I am painting my 55 F350 in January. I talked about this in another thread. The estimate was $500 more than I had hoped for but I sold some things on eBay and will make up that $500.

I bought some Signal Stat fender mounted fat turnsignals in better shape than the ones I have now, like the pic below.


So I am fixing up the new ones. I painted the body with Rust-Oleum rust encapsulator gloss black. They were not a perfectly matched set. One had a single bayonet socket like most turn signals. The other had a double bayonet socket screwed in. You could see someone had removed the single socket by drilling out the rivets of the base and the base of the double socket was was then screwed in.

I knew I had to either take out the double bayonet socket and make it single like it was originally or make the single one into a double socket. So I decided it would be cool to have my turnsignals on my fenders come on when I turn on my headlights. So I bought new double contacts and wires at NAPA.

Now I had a difficult time figuring how to convert the single socket into a double since the copper outer socket had two holes for the bulb pins at equal depths while the double filiment bulbs have staggered pins. So I went to the local Car Quest store to see if they could get a double socket base I could screw into the turnsignal housing.

A guy looked in a book and thought he found something and then the oldest guy there who overheard our dilemma said they make a double filiment bulbs with both pins at even depths, not staggered. He ordered me some and they were in the next day. I never heard of that before! Always go to the oldest guy behind the counter!

I put them in tonight and it works! See pics....


The double filiment bulbs with even pins.


The double bayonet sockets someone had screwed into the housing.


The dim filiment. I think the man at the parts store said it was 12 candle powers


The bright filiment. He said it was 21 candle powers.

 

Mmmm. Good cookies.

You’ve gone wild. What’s next? An AM radio?

 

I'm thinking beauty rings. Fly your freak flag proud, Abe.

 

I'm already there with the beauty rings. Come on in, Abe. The water's fine!




Jim

 

Speaking of cookies..... my wife and her friend are right now in the kitchen baking cookies!

 

Now I don't want to jump in the deep end!