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After charging my magnet, my bulb burns much brighter and will actually glow a bit just by spinning the flywheel by hand. Also has more of a magnetic feel when turning the engine slowly by hand. Yours would definitely benefit from a good charge.

gee, that is darn good if you get enough voltage on just hand spinning!  That is one cool setup, you got Tesla Coils around your shop too ;-)

I do like to create my own lightning. 😁

Hey Mark, got the recharged Magnet in today and installed.  It works GREAT!  Thank you so much!

Mike, not sure why I called you Mark in my post ... what a dopey thing to do.  Oh, I also can spin the wheel to get the bulb to light up - that's really cool.  My brother is also very thankful and excited to have the stream engine back.  Him and his kids are going to have a lot of fun with it.