'Coin silver' ........how do you figure ?

didn't think silver coins have much silver in them anyway these days.

( aren't they made in china anyway these days ?  Haven't we outsourced the
making of our own coinage by now ? Why do they make pennies when it costs
more than that to make one ? And isn't a dollar coin about the biggest waste
of federal money you ever heard of ..particularly considering  that nobody
wants them anyway ?
How is it that the gov is so out of touch ? )

I have yet to have any light switch go south on me .
not on my first 82 diesel vanagon with 227,000 miles on the light switch and
body/chassis when I sold it ..
I have seen one bad one maybe in all the vans I own or work on.
but 'coin silver' ?

what's the contact for the washer function made of ?
just had one of those fail.
want to repair the old unit ?
first one of those I've seen go bad. - 86 Wolfsburg ..

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Good/bad vanagon design, waS - Soft Brakes after driving with
E-brake on for 30 miles

> At 05:38 PM 9/26/2010  -0700, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>>I havn't had any problems with head lights swtiches. Still havn't gotten
>>around to putting in head light relays that I have ..
>>mostly the switches are not that bad.  'vw grade' I'd say.
>
> FWIW -- All the headlight switches that I've taken apart have shown
> heavy wear and pitting on the (coin silver) contacts.
>
> Yrs,
> d