<VV> Corvair stories pt4? addendum

[Kevin Kiewel]

A similar thing happened to me as I was trying out a
'new' '66 coupe. While seeing what worked and what
didn't, I forgot about the lighter which I had pushed
in, until I smelled it. I grabbed it and jerked it out
and immediately had to drop it because it was so hot. 
Luckily there was no carpet on the bare metal floor
where it landed!
Kevin

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 07:37:38 -0800
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While getting a tech inspection at the Dallas
convention in'95 for the 
concours, I was asked to push the lighter in to be
sure it worked.  
That was fine except they did not wait to see it when
it came back out. 
What happened was it stuck in and was forgotten.  As I
was driving away I 
smelled something hot and a bystander also smelled it.
 I realized the 
lighter had stuck in and was about to melt everything
near it.  I 
couldn't pull it out by that time so I pulled the wire
off from under the 
dash.  It was forever stuck in there and I never did
replace it. A lesson 
learned and I think an line fuse would be a good idea
for something 
that does not have a fuse in the fuse box.  Ken Clark



 
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