Yeah Mike, I never made a conscious effort to block anyone's messages, let alone yours. Not sure how that worked.
I have a bike ready to roll out, but having electrical concerns: point timing, brand new AGM battery that died (replacement coming), and suspect new rectifier.
Point timing: Can't get the points to close properly within the given adjustment range, even with rotating the whole dynamow assembly. Triple checked gear punch mark alignments, but how well on the pinion to crank I do not recall. Just for practice I am going to assemble an engine ready for assembly on the bench and play with point timing there. If that works, then the side comes off to check pinion-crank position on the bike.
Dead battery: Bad recifier? The one I'm using is NOS. How to check to see if, and how much, drain the battery may be experiencing when installed.
Rectifier: How to multimeter test it? I disassembled a used one to test the diodes and see if I can assemble a good one out of several rectifiers. Any idea on the specifications for the individual diodes?
Condensors: Measure a little under at 19 micro Farad. They are new ones, but measuring two other new sets on the bench proved inconclusive so I took them and a used set down to the local small engine repair shop for test and they said the new ones were "good" and the used one bad.