Originally Posted by crenwelge
I wish I could have bought the machine.

I've got a Sun distributor tester that's in need of a cleanup and general overhaul. The item that fails on them pretty regularly is the Xenon flash tube that illuminates the rotating arrow every time the points break. I use a delay-flash Snap-On timing light to locate the arrow instead of the internal flash tube, since the only employee Sun had who could build the flash tubes properly died back in the 1970's!
Jerry

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