Frankenstein
Deceased - Frankenstein 1991 - 2018
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So if anyone noticed I did post a topic about that pull starter and my magneto magically dying around the time it failed, at this point I'm actually leaning further towards failure due to water infection. Could have been pot badluck, being that very close inspection yielded no physical damage.
My wonder is did anyone ever epoxy their magneto or heard of doing it?
I have my new mag (used) and I washed it down with dawn and piping got water, rinsed it down well, and stuck it in my easy bake oven (toaster oven) for 250 at 45 minutes to cook out all the water.
After I did a double coat of the mag up to the first set of screw holes with clear cheap harbor freight 5 minute epoxy.
It looks nice and the epoxy should be able to prevent moisture or water from busting the circuit. I don't know how much heat will be held in by the epoxy but I'm going to assume it won't be too much since these thing barely have enough wattage to power an led let alone enough to overheat a bit of wire wrapped around a pretty good heat sink.
I went with epoxy since the rtv seems to be slightly unreliable and it's just a pain to apply, I might even vacuum seal the next one to get a deep coat of epoxy down in the coil and armature to add longevity (the deeper the coat reaches the better the vibration resistance, and if anything epoxy has got to be a better heat transfer than air, if anything it would be more efficient at dissipating heat.)
No, I did not use the search button I just hit up the hard liquor and started a thread, research it for me if you'd like I'm lazy.
My wonder is did anyone ever epoxy their magneto or heard of doing it?
I have my new mag (used) and I washed it down with dawn and piping got water, rinsed it down well, and stuck it in my easy bake oven (toaster oven) for 250 at 45 minutes to cook out all the water.
After I did a double coat of the mag up to the first set of screw holes with clear cheap harbor freight 5 minute epoxy.
It looks nice and the epoxy should be able to prevent moisture or water from busting the circuit. I don't know how much heat will be held in by the epoxy but I'm going to assume it won't be too much since these thing barely have enough wattage to power an led let alone enough to overheat a bit of wire wrapped around a pretty good heat sink.
I went with epoxy since the rtv seems to be slightly unreliable and it's just a pain to apply, I might even vacuum seal the next one to get a deep coat of epoxy down in the coil and armature to add longevity (the deeper the coat reaches the better the vibration resistance, and if anything epoxy has got to be a better heat transfer than air, if anything it would be more efficient at dissipating heat.)
No, I did not use the search button I just hit up the hard liquor and started a thread, research it for me if you'd like I'm lazy.