RE: black box

[Andrew Riley <AndrewR@ahsl.co.nz>]

Is this the round blinker / flasher unit that your talking about??

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jim Adney [SMTP:jadney@vwtype3.org]
> Sent:	Monday, March 20, 2000 2:02 PM
> To:	type3@vwtype3.org
> Subject:	Re: black box
> 
> On 19 Mar 00, at 11:49, Jess wrote:
> 
> > I live in San Francisco.... the weather here is always the same, about
> > 60F, except when it "warms up" to about 70-75F, that's when it quits.
> The
> > emergency flashers still work, the turn signals just glow solid, no
> flash,
> > both on the dash and outside.  .  I opened up the black box, looks just
> > fine, copper is still coppery looking etc., It hasn't failed this year
> > yet, not warm enough I'm thinking.  The mail order houses list the part
> > but cannot get it.  Sounds like the later part will work although not
> > mount, no problem I think.  Do you think that's a good solution?  Is
> there
> > anything else in the circuit that could fail? Like you mentioned the
> > bulbs.... do they affect the blinking?
> 
> I might be able to improve the connections in your box. I also have 2 
> others which are in unknown used condition. If you can wait, I should 
> wait until summer and get out my 69 and test both of them and get 
> them working. I know I had quite a battle getting my own 69 one to 
> work, but now it is fine.
> 
> If you would be willing to do without yours for a couple of weeks I 
> could probably fix it for sure, but it would be best if that happened 
> while my 69 was out so I could test it.
> 
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> Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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