Why does the TT privacy cover rattle?
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Why does the TT privacy cover rattle?
Because it's just two pieces of plastic held together with a bunch of plastic pins. There aren't enough pins to hold it truly solid, so when the pins move and or the two halves touch each other, you get the characteristic rattle/squeak/crack of the privacy cover.
I'm posting a few pictures of the cover for those who are interested of what it looks like disassembled. I plan to reassemble it with both tape around the edge where the two pieces meet and a liberal amount of silicone in the hopes it will form one solid piece.
If that fails, I'll ask my dealer to order a new one, but unless they changed the design I don't see how that would solve anything...
Thanks again to Denny, Lloyd and Jef Sessler (hey, my dorm "house" in college was called "Sessler") for the fix and encouragement...
I'm posting a few pictures of the cover for those who are interested of what it looks like disassembled. I plan to reassemble it with both tape around the edge where the two pieces meet and a liberal amount of silicone in the hopes it will form one solid piece.
If that fails, I'll ask my dealer to order a new one, but unless they changed the design I don't see how that would solve anything...
Thanks again to Denny, Lloyd and Jef Sessler (hey, my dorm "house" in college was called "Sessler") for the fix and encouragement...
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Close up of pins in lower half of privacy shelf
<center><img src="http://www.eskimo.com/~kucharsk/pins.jpg"></center><p>These little pins are what are supposed to hold the whole shelf sandwich "solid" - they don't. (Perhaps if they were more closely spaced than every 3" or so...)
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Sounds like you have the fix worked out...interesting some rattle and others don't (mine OK)?
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2001 Amulet Red 225TTQC
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