Small Engines (Lawn Mowers, etc.): lombard super lightening, high tention, stator plate

Question
I work at a local lawn and garden repair shop. We sell junk like poulan saws and tanaka trimmers. We are also one of the only places around anymore that repairs 2 stroke equipment. Most every one else don't bother with it any more B/C it just insn't worth it with the throw away crap they make today, besides stihl equipment. Anyway we had a lombard super lightening AV saw come in a couple days ago. Customer claimed it will not start. So I checked it out and found: 140 pounds compression, very weak spark. So I sprayed a little fuel in the carb - diden't even get a pop. gave it a little in the plug hole - nothing. Took plug out and grounded it to cylinder no spark. Pulled flywheel dressed points and regapped to the .015'' specified on the stator plate. Buttoned it up and found I now have intermittent spark. Enough that I got on pop out of the saw. When it does have spark it is a hot blue spark not a weak one. But it is very intermittent. Next I figured I'd eliminate the kill switch ground wire in case it was grounding some where. Not the problem. I am leaning towards coil issues. What do you think? The stator is adjustable for the proper timing but the screws were all still tight. And if the timing was off I would still have spark just not at the right time, and the saw fired once for me so. Just about running out of places to look. Also thought of high tention lead cracked or broken between coil and plug, but did not check yet. Will do it soon. I enjoy working on these old saws many people call them boat anchors but I know damn well they will never make saws agiain the way they made them in the country's logging prime. Thats why so many are still in use today like this lombard was up until now. If you have any suggestions where to find lombard parts it would be a great help.         -Cody-

Email       Thank you for your time, lets see if we can knock heads and try to put this 68cc monster back into service.

Answer
Does it have a bad keyway? If not I would have to think that the coil is bad? Try taking it off and sanding the ends as well as the flywheel and reinstall at spec and see if that can get it to start?Let me know if it works and if not maybe we can figure it out from there.
Jason