[AT] CAT magneto

[Bruce Moden]

John,
I have mags on a large tiller & a "ditch witch" and NAPA had points & condenser for them, even when the new parts were replaced it's difficult to start the machines unless each time you draw a fine emery cloth thru the points, they seem to foul easily.  I think these are Fairbanks-Morse mags, had on on an early JD L also with similar problems.
Bruce

--- On Sun, 2/15/09, John Hall <jthall at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

From: John Hall <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: [AT] CAT magneto
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 1:44 PM

Gene and Joe, thanks for your comments.

 A fellow brought me the cap, rotor and points yesterday out of his grader 
to see if I could help him with some new parts. I cleaned the cap up and 
installed new brushes. The rotor is a yellowish phenolic/bakelite part that 
has a gazillion cracks in it. I told him to try a tad of Super glue to see 
if it would seal the cracks. The points were burnt but i polished them to 
work well enough. Looking at the points they resemble something by 
Faribanks. I've got a bunch of NOS Eismann stuff but it is all for big 
magnetos--and the funny thing is I have never worked on an Eismann. Of 
course Cat told the guy nothing was available--I'd hate to pay their price 
if it was!

 The fellow was going to see if he could find any writing (model #) without 
taking the mag off. If he can't I just wanted to know what possibilities 
there were before I start hunting a new rotor or if he had to pull the mag 
off.

John 

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