Thanks Richard in Florida

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Originally Posted by Richard in Florida

I'm having a BALL with my new lathe, and I have the best teacher on the planet.

My latest project is restructuring (major surgery) a "Big Cap" Chevy HEI distributor housing for the flathead and replacing its ugly coil in the cap with a central terminal for a remote coil.

Is the Big Cap ugly? Oh my, yes. But the design has some advantages and I just want to see how well it works.

That would be fun. When I built my distributor I limited the vacuum advance to control total advance. Charlie in New York limits his mechanical advance to control total advance. The jury is still out in my mind as to which is better. I am running Charlies and it is doing well so I can't say my way was better but mine worked well also. Charlies hold down is a work of art.

John Long