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Found the handle. Cleaned it. All the chrome over pot metal is bad (not surprising, really, given the car was in a field). Found the headlight switch too. Starting on the gauges. The spare set happened to end up submerged in a plastic tote full of rainwater. I am working on making a good set from the two. The gauges themselves still work, which is nice. The needles need painting. The surrounds, where beige, were chrome. I'm going to get some chrome paint and see if I can get it looking reasonable. Phil Reassembled the gauges. Needles got new orange paint. Surround got wire wheeled down and given a fresh coat of matte black. Phil Test surround. On goes the "chrome", shiny silver paint. I think the surround will be the gray I bought for the clock (pale gray) and the center section flat black as it was. Busy Busy Busy. This is good.
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Jul 30, 2022 12:18:36 GMT
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Busy Busy Busy. This is good. I like having things to do. Even if it's just the little jobs. Right now, things that can pull off and be brought indoors to be worked on are perfect tasks. Phil
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Jul 30, 2022 18:33:54 GMT
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The paint went on with bad orange peel so I sanded it flat. It was still tacky from yesterday. So I painted it again and warmed it up. The paint went to warts and the plastic said NO THANKS and warped in an instant. Great.
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Jul 30, 2022 19:34:38 GMT
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Take two. DupliColor Chrome.
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Jul 30, 2022 22:15:27 GMT
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Bummer for the warpage, hurray for the second one.
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Bummer for the warpage, hurray for the second one. Decided to see if I could smarten up the wrecked speedometer. The case is cracked, the mechanism rusted solid. But, if I can get the paint right on it. I can then do the one in the car. Phil
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So, this is the flooded speedometer out of storage. Cleaned it up as practice. Proper Apollo era stuff, right there. I think the silver is a bit shiny around the face, I'll wait for the silver to harden and paint it gray. Also, this is definitely the largest speedometer I've owned. (Note this is the rusty one, the one in the car is actually not bad). Silver is very slow drying, note to self. Phil
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Last Edit: Jul 31, 2022 3:41:39 GMT by PhilA
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Sometimes we really do need a ❤️ Button.
That looks sooo much better.
Well done, again.
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Sometimes we really do need a ❤️ Button. That looks sooo much better. Well done, again. Looks like this may be a "paint, then leave a week to dry" project. I need to be a little less impetuous, as noted by fingerprints in the paint.
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Jul 31, 2022 22:50:05 GMT
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Bought a cheap lens for $1.78 because it has the patterns in already. Chopped up and put in. Perfect? Far from it. Red lens with no holes in? Yes. Second one is gluing now. They'll do until I can get replacements. Red LED behind them and they'll look ok.
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Jul 31, 2022 23:31:54 GMT
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From twenty foot away that'll look ok. Just a shame there was a pattern on both sides of the lens. But, is what it is. That'll not let the water in now on either. Phil
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Next task. The headlight switch is broken. It is difficult to move and makes crunchy pinging noises when pulled. It also has no detents. I'll take it apart and see if it's possible to repair. I believe replacements are available.
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Well, that's not good. I'll be polite and call it "beyond economic repair". The bimetallic arm that acts as an overheat circuit breaker has contacted another piece of metal inside and melted, welding itself to the other piece and finally breaking contact as it fell off. Catastrophic failure. New switch required.
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mk2cossie
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1966 Plymouth Fury 3mk2cossie
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Club Retro Rides Member 77
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Well, that's not good. I'll be polite and call it "beyond economic repair". The bimetallic arm that acts as an overheat circuit breaker has contacted another piece of metal inside and melted, welding itself to the other piece and finally breaking contact as it fell off. Catastrophic failure. New switch required. At least with a failure like that, you know where you stand Love how this big ole bit of American history is being slowly resurrected
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At least with a failure like that, you know where you stand Love how this big ole bit of American history is being slowly resurrected True. Looks like the car went through the "worthless" phase in the late 70's via the Oil Crisis- it was beaten and abused until it went no more then it was discarded. It'll come round. Eventually.
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Introducing to you the most complicated wiper motor switch! 7 connectors, because you never thought you needed that many until now. It's complex because it's geared inside to run the motor forward when it's switched on, but run it backwards when it's switched off. I think this is to have it so the wipers sweep a partial arc high up on the screen, but return to being flat against the screen surround when switched off. It's also continuously speed variable. Cleaned the knob and escutcheon. At least that's clean and the switch appears to do everything it's meant to. Now I just need a motor.
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Introducing to you the most complicated wiper motor switch! 7 connectors, because you never thought you needed that many until now. It's complex because it's geared inside to run the motor forward when it's switched on, but run it backwards when it's switched off. I think this is to have it so the wipers sweep a partial arc high up on the screen, but return to being flat against the screen surround when switched off. It's also continuously speed variable. Cleaned the knob and escutcheon. At least that's clean and the switch appears to do everything it's meant to. Now I just need a motor. The MK2 Jag does something similar and has a similar number of connections, its a crazy system where you add resistance to one of the windings to make it go faster.
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The MK2 Jag does something similar and has a similar number of connections, its a crazy system where you add resistance to one of the windings to make it go faster. Yeah that's what this does. Keeps the torque on the motor at low speed.
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Fabulous work - keep this going. It's a fascinating read for me as I don't really know US stuff.
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Fabulous work - keep this going. It's a fascinating read for me as I don't really know US stuff. US stuff really isn't all that different, just bring the styling up 5 years, some of the tech is a few years ahead of the UK, some of it behind. For '65 though, comparing, say Austin- the overall engineering principles put into production here were what the design offices at Austin proposed but were never able to actually put on the factory floor.
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