Re: [HSS] Burned at Stake
Tom Goodman wrote:
Tom, same thing happened to me a while back. I got part of a>
> 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
>
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replacement assembly, from a club member, and made up half of the
contact out of a piece of copper pipe, cut and shaped in a sort of
taper to fit around the shaft. Works fine. Just use fibre washers
ans sheet for the insluation parts. Have fun!
Geoff.
Geoff.
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