<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Check your grounds, given the weather an iffy ground could go bad. <div>Bill<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my DynaTAC 8000X</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Apr 10, 2019, at 10:06 AM, TERRY SMITH <<a href="mailto:terryrs@comcast.net">terryrs@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div dir="ltr">
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<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">By the way. Yesterday morning top down, the windshield wipers did a great job scraping the snow off the windshield (well, on the outside, anyway). </p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Then they didn't.</p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Directionals worked fine.</p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Then they didn't. </p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Since I was on my way to be inspected, and these things needed to be operational, I stopped in a drugstore parking lot to look into the issue. Not a bad location, all things considered. They have various forms of anesthesia there, including beer, in case things went south on repairs.</p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Checked the fuses. Surprise. They at least inspected as fine. Now what?</p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Turned off the heater, then sat back to think. Which is when I noticed the blinkers working. Tried the wipers, they worked too. </p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Violates all the rules of electrics I was trained in. The heater apparently sucked the juice from the wipers and blinkers, yet didn't blow the fuse. I'll have to do some digging to figure out what exactly I botched in the wiring. But curious.</p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Got the inspection sticker, though.</p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Terry Smith, '59 TR3A</p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">New Hampshire</p>
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