Starter motor revised

[Ruffus]

Dear "LIKE-brothers in Ride",
having had between grocery shopping and cooking, cutting lawn, ect.. some spare time, l considered to check and revise my "on stock" starter motor. Just in case my present one gives in.
Its an OEM Kymco from an LIKE 125s and might fit into quite a lot of models.
-dismantling is done by removing 2 # philipps bolts
-the two halves are fitted together pretty tight and sealed with an O-ring   ~1x 60 mm
-a little bit of black powder from contacts were inside but no metallic muck was to be seen on this halfmoon shaped magnets
-both rotor ends are running in brass bearings, in which they had no feel-or measurable lateral play
-so only axles and contact surface was to be polished
-both contact brushes where still in norm size (12mm)
-the only new piece to install was this O-ring which was on stock
 (pls. see pics)

For assembling would a third and fourth hand be nice, for the magnets pulling the rotor aside, the brush coils kicking brushes in....
But after a deep breath its manageable. Just put a little bit of copper grease on this small brass bearings....
Test at my workbench via battery... turns like a jet engine. Labelled and back in its storage.

[Neil955i]

Impressive Ruffus! Why on reading “put back in storage” did I have an immediate mental image of the last scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark”?
😂

[Ruffus]

@Neil,
guess at age my caveage "hunter/gatherer" genes start to prevail..
Or like the best of all wifes tends to say, "weirdness of age" surfaces...😉

[Neil955i]

Oh it’s all downhill now then my friend!

[Iahawk]

I sure like the idea of having extra parts around! It's also interesting to see inside one of our starters..I don't believe I've seen one opened up, before. As one who prefers to keep vehicles on the road indefinitely, as well as looking as close to new as possible, I love the idea of a parts stash!

I've thought about starting a post on what key parts you'd need for your scoot to keep it on the road for the next 10 or 20 years...parts that may be challenging to find in the future.

We all enjoy seeing your work, Ruffus!

[Ruffus]

@Iahawk, thank you.
Maybe it's a little bit oldfashioned thinking of mine, but first of all I do like to tinker on all kind of stuff and secondly it's very handy, if any part fails, just to open the storage and get that specific spare.
Your idea, (see below)..sounds very good to me.

"I've thought about starting a post on what key parts you'd need for your scoot to keep it on the road for the next 10 or 20 years...parts that may be challenging to find in the future."

 I do have some similar thought, since l have lots of pictures from dissembling a wrecked LIKE 125s until crankcase etc.

[Stig / Major Tom]

@Iahawk, thank you.
Maybe it's a little bit oldfashioned thinking of mine, but first of all I do like to tinker on all kind of stuff and secondly it's very handy, if any part fails, just to open the storage and get that specific spare.
Your idea, (see below)..sounds very good to me.

"I've thought about starting a post on what key parts you'd need for your scoot to keep it on the road for the next 10 or 20 years...parts that may be challenging to find in the future."

 I do have some similar thought, since l have lots of pictures from dissembling a wrecked LIKE 125s until crankcase etc.

Your thoughts on the two no-start LIKE's posting here?

Stig