...also a slight bend in the shaft (carefully!) will hold the knob out
by twisting you put the bend in just the right spot and it will
stay where you put it. Mine has held up like that for 6 years now.
Paul Tegler
1973 BGT - Daily Driver
Rat - 1980 Spitfire w/ O/D - in re-hab
Punkin' - 1978 Spitfire - in Superb Shape!
email: wizardz@toad.net http://www.teglerizer.com
-----Original Message-----
From: artworks@bigfoot.com (Paul Nelson) <ya632@victoria.tc.ca>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, September 03, 1999 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: Couple of questions.. Long.
>
>>Well, if the choke knob is the same as the B or the Midget, it's a
>>friction/twist jobber that only lasts so long until it develops permanent
>>slip-itis. Then you just have to spring for a new one, and try not to
>>reef so hard on it this time... ; )
>>
>
>Well, there is always putting in a coin to hold the choke out on a worn out
>one, like I used to do on my first '67 B. A quarter in the winter, a dime in
>the summer. <grin>
>Paul
>
"The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round,
for I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a
shadow than in the Church." --Ferdinand Magellan
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