Stripped Window Cranks

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hambone
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Stripped Window Cranks

Post by hambone » Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:45 pm

Well, got tired of the stupid crap Brazilian breaking after a month so I got some "good" German ones off S*mba..
Except the splined cup is completely stripped out smooth! Nice of someone to sell me $30 garbage. Of course they just spin instead of gripping. Any hope of restoring these things somehow, or should I just demand my $$$ back?
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Post by spiffy » Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:59 pm

Maybe try to find a hard plastic insert to glue in there that can also grip the splines?

I might ask for my cabbage back. (someone must have really reefed on them to get them they way they are....jeesh)
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Post by karl » Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:34 pm

Portland should have a self-serve wrecking yard, right?

I am sure they have a sh!tload of Rabbits. Grab every window crank out of the older ones. The Cabriolets have 4 and the rears are rarely used.
Some of the early hardtop Rabbits even had color coded handles: brown, red, blue..... besides the black.

Back in Calif when I went to Vdub meets like Octo and Bakersfield, I was selling them for a buck a piece. I was replenishing my stock every weekend, anywhere from 12 to 15 cranks each weekend.

They come either black or with a chrome circle. Here it is from cip1:
70-74 bus
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp ... D581H%2DBK

75-79 bus for 1.75 new!
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp ... D837%2D581

68-69 bus
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp ... D581D%2DCH

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Post by hambone » Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:23 am

Thank you! Are those chrome ones German? They must be for $14 a pop. Those stupid Brazilian ones break in a month...
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karl
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Post by karl » Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:37 pm

Unless you are too violent when opening and closing the windows, these last quite a while.

75-79 bus for 1.75 new!
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp ... D837%2D581

The later Rabbits use a fat all plastic handle that last a real long time. Just ugly!

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Post by RSorak 71Westy » Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:17 pm

Someone sold ya trash ask for your $$$ back
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