As with the coil and reluctor setup that the automotive industry used, I am guessing you don't want to be sticking any metal feeler gages in the air-gap. Brass, plastic or Braille paper is the way to go. Michael, now that you mention it I had to change a pickup coil on a car for some stranded folks and the only thing I had to set the gap between reluctor and pickup coil was a business card and it worked perfectly.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Baldwin Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] ignition gaps on a Briggs and Stratton A lot of them no longer have points. They just spark with every rotation of the flywheel, whenever the magnet on the flywheel goes past the coil. I place a sheet of braille paper between the coil and flywheel. Seems to work good. numbers are usually located on the fan shroud. Michael _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert j Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:38 PM To: Blind Handyman Subject: [BlindHandyMan] ignition gaps on a Briggs and Stratton I have a 17 HP B and S Engine on a lawn tractor. Where would be a good place to start for a gap between the magneto and the fly wheel. Or does it run the gammit from engine to engine. Also if I need to dig further, what should the points be gapped at? I have not had the fly wheel off of this engine so as far as I know maybe they have done away with points by the time this engine was built. I have no idea how old the engine is and it is not the origanl engine so if I nne to find numbers where would the most commen places be to look? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_p age&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 182761468) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=182761468&m=832ee4375e7b&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=182761468&m=832ee4375e7b&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=182761468&m=832ee4375e7b&c=f ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
