connection is solid...relatively new cable (although may
be too small)...
richard / colorado
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou" <dougnad@bellatlantic.net>
To: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>;
<richard@bonilla.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: 79 spit starter meltdown..?
> If the terminal post insulator melted, but the rest of
> the starter did not get really hot, I suspect that
> there might be a poor connection from the power supply
> cable to the post, or from the post to the
> internal wiring. This could cause the post to
> get really hot even if the starter was not being run for
> especially long.
>
> Doug Braun
> '72 Spit
>
>
> At 10:44 AM 1/16/01 , Nolan Penney wrote:
>
> >To actually melt the plastic housing the hot post sits in, I'd
> >speculate that you were cranking...shall we say enthusiastically
> >and excessively? :-)
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