Replacement Pivot Assembly

Handy Person from Jeffersonville PA

Jun 12, 2023 10:44 am

This is a pic of a pivot assembly for one of my upstairs windows. It consists two parts with each 1.25" wide, 5/8" thick and overall length of 4". Can you please provide me with the correct replacement. I will need 4 sets and the windows are 16 lbs each. Thankyou for your assistance.

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Tom from SWISCO

Jun 12, 2023 1:58 pm

Thanks for reaching out to us. We do sell the components for this coil balance, though it's unfortunately not sold as a kit. See our 15-087 pivot housing, 15-086 secondary housing, and Series 180 coil spring.

If your sash is 16 pounds, and considering that you use 2 springs per side, you'll want the 4 pound Series 180 strength option.

Handy Person from Jeffersonville PA

Jun 12, 2023 3:53 pm

Thanks Tom, I will place an order. I recently bought and installed two15-087 pivot housing and springs for another window. While I was able to get them installed I could not get the pivot to lock the spring when installing the sash. Is that normal? Otherwise it works great. Larry

Tom from SWISCO

Jun 13, 2023 9:16 am

Thanks for the business, Larry, it means a lot. As for your follow up question, I'm not quite sure I understand what you're describing. Are you saying that the pivot housing didn't lock in place when you turned the cam?

Handy Person from Jeffersonville PA

Jun 13, 2023 4:40 pm

Yes that was the problem I was seeing.

Tom from SWISCO

Jun 14, 2023 9:05 am

That is odd. I'm not sure why that might be happening. I know that the 15-087 is made of a few different components that snap together. It could be that the cam was out of position when the two halves were snapped back together, which rendered it unable to lock the shoe in place. That is just a guess, though. You may want to take it apart and see if anything is wrong with the cam.

Handy Person from Jeffersonville PA

Jun 17, 2023 4:54 pm

Tom,I figured it out. There is a slight difference between your 15-087 pivot assembly and the original assembly from the window. The original assembly has ridges along parallel sides of one of the faces. (See Photo) It makes the assembly slightly thicker. When the cam is turned it expands the assembly and the ridges act as the brakes. The original assembly is.590 in. thick with the ridges whereas 15-087 is @.560 in. thick without the ridges, and therefore does not expand to the full depth of the channel. I don't know if you have a better fitting unit to address that difference. Thanks. Larry

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Tom from SWISCO

Jun 21, 2023 8:23 am

That is definitely a peculiar style. I don't think I've ever seen this design before but it would absolutely account for the problem you described. I'm sorry for not noticing it at first!

Please give us a little time to look into this. I can't promise that we can supply this style, but we will do our best to track it down. I'll try to get back to you ASAP one way or the other.