Carry permit at last

[bearandoldman]

What is this, a care service center, or a GunTalk Forum ?

Topic is "Miscellaneous" That's just about covers everything not in the other threads......

Sounds about right to me, eh????

[Hakaman]

do you remember "way back" when there was points and condensers???and you had to use a timing light? I know the OM does, he still remembers the Modet T.
Haka

[Bullseye]

do you remember "way back" when there was points and condensers???and you had to use a timing light? I know the OM does, he still remembers the Modet T.
Haka

I do! I still have a dwell/tach out in my tool box for adjusting points. I haven't used it in ages but I still have it. I've also got two timing lights, one in-line style and the other is an induction pick-up. I still use them to check the wiring for consistent ignition or to verify the lawn mower's plug is getting a spark. Now when I troubleshoot the car, I just plug in a code reader and the on board computer tells me where the problem is - not much challenge to that anymore.

R,
Bullseye

[bearandoldman]

I've also got two timing lights, one in-line style and the other is an induction pick-up. I still use them to check the wiring for consistent ignition or to verify the lawn mower's plug is getting a spark.

R,
Bullseye

Real men just grit their teeth, hold on to the spark plug and yank the pull rope. With all of the safety features today that is hard to do. You an barely see the spark from these new magneto ignitions, the voltage is a lot higher but the spark duration is so short. Remember those old tiller motors with the magneto that cocked and fire a magnet through a coil of wire, just like the igniter on your gas grill but they threw a big fat spark that just crackled.

[Bullseye]

Real men just grit their teeth, hold on to the spark plug and yank the pull rope.

That sounds like a joke I once played on one of my old childhood friends. I told him it was an insulated socket wrench on the mower's plug just before I pulled the rope. He got a jolt out of it and we all laughed. The stuff we did when we were kids, I'm surprised we survived in spite of ourselves.

R,
Bullseye

[bearandoldman]

Real men just grit their teeth, hold on to the spark plug and yank the pull rope.

That sounds like a joke I once played on one of my old childhood friends. I told him it was an insulated socket wrench on the mower's plug just before I pulled the rope. He got a jolt out of it and we all laughed. The stuff we did when we were kids, I'm surprised we survived in spite of ourselves.

R,
Bullseye

And I thought I was the only one with a twisted sense of humor, but I did it long after my childhood. Had a chain saw without a spark plug and hooked speaker wire to the plug wire and frame, ran it about 30 fee to a young guys tool box sitting on cardboard on a metal bench. Every time we saw him touch his tool box and lean against the bench we would pull the cord and he would get a slight shock. Took him a few weeks to figure that one out. And yes we did function test it ourselves, we really were stupid then.

[blue68f100]

do you remember "way back" when there was points and condensers???and you had to use a timing light? I know the OM does, he still remembers the Modet T.
Haka

There still in my tool box. I still use the timing light on my 68 F 100 PU. It does have an updated ignition system, you do not want to get hit by it either. It's a MSD 6A, will thrown a 2" arc and hold it. I found this out when I pulled the coil wire and failed to disconnect the power. Luckly I did not have any gas spilled.

[Hakaman]

I'm going to have to get the forum police after you guys for violating acceptable topic parameters (wow, that's a lot of big words). Your "gun lives" have got to be pretty boring right now if we have to talk about timing guns and spark size? Maybe it's because you can't get any ammo or primers anymore.
Haka

[bearandoldman]

Got lots of ammo and get to the rnage 3 oir 4 times a week but somtimes things get boring and you start thinking of the stupid things you did when you were young. Sometimes it amazes me that I ever got this old.

[Hakaman]

that's funny, I think the same thing. There must be "guardian angels" watching over us, otherwise, I would have been buried long ago.
Haka

[bearandoldman]

that's funny, I think the same thing. There must be "guardian angels" watching over us, otherwise, I would have been buried long ago.
Haka

I must have worn out several of them or made them change assignments, you should have seen me ride a dirt bike or snowmobile in the mid to late 70's. Crashed many time but never got any serious injury riding in the wood, did get busted up once on the street. Old lady made a left turn in front of, she told the LEO she did not see any cars coming, guess I didn;t count. Someone mentioned one time he was riding about half throttle. I asked as to how do you do that, I thought you just yanked the throttle open and dropped the clutch and just changed ground speed by shifting gear, just like you do in a tractor.

[greener]

A while back I was trying to explain to a regulator the concept of retarding timing for emissions reductions. One of my examples was timing lights and adjusting distributors as an example of advancing and retarding timing. Another participant in the discussion said "Bob, you and I are the only two people in this conversation old enough to a clue what you are talking about." So watch out guys, you may be confusing the kiddies.

[bearandoldman]

A while back I was trying to explain to a regulator the concept of retarding timing for emissions reductions. One of my examples was timing lights and adjusting distributors as an example of advancing and retarding timing. Another participant in the discussion said "Bob, you and I are the only two people in this conversation old enough to a clue what you are talking about." So watch out guys, you may be confusing the kiddies.

Bob, most young people today do not know what a distributor is other than the guy who delvers beer at the 7-11. Been some years since cars have had them???? Most use ignition systems electronically controlled with knock sensors that retard the timing before you can even feel a knock.

[greener]

A while back I was trying to explain to a regulator the concept of retarding timing for emissions reductions. One of my examples was timing lights and adjusting distributors as an example of advancing and retarding timing. Another participant in the discussion said "Bob, you and I are the only two people in this conversation old enough to a clue what you are talking about." So watch out guys, you may be confusing the kiddies.

Bob, most young people today do not know what a distributor is other than the guy who delvers beer at the 7-11. Been some years since cars have had them???? Most use ignition systems electronically controlled with knock sensors that retard the timing before you can even feel a knock.

I believe that means it works great for a while and is real expensive to fix.

[Georgezilla]

That sounds like a joke I once played on one of my old childhood friends. I told him it was an insulated socket wrench on the mower's plug just before I pulled the rope. He got a jolt out of it and we all laughed. The stuff we did when we were kids, I'm surprised we survived in spite of ourselves.

R,
Bullseye

That reminds me of a story my dad told me about his childhood. He and his friends used to have "BB gun wars", they would just shoot each other with BB guns until all except one gave up. He told me on one occasion he and his brother ran out of BBs, and had to resort to "close combat"; he said the only rule was "don't aim for the face" . He has several scars to validate his story...