I know this has been covered before, but if you want condensers to
last you need to sand the case to ensure they get a good ground. the
coat them with lacquer. You can solder the clamp to the case or just
use a little contact grease--you can get the stuff at Radio shack.
You could indeed buy a better quality condenser. Industrial condensers
with two leads instead of a grounded case. Make sure it's high
voltage, as I recollect you want at least a 400V condenser and it
should be about .2--.25 microfarads. Not an electrolytic--those are
polarized. You need a good paper condenser.
Just about any car condenser will work, you could go to napa and ask
what they have. I generally use Mallory and just sand them. Of course
right now Peyote has a Pertronics in it. Tony wanted to stick it back
in. It's working fine. Of course the first time it farts I'm going to
want points back in the thing. They do seem to be tolerating lower
voltages a lot better than they used to. I'm still offended that they
charge extra to put in steering diodes that should have been in place
to begin with.
On Oct 20, 2009, at 6:41 PM, marty sukey wrote:
> I run Mallory dual points on both the TR6 and Spitfire. I have never
> had a
> condenser go bad on the TR6. On the Spitfire they don't seem to
> last. Both use
> Mallory #400 condensers. First, is there anything that would cause
> them to
> take a dump more rapidly on one vehicle compared to another? Second,
> are the
> Mallory condensers different than a generic condenser? I can get
> generics
> anytime, sources for the Mallory's are not around the corner when
> one takes a
> dump and I don't have a spare handy.Any opinions out there?
>
> Thanks,
> Marty
>
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