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Octopus switch 200 1989

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posted by  Art Benstein on  Thu Sep 17 14:33 CST 2015
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Thank you for the compliment, Sir. I've been posting these same pics for a dozen years now and figured we were all tired of seeing them.

So far my experience does not include an actual brake failure -- meaning I've not had a car where the shuttle moved off center or had a reason to.

But the light has come on anyway in some occasions, and when it does, I cannot ignore it. The resistance I measure between contact and ground is not that of a metal contact, but a reading consistent with electrolysis like the load of a plating tank. Reversing the ohmmeter leads confirms this. The warning lamp is surprisingly well lighted through a bit of rusty, watery brake fluid seeping past those fudged-out O-rings.

Washing out where the switch lives is easy. Getting the nylon switch plug started past the rusty casting lip is one of those few things that might bring a smile to a person with a lift to work under.


--
Art Benstein near Baltimore

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much. -Lao Tzu






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