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Worked on the magneto today. Not done, but got a good start.
Found the Johnson specs for the condensers, and they should
be .22 mfd’s.The original rectangular ones measured at .23 mfd and the
"added on" parallel wired condensers measured at .21 mfd’s,
for a whopping total of .44 mfd’s.
The points were not pitted, just full of powdery oxide.
If the carb job was buggered up the same time as the extra
condensers were added, it probably never ran again to "pit"
the points.I presume that this is the original magneto, and therefore surprised
to see that Johnson was using that P.I.T.A. little clip holding
to points on way back in 1932!
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Made a little more progress on the magneto, but got a "hair brained" idea
to put a capacitor inside of the original rectangular condenser case.
I was always curious what the inside of one of those style condensers
looked like anyway. Second condenser rebuild went faster, but
I wouldn’t want to do it for a living. 😉
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Squier, by the looks of all the caked on dirt, I assumed the K-50
used a lot of oil. 😆
I may get my little electric power washer out tomorrow and see
if I can blow some of the grime off.I finished up the magneto today. Not sure why one plug wire
points forward, and the other aft, but that’s the only way the
wire caps screw on. Hopefully I’ll understand when I put it all
back together!
It had rubber boots on the old plug wires. I presume it originally
had the "fork" type terminal ends??Started cleaning up the flywheel, etc.
Made some 14-24 puller bolts today for the old Johnsons. I hate
using an irreplaceable rope plate for a puller, so I got the grade 8
bolts, cuts the heads off, and threaded them for the flywheel.
Hopefully I put them away where I find them for the next job!
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