found me spark;
combination of things
1) couldn't get to fire manually off battery, so took off the caps and the spark was very weak. even though Dyna say it doesn't matter which way the connections went,I turned them round and got a better spark.
2) kept the 5k caps on and resistor plugs as both = 10k ohms which is correct for the bike
3) tried an R1 pickup/trigger coil and it gave our 1.5volts, 3 times the old one. this told me that the one I have must be faulty
4) there was some rust/paint on the raised parts of the mag, so cleaned them up with wet and dry
5)installed a new trigger coil and got spit back out of carbs, so got sparks.
still need to wire it in properly, but its had quite a downpour today so hopefully will get out tomorrow and see what's what
she's not running as yet, but at least I'm getting there