Dip Sticks (India)

The dip stick assembly of the instant invention also includes a cap mounted on the handle member having a skirt surrounding the outer diameter of the access tube. The instant invention also provides an efficient and economical method for assembling the handle member, sealing sleeve and cap. The method involves providing an abutment on the handle member, sliding the cap member onto the handle member into abutting engagement with the abutment, sliding the sealing sleeve onto the handle member and against the cap member, and swaging the sealing sleeve into mechanical gripping engagement with the handle member. In this manner the cap member is sandwiched between the abutment and the sealing sleeve and is thus held permanently in place.