Oh I think they might be steel too, but with plating of something. They have little projections on the hidden side that I guess are supposed to bite into body a little. alistair On 2012-06-09, at 1:34 PM, David Beierl wrote: > At 04:10 PM 6/9/2012, Alistair Bell wrote: >> star clusters on my '82, the 2 above and to the left of the fuse panel, were screwed to body, not welded. > > I'm probably guilty of reasoning backwards. I've certainly scrubbed red crud off spades up there so I still believe the spades are steel. Possibly ran down from windshield etc? I'll take a look when I get a chance, and start defrosting a crow. I won't have the van back for a few days though, to actually look at the things. > > Any ones that are screwed on, steel or not, that's yet another place for a bad connection to form; so they should be measured for quality by a voltmeter when under load. > > :) > d |
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