Reply To: Neptune magneto question(s)

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Another update: the 2nd Neptune also runs! The 15A1 has a simpler carb – easier to clean. The cork float was sliding up and down that shaft, so I tried to put (2/3 of) a wine bottle cork on there, probably don’t have it at the right height, or the volume is not enough as it does not make that little shaft protrude out on the top. Not that that matters, the motor still runs. It does not look like that other than a calming indication that you have fuel in your carb the float actually does anything.

I did put a new condenser on both, not sure if they were needed but it cannot hurt probably.

It looks like that someone must have swapped the magnetos in the past as the little decorative Neptune plates on top indicate the other model (on both). And I cannot swap the plates only as one of the plates would need a bigger hole …. which is probably what will happen (getting a bigger hole) as now that I have both running, I do not want to swap everything.

Now I am back with the tank project, put a bunch of nuts in there and swished it around with the already rusty gas. Now I have a better looking tank (on the inside) and a mason jar full of rusty mixed gas with a bunch of nuts 🙂 I’ll see if that tank sealer I got is worth the hype.

On to the two lower units…