[AT] Magneto Question...again!

[Ben Wagner]

Mike Sloane wrote:
> Plastic? Melted? Distributor caps are (almost always) made of Bakelite - 
> it is almost impossible to melt Bakelite without using an oxy-acetylene 
> torch. (and even then, it would more likely just crumble.) I am 
> wondering where you might have gotten a "plastic" distributor cap. There 
> is no high temperature to speak of generated in a distributor, or there 
> isn't normally.
>
> Mike
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Mike, I didn't purchase the cap.  It could be Bakelite, or it could be 
plastic.  This is a magneto, though.   I still don't know what could 
cause me not to get a spark from the spark plug wires, even though the 
coil wire is giving a great spark!

Ben Wagner