Anyone know anything about magnetos?

[Shox Dr]

50 years ago my mates mother got a new gas cooker, Bill her husband being an electrical fitter, mounted a magneto to the side of the hob with a HT lead tuning to a probe, She was over the moon, Turn on the gas and spin the little flywheel and she had self igniting burners, How many blokes would get away with bolting a maggy onto anything these days.

My Grandad did the same thing. He went one futher though... they had a corgi dog called Dinky. He would dig up the flower beds, so he wired the garden and put a change over switch next to the cooker, if my Gran saw him in the flower beds she’d wind the thing like mad.

 

[Ton-up]

That remins me that my grandad had a mag mounted on the oxy-acetylene bottle carrier and used to spin it to light his torch!

 

[Scruffywelder]

That remins me that my grandad had a mag mounted on the oxy-acetylene bottle carrier and used to spin it to light his torch!

Yep, my dads old gas barrow had the same setup.

Sadly it was a Joe "Prince of Darkness" Lucas mag so "Light ya B##### thing!" was heard all too often in the workshop

 

[selectedgrub]

I'm pretty sure @Parm could come up with some ideas, after we saw his brilliant lamp.

Hi mate have you got a picture or link of this please

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Hi mate have you got a picture or link of this please

Here you go, mate http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/an-old-compresor.80511/#post-1140144

 

[Dieselman 63]

Well I tried and failed to get a spark, but something quite amazing happened. The bearings are exactly the same as those in my Bantam wormbox, so I have switched them over as the bantam ones were shot to bits. Replacement bearings for $12 - big win!

So I now have a mag for sale, minus bearings, and a working wormbox!

 

[zeppelin builder]

Well I tried and failed to get a spark, but something quite amazing happened. The bearings are exactly the same as those in my Bantam wormbox, so I have switched them over as the bantam ones were shot to bits. Replacement bearings for $12 - big win!

So I now have a mag for sale, minus bearings, and a working wormbox!

No way youd get a spark its incomplete
Heres some magneto tools
Magneto coil winder
Rewound primary coil
On laminated core (ever wonder where the bosch symbol came from)
Dc magnetizer
You can either do the magnet seperately or the assembled magneto on later models