"O-ring Seals" wrote in message
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:29:58 -0400, "Larry Smith"
wrote:

I need to clean them up. They're corroded on the outside from the salt
air, but they work. Anybody know of resources? I know how to take
them
apart and put them back together with an exploded view from the parts
manual, have done it before, but don't want to harm the bearing races or
demagnetize.

Which one of you feisty experimenters has done this successfully?

I was thinking of bead-blasting them but for obvious reasons am
hesitating.
Just the cases are nasty. The insides and guts are OK.




Gosh Larry, it would nice to know what type of magnetos you are
talking about before offering suggestions. Overhauling a magneto is
not an 'experiment' but if, as you say, you have done it before there
should not be a problem. Glad to hear that the 'insides and guts' are
ok. Could be a real problem with bad guts. Where did you get that
parts manual anyway? Really creative terms for parts.

O-ring

Yes, sir Mr. O-Ring. They're S4RN-21's and the parts manual is for a Bendix
mag of this kind. I hope it ain't contraband or banned or nothing. And
then a friend gave me a photostat from a parts catalog, showing the same mag
exploded. You will please pardon me for the use of unprofessional terms for
the swisswatch interior works of this high-voltage lectrit shocker.

Well, let's see here. The best one has a frizmus pin, a plaskit gear with
all kinds of sanscrit wrote on it and somebody has smeared nail polish on a
tooth, or bled on it. A bawl bearing, points like in my old Ford, another
gear, some kind of trash like felt that somehow got in there (maybe by a
dirt dauber), and a whole maze of wires and some grease. After I got it
all thowed back together and torqued with the air tool we spun it on my
friend's machine and it made one of the hottest sparks he said he has ever
seen.

Oh, and it also has one of them little tin cylinders about twicet the size
of a thimble with a warr running from it --- like them things we used to
charge up on a car and shock the **** out of somebody.

But really all I want to do is clean up the aloonium case because it is
corroded and I don't want my engine to be ugly when I install it. In my
airboat, heheheh. We thought about heating the case up to about 1000
degrees so that the races would fall out but decided against that, after
having just one more beer to clear our thoughts.

My freind the AI with the catalog and just a few of the pages tore out he's
a good mechanick even thought of as a ingineer as long as he aint smoking a
dooby. His favorit movie is Kevin Costner in Fandango.

By the way, that fastandloose feller who is even more punjunt with his words
than BWB I think he has got caught in a lawer's hedlight kindof like a dum
armadillo waddled out an went splat in your lane and is very angry and has
turned his anger on anybody that even so gently twists his tale. Now that
dude is touchy. I figger he got too closet to them pitcher winders of them
big palast homes on them cliffs near the beech.

thanks for your help.