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Shelf life of Magneto Condensers

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greygoat

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I purchased some Wico and Fairbanks-Morse Magneto
points and condensers at a sale. Contact points
are new,in original box's and I have no issue
with them. Condensers are New,in Fairbanks-Morse,
Wico, and NAPA Echlin, boxes, but are probably
over 20 years old.Yeah, I could just put them in
a magneto...but does anyone know if there is a
"Shelf life" for aged condensers..new,old stock?
 
(quoted from post at 05:08:02 07/10/12) I purchased some Wico and Fairbanks-Morse Magneto
points and condensers at a sale. Contact points
are new,in original box's and I have no issue
with them. Condensers are New,in Fairbanks-Morse,
Wico, and NAPA Echlin, boxes, but are probably
over 20 years old.Yeah, I could just put them in
a magneto...but does anyone know if there is a
"Shelf life" for aged condensers..new,old stock?
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As long as they have not been exposed to moisture I would think they are as good today as when brand new.
 
Echlin had points and a condenser for the Wico mag I had on an old Viking walk behind garden tractor. The fire was still weak and I took into where I worked and they had a machine for testing mags. I think the machine was made in Germany. This was back in 1960's and a lot of the big tank engines had 4 mags on each engine.
They installed a new coil and that fixed the weak spark. A few years later everything was changed to diesel engines. The tank engines were made by Continental both gas and diesel. Some of the smaller vehicles had the 318 Chrysler engine and they replaced them with Detroit diesel engines. The M109 and M110 both used Detroit engines. I guess that big mag machine was sold at auction or scrapped. Hal
 
Just find someone with a tester and get them checked. I always check them before installing. Some are no good new.
 
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