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Was looking at my Bentley last night to get the terminology correct. What my problem was in the end, was that the wire that connected the two fields in series was eaten through because it was pushed up against the ARMATURE windings, which ate through the insulation and then the wire. Interesting note, I opened my original generator to run the Bentley tests on it, (and to see how they came apart) since Bentley mentioned that scorch marks across the armature could be caused by grounded armature. Funny, in the old gen, the wire connecting the 2 fields was completely bare. If this was pushed against the gen case, I'd imagine this would ground it to ill effect, no? Got no such reading. In fact, all the tests indicated that this generator was fine, outside of the fact that the commutator needed to be undercut. And the paper insulation around the field coils was ratty, but not eaten completely through. Oddly, the scorch/scratch marks were where the undercutting was fine. It also said that brush dust could do the same thing. And boy was that generator dusty. Granted, it had been eating brushes up... So I wonder whether my actual problem was my old VR grounding somehow, causing the gen to arc, scorching the commutator, eating the brushes, and the defective generator parts I was getting were coincidental to the actual problem. We'll see. I have a new Bosch VR in there, and a new Generator. I hate replacing parts without knowing which one was really the problem. Thanks for the help on this one folks. -M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org