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  1. Raider L

    Car Stereo Amplifier Repair Service

    @Catbox, Wow! I haven't heard from you in a long time. I'll have to contact this guy and see what else he fixes. I have some transistor radio's that need tending to as they are part of my old transistor radio collection. Most all work fine but I've got about three of them that need fixing...
  2. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    More.Use the sanding drum to clean up any burrs. Do the inside and a little bit on the outside edge.And here's the finished product ready to go into the truck. As soon as this weather clears up I'll get the truck in the drive, so I'm not walking back and forth to the street. You know how it...
  3. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    More tube pics.Here's the look down the tube. The end of the bulb isn't quite to the first rivet.Placing the socket at the end of the tube you can see about the place that's closest to the end of the bulb. So I placed the tape that will help me cut a straight line. The tape looks crooked in...
  4. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    @squarelyfe, I don't know how much one in the shape this one was in, you know it's been rifled through, but I priced a mini truck one time from this wrecking yard, a '85 Misubishi, the tiniest truck you've ever seen. I think it would fit in the bed of my truck it was so small. I was going to...
  5. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    And here's the finished tube.The JB is hard now and it doesn't look any different than it did before I put the JB Weld on it but believe me it's hard as a rock now. I need now to determine where to cut the excess metal off.Here's where I'll probably cut it off. Just behind this rivet.This is...
  6. Raider L

    lock plate retaining ring

    Use a new one?? The one I'm using was the one put in there in 1973, are you kiddin'!
  7. Raider L

    lock plate retaining ring

    @mikeoverland, No!! Don't drive with vise grips! That is the ultimate red neck. I can see putting a pair of vise grips on the window crank, but not to steer. Could you do it? Yeah, but that's all it would take is some sudden thing happen in front of you and that would be it. And can you...
  8. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    And lastly.Begin mixing the amount on a suitable surface, in this case I used a small piece of cardboard. Don't use your wifes good china, or the dinning room table. Use something you can throw away like a paper plate works okay. Have a light solvent handy so you can wipe off any that gets on...
  9. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    And more pics.Time to prep the inside. This is necessary in order for the JB to stick good to this sheet metal. This is what I was saying about most people won't take the time to do this stuff right. They think it will just stick no matter what. It may but it sticks better if you follow the...
  10. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    More.Now to make it round. I didn't show that I was creeping down to my drawn lines though. This is the finished size. This pic is of the back side or rather the inside of the hole where the locking takes place.Check the fitment, looks okay even though there are a couple of slight gaps around...
  11. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    Continue with pics of tube.Start with first corner, it doesn't matter which one. You notice my note on the side that tells me not to cut there, that it's right on the edge of the box.I had a pic of this but I clicked this pic before I saw it was a little blurred. You get the idea. I've...
  12. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    @squarelyfe, Is that what all that brown around where the bulbs went? I just figured it was from years of use. It did come from a '88 Suburban. The vehicle was in really good shape to. You know sometimes I wonder how a nice looking vehicle could end up in a wrecking yard. I wasn't doing...
  13. Raider L

    Praise for the Delco 2700

    @AuroraGirl, I saw that one at Advance Auto Parts. I'll use that one. @Tubo4whl says he thought they were about a 1/2" wide. I wonder what a strap that big would do rather a smaller one like the kind we're talking about? 1/2" is larger than ones on aircraft! Most all of them are the kind...
  14. Raider L

    Radio light bulb change, 2700 AM/FM stereo/cassette

    @PeteJr, Are those colored lights out? I may have an idea where you can get them. Radio Shack may not have stores anymore but they are still on line. I just ordered some solder from them and got it in pretty fast. I used to buy electric stuff from their store over by my house for years...
  15. Raider L

    critique my door hinge replacement plans, please

    My truck has the bent wire thing that holds the door open broken on the drivers side. The way it looks like it goes I to would be better off taking the hinge off then try and put it back in. It's kinda sucks because I have to hold the door open with my hand if I'm inside doing something. I to...
  16. Raider L

    Seatbelt light remains on

    @Titans61, Where is the sensor for the seat belt located? I'd look there, something may have got messed up at the sensor, dirt, loose wire, etc. Some of those bulbs are tiny incandesent screw in bulbs. My son's Nissan had one out and I had to take the console completely out just to find this...
  17. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    NextI didn't know how thin this sheet metal was so I put a vernier scale on it and it's .014" thick. It's some galvanized sheet metal I had. Pretty thin. Next I will cut the hole out and J.B. Weld it into the tube end. I'll take pics on how to prep the metal for using J.B. Weld. You don't...
  18. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    Next.This is what size I want the tube to be.Now that I'm kinda finished pop riveting the tube, meaning I may have to either put some more rivets in it, depending on how far this tube will be up in where it will shine on the gear indicator will determine how much of this tube I keep. It will be...
  19. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    Next steps.In this pic you can see how much over lap I allowed, about a 1/4". Allow whatever edge you need over the length after rolling the dowel when cutting the sheet metal for the tube. You don't want the sheet metal you measure, when rolling the dowel to be exactly the diameter of the...
  20. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    Pics. of how I made a tube based on what I learned when I worked on aircraft. I have to give credit to a chief master sargent from the Airforce who was over the airlines sheet metal shop who taught me all I know.It just so happened that I had a wood dowel the size I needed that was just larger...
  21. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    @squarelyfe, If you're interested in what I'm making here follow the pics. I did say I'd have to see where this leads with the cutting that box out. It gave me more ideas. If I need more remote lights at least I'll have this idea even if it doesn't work for them. You never know. Looking...
  22. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    More.Here you can see that the blades are depressing just fine and the bulb socket is locked into the hole. The socket is flat down. Now I can take the socket out in the event the bulb burns out, just like a real one. lol.This is a pic of the socket locked in the box.I took that sanding drum...
  23. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    I decided that light wasn't going to work if I am going to use this box to put a light in. So I needed to make a new one, but this time the wires couldn't be on the underside like the first one I did. The wires were going to have to be on the outside of the socket and that was going to require...
  24. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    More.Aww! My favorite tool, a 80 grit sanding drum! That sucker will cut through anything. Fast to, depending how hard you push down on it. See, "you're supposed to let the tool do the work." Screw that! I push down as hard as I need to, to get as much work done as fast as the tool will let me...
  25. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    More.The above pic is cutting on the front of the box. I saw that there was some pieces left in the back.Finished with cutting the box out of the instrument case. Sorry, I didn't push those peg board hangers enough out of the way so you could see the parts in the back I cut through. But you...

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