http://www.therustylittlerapier.com sunbeam rapier series 2 restoration Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:14:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.therustylittlerapier.com/2008/06/22 http://www.therustylittlerapier.com/2008/06/22#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:46:56 +0000 marc http://www.therustylittlerapier.com/?p=42 I took apart the starter motor this afternoon to clean it out and check the brushes. I bench tested the starter, and to my surprise it functioned as it should. I was not thrilled about how the bendix gears looked, but my figured was that if the internals were ok, maybe I would just clean it and run it. Well, as luck would have it, as soon as I pulled the armature out of the case, one of the brushes broke loose from it’s crimp weld. A simple solder job would not fix it, so it looks like I’ll need to either get new brushes, or find a new starter. I do kinda have my eye on one of those fancy high torque starters that BritishStarters.com stocks. Hmmm…

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