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June 14, 2025 at 4:06 pm #297323
The coil I believe was used, but not much.
If the coil is decades old, it doesn’t matter how much it was used, as time can degrade them whether they are used or not.
Dave
June 16, 2025 at 10:21 am #297344What was the ohms reading on the secondary winding from ground to spark plug terminal? please don’t measure at the plug wire end but at thecoil terminal. The coil or capacitor are usually the culprets. Did you ground the mag plate to the block or check with the ohm meter for hi resistance while advancing & retarding the throttle. Use an analog meter to watch the indicator needle jump up & down 4 best results.
Have you checked the clearance between the coil laminations & the flywheel magnets? Put a short piece of masking tape on the lams & rotate flywheel by hand & remove flywhl. Get as close as possable without rubbing on the tape for max energy.
P.S. Had a Merc mag so hot it turned the points gold from heat. It was a current reverse from one coil to the other, 2 cylinder mtr. I gounnded the mag & no more problems, try it once!June 20, 2025 at 7:28 pm #297503Dave is correct & that includes capacitors (condensers). The dielectrics, insulating values fail with time. Even 1950’s Super Corona Dope, a liquid paint on insulating varnish is better. It was made for the scanning bear on old black & white cathode ray T.V.s. The transformer called a “flyback” had problems arcing to ground & the corona dope fixed that & I have used on magneto coils for 35,000 volt protection.
Just saying Dave is so correct!!
Look up on the web M.G. Chemicals to buy. MG is all about insulating coatings.June 20, 2025 at 7:39 pm #297504P.S. For everyone building olg GM cars, the 6 volt starter fields were insulated with PAPER! Too many rain storms & the paper goes away.
Super corona Dope fixes that, Same for outboard electric starters.June 21, 2025 at 6:42 am #297508Good memories on corona dope…those flyback transformers would generate a high pitch tone,,probably above 15-18khz ..it even drove dogs nuts and humans of younger generations. 🙂 .. Dope stopped the oscillation 🙂
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