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Subject:Re: sliding window lock
From:Stan Wilder
Date:Thu, 23 May 2002 00:49:24 -0500

and bent it almost 90 degrees about half way down the shaft.
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Or break loose with 98 cents and buy a straight slot and phillips bent
set from your local Ace hardware.

Stan Wilder

On Thu, 23 May 2002 00:31:36 -0500 "Dan R. Hall" <trilobite@WESTAL.NET>
writes:
> Earl,
> It is a bit of a pain but here is what I did:
>
> Feel underneath the lock unit, you'll feel a hole.  Recessed in this
> hole is a flathead screw.  I took a small flathead screwdriver, the
> kind they give out free with their advertising on the handle at the
> FLAPS, and bent it almost 90 degrees about half way down the shaft.
> Basically, you want to bend it so it is long enough to reach up into
> the hole but too long that it bumps against the sliding door.  It'll
> take a while and some grunting and cussing but you can eventually
> remove it this way.  I did it to fix a broken lock.
>
> Be advised, pay close attention to how the lock comes apart after
> you get it off.  You'll need the info to reassemble.
>
> good luck,
> Dan Hall
> '86 Westy Wolfsburger
> "Das Boot"
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Earl J Smith
>   To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>   Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:30 PM
>   Subject: sliding window lock
>
>
>   My passenger side sliding window lock is jammed open.  Is it
> possible to
>   remove it without taking the entire window out of the sliding
> door?
>
>   TIA  Earl
>

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