Anyone have a neat trick to fix this? It all started with a nice new part I just got the early style door end caps from 914 rubber great looking parts!
I thought I could possibly take the easy route and pull the old one out without taking the window and the rest of the hardware out, dumb thought! After dropping the screw down inside the door it all had to come apart. As I went to loosen the nut on the stud the whole thing pulled out. It looks like it was pressed in or swagged in originally.

Is there way to fix this?

Thanks for the help!
Jsaum

Just got back from the hardware store does anyone have experience using silver solder? I'm not sure how bad the heat will mess up the chrome. I'm also worried I may melt the plastic bushings. The other option seems to be drill through and use a machine screw.

Jsaum

Drilled through mine and it worked great. Easy fix....

Yep,
Silver solder did nothing back to the store for a 6mm machine screw!

Drilled a 3/16 hole used a 6mm X 100 tap and went through the door to the handle with a machine screw worked good I put a little locktite on for added insurance.

Jsaum

Nice job there, I was thinking that the pot metal wouldn't support the threading when this happened to me, so I drilled it out and put a pretty bold through the whole unit.

I wondered that too but was able to get about four to five threads in it. I didn't want to over tighten it ,thus a healthy heaping of loctite.

Another option is to drill all the way through and put a SS bolt in with a nylock nut.. Not as pretty though.

Stainless steel bolt is the way to go.

I think the screw looks good but I would be more apt to use never sieze and a star washer on it so it will come back out easily.