[Healeys] Dip Switch

Michael Oritt michael.oritt at gmail.com
Tue May 4 11:12:00 MDT 2021


if this is true--and it certainly sounds so--it is an early example of why
the Brits lost hold of what they once owned (along with bicycles,
motorcycles,  etc).

Their seeming national proclivity to "muddle through" and/or tolerate the
shoddy rather than fix and improve wound up opening the car and other
markets to others, particularly the Japanese, who took the British
end-product and easily made it better by fixing simple crappy things of
which the dip switch is an example.

Best-Michael Oritt

On Tue, May 4, 2021, 9:38 AM Michael Salter via Healeys <
healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Yes Curt is correct regarding how the switch was installed in the 100.
> For confirmation these 2 pics show how it was originally installed in
> B.#174
> [image: image.png]
> The ragged edges of the asbestos are original and seem to indicate that it
> was broken away manually to make room for the dip switch.
> The overlength screws are what were originally used.
>
> [image: image.png]
> From inside only the screws and button of the switch were visible.
>
> M
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 11:53 AM john harper <ah100tech at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Gentlemen
>>
>> I believe that you are confusing the way the switch is fitted on the 100
>> where it does through the footwell with later cars where it has its own
>> bracket
>>
>> On Tue, 4 May 2021 at 16:12, Curtis Arndt <cnaarndt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It was *designed* to go in from the inside of the footwell since the
>>> Bakelite insulator is the same diamond shape as the hole in the foot well.
>>>
>>> HOWEVER, as designed is not how they were produced! If you install them
>>> this way, they will short out!  Ask Roger Moment and Richard Gordon how
>>> this does not work.
>>>
>>> So in practice, at the factory the switch was inserted from the
>>> out/underside of the footwell.  See photos of the correctly installed
>>> switch on my car.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Curt
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 6:05 AM warthodson--- via Healeys <
>>> healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The question was, is it mounted on the "inside or the outside" of the
>>>> diagonal part of the footwell in a BN1/2?
>>>> Gary H
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Patrick & Caroline Quinn via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
>>>> To: 'Michael MacLean' <springer.mike51 at gmail.com>
>>>> Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
>>>> Sent: Fri, Apr 30, 2021 5:46 am
>>>> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Dip Switch
>>>>
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> It comes up through the diagonal part of the footwell unlike the 100/6
>>>> and 3000s.
>>>>
>>>> Hoo Roo
>>>>
>>>> Patrick Quinn
>>>> Blue Mountains, Australia
>>>>
>>>> *From:* Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] *On Behalf Of *Michael
>>>> MacLean via Healeys
>>>> *Sent:* Friday, 30 April 2021 2:33 PM
>>>> *To:* Ahealey help
>>>> *Subject:* [Healeys] Dip Switch
>>>>
>>>> Can someone tell me if the dip switch in a BN1/2 is mounted inside the
>>>> car or outside from underneath?
>>>> Mike MacLean
>>>>
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