I use a large pair of scissors and needle-nosed pliers. I use the scissors
blades, which are quite flat, to compress the pieces toward the door, much as
you used the washer. Standing outside of the door, I compress the pieces
toward me and poke the pin in with needle-nosed pliers. The only problem is
light. It's handy to have one other person there to either compress the handle
pieces or hold a light to see down inside the handle. Works very well
for me, but it's the same idea as this suggestion.
Great idea!
Pat Fischer
Crazeecooter@aol.com wrote:
> This past weekend my uncle and I finally got to the point where we were
>putting the door panels on the TR6 restoration project (there is a light at
>the end of the tunnel)
>
> I was dreading this part because I have had the door panels off before
>(pre-restoration) and remembered that it was REALLY hard to put the door pulls
>and window handles back on because of that pesky spring. It took me a good
>hour to struggle with pushing down on the spring and trying to get that pin to
>drop in the hole.
>
> I don't know if any of you have already figured out a way to do this...but my
>uncle devised a way to do it in about 2 minutes. (per handle that is). Since
>this list has helped me very much in the past, I thought I would share this
>trick with whoever is interested. This is what he did---
>
> He got a pan washer that was the roughly the diameter of the round base of
>the handle. He then cut off a section of the washer so it looked like this:
>
> - -
> -- --
> --- ---
> ---------
> ------
>
> He then sandwiched the modified washer in between the handle and the black
>base plate (then followed by the spring) so that the missing section lined up
>with where the hole where the pin is suppossed to go on the stud coming out of
>the door. He also had put a tiny bit of adhesive at the end of the pin and
>lightly placed it on the corresponding hole on the handle (which was now
>visible and lined up with the missing portion of the modified washer)
>
> He then placed the handle/washer/black plate/spring on the door and pushed
>down...while I stood by with a smaller poker and just popped the pin into
>place. We then removed the washer and viola!
>
> I don't know if the above is clear at all...if not and you a better
>explanation...feel free to email.
>
> Also...out of curiosity...how were people doing this before?
>
> Jonathan.
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