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Piki:
Hello there,
I would like buy a "timming light" to set my Bikes......anybody knows where can I buy it? I knows that Ebay is plenty of them, but I need your advice.......
Thank you in advance.

totty:
Avoid the cheap pass through ones that connect inline with the HT lead, you may get away with them at idle but when raising the revs to check advance you may get a few shocks, they also tend to be quite dim.
Any one that connects to the battery and has a pickup which clips to the HT lead should be fine, I think mine is a Draper.
You probably don't need a high end one where you can advance or retard the strobe, as you'll normally just be checking that the standard marks align.

Piki:

--- Quote from: totty on June 21, 2017, 12:24:10 PM ---Avoid the cheap pass through ones that connect inline with the HT lead, you may get away with them at idle but when raising the revs to check advance you may get a few shocks, they also tend to be quite dim.
Any one that connects to the battery and has a pickup which clips to the HT lead should be fine, I think mine is a Draper.
You probably don't need a high end one where you can advance or retard the strobe, as you'll normally just be checking that the standard marks align.

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tHANK YOU MATE.

Bryanj:
Honestly in all the years I worked at dealers I only used one once and that was to prove a CB400N generator had gone bad on the ignition side

Piki:
For me, "stroboscope light/timming light"  make me a " easy life"..... I have used a "bulb test" to  set the points but timming light for me is faster and accurate. I have a Original Honda dwell from the seventies but is awkward to use.....and never use it

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