You know the ones. . . they have been dropped, bumped and abused to the point the pin holding them is bent or broken. Leaving them at best to rattle on the stalk while riding or at worse turn on the stem till they are pointing at the ground. Perfect candidates for shorting by cutting the stalk off. But the remains are still loosey goosey.
I decided to shorten a pair for the front thinking this is a perfect job for the cheap HF 2 part epoxy. So after carefully (yeah right) measuring of the two parts and mixing I started spooning it in, on and around the stem base and pin hole. I'm saying I did a fine job of working that epoxy in. Good on me, pat on the back and all that. The next day after it had set up well, real well I cut off the rest of the stem and drilled/ tapped the base.
Careful vise work and the double threaded hollow stud was . . . somewhat straight. Good to go install them (yeah i have a pair of bent turn signals I don't discriminate when I fall down). Now I'm pretty sure I got all my wires hooked up correctly, I'm just blind not color blind BUT no flashy/ blinky or other life to the turn signal. Nothing nada. So I get meter out trying to find wtf I didn't do right. Turns out I got no ground at the threaded post. I can run a ground to the turn signal fixture and she flashes me. Can ya imagine that. That HF epoxy is a damn good insulator.
About that time my son the engineer that doesn't drive trains shows up and asks " You did use silver conductive epoxy right?" NO I've never even heard of such nonsense!
"Well that would have saved you this problem" says he. What 8 years of college and all you learned was how to be a smart ass I retort. Call the automotive store to see if I'm bullshittin you he replies as he drives out. . . .
Turns out there is such a thing. They use it to repair rear window defrosters. That or a aluminum adhesive tape. Hmmm but how to get all that other epoxy out to redo it?
Or maybe use the adhesive tape over the stem base and signal fixture??
I used neither cause
A> I'm a cheap sumbeech
B> I didn't want to drive to town. I'm as lazy as I am cheap
But I did fix it and it flashes like the friendliest girl in town.
Anybody want to hazard a guess what my cure was?
I'll post it tomorrow night.
I decided to shorten a pair for the front thinking this is a perfect job for the cheap HF 2 part epoxy. So after carefully (yeah right) measuring of the two parts and mixing I started spooning it in, on and around the stem base and pin hole. I'm saying I did a fine job of working that epoxy in. Good on me, pat on the back and all that. The next day after it had set up well, real well I cut off the rest of the stem and drilled/ tapped the base.
Careful vise work and the double threaded hollow stud was . . . somewhat straight. Good to go install them (yeah i have a pair of bent turn signals I don't discriminate when I fall down). Now I'm pretty sure I got all my wires hooked up correctly, I'm just blind not color blind BUT no flashy/ blinky or other life to the turn signal. Nothing nada. So I get meter out trying to find wtf I didn't do right. Turns out I got no ground at the threaded post. I can run a ground to the turn signal fixture and she flashes me. Can ya imagine that. That HF epoxy is a damn good insulator.
About that time my son the engineer that doesn't drive trains shows up and asks " You did use silver conductive epoxy right?" NO I've never even heard of such nonsense!
"Well that would have saved you this problem" says he. What 8 years of college and all you learned was how to be a smart ass I retort. Call the automotive store to see if I'm bullshittin you he replies as he drives out. . . .
Turns out there is such a thing. They use it to repair rear window defrosters. That or a aluminum adhesive tape. Hmmm but how to get all that other epoxy out to redo it?
Or maybe use the adhesive tape over the stem base and signal fixture??
I used neither cause
A> I'm a cheap sumbeech
B> I didn't want to drive to town. I'm as lazy as I am cheap
But I did fix it and it flashes like the friendliest girl in town.
Anybody want to hazard a guess what my cure was?
I'll post it tomorrow night.