vintagestang Posted January 6, 2012 Posted January 6, 2012 I have done this once and it turned out really good. You will need: a small vice, a drill press, a coarse metal file, a fine metal file, some small drill bits and some small self tapping screws. Take the vice and put the coarse file in it with the wide side facing you. Put the vice on the drill press and put the screw head in the drill press. Turnn on the drill press and pull it down and push against the vice filing the screw threads down. After you get the threads filed down and to where it will fit in the engine flip the screw around in the drill press and round the head off. Take the file out of the vice and turn it facing the ceiling and file the head down to scale. Repeat the process again with the fine file to smooth it out some. Next take the right sized drill bit and drill the holes fore the wires and paint if you want.
george 53 Posted January 6, 2012 Posted January 6, 2012 Or you could just buy a dizzy from MAD and be done with it. Not all of us have access to a modeling drillpress, and the one in my garage is TOO big to even TRY chucking a modeling bit small enough for drilling plug holes out.
vintagestang Posted January 6, 2012 Author Posted January 6, 2012 I don't use a modeling drill press or modeling bits. It is an old restored Craftsman.
Draggon Posted January 6, 2012 Posted January 6, 2012 Just got my lastest order from Kris at MAD today and once again I am quite impressed!
crazyjim Posted January 6, 2012 Posted January 6, 2012 Come on over to the Florida Auto & Scale Trucks (FAST) meeting tomorrow morning. After the business portion of the meeting we'er going to have a scratch built distributor tutorial covering 3 different approaches. Somebody already posted building distributors from Evergreen rod and half rounds. Pretty good but drilling all those little holes is difficult for me. I prefer the Fatkidd method.
Boreham Posted January 7, 2012 Posted January 7, 2012 ???? !!!! That's a nice invatation you gave there CrazyJim. If it were to me Personally I'd say thanks. Nothing like seeing a job done 1st. hand.
crazyjim Posted January 7, 2012 Posted January 7, 2012 Maybe Fatkidd will post a tutorial of his method. Worst case, he wouldn't mind if I tried to post one.
fatkidd Posted January 8, 2012 Posted January 8, 2012 Maybe Fatkidd will post a tutorial of his method. Worst case, he wouldn't mind if I tried to post one. jim, you may go ahead and do a tutrial for it...i'm not too swift at the explanaion sometimes.
crazyjim Posted January 8, 2012 Posted January 8, 2012 Okay. I'll put it on my list of projects to get done.
scalenut Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 I've done a couple dizzys with the crimp on wire terminal ends.. I got a pack of them cheap.. it looks pretty convincing compared to a screw. you have to cut them down to size, but you can crimp the wires in .no glue.
Alyn Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) I've done a couple dizzys with the crimp on wire terminal ends.. I got a pack of them cheap.. it looks pretty convincing compared to a screw. you have to cut them down to size, but you can crimp the wires in .no glue. good idea! How well does this type of plastic respond to glue? CA I assume. These look like they could be used for a variety of parts. I think I see a generator in there, maybe a magneto, fuel pump, etc. Edited January 9, 2012 by Alyn
vintagestang Posted January 9, 2012 Author Posted January 9, 2012 Thats a good idea I will try that. Are those male bullet connectors? I will post a picture of mine.
vintagestang Posted January 9, 2012 Author Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) This is the screw I machined into a distributor. Edited January 9, 2012 by vintagestang
CorvairJim Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 I've done a couple dizzys with the crimp on wire terminal ends.. I got a pack of them cheap.. it looks pretty convincing compared to a screw. you have to cut them down to size, but you can crimp the wires in .no glue. I LIKE IT! Would some place like Home Depot have these or would I need to check an electrical supply store?
scalenut Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 I purchased an assortment pack at the electrical supply store , the ones I use have hollow round shaft instead of the tapered and split crimp type shaft in the photo I first posted, I use epoxy with them. they go from very tiny to quite large with different shapes look for "wire ferrules"
fatkidd Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 look for "wire ferrules" thank you very much for that info. Someone gave me a few of those somewhere along the way and i never knew what they were called so that I could look for me. So, Thank you!
CorvairJim Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 Thanks for the info. I NEED to get a bunch of these!
Boreham Posted January 17, 2012 Posted January 17, 2012 hhhmmm Andy ,if the on on the lower left was small enough it'd be nice as intake trumpet / bellmouth
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