Starter Motor - Electircal Insulator

[billyonemate]

Hi,

I have taken my starter motor off and cleaned it up as the bendix gear was sticking. Now its all good, except when putting it back on I broke off a small plastic piece between the two main electrical connection posts on the solenoid, which i can only assume was supposed to act as an electrical insulator to stop current jumping across.

I want to glue it back on with some Aradlite Epoxy Adhesive Glue (links below), does anyone know if this is a good electrical insulator or not? I don't want to make things worse by adding a conductor!

Many Thanks

http://www.screwfix.com/p/araldite-2-part-epoxy-ad...

http://www.my-sds.co.uk/Admin/ViewDocument.aspx?ID...

[billyonemate]

To answer my own question, in case someone else comes across same problem.
Yes, Araldite is a good electrical insulator, as are most epoxy glues, unless they are specialist conductor versions, which will be clearly labellled as such.
Also, more pertinently, the plastic (bakelite) clip is there to prevent oversized ring connectors on the wire from touching both terminals. In my case only half of the plastic bakelite had broken, so the ring connecter was still fully seperated from the second post terminal. So, its not a major worry, unless the whole thing has broke off and you have an oversized ring connector on your wire.

Hope that helps semeone else.

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