Re: black box

["Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 19 Mar 00, at 21:14, Ginger D.&Peter P. wrote:

>     My '66 black box (9 wire) also needs some attention.  The e-flashers work
> intermittently.  What is the voodoo that you do in there?  I'm inclined to open
> it up an clean it with electrical cleaner/luber.

IIRC, there are several internal connections made by riveting metal 
straps to the PC board and to each other. I solder these 
connections. This requires an appropriate flux and follow-up 
cleaning. It also requires that you be careful and have a low temp 
soldering pencil so that you don't melt plastic parts in the 
neighborhood. I also go over all the PC board solder joints.

Sometimes I also end up burnishing relay contacts and setting 
relay spring tensions.

It is easy to get careless and destroy one of these.

-
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054

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