26 jd plug in socket

[58pan]

friend wants to know where it should be located on the 1926 and how is it mounted and what it looks like that it mounts to any Idea???, It's # 8 on the diagram of the book he has but can't remember after 30 years of it sitting around.

[sirhrmechanic]

On my '27, I think it's just above the battery box. Perhaps on the seat post? Hang on and I'll see if I can find a photo...

Cheers,

Sirhr

[sirhrmechanic]

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The plug on my '27 is hanging from the tab on the seat post in front of (and above) the battery box.

Cheers, Sirhr

[58pan]

thanks for the pics I think he still has the bracket and switch he just wasn't sure about the location

[58pan]

this tab peewee thinks is made of bakelite cuzz he found an old frame that he bought that has the tab on it, is he right or is it metal?

[sirhrmechanic]

The tab is metal. May be brazed to the frame. I can't recall a fastener.

The plug itself (female socket) is bakelite.

Cheers,

Sirhr

[DanM]

up thru 27 the bracket is basically a clamp around the frame, not unlike how a muffler hanger works. In the free end of the clamp is a brass fitting. The brass is isolated from the clamp by fiber washers. A hot wire attaches to the brass. The accesspory lamp must have had a "banana" plug that would go into the center of the brass fitting.

Later years had a different kind of clamp that secured a fiber board which was the insulator for the hot connection. Maybe this is what 58pan has found.

[sirhrmechanic]

I won't disagree with DanM. I am going by memory here. I can go out on the weekend and photograph the arrangement closely... but could easily be fiber washers. It's set up for a banana type plug for sure.

Was this for an accessory lamp? Or for a trouble lamp of some kind? I figured the accessory would be hard-wired in. My '27 has an original type spotlight, but I wired it into the switch box.

Thanks Dan.

Cheers, Sirhr