Starter relay and huge power consumption?

Even a £5 meter has that function.

I bought a Chinese battery charger which has mains voltage leads with about 0.1mm thick wire inside. I guess that's also the fuse. And the plug has plastic prongs! Painted with conductive paint! If you plug it in with the socket turned on, there's a little spark to charge the bulk capacitor presumably. Doing this many times causes the paint to burn off. One day it won't get any power. I could change the plug I suppose, if I can get that tiny thin wire into the grubscrews.

Nah, I've spent my life in Nebraska. I did travel to the southeast U.S. on vacation. Maybe the pretty women down there corrupted my mind.

If a term is in common parlance it becomes right.

My experience is limited, but GM solenoids, at least until 1973 and maybe forever move the gear that engages the flywheel, and at the end of the travel, the other end of the solenoid connects the power to the starter motor.

I don't think I've had any problems with the starter on 84, 88, or 95 Lebarons, or the 2000 or 2005 Solara, so I know nothing recent.

Or to put it another way, maybe inside it really is a solenoid, though I doubt it. If you feel it looks like a relay, , then you do really need to look at the current and see. I remember a device on our really ancient Austin car back in the 1970s where the device included contacts, but had a little slot in it that engaged with a lever which actually moved. No idea what it was doing, but the point was it was in fact a solonoid with relay contacts, but its main job appeared to be moving this little lever. Brian

Are you sure there is not a slot in it somewhere as I said in an earlier reply? Otherwise it seems to be a little weird in the extreme. The only other thing I can thing of is that it is prone to high vibration when it is engaged and the constructions makes sure the contacts stay closed during that time. Brian

No slot. I think it's a strong spring to stop arcing when disengaging. And maybe the vibration too.

Is it the same as in the UK? The poorer areas breed faster and become cuter, either through more generations, or because since they're thick, they need looks over personality/intelligence to get a mate.

Only for something like a hoover to clean your floor. But when something means the wrong thing, it shouldn't be used. It's like sports commentators actually say the reverse of what they mean - "2 seconds off the pace". Pace is a word meaning speed. If you are off speed, you are slower. But they use it to mean 2 seconds off the time, ie. faster!

This one doesn't. And I didn't actually buy it for a Magnum, I just wanted a big mother f****ng relay.

Thank goodness people marry for money here also. Sometimes a good looking one will marry an ugly rich one. It keeps the gene pool stirred.

With that theory Scots women must be f****ng brilliant. I haven't been there but a friend in the U-boat service said a week there made three months at sea in a nuclear submarine look good. Unlike the pig boats the nukes rarely surfaced.

That depends what part of Scotland. Are you referring to Glasgow by any chance? I think that's 90% council estate chavs. This area is about 65%, which at least means two thirds of the local population disobey the speed limits and don't hold me up.

Trouble is those folk are more sensible and have 1 or 2 kids. The poor ones have 6.

If one is good looking and one is rich, the offspring have a 25% chance of being both.

Holy Lock where the weather and the women are cold and wet...