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Maybe I need a reality check.
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That was surprising easy. The little springs acted as a "third hand" exerting slight pressure away from the wire as the iron heated the old solder. Then ample flux, and a thickly tined new wire, and it all worked smoothly. We also made a small heat sink to keep the rubber from deforming just behind the solder. Time consuming but satisfying.
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Sometimes exposure to heat and "odd" conditions (read: moisture/water) make those insulators brittle or outright dust, so you got lucky. Great!
And I know the feeling. Just did some "Lucar" bullet connectors onto an old "sacrifice" bit of MG headlamp wiring harness here to wire in some driving lights and will NOT use "ScotchLok" or crimp connectors! Solder it is. The "added" wiring will be indescernable from "factory" installed sections. I hoard all the "Lucar" connectors I've run across in the thirty-odd years I've owned/worked on these li'l beasties. There was a time when they were "Unobtanium"... Some things are WORTH bein' a PackRat over! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
And I know the feeling. Just did some "Lucar" bullet connectors onto an old "sacrifice" bit of MG headlamp wiring harness here to wire in some driving lights and will NOT use "ScotchLok" or crimp connectors! Solder it is. The "added" wiring will be indescernable from "factory" installed sections. I hoard all the "Lucar" connectors I've run across in the thirty-odd years I've owned/worked on these li'l beasties. There was a time when they were "Unobtanium"... Some things are WORTH bein' a PackRat over! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
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<Some things are WORTH bein' a PackRat over!>
I am pretty competent on the physical plane, though this is my first real car project since the sixties, I have always held to two unbendable rules: Never throw ANYTHING away, and, second, Never throw anything away. I grew up with a two car garage that never had room for a car, with loads of tools and few friends. I think the only two things that, as the surgeons l say, I opened up and just closed right back up, was an IBM typewriter and a slot machine. If you've got enough stuff laying around you can make a space shuttle. I did, however, make a stupid, careless move tonight and broke an expensive part. I noticed that the steering column was not centered in the yoke that attaches to the dash, so I loosened the bolts that suspend the column and gave it (the column) a thump with my palm. Crack goes the yoke. Darn, but I am glad it was me and not one of the kids.
Brian without the girls
www.teamsprite.com
I am pretty competent on the physical plane, though this is my first real car project since the sixties, I have always held to two unbendable rules: Never throw ANYTHING away, and, second, Never throw anything away. I grew up with a two car garage that never had room for a car, with loads of tools and few friends. I think the only two things that, as the surgeons l say, I opened up and just closed right back up, was an IBM typewriter and a slot machine. If you've got enough stuff laying around you can make a space shuttle. I did, however, make a stupid, careless move tonight and broke an expensive part. I noticed that the steering column was not centered in the yoke that attaches to the dash, so I loosened the bolts that suspend the column and gave it (the column) a thump with my palm. Crack goes the yoke. Darn, but I am glad it was me and not one of the kids.
Brian without the girls
www.teamsprite.com