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Floor Mounted Starter Button - John P - 12-08-2018

Hi,

I'm slowly getting the bits together so I can add a starter to my Ulster replica and now have, I think, everything but the floor mounted starter button.

I suspect I will have to make up something similar to an original using the button from an early classic mini but I haven't actually seen an original Austin 7 starter button apart from a photo of one in a car.

Does anyone have a photo of the actual switch itself or any other illustrations / suggestions which may help?

Many thanks,
John.

RE: Floor Mounted Starter Button - Dave Mann - 12-08-2018

Here's a photo of a post April 1932 RN saloon starter switch, the earlier switch had a slightly bigger button with a brass screw in it's centre. Note only one cable is connected to the switch the other is the main earth going to the crankcase.    

RE: Floor Mounted Starter Button - Hedd Jones - 12-08-2018

Heres a March 1930 chummy with no rubbers on the floor.

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I have another switch somewhere if you want to see what the guts look like

RE: Floor Mounted Starter Button - Tony Press - 13-08-2018

(12-08-2018, 10:28 PM)Hedd Jones Wrote: Heres a March 1930 chummy with no rubbers on the floor.

[Image: 008_1679.jpg]

[Image: 008_1680.jpg]

I have another switch somewhere if you want to see what the guts look like

I believe this earlier Starter Button is the same as that used on the bacon slicer Starter Motor but fitted with a shroud around the button.

RE: Floor Mounted Starter Button - Steve Bryant - 13-08-2018

Pictures of the guts would be most helpful as I have to make one for my seven.  Possibly a couple of known dimensions too so things can be scaled ?

Thanks,
Stephen

RE: Floor Mounted Starter Button - NickB - 13-08-2018

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUSTIN-7-SEVEN-FLOOR-MOUNTED-STARTER-SWITCH-1930-32/113198831336?hash=item1a5b2d16e8%3Ag%3AgJgAAOSwwsZbcTvg&_sacat=0&_nkw=Floor+mounted+starter+button&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313

RE: Floor Mounted Starter Button - Tony Betts - 13-08-2018

(13-08-2018, 03:17 PM)NickB Wrote: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUSTIN-7-SEVEN-FLOOR-MOUNTED-STARTER-SWITCH-1930-32/113198831336?hash=item1a5b2d16e8%3Ag%3AgJgAAOSwwsZbcTvg&_sacat=0&_nkw=Floor+mounted+starter+button&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313

A scarce item nowadays, my guess is it should sell over £100 ?

Tony

RE: Floor Mounted Starter Button - Dave Mann - 13-08-2018

    Here's a photo of the early switch with partially effective terminal cover and more rubbers.

RE: Floor Mounted Starter Button - Hedd Jones - 13-08-2018

My wife hasnt managed to electrocute herself in the saloon. That hasnt a cover over the terminals. Were they left open? Or were they shrouded?

RE: Floor Mounted Starter Button - Ruairidh Dunford - 13-08-2018

RN 539 - LWB, 1931

   

This type of shroud is the same as the one fitted to a 1931 SWB car I have - although I suspect it is from a later car as Dave suggests above.