Re: [HSS] Pete and Geoff, my starter contact
Tom Goodman wrote:
Sorry, I didn't realise it was the shaft that had been burned Tom. >
> Thanks for the offer but I think the horseshoe shaped copper contact
> is salvageable. What I really was hoping for was some kind of
> diagram showing how the insulators, washers, springs, etc. all fit
> together. EVERYTHING except the springs (there appear to be two, a
> long and a short one) on the rod and the contact piece seems to have
> been incinerated in the recent conflagration. All I have are some
> sad looking ashes. If I cannot get a diagram, I will just "wing it"
> and invent a way to secure the contact piece between two springs and
> some insulators. That '20's technology, as someone once noted, is
> pretty darn obscure at times.
>
> I got some good suggestions from Geoff and will liberally use them if
> I have to improvise. The "making" of the contact, I can understand
> but I believe that I have to have another spring somehow anchored to
> the rod on the "inside" of the contacts to keep the contact piece
> from floating around and accidentally hitting the two contact posts
> in the stationary part of the switch. It is this part that I am, at
> present, struggling with. Some insulating fiber tubing would be
> helpful, I think, for the contact piece to ride on and some fiber
> washers should serve to constrain the part between a couple of
> springs. In that way, it could float enough up and down the shaft to
> accommodate proper action.
>
> Thanks for your help and if anyone else has a drawing of the part, I
> would appreciate a copy.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Tom Goodman
>
> --- In HudsonSuperSix16-29@egroups.com, "Pete Booz" <oldhudsons@a...>
> wrote:
> > I can't tell exactly what it is you need but if it is the horseshoe
> > shaped copper contact thru which the starter rod slides, I believe
> I
> > have an NOS one.
>
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There doesn't appear to be any parts book picture of the assembly, but
it is basically an insulating sleeve with a tapered contact brass plug
which makes contact with the copper contacts in the switch assembly.
Should be straight-forward enough to make up, but I dn't know what you
will use for the sleeve. It is some sort of black composition. Sing
out if you need anymore help, I have a spare one which I will dismantle
and send you a diagram of what I find.
Geoff.
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