I have never had all that much trouble with points, and truth be told, some guys like to manicure the lawn, landscape, garden, me, I like a cup of coffee and a morning in the garage tinkering so tuning one of the 6 motors up, or performing a little ignition maintence is no trouble for me so a Petronix conversion is not really on my radar.
As for the handy dandy distributor tool, yep, nice thing to have in the tool box. They turn up often enough on eBay that you should be able to find one with a little patience.
