Distributor Machine Part Deux

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About 2am last night this arrived. Very stoked to get exactly what I have been looking for all these years. Sun 506. This model has a Xeon light instead of the standard neon many of the olders models have which is really expensive to replace. The advantage of the Xeon also is its much brighter. You don't have to turn the lights off to see it. I just happened to search CL one day and saw this machine. The guy had it for 500 so I immediately thought there was something wrong with it. I called anyway and a nice lady answered the phone. She said it was out of her husbands speed shop in Madison NY. After a bit of confusion I found out her husband was still alive. I talked with him for hrs on the phone. He was a huge wealth of knowledge. I could also tell this machine was his baby. It was one of only a few things he still kept. I told him its going to a good home and will be put to good use. I plan on keeping it forever. I had a mud member go pick it up for me and shipped it to me. Thanks Joe.

I got a hell of a deal. It's spotless and works flawlessly. The unit alone is worth 2k in its condition. But I got a couple holy grail tools thrown in. One is the spring scale which came in its original box. They sell for over 200 on eBay all the time. As well I got the original pulse amplifier with it which is also another couple hundred. Cannot wait to start putting it to work.



Found this inside one of the manuals.

 

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[Pin_Head]

I am old enough to remember those machines and they were not the type of thing that most shops had. The shop I worked in had a Sun tune up machine with scope, but they didn't have a distributor machine. They were specialty items for shops that specialized in high performance and racing, which was still popular in the 70s. They are more for tuning a distributor centrifugal advance curve than for diagnosing routine problems with distributors.

 

[Trollhole]

I am old enough to remember those machines and they were not the type of thing that most shops had. The shop I worked in had a Sun tune up machine with scope, but they didn't have a distributor machine. They were specialty items for shops that specialized in high performance and racing, which was still popular in the 70s. They are more for tuning a distributor centrifugal advance curve than for diagnosing routine problems with distributors.

For the normal guy it would be overkill but for me who is selling dizzy's I need something that I can use to test each dizzy I send out and confirm they all have the same curve. I can tell you this they all don't. Most need a little tweaking here and there. Still pretty cool to see how a dizzy functions at speed and what points are going through.

 

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In the light

 

[Tapage]

first time I saw one of those in action ..

 

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Okay one more. Gives you an idea of how Vac advance works on a dizzy.

 

[IBCRUSN]

I know how advance works but it's very cool to see the two videos especially the one in the dark. Makes me kinda wish I had older Cruiser again. I know my '74 F.5 ran well but with a calibrated dizzy and tweaked carb I'm sure it would have been a different truck.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

That is an awesome machine Marshall!

Does this mean that you will start recurving stock 2F distributors?

 

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Haven't decided. I'm pretty sure there is already an expert out there that can do it for us and knows his stuff. Will probably do it for the locals though.