Wow that is a rare base and a thick unit. I hope you can get a new bulb and get it to work. Also with it being from 1979 this would have been one of the last to use the Kobishi CLB 27 squealer horn. Nice to see it ended up in good hands!!! :)
maybe it wasn't designed to have the lamp replaced - a early planned obsolescence measure. now a days the sealed battery measure works far better especially when they often don't make it 10 years and people don't bother with warranty.
The lamp is replaceable. Right after I finished filming this video I spent about 3 hours trying to take the whole damn thing apart only to find out that the lamp just slides out of the holder. It is one of those small miniature military grade indicator lamps although I am not sure of the voltage. I bought a pack of 12 volt ones that just arrived yesterday and they don't work; I tried and they're so dim you can't barely even see that there's light emitting. I am going to probably have to end up buying a bunch of different voltages and doing trial-and-error to find the correct one. There is a part number for the lamp but it is a Vulcan exclusive part number that has no archival history and means nothing today as Vulcan no longer exists.
@@Jon-hx7pe i did measure and it's 19 volts coming from the lamp contacts. 12 volts ideally should work. I am posting a short right now that should give more detail about the issue.
@@BAFVintage would think a 12v light would glow too brightly on 19v and burn out pre-maturely. unless open circuit voltage is different from when there's a lamp in there.
Wow that is a rare base and a thick unit. I hope you can get a new bulb and get it to work. Also with it being from 1979 this would have been one of the last to use the Kobishi CLB 27 squealer horn. Nice to see it ended up in good hands!!! :)
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maybe it wasn't designed to have the lamp replaced - a early planned obsolescence measure. now a days the sealed battery measure works far better especially when they often don't make it 10 years and people don't bother with warranty.
The lamp is replaceable. Right after I finished filming this video I spent about 3 hours trying to take the whole damn thing apart only to find out that the lamp just slides out of the holder. It is one of those small miniature military grade indicator lamps although I am not sure of the voltage. I bought a pack of 12 volt ones that just arrived yesterday and they don't work; I tried and they're so dim you can't barely even see that there's light emitting. I am going to probably have to end up buying a bunch of different voltages and doing trial-and-error to find the correct one. There is a part number for the lamp but it is a Vulcan exclusive part number that has no archival history and means nothing today as Vulcan no longer exists.
@@BAFVintage can't you check the the voltage output with a meter or is the socket too small for that?
@@Jon-hx7pe i did measure and it's 19 volts coming from the lamp contacts. 12 volts ideally should work. I am posting a short right now that should give more detail about the issue.
@@BAFVintage would think a 12v light would glow too brightly on 19v and burn out pre-maturely. unless open circuit voltage is different from when there's a lamp in there.