Well, I found what looks like it may be my problem. In the first pic below, there is a red arrow pointing to an insulation strip that isolates one side of the points from the other. Looks like it’s made of Bakelite or something similar. The second pic is the other set of points. The red arrow points to a spot where part of that insulator is missing and there is contact. The points are thus shorted together. Could that stop me from getting spark? Would that stop BOTH sides from getting spark?
I am still going to take apart that side and clean it. The other points were a little pitted but I got them shiny again. I’ll
do the same for this side after I fix the broken insulator.
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