Re: 1933 Eight horn contact assembly components

Posted by HH56 On 2021/9/7 15:11:26

I have never had anything that old apart so without seeing the other pieces you have to compare to photos or the illustration and try to make some sense of it, my comments are just a guess. In reading the posts in the 29-31 thread a poster said pushing the button touches the contact on the end of the wire and makes the ground connection. That would mean the horn button needs to connect to ground in some way. Depending on what the button connects to or is supported by and what else is in the assembly to support the wire contact it is hard to say if screws need to be insulated. There does need to be something insulated to support the wire contact though. In the 29-31 photo I believe it was the black piece the fellow was holding in his hand but from what I see so far, no idea what supports something like that on yours. At any rate, there must be some kind of spring affair to keep the button pushed away from the contact on the wire and that may also be what brings ground to the button -- at least in later years ground to the button comes thru the spring.

Looking at the illustration, I am guessing there is some kind of plate attached to the column under the button that might be grounded and what may be a spring is resting on it. I think I see what may be a spring inside maybe a retaining pocket on the button?? The red arrows point to circles that I think might be end or sectional views supposed to be coils of a spring.

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