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TR2/3/3A Generator Pulley Color, TR-3A

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Tinkerman

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Afternoon All:
Thanks for the thoughts on the carpet underfelt.
Nother question, brought the generator to a friend of mine who does this kind of stuff for a living. I brought the old one and all the parts I bought for it and he is going to rebuild it for me. Question came up on the pulley color. The one I brought him had a black pulley, no clue as to the originality on that one. In fact everything was black, not really original. The one good picture that I have, taken at a meet, is no help at all on the pulley. Good shot of the body and ends though. It is in fact a Lucas generator and the body is not painted at all. I thought the bodies were black?
As usual, any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Tinkerman
 
Found another series of pictures of a friends original '59 TR-3. Another Lucas generator, body is painted silver and the pulley is rust color. Does this mean that the pulley was not painted? This car has never been touched by restoration. Of course he may have had the generator rebuilt, which was normal after about 50K miles, have to ask him.
Interesting Eh?

Cheers, Tinkerman
 
All the original dynamos I've seen have had black bodies. As for the pulley... there are 2 parts, the pulley itself and the fan-thing that cools the dynamo. I'm thinking the pulley was unfinished and the fan-thing was black. But I could be wrong.
 
I'm not going for absolute originality in my resto, so My dynamo is a gloss black body, with the aluminum end pieces bare aluminum, slightly polished, and the pully and fan gloss black, but the nut and lock washer are silver (they will get some kind of a coating if I get the caswell kit, but not chrome)
I've worked on plenty of TRs some realitivly untouched, and from what I see, they were painted a satin or semi gloss black (laquer) after they were all assembled with the fan and pully. Cause if you took off the pully it was bare metal wherever the paint coulden't reach with it all togeather.
 
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