<div dir="auto">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).<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best-Michael Oritt</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 4, 2021, 9:38 AM Michael Salter via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Yes Curt is correct regarding how the switch was installed in the 100.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">For confirmation these 2 pics show how it was originally installed in B.#174<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_koa90owh0" alt="image.png" width="470" height="516"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">The overlength screws are what were originally used.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_koa95aeu1" alt="image.png" width="516" height="352"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">From inside only the screws and button of the switch were visible.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">M<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 11:53 AM john harper <<a href="mailto:ah100tech@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ah100tech@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Gentlemen<div><br></div><div>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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 4 May 2021 at 16:12, Curtis Arndt <<a href="mailto:cnaarndt@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">cnaarndt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It was <u>designed</u> 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. <div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Curt</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 6:05 AM warthodson--- via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div style="color:black;font:12pt "Comic Sans MS",sans-serif">The question was, is it mounted on the "inside or the outside" of the diagonal part of the footwell in a BN1/2?<br>
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<div><span style="font-size:11pt">It comes up through the diagonal part of the footwell unlike the 100/6 and 3000s.</span></div>
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<div><b><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"> Healeys [mailto:<a href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael MacLean via Healeys<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 30 April 2021 2:33 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Ahealey help<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> [Healeys] Dip Switch</span></div>
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<div>Can someone tell me if the dip switch in a BN1/2 is mounted inside the car or outside from underneath?</div>
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