Kirk put them on his 60... didn't you see the post... he heard about something called the 'cal look' that was being done on 60's cars and decided he wanted to go that route also... he just did not realize folks were talking about VW and not customs.... LOL Kirk, how is the 60 coming along
Should be fairly simple KIRK. The one on the Mercedes that I worked on were simple solenoids and linkages.I wonder if you could use one of the self canceling toggle switch turn signal setups. I always left the ones on the Mercedes on too long. It would wire the same just leave out the flasher. Jay
It's coming along nicely. I have the rear wheels at about 30 degrees of camber, the decklid is cocked and I put on a roof rack. Plus I grew a mullet and bought a pair of Oakley blades.
It's sad. Don't forget the Armstrong shocks on the modified. I have been looking at Bugeye Sprites. What's scarier is that I saw a '70 Maverick that I liked today in a magazine.
sweet, I bet that raise in the front edge decklid looks boss giving your luggage plenty of aircooling... is the paint done ??? or still in the bodywork stage?
It should be getting sprayed next week. Alex and the guys have it nearly ready to go and the paint should be in tmorrow.
Dude, I got a few leftover pairs of Neon temples for those Oakleys..........you can have em You will never pry my Pink Cow Frogskins outta my cold dead hands though, me an HBall
My 34 Lancia has them. Next trip to NC, I'll take some pictures of the wiring on them for you since the interior is out of the car and I can see it. As I recall it's just a coil of wire around a steel bar that makes an electromagnet when it's energized and the back of the arm is steel and the magnet pulls it down to flip up the arm. Real simple.
Should be easy to wire through a normal direction indicator switch, i would use a small relay to lighten the load on the switch though, not sure what load the solonoids pull & they don't flash so no need for any fancy wiring. I have been thinking about mounting some behind my bumper blade, you guys seem to have hand signals pretty well sorted but over here they look at you like you're a fucking idiot. Just like oil "its better to have some than have none" Kev.
My grandpa bolted the semaphore on my Ford in '48. The wiring is easy. I just converted it to 12 volts. A hot wire runs to a flasher and then from there to a contact switch(Normally closed switch) that the activating lever sits against. As soon as you move the lever, the switches plunger comes up, contact is made, and the light starts flashing.
I started working on cars at a VW dealership.......If I'm remembering right, most of the semaphore signals were on european cars (not cars for US import) but you would see them every once in a while. They had two wires running to them, one supplied power to the semaphore solenoid and the other went to an indicator light on the instrument panel. The turn signal switch has fused power going to it, and then tranfered 12 volts to the semaphore unit. The semaphore retracted it self when 12 volts were not present. Most of the time the problem wasn't so much the wiring, but the sym unit it self......slappin' a bunch of Bondo over the top of it don't help either.
I had semaphores on my Copenhagen built 39 Foordor, there is two types. the first has only one wire, and you apply 6 or 12 volt, and they fold out and light up. (mine had teh Ford logo, and the saying was Ford show'a the way ;-)) The other typ (used on many VW's) have two wires, the first one works as above, the other cable light up the lamp (can be connected thru flasher to get some more attention)
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