Re: Randy Berger's 1956 Caribbean
Posted by Randy Berger On 2009/9/17 21:34:47
The plastic piece that holds all the wires for the four-switch on the drivers door was broken and could not secure the wire terminals for the four-gang switch. I purchased a NOS plastic piece from one of our vendors, but discovered an odd anomaly. The original plastic piece had grown and stretched the insulating piece that secures the wires to the plastic piece.
Now I know you skeptics will contend that plastic does not grow. I used to believe that die-cast zinc didn't grow either, but have learned I was wrong about that also. Here is a pic of the two pieces side by side. Now I am going to have to drill two small locating holes in the end of the insulating piece because the alignment "nibs" don't fit anymore. You can see the nibs at the end of the plastic piece.
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Now I know you skeptics will contend that plastic does not grow. I used to believe that die-cast zinc didn't grow either, but have learned I was wrong about that also. Here is a pic of the two pieces side by side. Now I am going to have to drill two small locating holes in the end of the insulating piece because the alignment "nibs" don't fit anymore. You can see the nibs at the end of the plastic piece.
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