It should be no big deal. I inverted a cigarette lighter plug to use in
my positive ground 67BGT (just cut and marked the leads) and use it to
power a cassette player that I sit in the passenger seat. Primitive
perhaps but it gives me cruising music. My AM player still works quite
good but unfortunately we don't have much here locally on the AM band
worth listening to.
All British music, all the time...
David Councill
67 BGT
72 B
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Gosling, Richard
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 7:27 AM
To: Wm. Severin Thompson; MG List
Cc: ladaniels@sbcglobal.net
Subject: RE: Bugeye Group..... 1967 Austin A60 Pickup
Fair enough point.
But, unlike your 8-track, I wouldn't expect Larry's inverter to have an
external metal case, grounded to it's -ve supply (although I've never
come across one of these devices in person, so I could be wrong!). So
the only risky point is where the wires to the cigarette lighter plug
are cut and swapped, and it shouldn't be hard to do that in a perfectly
well insulated manner.
As an irrelevant aside, the (non-working) stereo fitted to Sammy ('73
BGT) when I acquired her had a handy little switch on the bottom, to
enable it to be fitted to either positive or negative earth vehicles.
That was quickly ebayed in favour of a Blaupunkt CD player...
Richard & Sammy
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