Re: (ET) Cooked contactor

["RJ Kanary" <rjkanary nauticom net>]

      You would probably be better off obtaining from any Lister that may
have it, the instructions for replacing the Push Me Pull You Contactors 
with
the still available , later style Prestolite® contactors used in the later
model units. {Bill had these written up for his commercial accounts. NO, I
don't have them. <VBG>}
That's another way of saying that is what I'll be doing after using MY last
set. <G>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Zach" <czach computer org>
To: "Elec-trak list" <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 7:13 PM
Subject: (ET) Cooked contactor


> Well, I pulled the right pair of contactors on the E20 today. What a
> pain in the rear; they had to run a wire between the contactor links,
> making removal a serious pain.
>
> However there is no doubt; the contactor is going bad. One could see
> that the stud's insulator plastic is melting from the inside.
>
> For the moment I have mounted it upside-down, moving the bad contactor
> to the reverse side of things. Now it runs great in forward; lousy in
> reverse.
>
> Does anyone have a spare push-pull contactor set? It's two contactors
> mounted together on a bracket. Anyone pulling apart their E20 for an
> Alltrax job is welcome to let me know :-)
>
> Chris
>
>
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