PUB TALK
There have been no real shows or meetings locally to report on recently, although those in London and the South-East may have been better served. It would usually have been Pioneer Run time, but that event has been put back to October (as it was last year), so put Oct. 2nd into your diary if possible. It may lose a little of its ‘first outing of the year’ appeal, and prove to be a more congested date, but hopefully most of the spectators will still turn out, because they help to make the event for the participants.
There are still a few local gathering places, even with the closure of Jacks, so various bikes have been exercised. The Super Sausage café (just south of Towcester on the A5 and a few miles away) remained thinly populated on cold and wet winter weekends, but was swamped almost to the exclusion of cars as soon as warmer sun appeared.
There has been a bit of work in the garage, including ‘one step forward and two steps back’ with the pre-war project (PWP) magneto, which no doubt will be revealed eventually. However this month’s subject will be a bit different, albeit still magneto related. During Covid, and as previously described in this column, PUB spent some time resuscitating various magnetos (and dynamos), but something she could not do was re-magnetise those in need.
Especially for old and vintage types, it would be a pity to refit them without doing so, because older magnets of simple tungsten steels do not retain their magnetism well, especially when dismantled without a keeper. Maxwell’s equations (which the reader doesn’t need to know about) made it clear that electro-magnetism and
