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Re: Switch still available?

To: <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>, <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Switch still available?
From: "Hans Duinhoven" <h.duinhoven@planet.nl>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:56:35 +0100
Hi Paul,

I've got the '71 USA dash Abingdon Pillow type- rocker type.
Yes both high and low beams are working.

Cheers,

Hans


----- Original Message -----
From: <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
To: Hans Duinhoven <h.duinhoven@planet.nl>; <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: Switch still available?


> You should have dipped beams as well as mains, unless you can only get the
> mains by using the headlamp flasher.
>
> What dash and switch do you have?  American rocker or UK toggle?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hans Duinhoven" <h.duinhoven@planet.nl>
> To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 7:54 AM
> Subject: Switch still available?
>
>
> > At the end of the ride I checked to lights and got trapped by King Lucas
> > himself: Only the main beams were on.
> > No sidelights, no rear lights, no gauge illumination. So as all cabling
> was
> > connected and the switch itself behaved not correctly, my conclusion is
> the
> > light switch has to be replaced.
> >
> > Earlier I have had a short in this circuit, where the switch had to
carry
> a
> > very high current. The wire to the rheostat was fully burnt then. So I
> assume
> > the switch has come the end of its life.
> >
> > 1
> > Are these switches still around
> > 2
> > What is a going price?
> > 3
> > Any hints what the easiest way is to remove the switch body from the
dash?

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