WANTED: Electric window switches

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 2:30 pm

Hi - anyone got a couple of these to sell please?

Cheers
Steve

prm · Post by **prm** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 2:59 pm

You can repair the old ones if you need to.

Insert a knife blade between the centre of the rocker and the casing, expand the casing slightly outwards and lever the rocker upwards.
Remove the switch plate, reface all the contacts and reset the contact spring plate.

The underside of the rocker swivel pins should be chamfered where they expand the casing and locate when refitting.

Regards

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 3:18 pm

Thanks for that - knowing me though any little springs will mysteriously bounce off into the ether, and I'll end up with a bag of bits that defy any suspicion of ever having been a part of a greater body.

I'll try with one when the car comes back from the garage, but if anyone does have a couple of good switches in the meantime...

macplaxton · Post by **macplaxton** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:47 pm

Wrap in a plastic bag before starting?

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:52 am

macplaxton wrote:Wrap in a plastic bag before starting?

Now that's genius! Why didn't I think of that? Come to think of it, I should have done that when I wanted to tweak my pals Nikon F1 some years ago - who would have thought there could be so many tiny little springs in one place? I had to give it back to him in a plastic bag

macplaxton · Post by **macplaxton** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:16 am

I learnt about cloths and bags plus various other methods of catching things when I rebuilt my first gearbox. Those balls and springs can go some distance!