Saving Old Seagulls

Hi all good enthusiasts

I just got my first Seagull engine. A very nice one with all parts intact. As far that I can see.

There is a problem. I got no spark. I have tried the spark plug some where else and it work.
I put my ohm controller on the pointers and I can see I got connection both with open and closed pointers. I have cleaned them both. Why is that?

Hi

Thanks for your quick reply. I will try tomorrow.

I wunder, is there an on/OFF switch somewhere?

No one/off switch. It's basically off unless the flywheel is rotating, in which case the magneto starts to develop a spark. If no rotating then nothing happens. On much later engines a kill switch was added.