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[Rio95]

Thanks everyone for the tips - we've got spark!!!

Everything checked out well with 0.20 gap on the points, set the air gap to the flywheel to 0.10 with a feeler guage, points clean, multimeter showed them opening and closing, etc. Except the secondary coil, no matter the range on the multimeter, I couldn't get a reading, but Al's comment about them being bulletproof made me check everything again... Turns out you've got to spin the flywheel the right way... I underestimated my own stupidity.

Anyway, I've got a hot blue spark when I put the drill in reverse...

 

[hacskaroly]

Al's comment about them being bulletproof made me check everything again... Turns out you've got to spin the flywheel the right way... I underestimated my own ability.

I fixed it. Congrats on getting everything squared away. Stuff happens! I was working on a new (new to us) antenna we received from an Air National Guard unit for a Tacan in Iraq. Spun it up and everything was good except for where our monitor antenna was wanting to be positioned and still would not dial in. Finally I had a thought it might be running backwards. Swapped two power leads, got it spinning the other way and bam, everything was working as it should. It appeared that someone did some maintenance at some point and got the two black leads mixed up....oops!