Alright, I give up on trying to make a solenoid brush ring collector plate for the 1000-1003 conversion thunderbolt. I've been through and tried 3 or 4 different options and unfortunately, while its definitely possible to do, I just don't have the the tools nor experience to continue on trying to fabricate one from scratch.
So, I would like to give my t-bolt a Whelen characteristic, I wanna make it oscillate. Yea, thats right, spin one way 360 degrees, then reverse direction so I can hardwire it without brush ring collectors.
Now, I don't know to much about capacitor start motors like my rotator motor, but per Wikipedia: "The starting direction of rotation may be reversed simply by exchanging the connections of the startup winding relative to the running winding". So, with that in mind, I'm thinking about mounting a DPDT on-off-on switch that will be switched by the rotator pinion gear as it rotates to manually change the startup winding. Anybody have any thoughts/schematics/critiques at all on this? ANY thoughts or comments appreciated greatly!