Ahoy!
I looked up new light switches, but couldn't find any, which has reasonable price, quality or shipping costs. New universal switches, that has same functionality and size, seems little poor in quality, so we decided to fix old one.
It works alright, but panel lights dimmer didn't work way, it should be.
So I looked, what was inside of it and cleaned it up a bit.
Main switch side was in pretty good shape, only little dirt and oxidation on contacts. I soaked metal parts in phosphoric acid to remove rust and other parts soaked in citric acid to remove oxidation and dirt. Then I explored dimmer parts. With multimeter I found, that resistance wire was broken from four points. Around that wire, it looks like there has been some heat sometime. I'm glad that car hasn't been burnt. There was also marks of heat in high beam contact, so we're gonna put relays for all lights.
At first I planned to just solder resistance wires together, where it were broken, but I noticed, that solder didn't stick to resistance wire, even with flux. So I just threaded a piece of wire between wires, so there's good contact. That's not very good fix, but it works. đ
We need to keep our eyes open for better solution.
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| Start |
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| Switch mechanism |
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| Some soaking in different poisons đ± | | | |
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| Clean parts. Notice that fancy princess toothbrush, I borrowed from kids đ |
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| Resistance wire, broken points marked |
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| Finished and clean! |
