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My fridge door would no longer latch shut in my 2003 Scamp 16'.  The latch looked OK, but the spring inside was broken.  New latches are available, but they cost $40 on Amazon.  I've seen them for $70 elsewhere.  I decided to see if I could fix mine.   This is what a good spring looks like.   I bought some .025" music wire, a.k.a. piano wire, at my local well stocked hardware store for a few dollars.  I took the latch off the fridge by removing two screws.  The latch is made from two pieces of plastic held together by a long steel pin.  I removed the steel pin by pushing it out from the bottom upward with a stiff wire of smaller diameter than the pin.   Starting with a 5 inch length of the music wire I bent the wire into shape.  I used the steel pin as a form to wrap the wire around as I made the coils.  I trapped the wire and the pin between two small pieces of wood held together with vice grips as I made some o...