Hi all! I have just spent a useful lunchtime freeing Myrtle's electric boot
release. This job has been well documented here before and I have done the job three or four times before, myself.
Normally it is fairly obvious that the switch has become gummed up and stuck.
It doesn't move or click when you press it. However, this time it was making a
clicking sound (manual, not electrical, I must stress) and moving, but still
failing to operate. I stripped it out and even when I had removed the
microswitch, it did not give the impression that it wasn't working, it was
physically operating.
However, once I liberally sprayed it with WD40 it started to electrically
operate again.
I point this out only because I suspect that a number of you are actually
replacing the microswitch when I am certain that a liberal dose of the
appropriate agent will bring it back to life. As I say, this is the fourth
time, I think, that the microswitch has been revived (about once a year) so
please try spraying it before replacing it, even if it appears to physically
click and move.
And finally,word of warning - if the boot is open, the switch will not operate.
So either test it with the boot shut or uncouple the other electric push plug
thing to the actual boot lock, then it won't sense that the boot is open!
Hope this helps!
Panda
release. This job has been well documented here before and I have done the job three or four times before, myself.
Normally it is fairly obvious that the switch has become gummed up and stuck.
It doesn't move or click when you press it. However, this time it was making a
clicking sound (manual, not electrical, I must stress) and moving, but still
failing to operate. I stripped it out and even when I had removed the
microswitch, it did not give the impression that it wasn't working, it was
physically operating.
However, once I liberally sprayed it with WD40 it started to electrically
operate again.
I point this out only because I suspect that a number of you are actually
replacing the microswitch when I am certain that a liberal dose of the
appropriate agent will bring it back to life. As I say, this is the fourth
time, I think, that the microswitch has been revived (about once a year) so
please try spraying it before replacing it, even if it appears to physically
click and move.
And finally,word of warning - if the boot is open, the switch will not operate.
So either test it with the boot shut or uncouple the other electric push plug
thing to the actual boot lock, then it won't sense that the boot is open!
Hope this helps!
Panda
