T Top Triangular post
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Burning Brakes
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T Top Triangular post
I want to take the small chrome plate with the 2 screws and triangular post off to polish them but I can`t see how to get to the backside of it. Are the nuts captured on the backside so that they don`t fall when you remove the screws. Thanks Skip
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My 75 has captured plates, but I got a surprise when i pulled the screws out of a 78. It was a kind of sinking feeling to hear the nut plate fall inside.
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If you want to 'play it safe', loosen both screws but only remove one. Turn the outer plate 90 degrees, then put a screw in the 'open' threaded hole. Now you can remove the outer plate without dropping it into 'Never-Neverland'.
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Option 2 is to put a really strong magnet up to the fiberglass to keep the nut plate from falling until you get the screws back in.
Personally, I prefer the magnets from a failed disk drive. Those little suckers are powerful.
cc
Personally, I prefer the magnets from a failed disk drive. Those little suckers are powerful.
cc
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Isn't that what a rotisserie is for? lol
Actually you could drop a long light switch chain down one of the screw holes and run it through the nut plate and pull it up. Similar to what you do to fish a wire through a wall.
cc
Actually you could drop a long light switch chain down one of the screw holes and run it through the nut plate and pull it up. Similar to what you do to fish a wire through a wall.
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They have all sorts of diffrent size polish wheels.Mothers chrome polish of course.
Or whats in that reddish tube? motorcycle guys use it flex or Glitz something like that I see it at the car shows.
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I used a wooden pencil in a small pneumatic drill and used the eraser end to polish them with a little red polishiing rouge, they came out really good but I don`t think I will ever remove the screws to much chance for an OH SH-T moment