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Installing the floor mounted dimmer switch, Ms. Horsemits standing by for the headlight illumination test... FAILED miserably! Traced immediately to the floor switch as there was power IN but naught comin' OUT.
Cut to DrE wrasslin' the switch: Into the vise, ~carefully~ deforming the ears to lift the contact plate out, EEWWwwww!! Enough crud, solidified lube and PITTING to make a case for replacement. Here's where I feel I made the fax paus: I did NOT photograph the process, rather set-to and just FIXED it. It would have made a good tech article.
Say what you will about Lucas electrics. Any time you can disassemble a switch, clean and service it, plug it back in and see it work, it is a QUALITY unit! I gave it the empirical "Ten Times Test" with not a hint of failure... and the date stamp on it is '66, BTW. That puppy will last ANOTHER forty years.
LUCAS ROCKS!
Cut to DrE wrasslin' the switch: Into the vise, ~carefully~ deforming the ears to lift the contact plate out, EEWWwwww!! Enough crud, solidified lube and PITTING to make a case for replacement. Here's where I feel I made the fax paus: I did NOT photograph the process, rather set-to and just FIXED it. It would have made a good tech article.
Say what you will about Lucas electrics. Any time you can disassemble a switch, clean and service it, plug it back in and see it work, it is a QUALITY unit! I gave it the empirical "Ten Times Test" with not a hint of failure... and the date stamp on it is '66, BTW. That puppy will last ANOTHER forty years.
LUCAS ROCKS!