keep a sunvisor from swinging to the side?

Would you want to use Velcro to hold it in place? Maybe some sort of drawer or kitchen cabinet type latch. How about a magnet and metal pairing? I've done that with a door to a water heater.

Well, that's really a last solution, and when the top is down and the window open, there's not much to attach it to. I often have the window up to cut down on noise. I'll look tomorrrow. Thanks

On Sat, 25 Sep 2021 21:53:01 -0400, micky snipped-for-privacy@fmguy.com wrote as underneath :

Probably a plastic sleeve bearing , quick fix would be to tigten it up a bit by stuffing a plastic or wood shaving up the bearing padding out the fitting a bit. Or if you never want it to move again then wick some superglue or Loctite (as another poster suggests) into the vertical bearing C+

Do three right turns instead of one left.

Is there something on the visor you can crimp that will stay that way? You can use a cheap pair of vise grips to crimp the outer part tighter if so. Do it right on the swivel point.

One more idea. Slightly deform the visor rod by crimping it a bit.

I don't know anything about Toyotas but in old American cars you could tighten that joint up by tightening the mounting screws. I think that warped the plastic a little or something but it worked.

On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:50:55 +1000, "Rod Speed" snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote as underneath :

Yep! All expensive! C+

Sure they do. Electricity doesn't just appear by magic.

It's a perfect fit. There's no room to stuff anything in. It's not what I'd call a bearing, it's just a hole in the plastic.

I looked at the Loctite page and didn't see anything to increase friction. Do you know what it is called, or used to be called??? Loctite has separate sections for different countries including the US and Australia. Also consumer and industrial.

I also googled increase friction and liquid increase friction and got technical pages about friction in general but no products.

Charlie, do you know one? Even if it's expensive**. Do you know what such a thing is called, some special terms. (I presume C+ is your signature and not a product. )

This isn't the same problem you're having but it might serve as inspiration.

Thanks. I saw that one or one like it. There's really nothing thin enough to go into the space except for a liquid.

I went back to the Loctite page. As I was complaining to myself that it's sorted by type of product: auto, books, clothing, decks, drywall and 15 others, and then by What do you want to glue to what? As I was thinking about that, I got a tiny popup that they're looking for people to redesign their webpage! The only thing I coudl have done to prompt that is that I clicked on a couple categories and a few products, but that was 2 days ago. It said $25 if selected. So I said I'd yes, but I don't know how they are supposed to get a hold of me. I hadn't given them an email address yet.

I also found that they have a phone number but they close at 4. First time I regretted that a company was in the eastern time zone. So I used their form to write them. It's a pretty simple question, mostly just two words, increase friction.

BTW I also used their search box on increase friction and I got

Then hits with increase started up again

I searched on friction and got 10 hits. 4 were about fraction, one about function, 3 it didnt' say why they were shown, and one used the word friction "Apply it to the area with a bit of friction, and the residue should rub away easily."

Still, Loctite is the kind of company that should make this. They make a large number of products, more than I expected, and this should be one of them.

The smallest thing I can think of would be a tip cleaner for an acetylene torch.

Did you try tightening the mounting screws? It might not do anything but on old American cars it did. I think you were just warping the plastic a little.

If you want to use loctite I would use blue or green. Purple might not do much and red might do too much.

What the sunvisor has is a special friction bearing usually manufactured of a nylon like substance (Delrin?). They have either a friction surface or two or a pair of ribbed surfaces providing indented location. Once upon a time, it was possible to *tighten* these through provision of a screw. These are no longer extant, certainly not in my Toyota nor any car I have had in the past 30+ years. Some vehicles had a replaceable friction sleeve, like this one from a Citroen;

If yours is a cheaper run-of-the-mill car like mine, you're s*it outta luck finding any such *user serviceable part*. Given that, if yours has lost friction, then it is either broken or worn out and, as such, needs to be replaced to restore functionality.

Don't bother. If your friction bearing in the visor is not gripping as it should, rest assured a *liquid* is not going to restore any degree of functionality to it.

Ivory is *not* the same as tan. Tan is a distinct brown hue whereas ivory is tending towards pink. Of course, if the car is an old dunger, does it really matter if the colour isn't a perfect match? For safety reasons, you *need* the functionality. BTW, if you forage through the wrecking yards for a used one, you can readily *assess* the serviceability of the friction bearing on any you come across so what is the issue with hunting up a used visor?

How about taking it out, lay it on the ground and smack with a hammer? Distort it enough to get friction.