Lucas Brake Light Switch

[Rob H]

Maybe a daft question but do the brake switches have a back plate to the metal box or are they left open with the internals exposed?

 

[petermb998]

PR39/P Backplate for the B/C Stoplamp Switch
stainless steel .
from the spares company

 

[nkt267]

If you fit a back plate it might last too long..John

 

[b'knighted]

I'm sure that I had a backplate made from a 1/16th inch thick bakelite, just held in place by the mounting screws. I do also have a memory of similar backplates held on by eyelets around the screw holes but I'm not sure what they were on.

 

[A-BCD]

I'm sure that I had a backplate made from a 1/16th inch thick bakelite, just held in place by the mounting screws. I do also have a memory of similar backplates held on by eyelets around the screw holes but I'm not sure what they were on.

Probably your first toaster...............

 

[b'knighted]

Elementary, my dear Brian.

 

[chankly bore]

I don't think they were fitted originally, but I'm open to correction just short of stern discipline! With a well- sealed backplate you are perhaps providing a better micro-climate for corrosion should any moisture travel along the operating arm impelled by your rapid forward progress. Perhaps the excellent engineers who advise the Club Spares will then devise a cunning, bespoke rectangular seal to cure this problem. Or perhaps they are micro-climate-change deniers.

 

[Rob H]

Doh!!! never thought about checking the spares list, thanks for the answers

 

[nkt267]

With a well- sealed backplate you are perhaps providing a better micro-climate for corrosion should any moisture travel along the operating arm impelled by your rapid forward progress. Perhaps the excellent engineers who advise the Club Spares will then devise a cunning, bespoke rectangular seal to cure this problem. Or perhaps they are micro-climate-change deniers.

But if you don't have a cover then it fills up with salt if you ride in the winter..John

 

[vibrac]

Don't mention climate change here, according to the rules we dont do religion