On 1/26/2011 10:27 PM, Smitty Two wrote:
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Anybody know a source for T1 1/4 wire base bulbs (NOT LEDs) with blue
tint? Trying to replace the lights on the HVAC controls for a 2005
Caravan. Dealer claims they are unserviceable, and wants to sell me a
whole new pod for hundreds of dollars. I have already replaced them with
T1's (too small) after buying T1 3/4 that were too big (I feel like
Goldilocks), but the T1s are too short, and the blue condoms make them
too dim. I am aware of McMaster-Carr and Allied- that is where I wasted
my money on the first two tries, for the condoms and bulbs respectively.
Allied has clear bulbs in the right size (now that dummy me figured out
what the size is), but not the tinted ones.

And yes, I already tried rec.autos.tech.

I don't know what "wire base" means. I don't think that's standard
terminology. But anyway, have you tried bulbs.com or one of those other
"we sell every light bulb known to man" type places?

Yeah, I found the clears several places, usually at a high markup.
Allied was cheapest, and delivered overnight. M-C had the blue bulb
covers. (which a year ago before rice-rocket craze died out, every auto
parts store had.) But they don't have the 1 1/4 size.

'wire base' or 'wire terminal' was what the online catalogs called what
I knew as grain-of-wheat bulbs, a glass bulb with the long wires
trailing from it. Used to be dirt-common as radio dial lights and such,
and every radio shack had a whole multi-bin drawer of them. Mostly
replaced by LEDs in modern technology- I have a little plastic drawer
full of 5v LEDs from my PC-rebuilding days.

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