The previous owner of my latest vanagon used an ingenious combination of
bailing twine, electrical tape, and safety pins to graft the broken rubber
pieces back together...

Joe T.

>From: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
>Reply-To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Glove box door nose-dives
>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:54:49 -0700
>
>The little strap (or straps, maybe there are two of them) which support
>the door on the glove box when it is open have failed and gone to glove
>box door strap heaven. Unless you support the door by hand when opening
>it, everything tumbles to the floor in a messy pile. Are these straps
>available? Is there some clever replacement involving (it is hoped)
>chewing gum, bungees, dental floss, shoestrings, and fishing hooks . . .
>or at least one of them?
>
>--
>Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
>84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
>KG6RCR

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