How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Jordan Baker]

My biggest challenge was finding a bayonet socket that would work also as a pivot for the hood. I lucked out with a couple of lights from another project. However I did have to modify the socket a bit. The bast was cut down and turned into a circle. I soldered it to the outside of the hood. The socket tube would now be the pivot for the hood. I also had to cut down on the actual length of the socket as the original was too long to fit the bulb once it was put together. The dremel came in handy for cuting the slots longer and drilling out the grove for the stubs on the bulb.

Lastly I needed more of the little shouldered screws for the cab nose ventilators. I only had one original screw left, so I made some new ones on the lathe out of 3/8 hex rod.

Other then time spent both of these porjects proved to be very budget friendly. The map light cost me $3 for the washers as the rest of the steel came from my scrap pile. The screws cost $1.51 for a 10" piece of hex rod from metal supermarket.