Re: [HSS] Burned at Stake

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Tom Goodman wrote:

>

> 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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Tom, same thing happened to me a while back. I got part of a

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.