N1 magneto points

[Joker_Bones]

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Does anyone know what this bridge thing on the points assembly is?
The points assembly on the magneto I have just fitted does not have one.
What does it do?

[clive]

Not sure. Except perhaps keeping the points from going out of line . However in the installed points I think you have the small points spring upside down. It's counterintuitive but I think it goes the other way up. The witness mark shows this.

[ajscomboman]

Funnily enough you just beat me to it Clive, the small sprung steel spring is fitted the wrong way round. The first time I ran across this decades ago I had to question it as well. I managed to find another set and found the spring the same with the small spring tang fitting outwards.

[Joker_Bones]

Ohhhh...
It was fitted the other way up. It seemed to me more like a washer that way up than a backing spring... So I turned it over.