Burned at Stake

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In an auto de feu action, my starter contact switch has managed to

burn up all the "stuff" that keeps it from shorting out. The switch

is mounted on the platform right underneath my starter and there were

some ashes of the dearly departed insulator that isolated the copper

moving contact from the shaft and spring and such. I will put three

pictures of the deceased in files under the folder "parts questions"

or the like. My questions are:



(1) Does anybody have an exploded view (no jokes, now) of the starter

contactor for a '29 Hudson engine? I need to know the shape of the

bushing that probably "used to" ride on my actuating rod.



(2) Is there, perhaps, a supply of these bushings elsewhere than in

the Bermuda Triangle?



(3) What is supposed to be the shape of the copper "floating

contact"? Mine has assumed kind of a bent and warped configuration

that tells me that it used to be otherwise..Two pictures of it are

among the three that I posted.



By the way, amidst the ashes of the contactor, there seemed to be

remnants of what looked like a nylon or other plastic thing

that "could" have been the bushing to which I refer in (1) and (2).



There WERE flames but I blew them out.



Thanks in advance.



Tom Goodman