On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:44:13 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:49:06 -0400, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:

SGC must have hired some folks from Lucas.

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Ahhh Lucas, Prince of Darkness...


I must be biassed. I ran an XKE of that vintage for 5 years without a
mentionable electrical snag. But I did change the radiator header
tank. Twice.

But I must be biassed because I later ran several American made cars
of similar vintage. Electrical rubbish! Starters, generators,
alternators. Fuse boxes. Yuck! Then along came the Japanese......

Brian W

"Brian Whatcott" wrote

I must be biassed. I ran an XKE of that vintage for 5 years without a
mentionable electrical snag.

Your experiences are typical. I mechaniced at Brit car dealers and rode
Brit "skooters" in those days. We had no more trouble with Lucas than other
brands. In fact some replaced their Euro and early Japanese stuff with
Lucas for better reliability.

Electronics are weird. Theoretically, there's no reason for a transistor or
diode to fail, but they do; so often that the telco used tube (valve) type
amplifiers in undersea cables. So, as wiring, et cetera, age we see problems
that never occurred when the cars were new and often nobody knows why.

Wire and other manufacturers made a big leap in materials and QA about the
time Japan's industries became prominent and much of their legendary
reliability can be traced to this vs anything uniquely Japanese (ie,
American, Brit and Euro electrics got better about the same time). Most
early Japanese wiring harnesses were "manufactured" by old grandmothers in
1000 seperate home basements using plywood patterns with wire colors penned
on them in color - hardly high tech but equally good, and even better if
grandma had better insulated and tempered wires..

My dream car? An early XKE coupe with a 450 HP 427 Ford ......

Electronics are weird. Theoretically, there's no reason for a transistor
or
diode to fail, but they do...

Really? What theory are you relating too? None that has any relation
to the real world apparently.

Doug, k3qt
s/v Callista

"Doug Dotson" wrote
Really? What theory are you relating too? None that has any relation
to the real world apparently.

What part do you disagree with? Do you believe that transistors wear out
naturally, like tubes, or do you believe they never fail?

"Vito" wrote in
:

"Doug Dotson" wrote
Really? What theory are you relating too? None that has any relation
to the real world apparently.

What part do you disagree with? Do you believe that transistors wear out
naturally, like tubes, or do you believe they never fail?

Actually they do wear out. There is ion migration that eventually weakens
the junctions, leading to catastrophic failures, thank God. Otherwise, us
technicians would be flippin' burgers and asking the marketing question,
"Do you want fries with that?", like the business majors....(c;

Larry

Well.....
First of all, I was not aware that "for sale" listings were prohibited on this
list...sorry

But apparently I've given a number of you guys an opportunity to use up your
time and bandwidth taking shots at SGC (and by connection, me), Lucas,
etc....so all was not wasted!

Chucvk
W1NW

ospam (CEmely) wrote in
:

Well.....
First of all, I was not aware that "for sale" listings were prohibited
on this list...sorry

But apparently I've given a number of you guys an opportunity to use
up your time and bandwidth taking shots at SGC (and by connection,
me), Lucas, etc....so all was not wasted!

Chucvk
W1NW


One of the bad things about selling something on usenet, instead of a
glitzy ebay ad, is the buyers can relate their experiences, good or bad,
with the POS your selling......sorta like at a hamfest....(c;

73, Larry W4CSC and other fine old calls since 1957

ospam (CEmely) wrote in
:

Well.....
First of all, I was not aware that "for sale" listings were prohibited
on this list...sorry

But apparently I've given a number of you guys an opportunity to use
up your time and bandwidth taking shots at SGC (and by connection,
me), Lucas, etc....so all was not wasted!

Chucvk
W1NW


One of the bad things about selling something on usenet, instead of a
glitzy ebay ad, is the buyers can relate their experiences, good or bad,
with the POS your selling......sorta like at a hamfest....(c;

73, Larry W4CSC and other fine old calls since 1957

Well.....
First of all, I was not aware that "for sale" listings were prohibited on this
list...sorry

But apparently I've given a number of you guys an opportunity to use up your
time and bandwidth taking shots at SGC (and by connection, me), Lucas,
etc....so all was not wasted!

Chucvk
W1NW

"Vito" wrote in
:

"Doug Dotson" wrote
Really? What theory are you relating too? None that has any relation
to the real world apparently.

What part do you disagree with? Do you believe that transistors wear out
naturally, like tubes, or do you believe they never fail?

Actually they do wear out. There is ion migration that eventually weakens
the junctions, leading to catastrophic failures, thank God. Otherwise, us
technicians would be flippin' burgers and asking the marketing question,
"Do you want fries with that?", like the business majors....(c;

Larry