battery cutoff switch removal
battery cutoff switch removal
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I installed a battery cutoff several decades ago. thus I don't recall how it did it.
I now want to remove it but can't figure out how.

I just noticed a slight raised center section, that might have been a press in cover with a screw holding the knob to the shaft.
the question is, any suggestions on how to pull that center piece (hoping it is removable)

OR
If anyone is familair with a Lucas SBB103 switch, how does the knob come off
I now want to remove it but can't figure out how.

I just noticed a slight raised center section, that might have been a press in cover with a screw holding the knob to the shaft.
the question is, any suggestions on how to pull that center piece (hoping it is removable)

OR
If anyone is familair with a Lucas SBB103 switch, how does the knob come off





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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
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We press on where others stop...
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Ted
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In my gut memory, I recall thinking this will never come off again when I installed it.
while I want it out (It was erractic during the recent getting the car driveable again work), I don't want to mangle it up.
I am planning on hot gluing a bar on that center emblem and MAYBE it will pull off and expose an axial holding screw.
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The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand
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TTFN (ta ta for now)
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www.retroclassiccarparts.com/battery-master-switch...
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The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lucas-Type-ST330-Batterie...
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My mechanical aptitude has declined a lot in the last few years.
It finally dawned on me, if I couldn’t remove the knob from the switch, then remove the switch from the knob!
Then the hardest thing was getting my "mirror image" dexterity
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Ted
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LOL... when I installed the switch, I left the original ground strap hanging and a wrench to change back under the hood. shortly after, the car was "parked" for those decades and just recently during the work to get it running again was it found in the dim mode, so back to the original strap.
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I don't mean to derail this thread, but how many others here call it, or have heard it called a "flat blade" screwdriver?
I personally have always called it that, but lately I've come across a number of people that say "flat head" screwdriver.
I suppose either is correct, but I can't bring myself to say "flat head screwdriver".
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It is just a screw style, not a diver type.
It is a flat blade screw driver, or a I guess a driver for straight slotted screws.
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I have always referred the type of screw driven by a "flat blade" screwdriver as a slotted screw.
Consequently, I've heard the term "slotted head" screwdriver as well. Which makes sense to me.
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Flat head screw; With a slot, a Phillips or a Robertson socket.
Bill
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Or occasionally, slot-head nail. 😛
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Or is turnscrew what gunsmiths call a screw driver so they can charge big bucks
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Apart from the slightly amusing entries in Merriam-Webster (a device for turning screws) and Wiktionary (a screwdriver), it does seem to be a term used solely by the shooting fraternity. I guess it is a very old word.
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When you turned on the headlights by pulling the knob out, in order to remove the switch, you first had to disconnect the battery, reach around to the back of the switch (usually through a jungle of wires) and press a little button on the side of the switch opposite the wire terminations. Then the knob and stem would just slide right out when you pulled on the knob and held the button in.
The damn retaining ring is right there in the drawing, but not obvious.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Bill
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An interesting read is "One Good Turn - A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw" by Witold Rybczynski
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