Scored whole set of light bulb sockets.....

Post by **Briano1234** » Sat May 07, 2005 12:14 pm

Junk yarding today, I reaped a complete set of socketed bulb holders for a cabby......Well I have already converted them over to LED's....

Now the question is do I really want to take the dash apart today......

lol

You BETCHA

Post by **Briano1234** » Fri May 13, 2005 7:26 am

Well i got the LED's installed in the dash, and they are a lot brighter, I do have a shadow on the top of the tach, between the leds but i can live with that, a whole lot brighter than it were.....

kamzcab86 · Post by **kamzcab86** » Fri May 13, 2005 2:50 pm

Post by **Calimus** » Fri May 13, 2005 4:09 pm

Ok Brian, I have some spare bulb sockets and a few spare clusters to practice with. We need to find a time to drag you out to my neck of the woods or visa-versa so you can show me how to do this crap. I can wire anything, but I've never learned enough about resisters and such to put anything together.

So whever you have time and feel like it, let me know and If I can get my schedule to mesh with yours we can do this. Might even be able to come up with some modifications.

Post by **Briano1234** » Fri May 13, 2005 7:10 pm

I was near your neck of the woods, bought a 95 rodeo by the big chicken...

It is a piece of cake....

Have to be next weeks or so, I have to drain the fluids, fill'em, then the plugs, the standard new owner of a car crap.....

and fix the little lectrical problems.....and shampoo the interior.

bee a couple of weeks....

now that I am back into the working cycle.

Post by **Briano1234** » Fri May 13, 2005 7:12 pm

I did hear that they are making a convex LED so the beam is not focused but shotgun...that will probably work better for our intentions, but I will have to locate.

Post by **Calimus** » Sun May 15, 2005 1:48 am

Brian everything sounds good. I think I'll have weekends off from here on out (our on-call shofts have ended finally) so whenever it's good for you. The convex LED's sound great as I know it will give the look that we all want.

Post by **kuklaki** » Sun May 15, 2005 2:06 am

Sorry for the hijack, a little off topic here, but.....

Briano1234 wrote:I was near your neck of the woods, bought a 95 rodeo by the big chicken...

When I first moved here, I heard everyone giving directions with the words "by the Big Chicken" and I was really giving a mental WTF having never seen it. They never say by the KFC.

Because my curiosity and need to learn is insatiable, I had to see for myself what a "Big Chicken" was. Yeah, it was a really big freaking chicken.

A little more research revealed the history:
In 1963, Tubby Davis had the Big Chicken built to advertise his Johnny Reb's Chick, Chuck and Shake. Its moveable beak, eyes and comb attracted enough attention that it became a popular landmark in directions to city visitors.

Johnny Reb's eventually went under, replaced when the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain leased the space in 1974 and put its logo about halfway up the bird.

When KFC wanted to build a restaurant in nearby Smyrna, town officials bargained yes, if you build us a big bird, too. KFC decided they would simply move the one from Marietta. Marietta residents were incensed; a populist uprising resulted. The mayors and local politicians got into the act, and the chicken stayed.

In 1996, after extensive tornado damage, Pepsi chipped in to restore the Big Chicken. The new sign, constructed of even sturdier metal to withstand weather extremes, features moving eyes, a beak ... and a Pepsi-Cola logo.

BigDaddy90Cabby · Post by **BigDaddy90Cabby** » Sun May 15, 2005 2:38 pm

Calimus wrote:Brian everything sounds good. I think I'll have weekends off from here on out (our on-call shofts have ended finally) so whenever it's good for you. The convex LED's sound great as I know it will give the look that we all want.

Check your gmail email. I send you email that lets you use led's that are able to use VDO sockets and stuff.. too much info to put on this thing... Dean is in process of getting it done, and I have mine on order.