Alan, Malcolm:
Dear Clever B'stards (and other Listers),
I think I should get a 'McGuyver' appelation for a repair I made to my horn
switch. (On the TR7, this is also the turn indicator stalk; you push it
radially towards the housing to sound the horn.)
Somehow the wire broke at the joint between the base of the stock and the
plastic housing that fits onto the steering column. I could just barely see
the broken ends of the wire, and the shape of the plastic moulding made it
impossible to get at with a soldering iron. The new part would cost $125,
and the lousy wrecker wanted $75 for an old one.
Luckily, I recalled some technical/promotional info I had obtained from one
of those millions of brilliant little technology-niche companies in the US -
for conductive epoxy.
I obtained a free sample (would have been $200 for the full, 4 oz kit!),
mixed the 2 components, and poured it into the cavity, while checking the
conductivity of the circuit with a multimeter.
That was over a year ago, and the horn still works.
So there.
Allen Nugent
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
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