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I originally thought I would find a generator specialist to do the restore on the generator. It sat on the bench for month until one day I just looked at it and though “how hard can it be?” The answer was a bit harder that I thought but it was doable with common hand tools and a little mechanical aptitude. Some of the old cloth covered wire had to be replaced as it was just crumbling to dust. Stripped off the blue paint. Cleaned it all up. Painted it back to its original Black while leaving the nickel plated parts alone. Adjusted the brushes and it generates a charge during a bench test! My plan was not to use it anyway so that was just a bonus. I don’t think I will be doing really long rides with the bike so I will just use the battery to power the lights and recharge it from the wall after my trips. I want to save every last little but of power from the motor to forward motion and not spinning a generator anyway. Here are a few picture of the before, after and some of the internals. I am very happy with how it came out.