<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Marked turned on the ability to post photos months ago. Gotta keep up Lin. :-)<br><br>Sent from my keyboard</div><div><br>On Jun 16, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Linda Grunthaner via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Nice job Tim.<div>BTW How did you post an image so all of us are able to see it?</div><div>Lin</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Tim Collins via Spridgets <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi folks,<br>
I needed to put the battery charger on my Sprite the other day. Later
when removing the charger cable (that I had attached to the battery
terminal of the solenoid) I noticed an orange glow (glowing like the
metal on the edge of a knife) under the hood with me. I had touched the
pull cable for the fresh air pull - (part of the heater fan switch) with
the charger clamp. I quickly repositioned the charger clamp, but the
damage was done. I couldn't activate the pull. I first though I might
have welded it to the outer cable, but the problem was that when the wire
cooled, it warped so wouldn't fit into the outer sheath. I figured I
could straighten it enough for it to work - I was wrong. The heating and
cooling made the wire so brittle that it just broke. So I began to plan a
fix.<br><br>
This looked like it should be a fairly easy repair. Just replace the wire
with a longer one. However, the end of the wire in the switch has a ball
on the end. I checked the Spridget archive and sure enough Frank C had
written about such a repair. His method was to MIG weld a ball onto the
replacement wire and also involved un-soldering the sheath from the
switch. Welding a ball onto the end of a wire sorta seemed like trying to
weld an angel's boot to the head of a pin. Frank's success rate was 50%
for the two he worked on. <br><br>
I found I could remove the wire from the switch assembly thanks to an
access hole that allowed me to push to ball out of the retaining hole. I
just grabbed it then and pulled - short wire out! I began thinking of
ways to put a ball on the end of the new wire. I considered a ball
bearing, but rejected that as a being a weak butt joint especially if
using solder. I figured I wasn't going to be able to drill a hole in a
ball bearing either. I looked for a pull chain (from a light fixture or
key chain) to use a ball from that chain, but my chains were too small. I
spotted a brass braising rod that had a ball on the end. That looked
promising. So I drilled a hole in the brass ball, cut it loose from rod
and slipped it over the tinned wire. Then I soldered it all together and
filed it into a rough ball shape. I reassembled everything and it works
well now. Anyhow, that's how I made a fix to a Spridget part that isn't
readily available anymore and wasn't really so bad that it needed
replacing - just repair. Here's a pic:<br><br>
<img src="cid:.0" width="1600" height="1200" alt="[]"><br><br>
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