[Public-list] Wilcox Crittenden Junior Head questions

[Robert Kirk]

Dudley... I had the same problem as you a couple of years ago as Wilcox 
Crittenden was being absorbed by the new owners. It turned out that the 
parts diagram you show bore no resemblance to the actual state of affairs 
where all the old W-C parts were unsorted in skip boxes in a new warehouse 
and no one was interested in sorting them. I doubt you'll have much luck in 
tracing parts since the new folks were interested in a different part of 
W-C than the heads. One of their disgruntled engineers advised me to forget 
repair and buy a new, cheaper head [not the Headmate, but a different 
brand.] that wouldn't last forever but was more cost effective. I did, and 
the replacement was easy and the results fine.

I gave my old W-C head to Matt Blaine for parts; you might contact him.

Bob Kirk
Isobar #181

At 11:56 AM 3/14/2007, Dudley Baker wrote:
>[...] I called
>Thetford (new owners of WC heads) and of course parts 30 and 24 are no 
>longer available.  (Even if
>they were, I cannot see how new shafts could be installed in the 
>cylinder  -- somewhat of a chinese
>puzzle).
>...
>So here are my questions:
>1)  Is there anyone out there who may have an old Junior sitting around 
>where I could buy just the
>Cylinder assembly?  The rest of my head is fine.
>2)  If repairing the Junior is not possible or realistic, I then go to the 
>option of purchasing its
>successor -- the Headmate -- Who out there has made such a switch and is 
>mounting hole pattern the
>same?
>
>Thanks in advance and if I go the Headmate route, I will have a repair kit 
>#1599 for sale at a good
>price!
>
>Dudley Baker
>Heron #297


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