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Help! Magnetos as teaching aids!

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ffateacher

12-01-2005 12:39:43




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Maybe some of you guys can help me out:
as a FFA mechanics shop class project I want to show the kids how magnetos work and how to repair them, problem is I don't have any old mags to do that on! I was wondering if anyone here could donate a few dead mags if I pay shipping. I'd sure like to teach another generation this old stuff so when we are gone there is somebody else to do it!
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Ken

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SUSAN POALERO

12-05-2005 07:21:52




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 Re: Help! Magnetos as teaching aids! in reply to ffateacher, 12-01-2005 12:39:43  
HI, I DON'T HAVE ANY TO SELL BUT WE CURRENTLY HAVE 1 FROM A 1936 F12 THAT WE ARE TRYING TO FIND ANYONE WHO HAS ANY DIAGNOSTICS THAT WE MIGHT CAN GET FROM THEM, AND POSSIBLY PARTS. WE ARE A REBUILD SHOP IN TEXAS. IF YOU DO LET ME KNOW BY E:MAIL. THANKS SUSAN



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moseed

12-02-2005 06:56:49




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 Re: Help! Magnetos as teaching aids! in reply to ffateacher, 12-01-2005 12:39:43  
Hi,
Send me an e-mail.



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Nebraska Cowman

12-01-2005 16:18:37




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 Re: Help! Magnetos as teaching aids! in reply to ffateacher, 12-01-2005 12:39:43  
I sell mags on ebay all the time and have several to list right now. I start my listings at 99¢ and some sell for that. Email me if you want my ebay user id.



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Keith-OR

12-01-2005 15:09:54




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 Re: Help! Magnetos as teaching aids! in reply to ffateacher, 12-01-2005 12:39:43  
ffateacher, seen a couple at the local salvage yard, have no idea what they are off of. Will inquire about them tomorrow. Email is open...

Keith



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El Toro

12-01-2005 14:39:34




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 Re: Help! Magnetos as teaching aids! in reply to ffateacher, 12-01-2005 12:39:43  
Hi Ken. I have an old Wico mag you can have. It's complete, but it doesn't have any magnetism
in the magnets. This is needed to make the coil fire. Send me an email. Hal



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Name Witheld

12-01-2005 14:21:25




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 Re: Help! Magnetos as teaching aids! in reply to ffateacher, 12-01-2005 12:39:43  
There was some issue of this in a newspaper a few months (2 yrs) ago about a shop teacher allowing students to chose a couple of alternate punishments. One such punishment was the student had to allow to be shocked from the mag of an air cooled engine. The student chose this punishment but reported the incident. I remember the teacher was in hot water from administration and local board. I left teaching at a time when I allowed students to bring guns to school to refinish the stocks and at one tome to make a new firing pin. The lasy year I taught I could see a dark cloud coming when one student wrote a dirty word on the driver's ed. car In class I remarked that we had a very happy freshman boy in class. His mom had taught him a new word recently and in fear that he would forget the word he wrote it in the dust on the car.His mom had me before the Principa, PTA< superintendent and Board of education. I resigned to find more comfortable work. And I did. The gun repair was not an issue.

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Peabody

12-02-2005 07:34:51




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 Re: Help! Magnetos as teaching aids! in reply to Name Witheld, 12-01-2005 14:21:25  
My dad always joked that his contraction of diabetes was due to his siblings wiring him to the magneto of the F-30 and turning the crank when they were kids.



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Bob

12-01-2005 13:42:58




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 Re: Help! Magnetos as teaching aids! in reply to ffateacher, 12-01-2005 12:39:43  
Sorry, I have no spares. However, some of the newer, less-rare mags sell darn cheap on ebay.



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Janicholson

12-01-2005 13:12:23




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 Re: Help! Magnetos as teaching aids! in reply to ffateacher, 12-01-2005 12:39:43  
I don't have any, but here are two ideas
Use a powerful magnet (like from a blown computer hard disk drive) and a coil (like a washing machine water control solenoid taken apart)
using a good analog volt meter the coil will move the meter nicely when the magnet is waved near it.
Demoing the production of electricity in a mag.

Magnetos in Brigs-Stratton engines are also very open to demos if the flywheel is cut out to see the points, and the con rod is taken out so things spin easily.

JimN

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Chris in Washington

12-01-2005 13:11:14




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 Re: Help! Magnetos as teaching aids! in reply to ffateacher, 12-01-2005 12:39:43  
Sorry, I'm currently using all of my mags. But it does bring back memories of when my shop teacher got all of the guys in the shop to hold hands (which was a trick in itself). Then the first guy held on to the hot lead and the last guy held on to the ground. The teacher had great fun flipping that magneto over, sending a jolt through the entire class each time the magneto snapped. That is until two guys let go of each other. They got zapped the worst.

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