Reply To: Magneto Testing

[andyfrost]

Well , I started working on horticultural stuff in the early 1970s , and continued all my life although latterly as a hobbie , and have amassed quite a collection over the years , all of which start , run and perform as they should , and I lay alot of that down to have fully working magnetos , many in the collection have been fully rebuilt , I’m lucky knowing someone who has a PROPER tester.
With regard to your so called 6mm spark test , some ign systems will seldom if ever produce that kind of spark , most notably certain Villiers mags , and Miller systems are notoriously weak. Again there is a vast array of info available , but most of it comes from amateurs with little to no true experience.
I will ask again why do specialists use equipment costing large sums of money , rather than a MM.

Andy.