Hoop,
I took the advice of someone that came across very early as someone that I felt knew what they were talking about. Does this sound familiar?
"Easy. Clean the points and make sure they are each making contact using a meter and while blocking the other set with a thin piece of card stock ... a piece of business card.
Set each set carefully to .015 with a good fit.
Adjust the initial advance index to one notch below the middle on the scale. Run it.
For the time being we will hope that the weighs are not stuck and that when the distributor was installed it was a working unit. Points will develop a "glaze" from sitting and that needs to be cleaned off.
It is easier ... but not necessary ... to pull this insides out of the case to work on the points. Remove the coil, the screw and index plate, remove the vacuum plunger, slide the insides out after spraying it with your favorite penetrant. Expect to have to clamp the bottom drive tang sideways in a vise and carefully tap the outer housing. The coil must be mounted on the distributor when you adjust the points. It isn't precision, but it will help define your problem."
As I mentioned in the other thread, my father owned this car back when he was a kid. He didn't have a Sun machine and didn't have a distributor jig (otherwise I would have got it). In the 60+ years he owned the car, he did his own work (except body work). At one point, he loaded up mom and us kids in that car, hooked up a travel trailer and headed to Nebraska from LA. This leads me to believe that someone without all the "bells and whistles" tools can properly set these engines up. Also, I have Professional Engineering licensure in two states...my statement of "confusion" above was more of an attempt to shed some light on these differences of opinions in setting up these things.