Shop Gatherings, No. Virginia, the Lost Knowledge Sessions

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I have shop gathering at my shop during the winters and this Sunday, Jan 20th, is the first one this year.
There is no cost, a buffet lunch is provided (and other goodies like BROWNIES!), we start at 10am and go until we are done.
This Sunday we'll start with Dave Krolak (Nostalgia Works) anmd he will give a seminar on brake system design, componant selection, brake theory, from the pedal thru to wheel cylinder or caliper sizing.
I will do Electrical Wireing, with emphasis on the componants, proper tooling & connectors, circuit design and how to make harnesses. Schematics, devices, different kits etc will be part of the discussion
Ted Bennett will kick of the major topic, Ignition Systems. Ted will explain the actual working of an ignition coil. Carl Anderson (Early American Auto Restorations) will discuss early ignition systems and how they work, demo a 59a distributor and bring us on thru the points systems illustrating the dwell and vacuum on a Sun 504 and we may get into the sine wave as well with a spark plug rack and connect to a Sun scope.
I have yet to get confirmation on a 3rd instructor who will bring us from HEI on thru to capacitive discharge ignitions.
This is going to be a lot of fun!

[Monk]

Damn....will have to be there in spirit.
Sounds like a good time.

[Deaf Bob]

Damn....will have to be there in spirit.
Sounds like a good time.

Yeah.. Wrong coast!

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I just got off the phone from speaking with Electromotive and they are on board for a demo. They will take the ignition seminar from the points and Hei era and bring us up to modern systems. They'll have some of thier state of the art engine management systems on display and a staff engineer explaining how they work and it won't be a sales pitch!