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That's odd.

grandpa Love

grandpa Love

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Put new plugs and wires on the Ford 640 today ,checked gap on points , pulled a dollar bill through it a few times.......And the darn thing fired up and ran like a new one. Odd huh?! Lol.
 
"Just think what a $100 bill would do."

A hundred would be even, not odd.
It would probably have less skin oil and grime on it too. ;)
 
I thought everyone new that trick. A business card will also work. But the dollar bill works the best. I wouldn't know about the hundred dollar bill. Don't see many of them.
 
I use an IBM card. Though getting hard to find now, I saved a stack of them just for this purpose. Though once not often necessary, it's a regular occurrence with todays contact sets.

A piece of brown paper bag works well too.

Dean
 
My understanding is the new hundred has new technology fabric to prevent counterfeiting, and it's gritty and textured and stiff. Perfect.
 
Doesn't a dollar bill have to be folded so a certain side is out and rubbing against the points though? The old Oliver dealer told me about doing that a lot of years ago,and he said it had to be the right side out,but I don't remember which side it was.
 
(quoted from post at 23:54:49 04/24/17) I use an IBM card. Though getting hard to find now, I saved a stack of them just for this purpose. Though once not often necessary, it's a regular occurrence with todays contact sets.

A piece of brown paper bag works well too.

Dean
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Because I know this forum cherishes precision in all things I will point out that the card you refer to is technically called a Hollerith card after the inventor, Herman Hollerith. I only recall that because I spent many nights cussing him when I had dropped, and shuffled, a deck that was to be an overnight run.
 
Only works if points are just a little dirty. The cigarette smokers usually had a book of matches in their pocket that served as a point file in emergency situations. Followed by the dollar bill to clean any grit left behind.
 
The dealer told me to use it with a new set of points before I ran it. I'm pretty sure it was the front of the bill that he told me to use.
 
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