1960 was the final year for the push buttons being lit by a light bulb.Beginning in 1961 and through 1963, both banks of buttons are lit by the large electroluminescent panel mounted along side of the buttons. It is within the cavity in the dash containing the buttons. The clear button "arms" transmit the light to the letters, as it does in the earlier models where the light bulb is used.
This method was used in addition to the felt padding to eliminate the chance of a distracting outline of light showing around the buttons that would brighter than the lighting through the faces.
Paul W. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Battesby <a1web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:23 am Subject: Re: IML: Push button light sourcereally there is a round hole in the plale below the buttons what type of bulb and which wire do i jump to
Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: --- Mark Battesby wrote: For the life of
me I just don't see how a light source attaches to those clear push buttons
???? The light source is a lightbulb behind the buttons and it is not attached. The clear lucite in the buttons is transmissive, sorta like fiber optic cable (but not) where shining a light on one side allows the light to pass through and be visible on the other side. -Kenyon _________________________________________________________________________ ___________ Be a better friend, newshound, andknow-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
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