[Farmall] More M electrical problems

Thomas O. Mehrkam tomehrkam at houston.rr.com
Fri Nov 3 04:13:30 PST 2006


I would worry about the plastic melting.

Those switches can generate some heat.

Dean Vinson wrote:

>>If you can't find plastic of the right thickness, 
>>you can try using heavy card stock. 
>>    
>>
>
>Carl, that's what the original insulation looks like.  It's still in good
>shape around the upper post, the one that hadn't moved, but it was all
>frazzled and chewed and torn around the lower one.
>
>I had some styrene plastic sheet of about the right thickness left over from
>some model-making I was doing a couple of years ago, so I put together a
>little insulator to replace the part that had been all chewed up.  I haven't
>put it back on the tractor and tested it yet but I'm sure it'll work--too
>simple not to.
>
>Pictures are at http://www.vinsonfarm.net/M_switch.html.
>
>Dean Vinson
>Dayton, Ohio
>www.vinsonfarm.net
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