At 00:22 9/28/2004, Mike Collum wrote:

>I ordered a new switch and while I was waiting for it to come in I removed
>the old switch and cleaned it really well by squirting Ronsonol lighter
>fluid (Naphtha) alongside the plunger and working it repeatedly ... soaking
>up the black stuff that washed out of it with a paper towel until it showed

I knew this description bothered me somehow, and it just hit me why --
these switches have a rubber diaphragm between the plunger (which is quite
a clever device in a mild way -- it has to turn a quarter-inch of movement
into maybe a sixteenth of switch actuation, and it has to not fall out on
the floor) and the works of the switch.  So if you got anything in there at
all, it's because the diaphragm is busted.  Knowing that, I assumed without
much thought that you were sneaking the solvent in from above somehow.

d

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David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation"