Dumbest thing I can remember, thankfully, I can share blame for with about 6 other guys.
The brake and signal lights on my '55 Chevy were acting intermittently screwy, don't remember what they were doing or not doing. Anyway me, Dad, two of my friends, two neighbors, and a cousin and uncle were all messing with it and batting around ideas as to what was wrong. As to qualifications dad and I are both mechanics by trade, one of my friends is an industrial electrician and all around electronics nut, one neighbor worked for a race team and the other had restored several older cars, my cousin was a shade tree that had restored several truck, and both my uncle and other friend were both semi mechanically inclined. Anyway it was a well rounded, well educated group trying to figure this problem out. We had gone so far as to remove and tear down the turn signal switch looking for the problem when someone asked a really 'stupid' question....."Did anyone check the bulb?" This was about 3 hours into the diagnosis and the response was that we all looked at each other and said 'he did it'.....Turns out one of the filiments in the left rear bulb had fallen against the other and was causing all of the problems because it tied two completely seperate circuits together. When the filiment got hot enough I guess it shrank or something and the problem disappeared only to come back when it cooled down and started touching the other one again.
In other words we wasted something like 18 man hours total looking for a problem that was finally fixed in about 30 seconds by just changing a light bulb.....all because we all thought 'he' checked it.....
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