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Old 4th October 2016, 11:50 AM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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Finally managed to remove the old, spinning fixing with a dremel. Took ages and destroyed two bits in the process.

Used a nice cavity fixing that I had already with an expanding rubber plug that was exactly the right diameter. So all good now.

Fixing was the same type as shown below, except mine happened to be longer; still worked fine.
See original suggestion here: http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showpost....1&postcount=11


(Generally known as rubber nuts or well nuts)
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