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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 52295" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>It does you no good to know this, but modifying a magneto to serve as a spare for your Series A would be fairly straightforward. However, it probably would be priced out of range if done by anyone charging a reasonable hourly rate. The reason this is the case is "all" rotating armature magnetos have the same taper and one of only two base-to-armature heights. CW and CCW isn't anything fundamental to the physics of operation, although it does require either the proper points plate (if available) or making one's own using components from some magneto or distributor having the same sense of rotation.</p><p> </p><p>Only vaguely related to your problem is a few days ago I visited the Wheels Through Time museum in North Carolina where Dale Walkser has assembled a pretty remarkable collection of rare early (and later) American motorcycles. One unusual c1914 V-twin motorcycle that he attributes to Oscar Hedstrom after he left the Indian factory (for reasons too long to type) uses two single magnetos connected to the engine with chains to give them the proper timing when individually firing the two cylinders. Not that your engine has room for such a setup even if you wanted to do the modification.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 52295, member: 2806"] It does you no good to know this, but modifying a magneto to serve as a spare for your Series A would be fairly straightforward. However, it probably would be priced out of range if done by anyone charging a reasonable hourly rate. The reason this is the case is "all" rotating armature magnetos have the same taper and one of only two base-to-armature heights. CW and CCW isn't anything fundamental to the physics of operation, although it does require either the proper points plate (if available) or making one's own using components from some magneto or distributor having the same sense of rotation. Only vaguely related to your problem is a few days ago I visited the Wheels Through Time museum in North Carolina where Dale Walkser has assembled a pretty remarkable collection of rare early (and later) American motorcycles. One unusual c1914 V-twin motorcycle that he attributes to Oscar Hedstrom after he left the Indian factory (for reasons too long to type) uses two single magnetos connected to the engine with chains to give them the proper timing when individually firing the two cylinders. Not that your engine has room for such a setup even if you wanted to do the modification. [/QUOTE]
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