Here I will make
a lock for the trunk handle. The mechanism that
came attached to the piece from Vintique isn't long
enough to do what we want done. In our application,
because we don't want anything really protruding
into the trunk space (as in a plate for the latch
to hook on), we wanted to add material to the original
"mailbox flag" catch to make it long enough
to tuck inside the lower lip of the trunk. It won't
latch into anything, but because the trunk lid swings
out before it swings up, it shouldn't need a hook
and latch.
The tricky part is going to be making sure the "flag"
is in the exact location we need it to be in so
that the lid isn't too loose, or too tight. This
was done in the last article
here.
So now, we're just going to install it and hope
I didn't mess up the measurements too badly!
