Thread: My propensity for buying faulty goods continues.

Originally Posted by Sprint

knowing your ability to buy faulty goods ron, i shudder to think what a cheap hooker wouldve turned out to be......

Lemme put it this way, when I said $20 was too much, she asked if $10 would be OK.

Originally Posted by p38arover

Lemme put it this way, when I said $20 was too much, she asked if $10 would be OK.

i mean..... im a lil scared about what "extra" bits "she" might've had.......

I didn't dare ask!

Blast! Damn.

I'm fitting driving lights to the P38A. I recently bought a set of ball-ended hex drivers. I used one of them today to remove the covers off the lights.

The damn ball tip snapped off inside the socket head cap screw and it's stuck fast. To make it worse, it's flush with the outside face of teh screw.

The problem is that the socket head cap screw is recessed and there is no way to get a grip on it with pliers, etc. - and the screw is a tad too tight.

This means I can't open up the light to fit the wiring.

Gahhh!!!

Originally Posted by p38arover

I didn't dare ask!

Blast! Damn.

I'm fitting driving lights to the P38A. I recently bought a set of ball-ended hex drivers. I used one of them today to remove the covers off the lights.

The damn ball tip snapped off inside the socket head cap screw and it's stuck fast. To make it worse, it's flush with the outside face of teh screw.

The problem is that the socket head cap screw is recessed and there is no way to get a grip on it with pliers, etc. - and the screw is a tad too tight.

This means I can't open up the light to fit the wiring.

Gahhh!!!

Must have been a bad day, Ron! Even managed a typo!

Willem

Superglue?

Originally Posted by willem

Must have been a bad day, Ron! Even managed a typo!

Willem

I wuz annoyed!

The ball broke off cleanly with very little applied force.

I had to butcher the light to get the screw out with vice grips. I may be able to get a replacement parts from Hella. They very kindly provided new cast metal bases for the lights when the original plastic bases snapped. The lights are Hella FF1000. The screw is inside the plastic surround (the red thing in this pic). I had to cut the surround off. It holds the back shell on to the cast housing.

The screw (after removal and looking worse for wear). Note the bit of hex allen key in the hole.

Now how can I get it out? The screw is not a standard metric socket head cap screw but a self tapper.

Ron, please, please please , never invest in Sunsuper.