Midwest Magneto

09/17/2025

08/25/2025

I've got a freshly overhauled 10-51360-28 magneto available for sale. Fits all the little "-8" Continental engines. Sold.

05/28/2025

I've got a very nice core Bosch ZJ4CR5 dual magneto for sale. Fits a Hirth HM500A used in the Buecker Bu 181. Available as is, or in overhauled condition.

03/07/2025

I have been really slacking with the picture taking lately, letting a lot of stuff leave without pictures. A lot of you have reached out wanting videos, but thats a whole other art form and time commitment. Maybe I will do a time lapse of an overhaul this summer.

03/06/2025

Any Maybach Zeppelin experts out there? This Bosch FH12 was marked as such with the year 1933-1934. All the DS7/DS8 Zeppelin pictures I can find show distributors or two 6 cylinder magnetos. I know the Bugatti guys go crazy over FH8's but have never seen an FH12 before.

01/21/2025

I've got a pair of NOS Slick M3998 magneto gears for sale. These only fit 4333's on "-8" Continentals. $1400. (compared to $3200 for new).

11/30/2024

11/19/2024

They must have overhauled a lot of SF4 magnetos at Kelly AFB after WWII, because I run into these decals on SF4s fairly often. Someone a while back during a phone call asked if I could save their decals during overhaul, which I said I could not as they are usually brittle and shatter. I can't remember who that was I talked to about that but this one today while breaking down one of my cores popped off completely intact. If whoever asked me about that sends me a message I will send it you, just cant remember who you were.

09/24/2024

Bendix S6LN-32, an interesting magneto used on several versions of a Continental V12 engine used in various tanks and light artillery. 6 pole magnet, 6 sparks per revolution, no distributor gears or bearings (because it all rides on the end of the rotating magnet) make for a compact and simple setup. 4 of these mags on each engine.

08/29/2024

I have another 10-382560-13 (equivalent to a 10-682560-13) available outright in overhauled condition. Sold.