By latched cover, do you meant just the blank cover?? I have two of them, used for improving airflow and keeping debris and fingers out of empty compartments.
-Dave
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On Tuesday, July 20, 2021, 02:59:54 PM PDT, Jeff Dutky <jeff.dutky@...> wrote:
Before we start trying to manufacture a replacement (which I think is a fine idea, especially in this new age of 3D printing) I'm wondering if there is a Tek part number for these? I have the cover, but not the thing it goes to (whatever thing that is). I don't expect to find a service manual for the TM500 toolbox, but the perforated cover must go to something other than the toolbox.
Anybody know what that latched cover is for?
I have been unsuccessful in separating the two halves of my damaged latch, but I've been trying to do so non-destructively, as I'd like to have them to take dimensions off of. It looks like the halves snap together, as I said, but more specifically there appear to be compressible, one-way flanges on the inner shaft that lock the halves together. There are also two vertical flanges (very thin) that engage one half to the other, and it appears that those have sheared off in my failed latch, so that the two halves now rotate independently.
If I can get a good set of measurements on the two halves I could try to draw up and print a replacement. I'd think hat you could design a sturdier version of this part that wouldn't tend to fail in this way (e.g. rather than a circular shaft with flimsy vertical flanges, why not make the shaft square, or rectangular? It would be much less likely to shear off if there were more material).
-- Jeff Dutky
