That's really the problem. Condensers used to be an important part of
electronics, and very good companies made very good condensers. They are
still important, but instead of big handfuls of them in every electronic
gadget there are just s few. So they are made by some outfit in China that
pumps them out on the mid shift. It could be worse, we could be looking for
vacuum tubes. Russia has that business sewn up but they only make
representative types, not duplicates of the thousands of varieties of vacuum
tubes that used to exist.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of barry rosenberg
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:35 AM
To: Joe Boruch; fot
Subject: RE: Engine won't run
I have seen bad condensers for years with Mallory dual points. And I
bought two new sets of points for mine before the Mitty. One was their
higher performance set and the other stock. Neither worked very well. I was
changing them just to be safe and the car ran horrible. Never thought to
check spring tension. We put the old set back in and it ran fine. We are
only using the Mallory to fire an electronic box so it can run on one set of
points and without a condenser, it is only an on/off switch. Still, I am
going to the electronic conversion from Mallory for the dist. I have had bad
Lucas condensers for the past 15 years and do not change it in a tune up
anymore as the new are usually worse than the old if the car is running ok
when it comes in. Having such poor quality replacement parts really makes
our jobs harder. Barry
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