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HLM hatch spring redone

bernd_st

bernd_st

Bronze Level Sponsor
Here is a nice one for all you HLM restorers:

If you seek for a replacement of your old worn/ scored rear hatch spring just get a normal/used Alpine Engine chain tensioner (the steel part w/o the rubber). It can be cut /carefully bent to shape and since it´s made of spring steel it has the necccessary spring characteristics to open your hatch properly . Get it chromed for the final looks.

Have done it and it looks superb...
 
65beam

65beam

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harrington spring

i had two new ones made. the plating shop that i use in middletown, pa is also a fabrication shop. i took one of mine to him and they duplicated and chromed it.
 
bernd_st

bernd_st

Bronze Level Sponsor
If so it would be certainly interesting to have them do more for the HLM crowd. I´m quite sure there should be a need. How about doing another 10 pieces. What was the price ?
 
65beam

65beam

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hatch spring

i think it was around 100.00 to make and plate it. but that was four years ago.
 
napa 1

napa 1

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I'd be interested in one. Although I have an extra tensioner standing by for the Bernd technique. :)
 
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