Turning lights — logbook Toyota Corolla 1999

Today, hands reached to change the faded light bulbs in the turn signals.

I went to the nearest parts store and bought 4 orange bulbs. I came to the garage, climbed into the trunk, twisted the cartridge and ... did not immediately understand what was happening.
In my hands was an ordinary baseless light bulb 21W. I thought: "Something is not clean here," he climbed into the spotlight with his finger - for sure! There is an orange cap. "Well," I think, "the front is just ordinary plinths, even if I screw it forward."
He unscrewed the headlight, removed the turntable, pulled out the shabby lamp. "Uff! Same as I bought." Began to put, but it was not there! Cunning narrow-eyed fascists placed the antennae on the bulbs not at 180 degrees, as on most cars I have met, but at 120! Why didn't anyone talk about this?

Well, here ingenuity suggested a way out. Namely, it took:
1. Grinding machine
2. Needle file, soldering iron, flux and solder We
grind one antennae on the lamp base with a grinding machine. Next, we figure out where the mustache should be approximately. We sand it with a file. We smear with a flux, We drip a drop of solder (the straightness of the hands is very important here). If the drop turned out to be too big, we process it with a needle file, again. That's it, we put the lamps with headlights in their places and are glad that we didn’t have to go to buy normal lamps, while remembering with warm words the good-natured Japs of innovator designers =)))