Re: Robert's 56 Patrician
Posted by Leeedy On 2022/3/19 21:12:58
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HH56 wrote:
All I can say about the switch and spring load is I bought a NOS kit which consisted of the switch and loom from Max back in the 80s or 90s when he still had a few for sale. It is the exact same 4 terminal switch shown in the SC article in post 20 of this thread and it is not spring loaded. Maybe there was a change somewhere along the line or maybe your friend who owned the car first modified the switch. IIRC, Randy Berger mentioned thinking about adding a spring to his switch in one of his blogs or past discussions on the forum about the TL system. Since the case is soldered to the switch at a couple of spots to provide the direct ground for the raise or lower positions I never took the switch apart to see how easy or difficult adding springs would be.
But you have to admit... an electrical switch that locks in an engaged position and relies on the user to remember to manually shut it off or it can overload and blow fuses isn't very bright, is it? If I were engineering such a system (and I have on other automotive electrical items at the OEM level– for instance on concept cars), a simple spring-loaded switch such as used on the power antenna would make a lot more sense. And I would not need a consensus of opinions or the internet to come to such a decision. That's one I could easily work out by myself!
As I said... only had experience with the one car with the system – and that was in the 1970s before there was an internet or parts sold 30 to 40 years after the company was gone. Who knows what went on in all that time? Or if there were two switches of which one was an "ooopsy"? And who knows if these were hold-back reject prototype systems sold as NOS? I have a prototype full NOS advanced automotive audio system in my warehouse. In the boxes. Now, if somebody got hold of it, they could certainly sell it to someone else and claim it is NOS –and be telling the truth. And it may look like the production system released to the public. But?
And no, the original owner of the Packard I mention from the 1970s never modified anything. He just wasn't that kind of guy. He liked the 1956 Four Hundred... but he was no tinkerer. And the cars weren't all that old back then. The car was exactly as it was when it was sold new at one of those dealerships in SoCal.
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