Help! Casco Cigar lighter reinstallation

[Guest 1Packard]

Hello and thanks for looking. Installed a new wiring harness in my 30 Packard 726. Was just about finished and mounted the cigar lighter and coil back on the dash. This is the piece that you also wire map light to. Well, dang near burnt the new wiring. I don't recall any sort of plastic or anything between the dash and the lighter mounting. But there has to be. This whole piece shows to be a circuit. Now mounting it is proving to be fatal. I opened the piece thinking something was shorting there. Not so. It appears to as I said a complete circuit right out to mounting. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Edited September 29, 2012 by 1Packard (see edit history)

[Guest 1Packard]

Me thinks I just solved me own problem. I found what appears to be some type of insulator bakelight material somewhat pulverized in my parts tray. Where I'll get this piece I'll never know. If anyone knows where I might find such an animal please let me know. This is the trouble with multi-tasking various repairs over a six month period. The mind starts to age with the car.

[West Peterson]

Good thing you caught the problem in time. I would have probably connected the thing, hooked up the battery and turned out the lights for the night. Only to wake up with a 5-alarm fire an hour later or so.

This being more of a generic type question, you might find more ideas or help if you post in the general or technical forum.

[Joe Block]

will a heavy insulator for electric light bulb work. i seen several, some of the new outdoor compact fluorescence use insulators too. measure the sizes you need and maybe together we can figure out a source for you cigar lighter.