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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 50944" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>You're more than welcome. There is a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation about magnetos and I enjoy using my knowledge of them to help. The magneto restoration thread I linked to in my previous post has received over 30,000 views in only ~18 months, which also has resulted in quite a few people contacting me directly out of desperation after failing to get theirs fixed. One of the more interesting contacts was a month or two ago when I got an email in French. Although I've studied French I speak it badly, and I speak the arcane Magneto French dialect not at all. It took a number of exchanges mediated by Google Translate (which isn't much better than me at Magneto French) for him to communicate the problem and me the solution, but he was thrilled to get his magneto working.</p><p></p><p>That's not to say my efforts are universally appreciated. I've given a number of workshops on magnetos at rallies I've attended in the U.S. and Europe and at one of them someone in the audience was dismissive of anyone wasting time repairing old junk electrical equipment when modern replacements were much better. He was quite insistent, and I remember one of his arguments equated used an old magneto with using old tires. I learned later that evening from someone else in the audience that the guy sold replacement magnetos. So, not everyone is thrilled that I share what I know about them. But, hey, you can't make everyone happy, can you?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 50944, member: 2806"] You're more than welcome. There is a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation about magnetos and I enjoy using my knowledge of them to help. The magneto restoration thread I linked to in my previous post has received over 30,000 views in only ~18 months, which also has resulted in quite a few people contacting me directly out of desperation after failing to get theirs fixed. One of the more interesting contacts was a month or two ago when I got an email in French. Although I've studied French I speak it badly, and I speak the arcane Magneto French dialect not at all. It took a number of exchanges mediated by Google Translate (which isn't much better than me at Magneto French) for him to communicate the problem and me the solution, but he was thrilled to get his magneto working. That's not to say my efforts are universally appreciated. I've given a number of workshops on magnetos at rallies I've attended in the U.S. and Europe and at one of them someone in the audience was dismissive of anyone wasting time repairing old junk electrical equipment when modern replacements were much better. He was quite insistent, and I remember one of his arguments equated used an old magneto with using old tires. I learned later that evening from someone else in the audience that the guy sold replacement magnetos. So, not everyone is thrilled that I share what I know about them. But, hey, you can't make everyone happy, can you? [/QUOTE]
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