creationblue
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So it’s bothered me for years what the black knob is on the inside of the hatch lock on my ‘70 Westy, it doesn’t turn slide or pull so tonight I got around to investigating….
After a degrease and a soaking in WD40 I worked out that when the door latch is shut the knob slides up and down
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The mystery is that the knob locks and unlocks the mechanism from the inside and now mine actually works. There is a bar that needs pulling to open the hatch and maybe they could have made a handle for this but maybe ran out of budget? Now I need to modify my ply cover with an access hole reach it
![IMG-1541.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/dab/dabb590a8ad2ad22382742ffdfc3f265.jpg)
After a degrease and a soaking in WD40 I worked out that when the door latch is shut the knob slides up and down
![IMG-1544.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/92a/92a31cd3a0064a1d311b8625704f4021.jpg)
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![IMG-1543.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/585/585b08ee5d0416cfabe00a217f8eced2.jpg)
The mystery is that the knob locks and unlocks the mechanism from the inside and now mine actually works. There is a bar that needs pulling to open the hatch and maybe they could have made a handle for this but maybe ran out of budget? Now I need to modify my ply cover with an access hole reach it
![IMG-1546.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/342/3426e9d29fc38cf63c9873c071f51e2c.jpg)
![IMG-1545.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/2be/2be263e8809f65f4b158050f41e8a26c.jpg)