[TheForge] Repairing pot metal: Is *anything* reliable?

[Mike]

> I googled Webster magneto and got quite a few hits. Maybe you can
> buy a new part?
>
> www.magnetoparts.com/webster.htm

You done good, Bob.  He's The Man but I'm ahead of you.  I've
corresponded with him (Bill Lopoulos) already.  The part I need to fix
or replace is the one part that he and other repro people can't very
well make.

He'd sell me a complete rebuilt mag for US$300.  After exchange that's
C$450.  Add shipping, possible border broker's fees, Can. sales tax
and I'm looking at something close to C$600 or ca. 10 times what I
paid for the whole engine.  And there are *lots* of things I want
worse than this mag if I have to front that much actual cash money.

I had this notion of clamping it all up, packing plasticene or babbitt
putty into all the essential openings and around all the places where
other parts have to go (or move) and then pouring a solid block of
resin or very-low-temp alloy around the whole thing. Sure would be a
conversation piece if it worked. :-) 

Not sure I'm ready to get that drastic yet.  I'd prefer some nice,
tidy technical trick.

- Mike

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