If you don't have silicone lying around you can use a dab of regular coking
(vegetable) oil. Also, I heated the grommets in boiling water for a few
minutes. After fishing them out with a pair of needle nose they cool down
to handling temp quickly, but are still quite pliable for several minutes.
Mine went in relatively easily.
Dennis
> As I recall, I put silicone spray lubricant around the
> hole in the mounting plate and then rolled the rubber 'grommet' up like a
> Taco and pushed its nose into the hole. I used a combination of needle
> nose
> pliars to pull and an old (rounded) flat blade screwdriver to push the
> piece
> into place. The rubber can take quite a bit of abuse and stretching.
>
> Brian
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