MAGNETO PARTS

I grew up on a farm in southeastern Mass. It was a small dairy farm that switched over to raising hay in the mid 70's when milk became unprofitable. All the equipment we used every day would be considered antiques today (Farmall H tractors and lots of other stuff from the late 40's and early 50's vintage.) We also had an old hit & miss engine, a 1 1/2 HP Fairbanks Z hooked up to a Meyers spray pump for spraying fruit trees (though it hadn't been used since the 1920's.) About the time the cows went, the old barn that housed most of the real "gems" fell down, exposing most of the old stuff to the weather and passers by. And so it was with the engine, a friend of the family spotted it and bought it for $25 on the spot. We had no idea that these things were worth anything back then, never mind that anybody (or even me) would collect these things... I never gave it another thought until about 15 years later when I was at a farm auction when he spotted me. To make a long story short, I was..

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