broken plastic side locking plate

Question

It's about 3" long with a screw at both top and bottom and about a 2" long opening for part of the casement window

Many of these pieces are cracked in our office building. Only the ones that are broken have slightly obstructed the closing and thus caused people to turn the cranks (Milgard 39-253) and strip the gear.

We have two problems

1. Finding replacements for the broken parts described above

and more importantly

2. Figuring how to remove the old operators and disassemble the outermost piece of the 3 piece assembly. It is held in place by a tiny retaining clip. If that can be accomplished, a remaining problem is that the replacement part obtained from Swisco does not have a place to hold a retainer clip.

User submitted photos of window hardware.

Tom · Accepted Answer

Thanks for contacting us! Looks like you need a lock bar guide. Take a look at our 39-265 and let me know if this would work as a replacement. Our dimensions are a little bigger than what you described, but they may still work as long as the hole spacing is the same.

I'm not sure I understand your second question. The 39-253 just screws to the frame, from what I remember. Where exactly are you running into issues? Can you show me pictures of the specific problem?