Subject: RE: Maralli Starter Question
Author: Jesse Open
Date: Sep 30, 2002, 1:13 PM
Post ID: 1711116098
If you are fretty handy with a file and sandpaper a larger brush can
easily whittle down to the size and shape you need. For final fitting
some 320 wet or dry paper wrapped around the commutator can radius the
contact surface of the brush to the proper radius. You may need to be a
bit inventive but use a little common sense and old yankee farmer
ingeuity should get thing s crankin again.
We also have a few rebuilders here in the MoCity that don't care what
it came from. I can refer you to a few.
richard zink wrote:
| My Ambo has been starting badly or not at all lately. So I replaced the 5 year old battery thinking that was a good start. No go. I pulled all of the wire connections and cleaned them, checked with multi-tester, all fine. No go. Today I pulled the starter apart. First thing I noticed was a somewhat wet look around the flywheel. New rear seal needed. The next was that one of the brushes fell off from it's soldered joint and the wire is in pretty shabby condition. One of the other brushes looks worse for wear also. Has anyone been able to source the brushes? They are marked MG3. I will be hitting the local rebuild shops this week but don't know if I'll be able to cross reference to something. I know Mark and Moe either rebuild or get them rebuilt but the rest of the unit looks in good shape so I would rather try to replace the brushes. Any ideas gang? Thanks Rich |
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