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Re: How do I defeat the prince of darkness?

To: faustus@inconnect.com
Subject: Re: How do I defeat the prince of darkness?
From: Walt Fogle <foglew@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:16:01 PDT



Andy:

I recommend Radio Shack "Tuner Control Cleaner and Lubricant", Catalog No. 
64-4315.  I've used it on the courtesy lamp switch on my "73 Spitfire and it 
worked very well.  It should work well on any switch or contact which cannot 
be dismantled for cleaning.

Best Regards,

Walt Fogle
'73 Spitfire

>From: "Dr. Faustus" <faustus@inconnect.com>
>Reply-To: "Dr. Faustus" <faustus@inconnect.com>
>To: spitfires@autox.team.net
>Subject: How do I defeat the prince of darkness?
>Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 10:44:02 -0600 (MDT)
>
>I finally took a look at my non-functioning tailights yesterday.  I found
>that power is getting to the lamps, but not to the bulbs.  I was able to
>clean the contacts and get all but one function working on one light.
>This is on a early spit lamp.  The running lights portion of the bulb is
>feed through a red w wire.  This wire is crimped to a L shaped piece, then
>rivited to the piece that connects to the bulb.  The last contact I need
>to clean is the one rivited together.  Any ideas on how to clean this
>contact?  Or should I follow my instict and run a bead of solder across
>the two pieces?
>
>Andy L.
>'70 Spit
>



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