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quote Mdn5:Do you sell a schematic for your charger?
It isn’t scanned but you can buy the Gingery book which has instructions for building one. The one I built was a cross between the Gingery design and a Stevens unit. A generous club member gave me the specs and measurements of his Stevens unit so I had something to compare to. Thanks Lloyd! Here’s a link to another post on this charger.
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Amazon is probably the cheapest place to find the book but you can also find them on Ebay and other places. If you come out to the West Coast this summer, bring your flywheel along and I’ll charge it up for you!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/18780 … HWK55XCGG2
rudderless: You were close but no cigar, The green light shows power to the unit and the red light indicates when the charging system is activated. The cap is to smooth out the rectified AC current which is now DC going into the coils.
For shoes I turned them out of the thickest material I had on hand at the time. When it warms up I’ll make some thicker ones, closer to one inch.
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Yeah, the flywheel pictured is off a Thor and the magnets are opposite of each other. I did make another set of shoes to fit a Johnson 300 and that flywheel has the typical circular shaped magnet in it with the poles close together.
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I saw one on Ebay about four years ago for $25.00 so I put a bid in. Evidently that was a signal that the device was valuable. Bidding took off and left me in the dust. The final bid was around $500 . . . 😯
I totally understand "I want to find out for my self"
but if you should come across one of these before
you spend hundreds of dollars this is what I’ve learned.
I’ve had mine around 15 years now and after charging
all the motors I had at the time plus all the ones I
got for some time after I have found that if the magnets
retain enough magnetism to start and run, and there
are tons of 70, 80, & 90 year old motors that haven’t
been charged in decades, if ever, that still start and
run just fine, my experience is I can increase the
power of the magnets but there is no change in
performance. It seem that its not how strong the
magnets are but how fast they pass over the coil
that produces the spark. The power output of a
magneto increases the faster it spins so if your motor
will make a spark pulling it over and will start your
not likely to notice any difference in how it runs by
making the magnets stronger. The only motor I had
that would not put out any spark and the spark returned
by charging the magnets was a 1922 Evinrude RBM
(last picture) and as I haven’t had many of these very early
outboards they may very well benefit from recharging.
These are most of the different types of magnetos
I have had. Some I have had a couple, others is dozens.
The ones that wouldn’t produce a spark when I got
them only required a cleaning for the spark to return.
The permanent magnets after WW-II don’t need to be
charged and it has been posted here that if you try
to charge them you ruin them and they cant be fixed.
I can count on one hand the motors I have after WW-II
and I don’t have any spare flywheels so I wont be trying it.But if you just have to have one (I get that too cause
your not getting mine) if you find one you better grab it.
A "Boat House Repair" is one that done without having tools or the skills to do it properly.
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