[AT] Mags

[Keith Kinney]

Farmer
Your magneto off of the McCormick 10-20 is probably a Dixie.  That's 
what is on our 1925 10-20.  I don't know what the model is but it 
looks something like these:
http://www.prewarcar.com/parts/info.php?id=8913
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dixie-Splitdorf-hit-miss-engine-tractor-magneto-steam_W0QQitemZ180065739032QQihZ008QQcategoryZ63945QQcmdZViewItem
Keith
www.herculesengines.com


At 09:46 PM 12/21/2006, you wrote:
>         I have a mag sitting on the shelf in the shop that I 
> believe my father
>saved off of a McCormick 10-20 back in the mid 1940's. I seem to recall
>writing down the info off of it some time ago but can't remember it right
>now and if I were to try to walk to the shop I would probably drown. Rain,
>rain, rain... This Mag has a full sheet metal brass case. It would surely
>buff up very nice. I do remember that he prized it rather highly back then.
>Maybe I can paddle out to the shop tomorrow and look for the name.
>         The Farmall mag on my 1947 CUB has certainly been trouble 
> free for a very
>long time. Of course now that I bragged on it the silly thing probably just
>fell off of the tractor onto the ground and broke into pieces.   ;-)
>         The original distributor on "Spooky Old Allis" (my 1946 C) is a
>Fairbanks/Morse and looks just like a mag. I still have it but the C is
>running on a WD distributor now. Some day I would like to replace the
>internal coil in the original and put it back on. Back when it quit those
>coils were impossible to find but they can be bought again now. Actually I
>believe someone here pointed me to the replacements.
>
>
>
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>Central Indiana, USA
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Keith Kinney
Evansville, Indiana  USA
www.HerculesEngines.com