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Restoration of WWII era dynamo (hand crank) flashlight. This week I restored this hand-crank flashlight made by Phillips (type 7424). These were used by Germans in WWII. When I got it I had no idea if it worked. After testing thatt it in fact wasn’t working I opened it up to find what’s going on. Immediately after opening I found that the wire from the dynamo to the was loose so obviously I couldn’t have worked when I tested it. After the disassembly the other end of the wire came loose as well. I had to replace the wire immediately so I wouldn’t loose the other end inside of the brass housing and that was not filmed. I also found a strange loose part from inside the flashlight. You can see me wondering where it came and hoping that it shows on the video. later I realized someone who had opened the flashlight before me had just put it in there for some reason. The dynamo works so that the magnet is being spun by the hand crank. The polarity of the magnet is not the usual (flat sides being and -) but the
