.qm@web65901.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>, <000601cc21f1$7a987af0$6fc970d0$@net>, <BANLkTim236CdFAyH7NYQg84CnxnZjuKe3A@mail.gmail.com>
No one had commented on what a bitch it is to put that strap on.  I have seen
several ways that the thermometer tube coil is oriented.  Coil parallel to the
firewall, or parallel to the engine block.  I think the book orientates it
along the engine block.
Rich Kahn

> Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 06:16:50 -0500
> From: jwbn6hrdtp at gmail.com
> To: richchrysler at quickclic.net
> CC: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] The little rubber strap
>
> the rubber strap was commonly used for various applications on british
> motorcycles.
> cheers,
> jerry
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Rich Chrysler
<richchrysler at quickclic.net>wrote:
>
> > It's in the Concours Guidelines photo section.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:
> > healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
> > On Behalf Of Greg Mandas
> > Sent: 2011-06-02 11:07
> > To: healeys at autox.team.net; Editorgary at aol.com
> > Subject: Re: [Healeys] The little rubber strap
> >
> > Could we get a picture?
> >
> > --- On Thu, 6/2/11, Editorgary at aol.com
> > <Editorgary at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Editorgary at aol.com <Editorgary at aol.com>
> > >
> > Subject: [Healeys] The little rubber strap
> > > To: healeys at autox.team.net
> > >
> > Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011, 12:55 PM
> > > In a message dated 6/2/11 9:46:49 AM,
> > > healeys-request at autox.team.net
> > > writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > > It is a shy little rubber
> > strap about 4 inches
> > > long.  It went
> > > > strapped that wire wrapped lead from
> > engine to temp
> > > gauge in the dash
> > > > to the heater hose.  I think they were
> > discarded
> > > rapidly when engines
> > > > were serviced or repaired. A long time
> > ago I sent it
> > > to Roger Moment
> > > > who had duplicates made as he said it was
> > a really
> > > rare bird.  What
> > > > is amazing is that it has a patent !!!!!
> > > >
> > >
> > > When I first saw that strap, I thought it looked familiar
> > > from my
> > childhood
> > > spending my days in the back of my dad's bicycle shop, and
> > > later
> > Norman
> > > Nock confirmed it, not from his past car experience but
> > > from having
> > been a
> > > cyclist all his life. We both remembered first seeing that
> > > strap on
> > Humber and
> > > Raleigh bicycles, holding the rear handbrake cable to the
> > > frame
> > of the
> > > bicycle. I'm betting that when they first encountered the
> > > problem
> > of having
> > > the
> > > temp sensor cable fouling whatever it might foul in the
> > >
> > engine compartment,
> > > Roger Menadue went over to his bicycle and pulled the
> > strap
> > > off of it,
> > > determined that it would work, and then they told BMC to
> > > order a couple of
> > > thousand
> > > from whomever supplied them to Humber and
> > Raleigh.
> > > Gary
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>
> --
> jerry wall  BN6
> rowlett, tx
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