Finally! The magneto is finished!

For those of you who haven't been following me, this is a Bosch ZEV magneto off a 1914 Indian motorcycle that I've been restoring. This is by no means the first mag I've restored.

So here's pretty much what I did to it:

1) Cleaned/inspected everything
2) Rewound the coil
3) Installed a new condenser
4) Installed new bearings (including centering them and checking them for endplay)
5) Painted the magnets with black lacquer
6) Recharged the magnets
7) Installed new points
8) Made new insulators for the points assembly
9) Aligned/centered the points assembly to the cam ring
10) Installed new spark plug lead-out towers
11) Installed new spark plug wires
12) Replaced almost all the old screws
13) Polished everything
14) Repaired the lift-up oilers
15) Renewed the insulators for the kill switch connection in the cam ring
16) Made/installed new carbon brushes for the points assembly and lead-out towers
17) Repaired the chewed-up threads on the armature
18) Lubricated everything
19) Aligned the cam ring
20) Gave it a one-hour run test


So that's basically what I had to do to restore the mag. It makes a nice hot spark now!

If you notice, there is some tape on the points cover (picture on the top left). That's to keep it from getting scratched by the arm that keeps it in place. It's only temporary! You can also see the points assembly in the top right picture. This mag is unusual in the fact that the points rotate while the cam stays still. It's the other way around in almost every other magneto.

I'm going to give this mag one final inspection and a final polishing before it gets installed in the motorcycle.