[AT] NAA distributor

[Mattias Kessén]

And now there is a swede that is getting famous for loosing his tools in
space.

Mattias


2006/12/13, Dave Merchant <nesys_com at ameritech.net>:
>
> 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
> kosh at nesys.com
> nesys_com at ameritech.net
>
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