I attended one of John Twist's technical seminars a couple of years ago.
(For the uninitiated, John Twist is a big MG guru in Michigan). He has
one of these machines, a Sun, and demonstrated it for us. It sure made a
quick and easy way to test a distributor, as well to set up the points.
He said that his "tool man" (Snap-On or Mac distributor) got it for him
after John asked him to be on the lookout. I'm not sure, but I think the
guy found it in one of the other garages he did business with.
John did say they were hard to come by. Perhaps you can find one in an
older auto repair place. I've gone to a lot of car swap meets and have
never seen one for sale.
David Littlefield
Houston, TX
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997 01:07:54 -0700 "Michael D. Porter"
<mdporter@rt66.com> writes:
>Duncan120@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> I would like to buy, in working order, a distrbutor testing machine.
>These
>> may have been made by Sun but I'm not sure. I have a few old cars
>that have
>> dizzys and I should start tinkering with them.
>
>Sun has, indeed, made distributor testing machines. How available they
>are on the used market, I have no idea. The only guess I can make on
>availability is that I _never_ see used ones for sale. Further guess
>is
>that if one pops up, the price would be exorbitant, as a working and
>useful curiosity piece. Perhaps someone else here knows of one or more
>being sold, but I guarantee that they are rare on the used market. You
>could probably fix the dizzies of the used cars by replacing dist.
>shaft
>bushings and advance springs far more cheaply than by buying a
>distributor machine, which is most frequently used to recurve the
>distributor, rather than to simply determine if it is worn or if the
>springs are weak.
>
>Cheers.
>
>--
>My other Triumph runs, but....
>
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