Saving Old Seagulls

Thanks guys,

That gives me some confidence that the single coil should work. It still seems an inelegant solution to me, so I may still try to make one - good excuse to finally fix the coil winder!

It does however mean I can't blame the coil for the failure, that only seems to leave the flywheel ...

Thanks Charles. I did the search and found several references but none of the articles seemed to meet with much success.

One point of note: the guy who tried re-winding his own coils was using more primary turns than my original (well I think it's original, and given that no-one seems to have ...

Hi,

I've just joined the group, and like most newbies I'm looking for some help!

I have a Mk1 (I presume given that unlike the ones you show it has Villiers ignition). It seems it may have been a display model with chromed gearcase, shaft and nuts. There's no date on it as such, but the ignition ...