Hi,
Ongoing fun and games with the comet. Has been a long hard slog to get to running right - but read on...
Got it running about a year ago now. Have clocked up a few hundred miles since then but it’s never been quite right
Fooled around with the carb for ages - got that sorted eventually by making an external indicator pipe so I could set the float level properly - it had been way off
Had the classic ‘dodgy capacitor’ symptoms from the mag. Did a load of research and found the right capacitor to replace it with (modern paper/polypropylene) and rebuilt myself.
Boy did that run better! Started easily, revved nicely, idled well. I thought I’d cracked it, but the danger of hubris...
Took it for a good long run today. About 20 miles in started misfiring, then died and would not restart.
An hour later it had cooled and it ran again.
I can only conclude that there is a heat related failure in the windings, since the capacitor is known good.
Rewinding an armature is definitely beyond me - does anyone have a personal recommendation for a mag rebuilder?
(I’ve searched here and found some leads - just wondered if anyone had a recent good experience they could share?)
Ongoing fun and games with the comet. Has been a long hard slog to get to running right - but read on...
Got it running about a year ago now. Have clocked up a few hundred miles since then but it’s never been quite right
Fooled around with the carb for ages - got that sorted eventually by making an external indicator pipe so I could set the float level properly - it had been way off
Had the classic ‘dodgy capacitor’ symptoms from the mag. Did a load of research and found the right capacitor to replace it with (modern paper/polypropylene) and rebuilt myself.
Boy did that run better! Started easily, revved nicely, idled well. I thought I’d cracked it, but the danger of hubris...
Took it for a good long run today. About 20 miles in started misfiring, then died and would not restart.
An hour later it had cooled and it ran again.
I can only conclude that there is a heat related failure in the windings, since the capacitor is known good.
Rewinding an armature is definitely beyond me - does anyone have a personal recommendation for a mag rebuilder?
(I’ve searched here and found some leads - just wondered if anyone had a recent good experience they could share?)