Fwd: <VV> Re: "Flash the field/Not necessarily Corvair

[HallGrenn at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/15/2005 10:28:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
corvairduval at cox.net writes:

> just flash the field to 
> reverse polarity.
> 

Thanks for the memories of my old generator equiped cars.  Glad the 
alternators have been here so long now.  In a coincidence, just a few weeks ago a 
contractor was here doing a job for me with a trailer mounted compressor that 
wouldn't start--dead battery.  I jumped it for him and heard him complain about it 
being a piece of junk.  It died later and he borrowed my jumper cables again 
to use his truck to jump it complaining that he had another bad alternator.  He 
proceeded to "flash the field" on the compressor to "fix" the alternator like 
his Dad had shown him years ago.  His boss called to ask if his guys were 
done yet as they were late for another job and I told him about his employees 
"flashing the field" to fix the alternator and that I had advised them they were 
damaging or destroying the diodes--and that they didn't believe me.  The owner 
said he'd be sure to tell them himself because now he knew why they kept 
having so many problems with their "junk" compressors.

Bob Hall
Group Corvair