I have 3 Farmalls and just converted my SA to 12v. I've had charging problems for quite awhile and decided it was my regulator. While I was at it I rebuilt the generator will all new armature, coils, brushes, bearings and wick. Not hard to do at all but $$. I ordered a regulator from a major tractor parts supplier and it didn't work out of the box. I took the cover off and was amazed at the junk from China this parts supplier is selling. The contacts didn't meet right, it looks like the person testing the regulator bent the top contact about 45 degrees to get the right gap. The two contact surfaces are supposed to be oriented directly in line with each other and the faces parallel. One of the smaller guage wires where it's soldered to the frame was cold soldered. In all, a nasty piece of cr#$. Then I ordered one from Advance Auto and it is American made and it works but the quality is substandard as compared to the old days when electromechanical regulators were all that was used. I think it's a lost art and has seen it's days. That's why I decided to use an alternator. Generators are easy enough to rebuild, but I don't think it's possible to get a good working well designed old fashioned electromechanical regulator any longer to go with it. Now if you wanted to buy about a half dozen Chinese regulators and try them until you found one that works, maybe but I'm not made out of money.
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Today's Featured Article - Good As New - by Bill Goodwin. In the summer of 1995, my father, Russ Goodwin, and I acquired the 1945 Farmall B that my grandfather used as an overseer on a farm in Waynesboro, Georgia. After my grandfather’s death in 1955, J.P. Rollins, son of the landowner, used the tractor. In the winter 1985, while in his possession the engine block cracked and was unrepairable. He had told my father
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