I guess the fact that General Motors couldn't handle having 51% of the world's largest and richest auto market in the world, and handed their market segment to Asian competition on a silver platter while the Roger Smiths of the world worried about top possible profits while making absolute garbage doesn't count. But yeah, that 10 year period where the Big three still had the market and the union got lazy and had corrupt leadership must have been it.
The dudes bolt cars together, that's all they do. It's hard, repetitive work that uses human bodies as an expendable commodity. So we've had a generation where the company had the upper hand over labor, and we saw how that turned out. Union laborers bolt cars that engineers deign to the budgets the suits set. No one mentions the overpaid managers/executives that made a generation of bad decisions and gave their customer base ample reason to look elsewhere.
Behind every bad decision handed down from management was an engineer saying "I wouldn't do that, it's going to fail"

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The corruption took place while “the good mayor” Dennis Archer was in office.
I work in Indian Village. It hasn’t gone downhill one bit. It’s every bit as nice as it has ever been at any point in my six decades in the city.

Lifetime Detroit area resident here, weighing in. Detroit has made some amazing strides forward in the past 10 years. Buildings throughout the city are being renovated that I never thought I'd live to see reused and restored, I fully expected to see a demolition fence around them one day and some yellow demolition equipment. Here's the thing: we were abandoned, left for dead when manufacturing died. Shoot, the abandonment started long before manufacturing died. Detroit's industrial might was one of the main reasons the allies won WWII, and won it as quickly as decisively as we did. Us, and Russia's ability to keep sending soldiers to the Eastern front. 15 years later it was a completely different story here in Detroit. Packard and Hudson plants were gone, Ford moved Lincoln production out of the city to the far, far town of Wixom. With the death of Packard and the consolidation of Hudson into AMC with their production being centered in Kenosha WI several supplier firms died.
The GI Bill provided financing for returned GIs to buy nice homes in the suburbs, have a little room between you and your neighbor for the first time. The city was just left for dead after a while. The easy money in development was over inside the 142 square mile city, and most everyone still making a good to decent living moved outside the borders. Every house that was built in Detroit from 1900 until 1950 represented (at least) one job. Consider this: in 1937 the Ford Rouge Plant employed 100,000mmen and women every day. That plant is still in use, give or take a new building for an old, and today employs just under 6,000 workers every day. THAT'S what happened to Detroit.
We have a saying her "Detroit vs Everybody" and we've adapted the attitude that we really don't care what people outside the region think of us.
We don't. Leave us for dead, go take all the jobs away and do nothing to replace them, then label any efforts to combat this as "Socialism" and we're out.
The Packard Plant was quietly there for about 40 years as a mixed use facility, housing light manufacturing, warehousing and distribution. I was a tenant for about 15 years. Then in 1999 a very crooked effort began by a speculator in Detroit real estate began efforts to have the city seize the property for back taxes (which were owed) using confederates in city hall, and the state of Michigan offices in Lansing to seize the property, have the developer's son's demolition company get the job of demolishing the complex using EPA Superfund $$$$$$$ connected by their Lansing operatives. The city evicted all of us tenants in the winter of 1999. They stationed officers from the Detroit Police Department gang squad at the main entrance to the plant 24/7/365 for a year and a half to prevent the owner's manager re-entry should he leave. He didn't leave. Meanwhile, the police-despite their constant presence there turned a blind eye to vandalism and scrapping. The demolition company began pulling down part of the plant and then it was discovered that they did not receive permission from the lienholder of the building. Oops. All laws in place on the books since the late 1800s insuring that property owners have their day in court before taking their land are bypassed, fast tracked. The vandals and scrappers had a field day. A judge ruled in 2006 that the building was seized illegally, but it was too late.
The 2008-2009 housing loan crisis hit Detroit especially bad. No one was buying cars, the big three could have gone under. It was game on for the scrappers and the city didn't care. The scrappers were setting fire to the building every day, to expose structural steel and the fire department said "we're not risking our men for that building-let it burn". In 2014 Fernando the smooth talking businessman came to town, announced that he was going to save it, restore parts, re-use the buildings in innovative ways. Those of us who live here were highly skeptical, and it turns out we were right.
It just needs to go away now. Nothing positive is going to happen in that neighborhood, which in light of the above IS the worst part of town. People live there. They've stared at that abandoned hulk for a generation now. Taking it down will be the first step in a long, long road to somewhere better for that part of town.
I invite any remote Detroit haters to come to town and I'll take you on a very real, non-chamber of commerce tour, warts and all.

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I don't think this is a "factory" thing. A dealer may have cooked this up.

That’s my Manhattan on the cooler!

A good time was had by all!

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Nitrocellulose Lacquer.

I won't miss it. I'll have my radios modified like Big Kev's and stream what I want to hear from my phone. I haven't listened to AM radio for decades, since I started buying cars with FM reception, in the late 70's. We used to have a wonderful AM station here in Detroit, WJR which was really all things to all people. It too was a 'clear channel" station that could be received hundreds of miles from Detroit.
They did much original programming including "Adventures in good music" hosted by Karl Haas, "Kaleidoscope" hosted by Mike Warf, morning drive time hosted by J.P. McCarthy, who was a very affable host. I listened to WJR when I owned my Packard, and it was good. In the 90's WJR went the way of most AM radio and went to all talk format, following a certain bent that much AM radio has gone to, dumping local content that was completely relatable for syndicated talk hosts. I never liked the audio (lack of) quality of AM radio, and enjoy listening to Classical and Jazz music on our local non-profit station WRCJ, which I gladly support financially.

I'd check the spacing on the contacts for the time delay switch, the one on the left looks far away, should be more straight up and down.
Are you sure you are getting a good ground on all three boxes?

Send the vacuum motor to Ficken in NY state for rebuilding, it'll be good as new when it comes back. They advertise in Hemmings.