Last daft question i promise !! I have replaced the field coil and i fashioned a couple of G clamps and a hardwood timber pack inside the dynamo body to compress the coil into the body. I then tightened up the coil screw but no matter what i do i still get a 1/2mm gap between the coil metal core and the body. On assembly the armature spins freely but im sure it cant be right ? Any advise ? Do i need a special tool ?
There is a special tool for compressing the pole shoe (the core) against the body....I'll speak to the chap that used to rebuild my dynamos and get some information on it...I'll post tomorrow.....Ian
The pole shoe compressor tool is like a small scissor jack which is wound up to push the pole shoe against the body...The chap who did my dynamos for years said he'd seen an illustration of one but had never actually seen one...I've also seen the illustration...He made up a small jacking tool to exert the pressure...He also said that even with a tool the screws should be tightened with an impact driver to do them up really tight...
Care should be taken with the short dynamo, that only has a single retaining screw, to ensure the assembly remains square to the axis of dynamo body and doesn't contact the armature....Ian
I woke up at 3.00am this morning wondering if the field coil screw was too long (its a new one) and sure enough its almost a mm longer than the female thread. No wonder i couldnt tighten it up :smiley:
I've had a few like that lately...I've got a problem with my B33 not running correctly after fitting a new engine and after a few days at it I haven't been able to identify the problem yet...So, the brain's working overtime in the early hours...:laughing: ...Ian