PUB TALK
Lockdown continues, but occasionally food has to be bought, and today is the day. Hooray, a genuine excuse to have the PUB Vincent out, if only for a very few miles (using a bit of 40160mph ring road to avoid town centre 20mph and speed bumps all the way). Sadly not even sufficient to warm the oil, for the late Bruce Main-Smith once did a test establishing that that requires 15 miles - but it was a good feeling for the few minutes. However, that is inadequate to provide for a column, so instead the saga of Frank's G 12CSR magneto continues ... Part the first- doing the necessary.
As readers may have read in 'Tales From The Shed; Frank did get his defunct magneto off the G12CSR, and shipped to chez PUB. Now she had to come good on her offer to fix it. Fortunately for Frank it was in good condition internally, so did not prove to be a big job, but it did benefit from a limited strip down - the sort of thing that fairly competent RC fettlers could undertake. Clearly, from the fact that the official Lucas parts diagrams show the assembled armature as a single item, they did not consider it a repairable item for most riders, although the associated parts listing does itemise bearings, slip-rings etc. for the braver community (and professionals). Taking things this extra bit further is illustrated later using other bits lying around.
On receipt the casing was cleaned up a bit with a wire brush before stripping - Frankland is rich in aluminium oxide (sea air induced
