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Those damn door pockets 200

Teach your wife to go junk-yard diving.

Maybe go together to have some quality time together?? HO HO

If the busted out piece is only one or two bits, here's what I would do.

From a hardware store get one gang nail (3x3 or 4x4 piece of heavy galvanized sheet metal with a mailhole matrix all over it) and a two-tube epoxy plastic cement.

Get appropriate bolts and nuts for the four corners and some that follow the line of the crack. I used round-head brass (tan interior) as small and short as would do the job. Too many bolts is better than too few.

Fit the gang nail on the inner side of the map packet and drill for the four corner bolts. Install the bolts, not tight. Make a mark of the outline of the gang nail. Drill the other holes and test fit. Remove the bolts and gang nail.

Glop on a lot of the epoxy cement onto the gang nail and the edges of the cracked pieces. Install the piece and the gang nail and all the bolts, tighten the bolts. They won't budge once the epoxy cement hardens.

With care it is possible to make the repair almost invisible except for the bolt heads.

Then consider putting a reinforcement in the un-broken map pocket.

Good Luck,

Bob

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