FAIRBANKS MORSE MAGNETO DEMONSTRATION Tubalcain

[Ap0ll010]

Thanks for the video,

Steve

Georgetown, Texas

[MakeDoAndMend1]

Good video. You are correct about the price of them. I have purchased several complete engines just to get hold of a good or even salvagable Mag.

[Jason1Pa]

Like the little test stand you made

[Lov2tinker]

I'm a pilot & aircraft mechanic. Mags are alive and well on aviation engines still. Usually, they're 2 Mags, and 2 plugs per cylinder. Both mags fire all cylinders and are independent of one another. This is for safety and performance. Usually only one mag has an impulse coupling. It does 2 jobs, increase the power of the spark while starting and retards timing to accomplish this. That also aids in starting. An impulse coupling should never be operating at idle, its a starting aid only.

[ushouldntjudgeme]

Hey Pop, Magnetos are still industry standard in aircraft engines, right?

[radicalnegative1]

That most likely came out of a Wisconsin. Not all of their mag mounting used gears, in fact, the one you have looks like it came off of the "A" series because of the bottom mounting.

[tonytiger75]

Mags like that are still used on basically all piston powered light aircraft, two for redundancy.

They're just a good old rugged ignition system.