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Air Vent Control Box, Drill & Tap Repair
I screwed up! The end of the plastic shaft that serves as the pivot point on my Porsche air control box snapped off, as I was reinstalling it! The plastic components in our cars are getting brittle with age and I simply gripped this one the wrong way!
This is an expensive part and I’m not sure how easy it would be to procure one. I wanted to share this fix, to give others some ideas for approaching similar problems.         
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Nice fix!
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Very nicely done
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07-29-2019, 03:38 PM
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Paul & Harpo, thanks! Your comments are much appreciated!
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07-29-2019, 09:07 PM
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sometimes a fix (such like this one) should have been this way in the first place ;-)
well done!
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07-30-2019, 04:37 AM
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