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#45942 - 07/14/06 05:34 AM
Headlight harness
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Shade Tree Mechanic
Registered: 01/01/05
Posts: 91
Loc: south dakota
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Looking for replacement internal wiring for a 1932 headlight. Anyone know a source? Thank you.
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#45944 - 07/14/06 07:24 PM
Re: Headlight harness
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Shade Tree Mechanic
Registered: 09/29/05
Posts: 81
Loc: Catlettsburg, KY
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Confcoach, If you are handy with a soldering iron you should be able to do it yourself as JD mentioned. If the 32 headlight is like a 35 headlight the contacts inside the socket (bulb) are nothing more than a tack that is soldered into a piece of stranded wire. Heat the contact and you should be able to remove the tack. When reassembling just push the cleaned up tack into the stranded wire and re-solder. I re-did both headlights on the 35 and haven't have any problems so far. Good luck........Bill
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#45946 - 07/15/06 07:57 AM
Re: Headlight harness
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Shade Tree Mechanic
Registered: 01/01/05
Posts: 91
Loc: south dakota
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Please correct my method. I have cut the wire to length, leaving the end of wire fully insulated to end. I then coated the tacks with flux and inserted the tacks fully into the wire. Rested cup of tack on soldering iron and soldered. I found the melting point of the insulation and solder about the same. Seems intact insulation is important.
Thank you.
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#45947 - 07/20/06 08:56 PM
Re: Headlight harness
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Shade Tree Mechanic
Registered: 09/29/05
Posts: 81
Loc: Catlettsburg, KY
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If I remember correctly, I left the insulation a little bit shorter so it wouldn't melt. After doing all three this way I had a short piece of heat shrink tubing on each one and warmed them up so they would shrink tight and close to the rivet.
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#45948 - 07/21/06 04:24 PM
Re: Headlight harness
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Shade Tree Mechanic
Registered: 09/29/05
Posts: 81
Loc: Catlettsburg, KY
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I meant to say tack instead of rivet
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