Re: [HSS] I Can Beleive I Did That . . .

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Hudson29@aol.com wrote:

>

> After the motor was installed and everybody went back home on Sunday, I

> decided to plod along reassembling the Hudson. Now I'm a big fellow, and

> sometimes have to squeeze into restricted areas. One of the items I was

> working on seemed easiest to get at from the interior of the car with the

> floorboards removed, so I bent over the runningboard and into the car from

> the right side through the open door. In the process of straining to reach

> out with a wrench, my head knocked the light switch on the dash and snapped

> the elegant pot metal handle off, ting!

> In shock, I went over and sat down for a while. I have never seen or

> heard of a mid twenties Hudson with both handles of that switch intact and I

> had always felt very lucky to have an intact example. Oh, I was CAREFUL of

> it, the cracks in the handle were quite evident and I always fingered it VERY

> gently. Now it was broken like every other example I know of.

> What now? Are these switches available anywhere? Hah! Does anybody make

> parts for them? Does somebody repair them? Is there some sort of glue that

> might hold the two bits of pot metal back together again?

>

> Paul O'Neil, Hudson29@aol.com

> Fullerton, California USA

>

Paul, our r.h.d. '28 & '29 H & E have a similar switch for the lights,

mounted on the dashboard, and we have remanufactured the handle for

these out of gun-metal. Perhaps it is the same. Send me the

measurements and I'll see.

Geoff.