[Healeys] Petrol Pump

[Oudesluys]

For the points you can use flower paper followed by a piece of stiff 
carton to clean. Officially one should use a piece of stiff carton only, 
no file, emery cloth, wet and dry, flower paper etc.
There is no cadmium on the points to wear of. It would not last any 
length of time anyway.
Kees Oudesluijs
NL


Chris Dimmock schreef op 13-5-2014 17:24:
> Read the book.
> There are things you do by the side of the road. Late at night, under a street
> light. A smooth hard open pore rock is perfect...... :-)
> And there are things you do in the comfort of your own garage/ workshop....
> Lucas rule 1. File points.  Never sand with anything that will leave a residue
> or grit.
> File. Lightly. Remove to clean..... Don't add abrasive shit to your soft
> points.
> And you don't usually need to remove much. It's cleaning.
> Best
> Chris
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 14 May 2014, at 12:21 am, "John Sims" <ahbn6 at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> I use Sparklers made by Les Leston in London. They are approximately 1/4
>> inch wide by two inches long and coated with a very fine grit on both sides
>> making it easy to do the contacts. They come packaged in a match book sort
>> of thingy. Unfortunately Les apparently died a couple of years ago
> according
>> to Wikipedia but some of his stuff is still on eBay (not sparklers) I
> forget
>> where I got them but it was one of the British suppliers.
>>
>> John Sims, BN6
>> Aberdeen, NJ
>>
>> www.healey6.com
>>
>> On Behalf Of J Armour
>> I also regularly cleaned my S.U. & Lucas points with emery or sand paper
> but
>> then a very knowledgeable electrical person advised that this method left
>> foreign particles embedded in the face of the points and was detrimental to
>> the life of the points. He suggested a coarse cloth or a points file and
>> then clean wipe the face of the points.Another admission, I used to sit in
>> the gutter late at night before heading off home from my girlfriends place
> (
>> her mother did not like the noisy Healey parked out the front of her house
>> and neighbours ) and removed the no.4 spark plug that had oiled up from
> city
>> driving and cleaned the gunk out with a perfect tool that I had found in
> the
>> gutter, a thin spring steel wire from a street sweeper brush. That was 40
>> years ago and I still carry one with me.
>> I find it very interesting the difference between what will do based on
> what
>> grandad had at his disposal and what the much maligned Mr Joseph Lucas
>> advised based on his years of research and experience. Now if all those
>> owner- operators of Healeys ( or anything British ) will consult their
>> manuals for such a basic procedure we would all be better/quicker off.
>> Question, why do we all want replicas of those fabulous 'Works Healeys'
>> when they are packed full of Lucas stuff fitted with points!!!
>>
>> A late thought, often the points in a little used unit suffer more from
>> vertigree on the faces and therefore do not require a heavy abrasive tool
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