Ok So I finally replaced my broken split bumper with a NOS bumper. Everything is great and I am feeling good about a car that I fixed from broken "to good as new", collectors style.....but the car is squealing a bit. I remove the cover to oil it up and while handling it, the working light bulb slips out of its socket, and the oil on the chassis and my hands, breaks off one of the contacts of the bulb. BUMMER
Now this bulb is toast. Can anyone help me source a new bulb and how to place it back into the socket. The bulb, as you all likely know, is a two prong bulb that fits into a plastic type socket. The lower insert is a copper lined strip and the upper is a plastic recepticle. The lamp seems as though it merely slips right back into the two recepticles;; but I am suspicious now.
This should not be rocket science but it is my first encounter with this type of Lionel bulb. I have a list of Lionel lamps but where does one source the lamp here? AND......is it as easy as slipping the two copper wire leads right back into the plastic recepticle that should receive the bulb?
Who here has done this fix and can you advise me on how to tread in this Lionel electrical water?
Thanks Brien
