[Rob Doe]

Nice thread guyz. I experienced my first point/condenser failure a couple months ago. The condenser, a modern type upper plate, was over two years old and had about 13000 miles on it. I have a simple capacitor tester like Tom's. At that time, I still had an aftermarket switch but have now upgraded to a rebuilt original pop out.

I first replaced the badly pitted and blackened points and tested for good spark, nope. Replaced the condenser and the ole girl lit off like handgrenade. I tested the old condenser at the bench. It ran the numbers up and stopped at .225 as I recall, showing no leakage. Showed OL when testing the contact and the case. I don't have the real McCoy tester to stress it enough is my theory.

Thanks for the article Mr. Endy and the additional tip Mr. Shinn.