RE: Em. Brake Handle

From: Spontelli, Ramon (rs11(at)elsegundoca.ncr.com)
Date: Tue Feb 17 1998 - 10:43:28 CST


> On the TE/AE web site there is a page showing the guts of an
emergency brake
> handle. I don't know if it will help but here's the address:
      
> http://www.mindspring.com/~teae/pdsq.htm
>
>
Thanks Kurt.

Last night I managed to retrieve my extra busted emergency brake handle
from the shed out back before El Nino/Round seven(?), nine(?),
twelve(?), whatever, opened up on us. Then after dinner I went out in
the garage and took the thing all apart. There was no sign of a spring.
No sign that one had ever been there. No left-over spring parts, no
holes or hooks for a spring or anything.

Finally, in desperation, I went to the photocopy of the parts manual you
sent last year, and there it was, same as the web-page drawing, a
funny-looking J-shaped spring with an extra loop at the cup.

Looks to me like if we could locate a cool one-coil flat spring with
long enough legs, we could probably bend it to fit. Anybody have access
to a catalog from a goofy-shaped-spring supplier?

Ramon



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