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Subject: [Healeys] The little rubber strap
From: barrie at look.ca (Barrie Robinson)
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:58:34 -0400
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Hello folks,

Attached is my photos of the Dunlop strap - It was obviously used 
elsewhere - but where??  Motorbikes, bicycles, invalid chairs ???




At 11:28 AM 6/3/2011, Jim Lesher wrote:
>Rich  - where do you see this photo of the strap in the Current Guidelines? I
>don't see any photo of this little rubber strap in Section III - Engine
>Compartment in my copy of the Guidelines, there is 1 photo in my copy which is
>Figure III-10 - which shows an aluminum strap for the main wiring harness.
>thanks  for your clarification.
>
>To see what this little rubber strap looks like just go to p 16 of
>Austin-Healey Magazine, March 1994 - Norm Nock submitted an article with 2
>line drawings of 2 separate rubber straps
>I can scan the article and send it to John Sims for posting on his site or
>just send me your request.
>jim lesher
>
>
> > From: richchrysler at quickclic.net
> > To: gmandas at yahoo.com; healeys at autox.team.net; Editorgary at aol.com
> > Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:23:51 -0400
> > Subject: Re: [Healeys] The little rubber strap
> >
> > 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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Regards

Barrie
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705-721-9060 

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