1912 coil box

[Colin Mavins]

I just bought the coil box for the 1912 from market place which was brought to light in the classified ads When I looked it up it was marked 250 dollars so I snapped it up it is missing the nuts that hold the coils in, can anyone post a picture of what they look like. Thanks Colin

[RajoRacer]

What maker of coil box ?

[Colin Mavins]

This is what I bought 250 dollars Would the missing nuts be the same nuts from the engine side of the box I currently have a reproduction box from 1961 which is made bigger for newer coils the 1910 box has the brass side attachment brackets. I may not change it now but it is nice to have the correct box ready to go , I have the original 1910 box but no lid it came with the car in 1960 the car had a 1915 box installed in it. The last pic is my car now.

[Colin Mavins]

It is a kingston box coils and switch

[RGould1910]

Here you go. The nuts look to be the size of spark plug nuts smaller and clearly different fron the terminal nuts on the engine side.

[Colin Mavins]

They look very much like whats on the nos X plugs from the 1920s

[RGould1910]

Yep, that they do!

[Colin Mavins]

Thank You that solves the question I should have it here in 5 days your post is a lot better than here in Canada, I have some old plugs but the top nut is much smaller but my nos plugs from way back the nut is much larger. I guess I'm going to learn about these coils this will be my first, I know Dad never had coils so went with what he had and it has worked for 60 years. I other question what is the wire for? Cheers Colin

[ThreePedalTapDancer]

The red wire is to bypass the coils because a master vibrator was hooked up instead. The contacts on each of the four coils were bypassed, and a single contact in the master vibrator takes over the function of the four coils.

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