This is so cool, to be able to come up with solutions to problems that have either been forgotten or for situations that never existed prior to this late date! Am glad you got this straightened out, thanks for sharing it with us!

As has been said, tricks like this have sadly been lost with the passing of old timers....and this is the sort of thing that may never have been in any repair manual.....real world experience and oral history were the traditional methods of passing this on, but with changing technologies a lot of this stuff was no longer relevant and disappeared. Now thanks to the internet and this forum in particular we have a chance of finding this info again!

Anthony