New Operator

Adventure Location: Comfort Castle, Rockport, Texas

Long, thin strong fingers with no hint of arthritis are what were needed.  The OFM had short, fat weak arthritic fingers to work with, but the window needed repair.  The gear operator quit working several days ago.  The new part came in Friday so the chore had been put off long enough.

This was new territory for the OFM.  Carefully the operator was taken apart and nothing was spring loaded thank goodness.

The failed operator was removed and checked with its exact replacement.  

Failed Operator

Nope the new one was not identical at all. However it looked as if some rotary tool work and a small bit of hammer application would bring it into shape to work.

About three inches of the window frame had been bent outward to get the old operator out of the window frame.  That bent section was cut away with the rotary tool to provide room for a lot easier install than the removal was.

After several cutting wheels were worn out all the modifications were finished.  The reassembly went rather well.  It only needed to be dismantled twice to get parts together in the right order or orientation.  Then it was time to test the system.  IT WORKS!!!!

Notice all the excess space to fit fingers and tools in to the screws.

 Then it was time to reinstall the very difficult screen and the knobs and trim.  It came together very well.  The cut out does not eve show much.

Being a contortionist would have helped quite a bit.  Since the OFM is not a contortionist he will likely be sore in weird spots tomorrow. At least this OFM can still so some things well.

Hopefully the soreness will not get in the way of trying to have tooooo much fun. TheOFM.