Marine Light

[Marc Schlemmer]

I hate to believe that this whole marine light issue happened....and I am
sorry, Eric, that you are without your beautiful light.

Not to question Dave's look at the marine light, but last year in Celina I
had a similar feeling about my replacement marine light. I bought mine back
in late '97 from Hugh (a different batch, of course, but a reproduction) and
it was very nice. Late on Saturday of 2000, after it had rained all day, I
had noticed the marine light was a mess. All hazy and cloudy....it looked
like a film was over the entire unit. (Rick Young was there when I noticed
this - maybe he recalls the scene) I even rubbed it with my nail to see
what was on it, and the material was so soft (from the wetness of the rain
and dew) that my fingernail left gouges in it. The next week it was still
looking bad (cloudy and hazy on the outside surface) and I took it off and
Elizabeth buffed it out. In fact, she buffs it from time to time to get it
back into shape and looking shiny. After her buffing, it looks great again.

Is it possible that after the rain on Saturday night this year the same
thing happened? Maybe some sort of acid rain type effect? I'm convinced
that after the way that my light reacted, the material in the reproduction
lights has a tendency to do this.

Marc Schlemmer.

 

[Gary Schulz]

RE: RE: Marine Light

First of all, a somewhat belated thank you to Marc and all those responsible
for one heck of a good time at Celina. Up until last weekend I think I had
a grand total of about 30 minutes water time on my car in the past two
years, since then I am probably at 4 or 5 hours! I can't help but think
that it is really quite impossible for any of the great folks that I met in
the club would even remotely consider such a foolish and risky act as
swapping marine lights. It sounds like there are quite a few rampant
theories developing on the subject and I am forced to agree with Marc's
comments below that the answer is probably somewhat less sinister than we
might be led to believe. I know that everyone who had a car there has done
a tremendous amount of work to get them drivable and swimable and I am
certain that that alone would be sufficient for any of the owners to respect
the property of the others. There were a whole lot of parts on my car that
didn't come back quite as shiny as they were when I arrived, but I attribute
this to having fun! (unless someone swapped my bumpers and tailpipe and pole
light.... hmmmm....)

Gary Schulz

('67 or now I learned a '62 Green)



-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Schlemmer [mailto:mschlem@amphicar.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 5:11 PM
To: Amphicar Digest
Subject: [amphicar-lovers] RE: Marine Light


I hate to believe that this whole marine light issue happened....and I am
sorry, Eric, that you are without your beautiful light.

Not to question Dave's look at the marine light, but last year in Celina I
had a similar feeling about my replacement marine light. I bought mine back
in late '97 from Hugh (a different batch, of course, but a reproduction) and
it was very nice. Late on Saturday of 2000, after it had rained all day, I
had noticed the marine light was a mess. All hazy and cloudy....it looked
like a film was over the entire unit. (Rick Young was there when I noticed
this - maybe he recalls the scene) I even rubbed it with my nail to see
what was on it, and the material was so soft (from the wetness of the rain
and dew) that my fingernail left gouges in it. The next week it was still
looking bad (cloudy and hazy on the outside surface) and I took it off and
Elizabeth buffed it out. In fact, she buffs it from time to time to get it
back into shape and looking shiny. After her buffing, it looks great again.

Is it possible that after the rain on Saturday night this year the same
thing happened? Maybe some sort of acid rain type effect? I'm convinced
that after the way that my light reacted, the material in the reproduction
lights has a tendency to do this.

Marc Schlemmer.






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[dougparsons@ameritech.net]

I would hate to think any one of us would ever stoop to this level
and i have a tendency to go with Marc on this.

Living in this area we have a very High content of Lime in our water
as can be attested to by all the water softners in the area. This
lime will create a very hazy look on surfaces for example most of you
who came to celina probably noticed by now how your muffler
reproductions from Hugh look like crap this is due to the lime and if
you use clr on this it will come right off with a little Elbow Grease
I don't know if Dave has ever experianced this before but I don't
think the Brown Wonder had a stock marine light.

Just my Theory

Doug

 

[dougparsons@ameritech.net]

Thanks for the input John but as it turns out the problem with the
light seemed to be a bad groung at the socket you could see it spark
and with the bad ground the switch got hot and melted the wires.Also
the switch seemed to be bad so we replaced that also so far it is ok.

Dave was right on the bumperettes I forgot to mention them when you
have a list from hell from the weekend you tend to forget items.

Doug

 

[Arnold Hite]

John,
Thanks for reminding me of two electrical problem I had with my
car. When I got my Amphi in 1996 my backup lights didn't work, but then
almost every other electrical system didn't work either. I forgot
about the backup lights and concentrated on other more important
systems. Over a year later, I noticed that all of the lights in the car
would dim whenever I put the car in reverse. Occasionally, leaving the
car in reverse would cause the engine to die. It was another year after
that, when I decided to strip the car for painting, that I discovered
the backup lights had been wired backwards. Thankfully all of the
wiring connections were so corroded, and the primary ground was so poor,
that the short never did much damage. Backup lights are nice and
bright now.
I've had the car 8 years now. It was only a couple of weeks ago
that I discovered the cause of a longtime problem in my stern light. My
stern light has always been temperamental. I've always had to place it
in its mount multiple times to get it to light. I can't remember how
many times I've cleaned the contact points on the tip and in the mount
in an effort to make it more reliable. Since I had never seen any
other Amphicars, it didn't strike me as odd that the tip of the stern
light pole was loose. It had always been loose. I imagined the tip was
originally spring loaded which was somehow need to make a proper
connection. Over the years I had developed an art for getting the pole
to light. Only when it completely failed did I realize that the tip had
always been broken off inside the pole. It was only by random chance
that the broken tip would eventually tough against the loose wire inside
the pole. I'll never understand how I managed to get that light to
work without ever blowing a fuse.

Arnold hite
Johns Island, SC


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[Marty & Caryl]

Doug & Phyllis
Glad you were able to make it back home and felt for you with the
troubles you had. It was, as ever good seeing you guys. I'm
teaching Cailin how to use the water cannon with more control and
accuracy.
Marty & Caryl

--- In amphicar-lovers@yahoogroups.com, dougparsons@a... wrote:
> Thanks for the input John but as it turns out the problem with the
> light seemed to be a bad groung at the socket you could see it
spark
> and with the bad ground the switch got hot and melted the
wires.Also
> the switch seemed to be bad so we replaced that also so far it is
ok.
>
> Dave was right on the bumperettes I forgot to mention them when you
> have a list from hell from the weekend you tend to forget items.
>
> Doug

 

[wcapron2001]

Rob, What part do you need? I belive that I have a extra socket base
assembly but no gasket or lens. Perhaps we could work a trade for a
swim step and a land tranny dipstick?
Bill Capron