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I don't care where your from, that's funny!!!:funny:Ghostdriver had several Jaguars and still has a cabriolet. I Know she will find this almost as funny as when she discovered her fuel was being run through the air conditioner to cool it down to avoid vapor lock.

I was a franchised electric car dealer back in the late 70's and the contacts used were heavy duty. We usually had failures in the contact points or buttons rather than anything else. My rebuilds involved the replacement of those components. Others would sell new solenoids, while we would...

As I mentioned, my work was for a firm that supplied Beryllium for use in nuclear control rods. Because of the transparency to radiation, it could be used as a part of the rod without having any impact to the control process. ~~ The first step was to mine Beryl deposits which occurred in...

Interesting information. My doubt is removed and I have saved the link. Clearly, a low percent of Beryllium may well be used in current day contactors. The low arcing properties should greatly extend the contactor life. When I was rebuilding EV contactors, the nickel and silver mixes were...

I doubt it is a Beryllium alloy. Beryllium is not a widely distributed ore and must be mined in what can best be described as pot hole operations. A little here and a little there. Beryllium is used in nuclear control rod manufacture and that demand makes its cost fairly high. When I was hot and...