Restoring OEM Seatbelts

[TKCR]

Originally Posted by Willowrun

I hadn't paid much attention to the amount of things going on in a retractor until you just posted the blue set up......there's a lot going on in there. Great work as always, and the attention to detail is very impressive.

I can’t remember if I had posted this part of the cleaning process on a Charcoal Black set I did previously. This is what is causing a lot of these retractors to slow down. Whether it’s from getting wet from the window being left down during its lifetime. Or something being spilled, or even someone attempting to clean them themselves. There are people that think laying them out in the driveway and spraying with a power washer is a way of cleaning them. But if the mechanisms get wet, that’s bad. And there is no way of drying them completely, without pulling up the casings and exposing the mechanisms. Those small springs get rusty and break, that’s bad! But here is another good example.