Stephen, I gave up trying to get people to quit calling the assembly a
"trafficator". Somewhere along the line years ago, I picked up the term
"mayonet" for the same thing but I can't find the source for that now. Google
is no help. If you can't beat, 'em, join 'em.....
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
AHCA Delegate at Large
Havelock, NC
-----Original Message-----
From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Stephen
Hutchings
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 3:55 PM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] Trafficators
I've just had my Trafficators apart again because the left hand signal didnâ??t
seem to be maintaining contact. Itâ??s working well now, but it is a fiendish
little device, and getting the lever back in with all the appropriate springs
in place is not easyâ?¦sort of like watch repair.
Anyway, I was looking at the original Lucas literature and it got me to
wondering why we call it a â??Trafficatorâ??. Seems that the trafficators were
the little flip-up semaphore signals made by Lucas, and usually paired with
what they called the â??self cancelling switch assemblyâ??â?¦which is what we
Healey people now call a trafficator.
I guess, since they were originally paired, â??trafficatorâ?? slips off the
tongue more easily than "self cancelling switch assemblyâ?? !
Hoping I donâ??t have to take that thing apart again for a long timeâ?¦
Stephen, BJ8
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