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Bodgability - why?
simonrh - 30/10/14 at 09:54 PM

Did you really not have a better solution? No terminals and no heat shrink?

Hooked straight on to the battery.

CosKev3 - 30/10/14 at 10:53 PM

Nice

Scary what some people think is acceptable

jollygreengiant - 30/10/14 at 11:22 PM

even worse than that Brown wire is usually for earths (although some people use black).

blakep82 - 30/10/14 at 11:33 PM

quote:
Originally posted by jollygreengiant
even worse than that Brown wire is usually for earths (although some people use black).


Mmm, I've noticed ford edis is wired brown for live, black for earth, led autolamps tail lights are brown for live, white for earth. In fact all their leds are white earth. Things like the round leds used for side repeaters are black live, white earth. Weird

owelly - 31/10/14 at 01:52 AM

I think you may have answered your own questions. If the culprit had no terminals and/or heat-shrink, then they did what they could to 'solve' the problem. I'm guessing they were stuck in the middle of the desert when they needed to carry out the bodge.......?

[Edited on 31/10/14 by owelly]

r1_pete - 31/10/14 at 07:37 AM

quote:
Originally posted by jollygreengiant
even worse than that Brown wire is usually for earths (although some people use black).


Back to the old 'Lucas' standards, brown was the colour for un switched un fused live.

Pity I can't see the picture, Co, Proxies.....

britishtrident - 31/10/14 at 08:09 AM

Brown always used to be power, blue headlights, red side lights, green indicators, purple horn.

These days nothing is standard from manufacturer to manufacturer or even between different models.

Daddylonglegs - 31/10/14 at 10:06 AM

It seems that the battery +Ve is also very close to the carbs unless I'm mistaken!

Smoking Frog - 31/10/14 at 10:53 AM

Was expecting a horror story today. That's scary! Although a common sight in the old days, especially on the radio cassette feed.

simonrh - 31/10/14 at 11:09 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
It seems that the battery +Ve is also very close to the carbs unless I'm mistaken!


I think that is just the perspective on the camera, there is a fair old gap in there in reality.

britishtrident - 31/10/14 at 04:21 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Smoking Frog
Was expecting a horror story today. That's scary! Although a common sight in the old days, especially on the radio cassette feed.


In modern tintop just getting feed can be a problem I use the piggyback tap connectors you can get for blade and min-blade fuse boxes.

Chris_Xtreme - 31/10/14 at 09:29 PM

the quantum loom has brown for the un-switched un-fused feeds from the battery. both of mine have been the same.. tho there have always been proper fixings at the end!