[DMCForum] Re: Solenoid Spool

["ryanpwright" <yahoo1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "thebrave65" <johnnysher1@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know where I can get the little plastic spools for the 
> solenoids?  I'm rebuilding mine and at least one spool (so far) is 
> totally destroyed.  The magnet wire got so hot at one point that the 
> plastic became very brittle.

Sounds typical. Mine were the same way.

I don't think you can get these anywhere. Somebody correct me if I'm
wrong. I "fixed" my driver's side with a lot of electrical tape,
carefully piecing the broken spools together on the shaft and taping
them up, then rewrapped it. Took me 4 hours from start to finish for 1
solenoid, and then my stupid lock module fried it a month later. So I
rebuilt the module and bought Toby's actuators.

> Yes, I know I can buy the $100 actuators from DPNW, but I'm not going 
> that route.  I've rebuilt the module already and now that I know my 
> solenoids are bad, I'm doing them.

I hope you can find the spools, but I think by the time you track them
down you'll wish you had bought these to begin with. I wish I could
reclaim the 4 hours of my life I wasted trying to save a few bucks, up
until midnight playing with a stupid old solenoid, cutting my hands up
on the old wiring, etc. Of course, when I redid mine Toby's actuators
were still several weeks away.

-Ryan

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