[DeTomaso] A new Pantera trivia topic: cigarette lighter

[Myron Zadony]

My cigarette lighter did go up in SMOKE !  I was fixing something by the dash so I threw a towel across the console (lighter) so my elbow would be comfortable.  It depressed the lighter !   You would think a fuse would burn out before the lighter MELTED, well it didn't.

The cost of replacing the lighter with original parts was way over $100 ( some sort of Italian anti smoking policy).  Myron, the other guy in Cleveland






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From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On Behalf Of  Charles Engles [cengles at cox.net]
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 11:32 AM
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] A new Pantera trivia topic: cigarette lighter

Dear Forum,





                 I thought I would bring up a new topic since the blossom
may be off the rose of the Dipstick mystery.





                 During preparations for the Road to Phoenix, I  found that
the cigarette lighter does not have power for the CB.   Using all of my
remedial electrical skills and knowledge, I have power all the way to the
connections to the lighter plug near the ashtray.   It would seem to me that
the cigarette lighter socket is shot.    While I know that the Pantera
electrical system is not the most robust, I don't recall hearing that the
lighter sockets are particularly fragile.    I am going to hard wire a fix
around the dead socket so I should have communications.    Has anyone else
had their cigarette lighter go up in figurative "smoke"?





                             Curious, but still working on the Pantera,
Chuck Engles

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