Re: IML: Push button light source

[PAUL WENTINK <randalpark@xxxxxxx>]

Yes, the panel is suppose to have a white wire and a red connector 
attached to it. Yours has apparently been broken off from the panel. I 
don't know if it can be repaired. If it can, it will require removing 
the panel from the dash. I believe that involves removing the outer pod 
trim, push buttons, control module, etc.

Good luck.

Paul W


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Battesby <a1web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 8:51 am
Subject: Re: IML: Push button light source


I examined the push button device up and down top to bottom. There is 
not a spot that the white wire would plug in like it does at all the 
other areas on the dash. Is it not obvious . The wires are dangling 
there but nowhere to plug into anything i just don't get it. does it 
just need to make a connection to any part of metal to send current 
into the clear like buttons

PAUL WENTINK <randalpark@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:23 am
Subject: Re: IML: Push button light source


really there is a round hole in the plale below the buttons what type
of bulb and which wire do i jump to

Kenyon Wills 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


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