Removing a retaining washer

[jon hill 3Participant @jonhill3]

I am in the middle of taking apart a paraffin blowlamp. On taking out the pump plunger the leather cup is retained with a cone shaped washer with is designed to go on bit not easily dislodge. Is there any way of taking off the cone washer without damaging it or brass washer it faces on the other end of the leather cup?

[jon hill 3Participant @jonhill3]

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Maybe not possible but Ive removed similar by twisting and pulling the washer

H

[jon hill 3Participant @jonhill3]

I did try gently prying the washer free but the brass washer was begining to buckle, I could try cutting it with a sidecutters. Incidently is there are technical name for such retaining washers?

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Some of the names that they've been called won't be printable!

If it is a thin black washer with radial slots, it is probably called a Salterfix washerl

Occasionally pulling while rotating around the shaft will eventually remove them. About a 50 / 50 chance of terminabl damage,

Howard

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

I'm pretty sure replacement washers of that type are still made. They are commonly used for retaining revolving parts on light-loaded, often cheaply-made (if not cheaply sold!), products.

They are probably sacrificial, normally replaced after a repair.

Using side-cutters on them might work but is likely to spoil your cutters with it.

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

never let it be said….

I followed up my own post.

Yes, they or equivalents do exist.

"Starlock" is one make, according to Intafast.com who also show a simpler, more generic "push-on fastener" with no trade-mark name.

You might find them stocked by motor-factors (probably in a snazzy compartment-box of oodles of several sizes!), or you could try a domestic-appliance repairer happy to sell you just a few of suitable size.

Model-Fixings might stock them too: worth asking. Among "our" suppliers, and I have used them a few times for small metric screws and nuts.

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For more specialist parts like the pump leather and valves, you could try BaseCamp, in Brighton. They specialise in spares for oil-lamps and the like.

[Robert DoddsParticipant @robertdodds43397]

I see Amazon do an assortment box for less than a tenner

Regards Bob D

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