Re: [HSS] Pete and Geoff, my starter contact

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Tom Goodman wrote:

>

> 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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Sorry, I didn't realise it was the shaft that had been burned Tom.

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.