Headlight Failure
IF one headlight bulb burns out frequently, the trouble is practically certain to be due to an intermittent short circuit in the wire •to that bulb. This can be caused by a chaffing of the rubber insulation surrounding the wire. The most likely place for this to occur is inside the lamp slid!, just behind the reflector. If the trouble is not here, .it will be somewhere along the wire before it makes a junction with the wire from the other lamp. If Ihere is an intermittent short after this junction, both lamps will be affected. Once found, the faulty section is easily repaired by putting a few turns of black insulating tape round the broken rubber covering.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20014, 12 August 1939, Page 11
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120Headlight Failure Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20014, 12 August 1939, Page 11
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