Electric Starter Mount for 6/1

[quinnf]

For what it's worth, here's the mount I machined for the electric starter for my 6/1.  It's made from 1/2" aluminum and made to accept a starter from a 1987 Camry.  I chose that starter (because I had one and it was a great car), and because it had an exposed shaft well supported by two ball bearings, and because it was cheap.  Ebay is your friend.  I removed the pinion gear and found the shaft is 12 mm (1/2") so it was easy to machine a bushing to adapt it to the 1" I.D. of any of a number of drive wheels available from McMaster. 

The starter mounts to the face of the upright piece below, which is hinged in the lower left corner on a 3/8" steel long-shoulder bolt.




The assembly pivots via a 7/16" bolt passed through another hole, which takes the end of a 2" pneumatic cylinder. 



More pics when I get it installed.




1987 Toyota Camry Starter:

[veggie]

I am Listeroid Green with envy   
You guys with Lathes and Milling machines are so lucky !
Very nice bracket.

PS: Only motorheads like us could get exited over a nice bracket 

veggie

[quinnf]

It's primitive, and I'm no machinist, but it'll get the job done.  First one I made used a door hinge screwed to the aluminum plates.  Torque from the starter twisted the hinge too much, so this is the Mk II version.  Nevertheless, the starter cranked Old Silver through compression just fine.  I forgot to engage the compression release when I tested it the first time. 

I'll fly to Washington next week and bolt this one on and see if I got it right this time. 

The wife thinks I come up one weekend/month to see her,

heh, heh, heh . . .

Quinn

[Ronmar]

Well since you are comming this way, you can bring another one along and bolt it to my 6/1:)

[BruceM]

Lovely mount, Quinn.  Looking forward to seeing it run!  The 1/2" shaft on the Camry starter sure makes things easy- almost as easy as the Gast!

[dieselgman]

That's a beauty! 

dieselgman

[quinnf]

Aw, shucks!

I was thinking of pimping it a little bit with a jeweled finish (overlapping concentric swirls), but I thought that might be excessive.  3/4" dowel chucked in the mill with a thin film of valve grinding compound on the surface of the metal.  Moving around precisely on a 1/2" grid with the X-Y table makes it not too hard to do.  But I'm still catching flack from George for painting both my 'roids silver instead of green, so I figured I'd never hear the end of it if he saw it, so decided I'd just deburr it and let well enough alone.


Quinn

[vdubnut62]

I'd give it that engine-turned  look anyway just to show him I could

Ron

[playdiesel]

You guys with Lathes and Milling machines are so lucky !
Very nice bracket.


veggie

Yup, I have told the wife many times, besides my lathe you are the best thing that ever happened to me. 

I have a 25/2 sitting in the back of the shop that will need a starter when I get around to working on it and knowing things like what starter is easy to adapt sure is nice info. Thanks Quinn!

[fabricator]

Yup, I have told the wife many times, besides my lathe you are the best thing that ever happened to me. 

In the personals section "Wanted, good woman with mill and lathe, please send picture of machinery".