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Dashboard Lights
Posted: 26 Apr 2006, 20:14
by vanorak
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Heeelp - Lights on the dash have suddenly decided not to work - Turn on lights headlamps etc light up - but I only Know 'Cos I Got Out & Looked! Inside the "Binnacle"? was as dark as bu**ery!
Lift off Lid plasticky thingy - 2 small bulbs on the top - wiggled them out seem to have filament in - squirt of WD40 & clean all with cotton bud - still nowt - Pleeeeze what do I do?[color=red][/color][color=red][/color][size=18][/size]
Posted: 26 Apr 2006, 20:21
by missusjen
Posted: 26 Apr 2006, 20:31
by Cate
Probably that connector that Jen is talking about come a bit loose? orrrrrrrrrrr, you haven't just turned the dash lights down have you? Simple but easily done
Posted: 26 Apr 2006, 20:37
by tonytech
Just check you havent turned the dimmer down!!!!!
T
Posted: 26 Apr 2006, 20:49
by missusjen
tonytech wrote:Pessimist: "You'll need all the wiring re-done, every bulb and relay changed, and you'll never be able to drive at night again without a torch between your teeth"
Optimist: "The dimmer has been turned down"
Engineer: "Can't we fabricate something to fix this?"
Re: Dashboard Lights
Posted: 26 Apr 2006, 20:57
by ozzy
vanorak wrote:
Heeelp - Lights on the dash have suddenly decided not to work - Turn on lights headlamps etc light up - but I only Know 'Cos I Got Out & Looked! Inside the "Binnacle"? was as dark as bu**ery!
Lift off Lid plasticky thingy - 2 small bulbs on the top - wiggled them out seem to have filament in - squirt of WD40 & clean all with cotton bud - still nowt - Pleeeeze what do I do?
bu**ery would that be burbery
Posted: 26 Apr 2006, 21:41
by tonytech
WD40 i pretty crap as a contact cleaner.
Buy a tin of propperstuff from your local Maplin shop or their online place.
T
Hope it works on keyboards too mine is playing up
Posted: 27 Apr 2006, 11:48
by ermie571
Hope it works on keyboards too mine is playing up
are you a big biscuit eater over keyboard? If like me, vast quantities of biscuits and chocolate are comsumed, turn upside down and thump. Crumbs often jam up keyboards. Nor do they like coffee or tea, apparently!
Emma
Posted: 27 Apr 2006, 11:54
by Cate
A colleague of mine tipped up her keyboard yesterday, looked like a compost heap.....ugh
Posted: 27 Apr 2006, 12:15
by tonytech
Years back I managed to waste a can of larger over a computer I was building, I had to wash the board in the bath and dry it over a radiator.
T
Posted: 27 Apr 2006, 13:47
by Louey
are you trying to say it worked afterwards?????
all that sugar should have ruined it - I remember my brother giving the video player a drink of beer once, he doesn't remember it, must have been have a chat with it one night whilst in a right old state
Posted: 27 Apr 2006, 14:38
by Horza
Nah, as long as you cut the power straght away, wash and dry it then it shouldn't hurt it much. Don't get any beer in the HDD or CD/DVD drives though.
I spilt beer on my keyboard and because I didn't wan't to shut down the PC for various reasons I just striped it on the desk and dried it with tissue and kept on chatting. For about an hour all me mucking words were fudeled and then it all cleared up. Still use it now but I supose I should put it back together
Posted: 27 Apr 2006, 15:08
by tonytech
tonytech wrote:Years back I managed to waste a can of larger over a computer I was building, I had to wash the board in the bath and dry it over a radiator.
T
Yes it worked fine once I'd dried it out.
This was in the computer dark ages..... 1MHz CPU 128K ( yes K) Ram
102 integrated circuits on the board umpteen thousand handmade solder connections.
T
Posted: 27 Apr 2006, 15:11
by Horza
128K, obviously overkill. Didn't someone say something about no one will ever need more 64K? I have a 8086 motherboard somewhere, it's a thing of beauty, I was going to frame it.
Posted: 27 Apr 2006, 16:24
by Blofeld
so does anyone actually know what the wiring connections are?