Posted by dorayme on 07/09/07 00:03

In article <m2644usd3e.fsf@dot-app.org>,
Sherm Pendley <spamtrap@dot-app.org> wrote:

> dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> writes:
>
> > All this is fair enough. I like your practice. I do the points in
> > the distributor of my car like so, ie. by natural senses.
>
> Points? Distributor? What kind of museum piece are you driving? :-)

I knew it! You young modern things! At least I can fix my own car
this way, who can roll their own with the latest?

Does a Ford XY mean anything to you? 1971. (What sort of car is
this, I hear you ask. The sort that makes me drill holes in the
floor so that the rain can drain out when it leaks because I am
fed up of putting newspapers there to act as sponges).

Points are contacts that are mechanically opened and let shut by
a cam that runs off the engine, the contact fires the spark plugs
in an <ol> sort of a way and the spark is distributed to the
cylinders depending further on the <ol> of the leads (each <ol>
being quite dumb to the other... but boy o boy, the engine only
likes one particular arrangement)

Look out soon for an uncle Ford XY page soon to compliment the
aunt cooking tips one.

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dorayme

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