Broken door handle repair

The door handles on the later c bodies are super fragile, mine broke on the thin little die cast arm that actuates the latch linkage after the latch seized up from sitting over 20 years. I ordered one from eBay but I decided to try and fix the old one. I drilled and tapped 2 10-32 holes on the broken piece, 2 more on the handle body, cut a piece of sheet metal and drilled matching holes in it, ran tiny set screws in one hole on each piece as locator pins and finally screwed the two halves to...

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