Spring clip/collar
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#1 Spring clip/collar
This is slightly OT, in that it concerns the boot handle on my Jaguar mark IX, but can anyone tell me the correct name for the spring collar ( arrowed in white) which retains a cotter pin holding the boot opening mechanism lug and perhaps even more importantly where I might buy a few
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#2 Re: Spring clip/collar
Hi Christopher....a parts catalogue will give the part number.....i assume you dont have one they are hard to come by...........posting your photo in the XK section on Jag lovers would get you the answer.......i had a lock retaining clip missing on my filler flap( not same as yours)....they are unobtainable..so made up a ring with a strip of aluminium to hold the lock in place then used JB weld around it to hold in place...easily removable later if i ever find a clip with a dremmel......Steve
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#3 Re: Spring clip/collar
Christopher, I searched fleabay for “circular spring clips” and found quite a few items that might do the job.
Not an exact match but could possibly do it.
Hope that helps
Geoff
Not an exact match but could possibly do it.
Hope that helps
Geoff
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#4 Re: Spring clip/collar
A small jubilee clip may work for you....Steve
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#5 Re: Spring clip/collar
Geoff, Steve : thank you for the replies . What worried me was that the loss of the cotter pin would result in an inability to open the bootlid at all. I had tried the spring clip search , but none of them were deep enough to guarantee that the cotter pin would not fall out . I did try a jubilee, but then found that it would not fit through the hole in the bootlid .....Grrrr . In the end I have used a split pin instead of the cotter which with a bit of fiddling went through the hole, but for no really good reason I wanted to see if I could find the original . Thanks to all
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#6 Re: Spring clip/collar
Christopher,
If you have no joy in finding anything suitable you could get some blued tempered steel banding strip off a pallet of bricks or the like and make one . I recently made the handbrake spring steel plate that switches the micro switch from a banding strip and it works well.
Edit -- use electrical shrink tube ?
Regards Steve
If you have no joy in finding anything suitable you could get some blued tempered steel banding strip off a pallet of bricks or the like and make one . I recently made the handbrake spring steel plate that switches the micro switch from a banding strip and it works well.
Edit -- use electrical shrink tube ?
Regards Steve
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#7 Re: Spring clip/collar
Steve 3.8 : thanks for those suggestions . I shall try the steel strapping if I can find some. I fear that Shrink tubing would not be tough enough
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Christopher
Heat shrink tubing can go quite hard once shrunk and you might be able to build up several layers.
Heat shrink tubing can go quite hard once shrunk and you might be able to build up several layers.
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#9 Re: Spring clip/collar
Steve, do you just bend the strip as is or is there some need to heat it to bend and then re-temper?
Geoff Allam
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#10 Re: Spring clip/collar
It is easy to cut and form as it is Geoff, you could temper it further but i found it worked ok as it was . I suppose the banding is sort of only half way tempered to spring steel -
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#11 Re: Spring clip/collar
Ok, Thanks.
Geoff Allam
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