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Oddjob:
I bought a batch of condensers from Andy Cepok, he advertised them as genuine but they were not in genuine blister packs like they used to be. I also bought quite a few sets of genuine points, in blister packs, and then what did I do, yep bought a Hondaman kit so I'll never get to use them as points will last and last.
As for the oven, I did my first cure in the oven the other day, I'm trying a complete restoration and renovation of a starter motor, completely in bits. They do get damaged a lot for some reason. Anyway the end caps had been sprayed in that Simoniz silver everyone's using for cases, so I thought I'd cure them, just in case. Did this before the missus came home, yes there were some fumes but when the missus came in and commented on the smell I said the oven was such a disgrace I decided to put it on a cleaning cycle where it heats up to it's hottest and burns all the old crud off the liners and that's what the smell was. She thanked me for being so thoughtful.
See, that's how you do it. You do need an oven with those liners though and a cleaning cycle.
Laverdaroo:
Blagger! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Sesman:
I pulled the same stunt. However……..during my second stint the circulation fan began to squeak and I had to replace it. Was this a coincidence or does the offgassing dry out the bearing surfaces……just wondering
Oddjob:
Personally I'd get a points file and clean up the faces of the old points first. Don't change the condensers as those look original, unless of course they don't work. If using the Hondaman system the old points should be ok so long as the heels aren't worn, which those don't appear to be.
Evidently that felt was named by someone recently as maybe "hard felt" or something and you can buy it on Ebay. You just need someone to confirm the name so you can search for it, for some reason I seem to think it was JamesH.
juitz:
Good stuff Odddjob - I'll keep the aftermarket units as spares and try to clean up the originals first.
And I think I've found the felt part
https://www.cmsnl.com/products/felt-oil_30205300154/
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