| The Little Things - House Lights [message #118238] |
Wed, 09 March 2011 19:14  |
rwbmitiopt@comcast.net
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Several days ago Emery and others suggested spraying the house light switchs with contact cleaner. I did this and was not impressed by the results, better but not satisfactory. I went out today and after sliding the switchs back and forth a few times five out of six are working as they should. I still may have to operate on or replace a couple of these's switches but a marked improvement.
Thanks guys!
Randall
Randall Burns
Sammamish WA
75 EX GB
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| Re: The Little Things - House Lights [message #118309 is a reply to message #118251] |
Thu, 10 March 2011 10:09  |
rwbmitiopt@comcast.net
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Dan
The leads on my switches are soldered to the lugs. Or do you take the switch apart and clean the contacts? Somewhere on Gene F's site is procedure to take the switches apart, clean, and hopefully get them back together. I think before I attempted that I would replace the fixtures.
John,
Thanks for the link for caig. They have a local retailer.
Randall
| WD0AFQ wrote on Wed, 09 March 2011 19:09 |
Randall, I usually take my knife or a little steel wool to the contacts, if I can get to them. I guess it depends on where the switches are dirty. I find most times it is the spade connectors.
Dan
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Randall Burns
Sammamish WA
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| Re: [GMCnet] The Little Things - House Lights [message #118330 is a reply to message #118309] |
Thu, 10 March 2011 14:00 |
emerystora
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On Mar 10, 2011, at 9:09 AM, rwbmitiopt wrote:
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> Dan
> The leads on my switches are soldered to the lugs. Or do you take the switch apart and clean the contacts? Somewhere on Gene F's site is procedure to take the switches apart, clean, and hopefully get them back together. I think before I attempted that I would replace the fixtures.
> John,
> Thanks for the link for caig. They have a local retailer.
> Randall
Usually you can just spray the contact cleaner into the switch and move it back and forth a few times and this will clean the oxidation from the contacts.
If you have to take it apart, just bend the little tabs on the back and pull the switch apart. Don't loose the internal parts though. Usually a pencil eraser will be enough to clean up the contacts. If you use a knife, don't take off too much metal.
Emery Stora
77 Kingsley
Santa Fe, NM
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