Warning lights rebuild.

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Warning lights rebuild.

Post by Eaglesx482 » Fri Aug 06, 2021 7:34 pm

Caution proceed at your own risk!
Well I didn't get any shots of the disassembly but what I had to do was
Dremel around the back side on the inside of the housing to open them up,
then with a 3/16" punch from the bulb side carfully tap out the guts.
This took awhile as to not harm anything.
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Here are the inner components.
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Lightly filed the solder joints to remove most solder.
If you start to see copper color stop immediately.
I went a little to far, but it turned out o.k..
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Removing old wires.
Be carfull because they are rivited in a plastic disc.
I gripped on them with small needle nose visegrip plyers.
You don't want to melt plastic disc.
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After desoldering wires I drilled the rivit holes, not to remove
them ,but to open them up to fit new wires.
I believe it was a #43 drill. (.089)
Not positive on drill size,I would start smaller till wire fits.
I used 14 guage prestolite wire.
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Here is what it looked like after soldering on new wires.
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Reassemble parts.
This is a smaller insulator washer that goes in first.
Be careful not to lose this during disassembly.
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After assembly.The rubber washer goes on last.
Pay attention to inner plastic insulator housing,
has a notch to line up with insulator disc.
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Use a volt meter to check continuity before adding epoxy.
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Epoxy I used. I wouldn't recommend this because it dries so fast. (5 min.)
I would recommend Devcon (30 min.). More working time.
Unfortunately, this is all the "big boxes" carry.
You might find Devcon (30 min.) at a hobby shop if you have one in your area.
Normally this stuff has a 1 year shelf life, so I wouldn't recommend old stuff.
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I got the wires ready to go.


I guess you can only add so many attachments so we will continue this later in the week.
Maybe admin can combine.
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Re: Warning lights rebuild. Continued

Post by Eaglesx482 » Fri Aug 06, 2021 7:56 pm

Well I guess you can add attachments in a reply so I'll continue here.
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So then I added a small amount of epoxy on the rubber insulator.
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Than added the metal disc and added a little more.
This how mine were originally assembled.
Yours may vary.
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Than I soldered on new ends.
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I heat mine up,fill them with solder,then push my wires in.
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Here is how the look after paint.
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With lenses.
Thanks to mspeters for offering lenses.
These are smoked red.
"Good luck".
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Re: Warning lights rebuild.

Post by mspeters » Sat Aug 07, 2021 6:18 pm

Slick work Jerry.

Are you completely rewiring your mite too ?

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Re: Warning lights rebuild.

Post by Eaglesx482 » Sun Aug 08, 2021 4:35 am

Going to try. Ground up restoration.
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