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Old 11th Jun 2022, 6:59 pm   #21
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we didnt have a phone as kids, but my Nanna did ( aka grandmah ) on a party line.

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Joe, I'll be disappointed if you and your mates didn't have SCR-536 handie talkies like "The Terrible Ten"
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Old 12th Jun 2022, 5:57 am   #22
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I took the magneto assembly apart. Here are some pics. I'm unsure of the correct names for the various parts.
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Old 12th Jun 2022, 6:16 am   #23
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One can put a NE2 bulb between the wires of f the generator and it should light if there is voltage. IIRC they strike between 60v and 90V. I have used old military field phone gennys to light the bulbs up.
The phone PS I have generate 90V for the ringer line.(likely less by the time it reaches the house).
I was rewiring the house phone lines and someone rang in. It was a pretty good jolt, as I was holding the lines at the time.
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Old 12th Jun 2022, 8:12 am   #24
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Roger Ramjet,
NO !! it wasnt fence lines, but a single THICK copper wire. From memory ( and I am talking of my memory 60 years ago ) It was hard drawn copper about 1/8" thick
( 3mm in todays dollars, near enough ) Single insulator and not very high above the ground. Perhaps ten foot at the droop point.
The same phone line STILL exists!!!, and I have always wondered why some idiot hasnt pinched the copper wire!!. I would show pics except I moved to the next village 3000 kilometres by road north, so I cant take pics today.

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Old 12th Jun 2022, 8:16 am   #25
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Peter in Parkes,
That armature doent look in very exciting condition !!.
It may be black enamel ( which in itself is a disaster ), but it could be cooked.
It is VERY black!!.
UNless you have the patience of Jobe, rewinding is out of order.

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Old 12th Jun 2022, 9:13 am   #26
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Yes the coil does look cooked but I wonder how that could happen even if the output was overloaded. Could it be an incoming lightning strike on the line ? Clearly, the magneto is disconnected until turned - although a high transient voltage would make short work of that !
In any event the bell & capacitor would be first casualty. That said the bell capacitor did look a bit cooked also ?

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I’m not too alarmed as I pulled apart a good working magneto to check its state.
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Old 12th Jun 2022, 10:12 am   #28
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Good move Peter......cannot see clearly on your piccy's so does the coil on the working unit look similar the the blackened coil on the faulty one ?
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I'll let you guys be the judge.
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Values are 1.7 and 0.4 uF for that capacitor.
Modern equivalents would be 1.8μF and 0.47μF respecively.
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