1980 GS450E start button internals

[Deepsouthrob]

When rebuilding the button/switch the contact piece that goes on the spring on the starter button decided to hide from me. Does anyone have a picture of the internals of the right handlebar start/kill switch? I am going to try to fabricate one out of thin copper sheet material but would like to see what it looks like if possible. I have searched and found nothing. Any help appreciated.

[jdub6092]

Should look something like this.
You can get an NOS one on Ebay.

[ShawnR]

I'd like to follow up on this post and see if anyone has a picture of exactly how this goes together with the black button / copper disk / spring / contact points. My spring is gone and I have no clue what it is supposed to look like or exactly how it is supposed to go together. Like all old guys, I do have a "box of assorted springs", but I don't know what I am looking for.

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Yours may be slightly different.

[ShawnR]

Mine is a different layout. I know there is supposed to be a spring in there somewhere.

starter_button1.jpg

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Look at my second pic. There’s a copper spring that sits on the copper hat inside the start button.
you have to lift out the plate with the wires soldered to the back of it. With button, copper hat, and spring compressed to the plate, you have to insert the button into its hole from the inside, careful not to let the spring slip out as you fit the plate back into its slot.
Or something like that. Maybe you can leave the plate in its slot and maneuver the hat and spring into position. It’s been a while. I do remember it being very frustrating and fiddly.