I'll respond to my own post and a few others with the results.

- I believe my version of the Service Manual wasn't quite so descriptive on the
"Alternator source power circuit" label... it was pretty vaguge.

- I wasn't sure how sensitive the external regulator was to low bus voltages...
whether or not it would self-excite. The only self-exciting alternators I've played
with are the standard Delco GM (GM-10 or something?) that would be hung off a '78
pickup or equiv.

- It certainly seems like the box is tin, so one would think that if it were clean
enough regular Pb/Sn solder would stick. I was unsuccessful last night, but about the
only soldering I do is electrical in nature, so I didn't have any acid-based flux.
The Rosin core beaded up and wouldn't stick, as expected. A buddy of mine had a
rod of "magic solder" from when he did his box. Looked like a stick welding
rod with florescent orange flux. Took a hot-ass flame to melt it, but when it did it
bonded the copper/tin together nicely.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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