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Date:         Sun, 23 Feb 2020 17:03:24 -0800
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: Magnets on tail light assembly
In-Reply-To:  <163F0F64-02F4-440B-963A-B6805EA468B3@shaw.ca>
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Clarification, the magnets do hold the assembly to the van, I doubt it would drop off. Just not secure enough for my liking.


I think magnets still have a role, maybe as the “latch” to Eric’s original idea of a hinge mechanism 


> On Feb 23, 2020, at 4:59 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> Decided to try the super easy thing first. Magnets.
> 
> They hold the assembly to the van, but not a good enough sideways locator, nor , I think strong enough to hold overall.
> 
> I did try screwing in a couple of the stock screws, backwards, facing out, as locators. But that made placing the light assembly onto the van too fiddly.
> 
> Private blog post showing pics of magnets etc here
> http://shufti.blog/2020/02/23/private-magnets-on-tail-light/
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