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Mysterious black boxes
Posted by spiv (more from spiv) on Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:02:07
In Reply to: Re: Is it worth it?, Bruce Turk, Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:54:06
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"What can I say? I like old shit that requires routine maintenance more than little mystery black box's that I have no idea how they work or how to fix them."
Geez, Bruce, all that's in the Pertronix box is a Hall-effect magnetic reluctor sensor and an isolator circuit. What's mysterious about that? If it stops working, how you fix it is you throw it away and put in a new one. What could be simpler?
Points, condensors, rubbing blocks, gapping, dwell angles, round-wire feeler gauges, dripping oil off the dipstick onto a little felt pad... now to me, THAT stuff is mysterious. It's like being a priest in some kind of occult ritual. Looking at the bumps on the points to decide whether your condensor is too strong or too weak... seems kinda like hepatoscopy (predicting the future by examining chicken guts.)
Of course, Bruce is the kind of guy who can slap some filler on the twisted, rusty shell of a 93B, whack it with a board sander a few hundred times, and it magically turns into a concours candidate... whereas I'm the kind of guy who can't even touch up a pinhead-size stone chip without the whole car starting to look like it's in the final stages of leprosy. I guess it's just a question of which KIND of mystery fits best in your head...
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Posts in this Thread:
- Is it worth it?, MikeinME, Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:34:44
- Re: Is it worth it?, Bruce Turk, Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:54:06
- Re: Is it worth it?, kansas, Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:26:24
- Yes, it is, spiv, Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:09:45
- Mike, a related question, Jonathan, Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:01:43
- One benefit of the Pertronix is to >>, BobD, Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:31:12
- Re: Is it worth it?, Kemosobe, Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:39:57
- Re: Is it worth it?, Shotgun , Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:31:06
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