pictorial on fix for drooping visor

[mbtoloczko]

I know this has been covered before, but I haven't seen any pictures on what people have previously done, so I took some pictures while I was fixing the passenger-side visor on my car.

<http://www.subaru-svx.net/photos/user.php?mbtoloczko|11252>

This visor stopped working one day when I attemped to pull it down, and I hear a very loud "pop". After that, it didn't stay up at all. When I cut open the fabric, I found that one of the plastic support loops had snapped on one side. My first attempt to fix the break was with superglue and a strip of an aluminum can. I roughened the visor plastic and the strip with emory cloth, and the superglue held well enough, but the Al snapped the first time I tried to rotate the visor down. When that happened, I realized that the plastic loop in the visor supports a very large stress, and I was no longer suprised that the plastic eventually failed. Anyhow, after the Al strip snapped, I figured I needed something with much better strength. The first thing I found that was of the approximate size and thickness was a hose clamp. I cut it to length, bent it to fit, roughened the interior surface of the hose clamp, and tried to glue it with superglue. I found that I could get the hose clamp section into the proper shape by bending it around a 3/8" socket drive extension. I used a vise grips to hold the hose clamp section in place while the the glue was drying. The superglue didn't work, so I tried JB Weld which seems to be working.

BTW, does it look to anyone else like the velour SVX visor is nothing but a cheap off-white vinyl visor encased in foam-backed velour cloth?