I recalled the a number of events whereas I used to be restoring a pair Slash 5s and did the “deep dive” into them, their perches and levers. The 1970, 1971 thumb buttons had screw & eye connections on the again of the swap; perhaps when the Brief Wheel Base Slash 5s bought stretched to Lengthy Wheel Base, the screw & eye connections have been change to pin & socket.

Regardless, the electrical contacts are actually uncovered to the climate, significantly because the “guts” of the swap face ahead and seize all the pieces !

Right here’s a typical preliminary disassembly image…

As alluded to in prior posts, corrosion has severely affected the contacts ! The spring is what provides the purposeful “really feel” or “click on” to the flip indicators/high-low-flash headlight in addition to, retains the brass washer separated from the 2(2) prongs within the base. These prongs, contacting the washer, actuates the Starter Relay or Horn.

To disassemble the swap, that spring should be totally depressed, to increase the shaft out of the pocket within the bottom of the bottom, to free the C-clip… you Star Trek followers may know this as, “the Vulcan Nerve Pinch”, by Mr. Spock, which causes intense ache and numbness of the thumb !

Whereas tears of ache are operating down your face, thumb and fingers crippled, the C-clip rockets to the Black Gap within the store house ! Paul Glaves has it proper: greatest to work in a dry cleaner’s clear garment bag !

I imagine the triangular male contact piece was silver plated brass initially ? The corrosive “bloom” I’ve seen, has the green-blue look of silver oxide.

I clear all of the elements with Security Solvent; use ultra-fine glass bead media at low strain, to blast the bottom and button; flippantly apply dielectric grease and, having “steeled” myself for Mr. Spock… reassemble. Carry out a purposeful circuit take a look at on the bench. By accident, I discovered {that a} gentle coating of silicon dielectric paste, utilized to the Bakelite button, restores the good, subdued “charcoal’ shade with out shine…

I seen a design change throughout the swap after they transitioned to the “pin & socket” electrical connections: the brass washer now had three(3) tangs within the inside diameter to grip the pivot shaft. Earlier, the 1972 R 60/5 proven in my banner, would mechanically have interaction the starter even with the engine idling ! Hours of troubleshooting later, I discovered the early brass washer was unfastened from the rubber cushion under it and… was welding itself to the 2(2) raised tags. When system voltage dropped and the alternator gentle illuminated, the Starter Relay sensed a “begin” situation ! I glued the washer to the ‘rubber child bumper’ and made a be aware to do this to all early switches going ahead.

Right here’s an image of all of the elements; serviced, painted, polished, re-plated with Cadmium/clear-Chromate; prepared for bars…

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