Oh I think they might be steel too, but with plating of something. They have little projections on the hidden side that I guess are supposed to bite into body a little.

alistair
On 2012-06-09, at 1:34 PM, David Beierl wrote:

> At 04:10 PM 6/9/2012, Alistair Bell wrote:
>> star clusters on my '82, the 2 above and to the left of the fuse panel, were screwed to body, not welded.
> 
> I'm probably guilty of reasoning backwards.  I've certainly scrubbed red crud off spades up there so I still believe the spades are steel.  Possibly ran down from windshield etc?  I'll take a look when I get a chance, and start defrosting a crow.  I won't have the van back for a few days though, to actually look at the things.
> 
> Any ones that are screwed on, steel or not, that's yet another place for a bad connection to form; so they should be measured for quality by a voltmeter when under load.
> 
> :)
> d