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British Bikes / Re: Electronic? ignition 5T Speed Twin. HELP!
« on: December 08, 2007, 06:14:23 AM »
A little bit more.  If I could find any maker's name or part number it would obviously help.  I can find nothing on any visible surface and I am reluctant to dismantle things because I may have trouble if I disturb the timing.

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British Bikes / Re: Electronic? ignition 5T Speed Twin. HELP!
« on: December 08, 2007, 06:09:27 AM »
Unfortunately we are a bit hamstrung. The photos don't seem to have worked.  Describing the thing that is 'not a box' would be like trying to describe a pair of binoculars to someone who has never seen any. A picture is worth a thousand words they say, but the pics are not working.

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British Bikes / Re: Electronic? ignition 5T Speed Twin. HELP!
« on: December 08, 2007, 05:40:43 AM »
Henry (I hope that's OK). If it does not contravene the terms of this site, could you email me at jamesrambler@hotmail.co.uk so I can send photos direct?  If you include your phone number I could perhaps explain better directly.  I suppose here is no chance you live anywhere near Chesterfield?

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British Bikes / Re: Electronic? ignition 5T Speed Twin. HELP!
« on: December 08, 2007, 05:24:59 AM »
Sorry for the delay in responding.  My router overheats and sometimes needs a rest.
 I have had a 1955 5t before and I am quite familiar with the standard ignition set up. I was also a fully qualified motor engineer until age overcame me!  The distributor replacement in no way resembles an 18D2. There is no cap - HT leads are straight from coils to plugs and the body of the unit is almost 3" in diameter and overall is about the same size as a medium can of baked beans.  There are two low tension leads coming from it as far as I can see and these seem to go to the other unidentified unit.
 I have so far been unable to find any motorcyclist or mechanic who is familiar with it. I've certainly never met anything like it in 50 years in the motot trade.

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British Bikes / Re: Electronic? ignition 5T Speed Twin. HELP!
« on: December 08, 2007, 01:57:45 AM »
I have sent photos to CVM. Hope they are inserted.  The frame and engine numers are identical and exactly as I listed them.  I have no V5c as yet - it never has had one, so I have to accept them at face value.  There is absolutely no evidence that they have been tampered with.  The pics are two views of the distributor replacement and one of the other part which is uncoloured and in no way can be described as a 'box'.

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British Bikes / Re: Electronic? ignition 5T Speed Twin. HELP!
« on: December 08, 2007, 01:24:26 AM »
The bike is a 5T pre-unit. Unregistered (been in Malaya). TOMCC dating cert. says it was exported in 1957, but I think eng/frame no. 08275 suggests a little earlier manufacture. Swinging arm/alternator model ( I have not checked if it still has an alternator!), but if the distributor replacement was a mag. it would not have twin (standard coil ignition type) coils would it?
  Struggling with my pics which are currently too high resolution for the system. Trying to reduce them.

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British Bikes / Re: Electronic? ignition 5T Speed Twin. HELP!
« on: December 08, 2007, 01:00:16 AM »
Thanks for your reply. The Kirby Rowbotham site does not appear to have anything similar, though the three hole mounting flange shown in Mk 3 is like the one on my 5T.  I have photo's and I will try to load them.  This is my first entry on this site and I have not sussed it out yet.  please be patient while I try.
Jim.

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British Bikes / Electronic? ignition 5T Speed Twin. HELP!
« on: December 07, 2007, 11:14:41 PM »
 ???I have bought a 5T (alternator) Triumph to refurbish. It has a largely disconnected jumble of non-standard wiring and a unit which resembles a small dynamo in place of the distributor.  Two coils are fitted with connections to another unidentified unit (condenser?)  What is it and how should it be wired?  Oh, coils and bulbs etc. are 12 volt and the coils' positive terminals seem to be wired directly to the battery positive (earth).

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