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So a few days ago I was scouring our local eBay-equivalent, when I stumbled across an unusual auction.
Basically useless today, but it fits the vintage setting of our garage...so I bid on it (Click the pictures to enlarge).
"What is it? Tell us already"
This is what has arrived a few days later:
Yes, it's a fiche reader. Big woop, you'll say...but, part of the auction were over 500 parts fiches. So I took a chance, and lo and behold:
The unit's bulb was dead though, so I examined the internals....
Wait a minute, that's a standard G5.3 / MR16 bulb, isn't it? I have some LED replacements of those handy....
And the setup is a simple VAC transformer, no needlessly complicated circuitry.
Looking good! Now let's have a look (after some cleaning. It was a smoker's shop, yuk):
Wee! It's fascinating to explore those fiches, they have some additional information on them. For example, some color codes:
Or, some of you hinted that bolt sizes could be derived from part numbers (over in this linked thread: clicky). Turns out, this is documented as such:
Yeah, this is not of much use nowadays, but fun. Also, this might come in handy to keep in the garage, so I don't have to print out everything all the time.
As mentioned, I have in excess of 500 fiches at my disposal. I have only superficially browsed through them, it seems to be mainly Yamaha and Suzuki.
If any of you guys need some elusive parts number/assembly drawing, let me know, I just might have it somewhere in that stack. I'll hunt for them when I find some spare time.
Basically useless today, but it fits the vintage setting of our garage...so I bid on it (Click the pictures to enlarge).
"What is it? Tell us already"
This is what has arrived a few days later:
Yes, it's a fiche reader. Big woop, you'll say...but, part of the auction were over 500 parts fiches. So I took a chance, and lo and behold:
The unit's bulb was dead though, so I examined the internals....
Wait a minute, that's a standard G5.3 / MR16 bulb, isn't it? I have some LED replacements of those handy....
And the setup is a simple VAC transformer, no needlessly complicated circuitry.
Looking good! Now let's have a look (after some cleaning. It was a smoker's shop, yuk):
Wee! It's fascinating to explore those fiches, they have some additional information on them. For example, some color codes:
Or, some of you hinted that bolt sizes could be derived from part numbers (over in this linked thread: clicky). Turns out, this is documented as such:
Yeah, this is not of much use nowadays, but fun. Also, this might come in handy to keep in the garage, so I don't have to print out everything all the time.
As mentioned, I have in excess of 500 fiches at my disposal. I have only superficially browsed through them, it seems to be mainly Yamaha and Suzuki.
If any of you guys need some elusive parts number/assembly drawing, let me know, I just might have it somewhere in that stack. I'll hunt for them when I find some spare time.
Then again, I wouldn't know where to get to machinery that could print those (libraries here threw them out a long time ago).
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