Little tiny rubber booties, aw!

[Drew400]

Hi all,

Picture your CB 400 moneypit's speedometer... it has a little knob sticking out to reset your tripmeter. Well mine hasn't. Not any more. No indeed, since - in trying to gently remove it - the thing was resistant to every method of teasing out, apart from that one where it splinters into lots of small pieces accompanied by an expletive from your author. Hey ho.

It took with it the rather brittle rubber sheath, grommet, thingy that stops water entering the clock through the tripmeter shaft hole.

So, I'm now looking for a rubber grommet and maybe the gnarlled knob thing too (although I reckon I can get the knob from a 1970s hi fi or some such).

David Silver doesn't supply these parts except with a complete clock unit. I hope I don't have to go that far, having gone to all this trouble just to paint the damned black bodies!

Anyone out there got a spare grommet they fancy selling me or a tip (e.g. "it's tha same as on a 1995 Hoover washing machine Model X", or some such)?

Thank you fellow sufferers,

D.

[kent400]

I have an alternative for the trip grommet, it's a cable grommet and a sleeve that fits on the trip shaft. I fit them or the gauges I restore,
although it's not original it works and keeps the wet out. As for the trip knob, a type dust cup filled with resin putty and positioned with care until it cures works well enough. I can email an image of the said grommet fitted if that will help.

[Clem2112]

The original knob is about the same size and shape as many screw caps that you find on tubes of glue etc. - flat end, conical with ridges.  Both are turned with the thumb and forefinger after all.
Find a black one and bond it to the trip reset shaft as described by kent400.

[Drew400]

Hello both and thank you.

Firstly, yes please kent400 to the photo thing and Clem2112; seems that I have the very thing in my toolbox now... a tube of Araldite that should do the trick.

Genius both!

D.

[kent400]

If you PM with your email address I can send you an image of the said grommet. or alternatively if you look on my profile you will find my email address