[AT] NAA distributor

Cecil Bearden crbearden at copper.net
Tue Dec 12 20:08:21 PST 2006


I have planted enough tools on this 40 acres to grow an entire Craftsman 
Dept at Sears.... Sometimes we find them..  That is what keeps Sears in 
business....

Cecil in OKla

Thomas O. Mehrkam wrote:
>
> I lost my wedding ring feeding deer in Mason County Texas. I was 
> sowing corn out of a bucket over about a 1/2 acre area.
>
> Could not find it no matter hard I looked. I found it four months 
> later. It seems I had run over it with the truck and mashed it down 
> into the muck. I was feeding deer again and i spotted a perfect circle 
> in the dirt. It was my wedding rung only the thin edge was showing. I 
> agree your tools are safe.
>
> JParks wrote:
>
>> 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>;
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> 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
>>> kosh at nesys.com
>>> nesys_com at ameritech.net
>>>
>>> http://www.nesys.com
>>> http://www.nesys.org
>>>
>>>
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