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Message 8 of 8
Posted by member Ruth Tracey on Tuesday 30 May 2023
And one more of the completed assembly
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Message 7 of 8
Posted by member Ruth Tracey on Tuesday 30 May 2023
Here's a photo of the bolt assembly attaching the original rod to the new wiper arm.
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Message 6 of 8
Posted by member Ruth Tracey on Tuesday 30 May 2023
Many thanks to both of you! My brilliant engineer husband (another Peter) has been beavering away. He cut off the old very corroded arms and bought 3 new ones from ASAP. The hook at the bottom was removed and the hinged rod attached with an arrangement of bolt and nuts which involved removing the head and reducing the diameter in two steps which he did on his lathe. I attach a photo of the bolt before and after. The prototype worked well so another two are on their way.
I'll post a couple of other photos of the process separately - it seems that you can only post one photo at a time.
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Message 5 of 8
Posted by member Aileen Broad on Friday 5 May 2023
Hi Ruth, I have just replaced the pantograph wiper arms on my 32 the motors on mine are Roca W10 and I used AFi Deluxe Adjustable Pantograph Wiper Arms 12 to 17 inch arms. Roca do the arms as well but I ordered them before I had accessed the motors. To fit them you need to take the curtain rails and pelmets off the side windows and then you get access to the screws for the pelmets on the front windows - take the port and starboard pelmets off first undo the screws at the side window side and the aluminum in the middle slides out then you can access the centre pelmet screws. You need to take the wiper motors off so you can access the countersunk bolts that hold the pantograph arm plate on. My spline on two of the wiper motors has a hairline crack in - possibly due to the grub screw being over tightened but that’s only a guess - I have ordered three new W10 Roca wiper motors from asap supplies (they were the cheapest I could find) but there is a two month lead time. Hardest bit is to get the new arm in the right place on the splined shaft, the spring is tight and finger slapping lol ????. It’s not as difficult as my rambling sound. Let me know if you need any other explanation. Aileen
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Message 4 of 8
Posted by member Peter Cox on Thursday 4 May 2023
I've asked my marina workshop which exact replacement arms etc they sourced and where they came from; I think ASAP but am not sure. I believe that the workshop sent the old arm to the supplier for them to match as closely as possible. On ASAP's online shop there are quite a few different types. I don't know whether my workshop did so but if I was doing the job, I would grease the splined fitting and grubscrew before re-assembly. If I get a reply from my workshop, I'll let you know.
You also mentioned when we met that your windscreens leak in exactly the same place as two of us have already found; one of the leaks being exactly placed to drip onto one of the cooker hobs below. I think I have sent a suggested magazine article to Marie about that problem. (This led, inter alia, to the requirement to saw off and replace the wipers).
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Message 3 of 8
Posted by member Ruth Tracey on Tuesday 2 May 2023
Peter,
Brilliant - just the information we need. Peter is already getting his Dremel out ready for action.
Thank you, too, for your suggestion of a suction cup handle for operating our sticky sliding windows. It works a treat!
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Message 2 of 8
Posted by member Peter Cox on Monday 1 May 2023
Ruth & Peter
Been there and got the tee-shirt! There is a tiny Allen grub screw that holds the arm onto the motor shaft but you will find that even if you can get that out (big if), the arm will be corroded onto the shaft, dissimilar metals etc. You will probably have to cut the arm off with a Dremel, taking care not to damage the splined shaft. Complete new units are available, I think from ASAP for example, but they are completely different, necessitating a new separate rod-like arm that controls the parallel mechanism; that new arm needs in turn a new fixed bracket on the superstructure. Probably worth doing all three if the others are bad too. However, not cheap for any of them. You might also find that the old blades don't fit on the new arms. In the past I have used Lidl wiper blades that come with universal adaptors; possibly Halfords etc do the same.
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Message 1 of 8
Posted by member Ruth Tracey on Sunday 30 April 2023
We've just had our first excursion of the new season and one of our 3 windscreen wipers broke when it was switched on. The aluminium fitting is completely corroded where it fits onto the motor shaft. The motor is working all right. How do we get the existing blade off and where will we find a replacement? We have no information on the make of blade or the motor, which is 2 speed.
I hope that someone out there will have had the same problem and can come up with an answer!
Ruth and Peter Tracey.
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