it got out into my shed this evening and did a little work (well it feels like it was play...). i feel so so good now. realy satisfied and somewhat relieved that i have broken the thing i was going through, i was stuck and didn't know how to get going again.

i'm surprised how good i feel though, i really need to do things with my hands, to create, to fix, to improve something.

ages ago a friend asked me if i had a spare 36hp distributor, it just so happened that in the past i had picked up several spares with projects so had more distributors than motors for them.

initialy when i first met the guy who wanted one, he was just an eccentric guy that i bought stuff from, but he has always been good to me and over the years we have talked quite a bit and i came to really like him and now consider him a friend. back when he asked i told him i would get him one when i got to my parents where they were stored. months passed and i finally got them up here. then more time passed and i started trying to rebuild one just too see if i could then a second for ernie (the guy). now i have several in pieces, two repainted body's etc. i figured that the best way to say thanks to ernie was to give him one fully rebuilt and ready for many more years service. a while back i got points and a rotor locally but never got around to getting a cap shipped up. (plus i couldn't find the correct condenser in NSW).

i got some parts shipped up and included the cap, this is what spured me into action. i had several late condensers that i picked up cheap and looked like i could modify to fit like the correct one and look similar. all in all it probably took 3/4 of an hour to get the mount tab reshaped and the wire trimmed and modified to look/fit like the stock one. the points i had were 40hp so fitted but had a spade conector not the U shaped one of the earlier pionts. the spade had to be opened out, trimmed and a slot cut into it so it would mount the same as the correct ones... another 20+ minutes there. these might sound like really onerous tasks but i loved every second of it. i'm not really happy with how it turned out as it isn't my best work, but it is only the asthetics that aren't perfect, they will work fine. as i said, even though the result wasn't 100% it was still so enjoyable. 

the (fake) assistant worked well for this task. i sat in a chair next to it and just grabbed the tools as needed. really quick and easy, especialy now that i'm getting used to where everything lives. i sat the distributor, parts and tools in use on the top tray so they were handy when i wanted them again.

as to how it goes when working on a car, we will have to wait and see.

tomorrow i hope to pick up the correct grease so i can get the distributor lubed, shimmed and back together over the weekend (yeah i get a weekend off!). plus hopefully out to ernie, i think he will be pleased. he has always liked it when i have taken the stuff i bought from him back out cleaned up and back to how it originaly was (or if not original at least looking much better/functional), so i think he will like having something restored given to him for his car.

more has been going on but involves me being a grumpy bitch plus it doesn't rate comapared to this so isn't really worth repeating.