A little electricity in my life...with excitement.

I had an extra drive assembly around here so I attached it to the magneto and put it in the vice. I took the top cover off. I hooked a piece of #12 wire to the side of the metal building and held the other end in my hand as I began to spin the magneto with my electic drill. I then brought my left hand and the wire towards the nipple on top....blue flame came sooting out of there over to the wire and it was getting to me somehow through the drill...the spark was a pretty blue and it knocked me backwards...I inspected that hot horseshoe fast and dropped both the wire and drill to the floor!

My educated guess is...the magneto is good.

:-)

Tom Windsor

Here's a mag that won't bite you. The magnets have lost their magnetism. Hal

Some years later, my wife heard me telling that story. She suggested maybe that was the reason Fred had such a high pitched voice. She had Fred as a student when she came to our community to teach school. She declared he was still annoying at 16 years of age. I can only assume the shock treatment will not cure annoying.

Randy

• Hobby farm

Somehow while handling the mag he gave the impulse a half-turn backward. The mag threw enough spark through his hand to set the magneto and the sleeves of his coveralls on fire.

Fortunately this happened near the welding bench where there was a fire extinguisher. A hired man alertly grabbed the extinguisher and put the fire out. All my father in law suffered was 2nd degree burns to both hands, a ruined set of coveralls and a good scare.

Glenn