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Lucas three position headlamp switch: Off / Dim / Flicker -- ------------------------------ This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of their organisation. |
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Hey, now, wait a minute! I had a BSA motorcycle and an MGB and their
electric systems were... Oh, never mind... On 8/1/2017 6:53 PM, tnd wrote: Lucas three position headlamp switch: Off / Dim / Flicker -- Dan, 5J |
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LOL.......then you also had the "positive ground" systems. I knew someone in the 80's that fried a couple battery chargers because they hooked them up backwards.
How they didn't blow a battery up I have no clue. Wait, this is a soaring forum, how the heck did we segue to Lucas stuff?............ ;-) |
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On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 12:28:08 PM UTC-4, Charlie M. (UH & 002 owner/pilot) wrote:
LOL.......then you also had the "positive ground" systems. I knew someone in the 80's that fried a couple battery chargers because they hooked them up backwards. How they didn't blow a battery up I have no clue. Wait, this is a soaring forum, how the heck did we segue to Lucas stuff?............ ;-) Everybody sing along now, it's the Lucas Song... Glory, glory Prince of Darkness, His parts don't work no more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwHBXQjaCrw Buddy of mine arrived at the airport on Sunday in a TR-6. Whoa, says I, last time I rode in one of those (1987) it caught on fire! T8 |
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Wait, this is a soaring forum, how the heck did we segue to Lucas
stuff?............ ;-) Buddy of mine arrived at the airport on Sunday in a TR-6. Whoa, says I, last time I rode in one of those (1987) it caught on fire! College buddy of mine had a TR-4 for about a year. When it ran it was great fun, those times it ran w/o drama...which didn't include the time smoke & flames shot from the steering column while he was merging onto a heavily-traveled 4-lane interstate, and another time a rear wire wheel overtook the car (fortunately, at slow speed in a housing development). Funnily enough, the steering column short "cured itself" after a short, ignition-off, head-scratching/recovery spell on the shoulder; no previously extant electrical gremlins ever subsequently noted! Ah, the good-ol' days of cotton-insulated wiring (already brittle by 1972!). And, yes, he was reluctant to drive it at night... Unfortunately, he never took up soaring. Bob W. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
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On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 1:30:49 PM UTC-4, Bob Whelan wrote:
Wait, this is a soaring forum, how the heck did we segue to Lucas stuff?............ ;-) Buddy of mine arrived at the airport on Sunday in a TR-6. Whoa, says I, last time I rode in one of those (1987) it caught on fire! College buddy of mine had a TR-4 for about a year. When it ran it was great fun, those times it ran w/o drama...which didn't include the time smoke & flames shot from the steering column while he was merging onto a heavily-traveled 4-lane interstate, and another time a rear wire wheel overtook the car (fortunately, at slow speed in a housing development). Funnily enough, the steering column short "cured itself" after a short, ignition-off, head-scratching/recovery spell on the shoulder; no previously extant electrical gremlins ever subsequently noted! Ah, the good-ol' days of cotton-insulated wiring (already brittle by 1972!). And, yes, he was reluctant to drive it at night... Unfortunately, he never took up soaring. Bob W. While I was in highschool, a friend's dad bought a beat up 1964 TR-4a to tinker with. Us kids learned quite a lot on that old heap. Even at 15 I was impressed by the (Lucas, of course) fusebox on the inside fender well: two big ass 25 amp fuses, open to the elements. One for headlights. One for everything else. By the time we could keep that thing running, we were pretty good shade tree mechanics! T8 |
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