OK, let me digest all that. Just got home from work... Not a hard day or anything (a day spent behind the wheel of a classic Pete is a day well spent in my book ... wink )

Anyway, what you are saying isn't making sense to me just yet. I may have to bench test everything to prove to myself if you are right. You may well be...

In the meantime, tonight, I tackled the Signal Stat 700 itself (my sacrificial one -- the learning one. I'm learning on this one and will restore/use the other one that's better).

Two of the screws holding the unit together were rust welded. Well ... Mr. DeWalt had the answer to THAT!
Attachments
rusted screw 1.jpg (215.85 KB, 148 downloads)
Oh my ... rusted screws???
rusted screw 2.jpg (241.88 KB, 148 downloads)
No Problem. Meet mr. DeWalt!
rusted screw 4.jpg (279.34 KB, 148 downloads)
Being carefull not to damage the housing, I ground the screw head down until I could use a screw driver to carefully pop the housing off of the screw.
rusted screw 5.jpg (260.32 KB, 148 downloads)
Did the same for the second screw.
rusted screw 6.jpg (354.93 KB, 148 downloads)
And voila! Got it apart!

~ John

A kid raised on Hotwheels, Matchbox and Tonka cannot be reasonably expected to own only one vehicle as an adult.

1949 Chevrolet 3804
In the Legacy Gallery | In the Gallery Forum
1973 IH 1310 Dump
1963 Kaiser M38A1
2001 International/AmTran RE3000 "Skoolie"
2014 Ford E-350 4x4 (Quigley)