[AT] NAA distributor

[JParks]

Dave

I don't speak "NAA" well so I can't address the state of mind of the design
engineer who put the spring clip where he did.  Perhaps he was just being
peevish that day.  However, I can give you hope in finding the lost tools.
They do surface eventually, even if only after the spring thaw.

Many winters ago (almost a third of a century ago) I used to take my wedding
ring off when working around  heavy equipment and put it in my jeans' watch
pocket for safety reasons.  While wrestling steel around one day it
apparently worked its way out and ended up somewhere in a several acre area.
Snow turning to slush turning to mud amidst lift trucks and cranes moving
about made even the thought of a search seem like a fool's errand.

Six months later it re-emerged from the dry hardened ground and rose to the
surface. A lift truck driver spotted something shiny and dug the ring out of
the packed clay.

I think your tools have a higher chance of being found than that tiny little
ring.  They're not lost, simply hibernating.

John Parks
Boise, ID
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Merchant" <nesys_com at ameritech.net>
To: <ford-ferguson at lists.antique-tractor.com>;
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Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 3:50 PM
Subject: [AT] NAA distributor


> Here is a sorta "what were they thinking?" question...
>
> Why does the distributor on an NAA (the one with an oil cup sticking out
at
> the bottom)
> have that silly little separate spring clip under the rotor that you have
> to take off to get to the points?
>
> Haven't lost it (yet), but the second I saw it I went + ordered 5 spares
> from N-Complete.
>
> ...this is from somebody that managed to lose a whole spark plug socket,
> U-joint, + extension
> in the snow last week, couldn't find it with the pickup magnet!
>
> Dave Merchant
>
>
> Dave Merchant
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