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Re: Tooting the horn

To: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com, "J. Adrian Barnes" <adrian@icx.net>
Subject: Re: Tooting the horn
From: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 11:07:26 -0500
Cc: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
In-reply-to: <8525677E.005464EB.00@ams-central-gate-5a.amsinc.com>
Reply-to: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Herb,
        If you look at that plastic and brass plunger, it has a wire connecting
the 2 brass contacts.. 1 at each end, so there is continuity all the time.
This has been a mystery to me...... any electrical engineers out there?
Peter C
At 10:25 AM 5/27/99 , Herb_Goede@amsinc.com wrote:
>>Depending on the year of your car this is how it works. The cone shaped
>piece that mounts to the dash and fills in the space between the wheel and
>the dash should have a brass contact ring to fit between it and the wheel.
>The ring should have a wire connected to it.  The wheel has a 3/8" hole
>next to the mounting hole.  A plastic and brass plunger fits in there and
>rides against the brass ring.  When you push the horn button it compresses
>the plunger and completes the ground circuit and you get beep beep.
>
>Herb G.
>


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