[AT] magneto question

[Cecil Bearden]

Sometimes the magnets will also get weak if they were sitting in the right 
or wrong position and will have to be re-magnetized.  there are some web 
sites that detail how to re-magnetize the magnets...

I need to do this on a couple myself, but I just exchanged the mags and went 
on..  Too many projects and too little time...

Cecil in Okla
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Paur" <johnjanpaur2 at directcon.net>
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Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] magneto question


>
> Often the points on the mag will corrode when not being used.  Clean the
> points and see if that doesn't correct the problem.  John
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kyle Sands" <willys_46 at mail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 9:30 PM
> Subject: [AT] magneto question
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>
>> Hello folks - I have what may be a pretty basic magneto question.  I've
> got a '38 John Deere B with a Wico C mag.  It's a project tractor that I 
> got
> running several years ago, but since then, it has been sitting undisturbed
> but out in the elements - though I have kept the magneto covered and
> protected.  I decided to start doing some more work on the tractor 
> recently
> and found that it does not spark anymore.
>>
>> To get it running back then, I had purchased a rebuilt magneto which of
> course worked just fine then.  It has less than an hour's worth of 
> run-time
> on it, so is essentially still brand new.  I pulled the cap and everything
> looks clean as a whistle, no burn marks, no pitting, no corrosion, nothing
> that would indicate an obvious problem.  I'm wondering what sorts of 
> issues
> can arise from non-use that would cause a brand new mag to quit working? 
> (I
> do know the problem has to be in the mag and not in the plug wires or 
> plugs
> because I swapped out those items from my running Model AW and didn't get
> any spark either.)
>>
>> Also, to test the mag when it is not installed on the tractor, is it ok 
>> to
> just ground a wire to the mag body and flip the impulse over by hand?  Or 
> is
> that not going to work or is it inadvisable?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Kyle Sands <><Alexandria, MN
>>
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