[AT] NAA distributor

[Dave Merchant]

Found the socket etc yesterday, somehow had slid under a section of apple stump
I've been planning to count the rings on.

Condition fine, except the roll pins in the U-joint were somewhat rusty,
that was the reason I didn't want them laying out too long.

Since I needed the socket that night, I went to Sears + got another socket,
U-joint, extension (different length), and a ratchet handle with a wrist joint.
Pleasant experience, I hadn't been in Sears tools in quite a while, turns out
the Craftsman stuff still looks very good, apparently still US made.

I suspect the silly clip is because they hadn't yet figured out how to cast 
a spring
into the rotor plastic. I hate tiny little parts on tractors.

Dave


At 09:29 PM 12/12/2006, 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
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