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To: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>, T series list <mg-t@autox.team.net>
Subject: [Mg-t] Electric coolers
From: Charlie Baldwin <mgcharlie@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:25:38 -0400
Bob,
Another nice thing about the electric cooler is that when you get to a 
hotel, there is an adapter that you can use to plug it into the wall 
socket.  I haven't gotten any complaints from hotels.  Perhaps they like 
that better than everyone raiding the ice machines to fill their coolers.
I think I got it at K mart several years ago.  At the time it was a 
closeout special.  I may need to look for another as it doesn't seem to 
cool as well as it did when new.  If things aren't cold already, it 
can't seem to keep up.
It fits quite nicely in the "luggage compartment".  Exterior size is 
similar to a Coleman Oscar.
I just run the lead under the seat back at the tunnel and along the 
tunnel to the dash.  My cigarette lighter socket has lugs that take wood 
screws to screw it to the back side of the dash.

Charlie
PS
I just did a search.  Check out http://tinyurl.com/5kfp29
I know I didn't pay nearly that much though.  It looks a lot like it, 
though maybe not exactly the same.
PPS  Here is the brand that I have: http://tinyurl.com/yum2fn
A bit cheaper and cools better.

Bob Howard wrote:
Charlie,
  I agree about the neg earth, and changed my TD years ago.
  The problem with using the dash plug is accidentally putting it in
"wrong" so that anything grounded to car chassis gets zapped if there is
any grounding through its antenna. If one isolates the antenna or uses
magnetic base, the CB is unaffected.   I've read in several places that 
the spark plugs do fire better with
pos earth, but everyone agrees that if it's better it is so little better
as to almost be past measuring.  As long as the coil is wired correctly,
they get full sparking power and everything works fine.  Originally our
coils had CB and something else marked on them instead of + and -, 
possibly a tacit admission that the entire world was moving away from pos
earth.   If Hal Kramer installs a diode & transistor package in the clock (
reduces arcing on the points) he wants to know polarity.   I like your 
idea of the electric cooler---have not seen one small
enough to work in the TD's space.  Now I will have to go looking for one.
Bob

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