Each of the brushes consists of a piece of strip copper, one-quarter of an inch wide and one and three-eighths inches long mounted in a brush holder made of one-quarter inch brass rod. The brush holder is one inch long and is turned down to a diameter of one-eighth of an inch at one end for a distance of nine-sixteenths of an inch and then threaded with a 6-32 die. The opposite end is slotted to receive the brush. The threaded portion of the holder is slipped through the holes, "B and B", in the bearing and prevented from making contact with the latter by a fibre bushing.
FIG. 69.—Front view of the Field Frame.
FIG. 70.—The Field Magnet Bobbin.
A fibre washer should also be slipped over the holder on each side of the bearing. Two hexagonal nuts are placed on the threaded stem. One serves to clamp the holder in position and the other to hold the wire used to make connection with the brush. The right hand brush should bear against the under side of the commutator and the left hand brush against the upper side.
After the armature has been assembled in the bearings and mounted on the field frame it should revolve freely without friction and without any possibility of its striking against the field poles.
The binding posts are mounted in the holes, "PP" in the lower parts of the field frame. They are insulated by two fibre or paper busings. The left hand binding post is connected to the inside terminal of the field winding. The outside terminal of the field winding is connected to the left hand binding post. The right hand binding post is connected to the right hand brush.
The base of the motor is a wooden block of suitable size.
