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Nick Campagna
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The spring connector on my older, but still very good timing light has streached out and become wothless. Does anyone know how to fix or convert it to inductive pickup ?
Is the defect in what I see, or what I'm seeing with ?
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Nick,
Can you disect an old/new sparkplug wire boot and use the clip from inside it?
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On a similar light. I used a spring I scrounged up and put a clip on the lead. (like an alligator clip, but wider)

OTOH, inductive versions of similar lights are cheap on ebay.
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I like those ideas. Thanks.
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The older sears dialback lights are cheap and work verywell
One on ebay now
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