Re: Onto a new learning curve…CD ignition

[johnyrude200]

Thank you, very much! I had a great conversation with a fellow AOMCI member, 10 years younger than me, but also been in the club 15 years longer than me (I’m 36…do the math). All the Yankee chapter members know who I’m talking about.

It was really a great conversation about something related to this thread. The meat of the conversation was that, CD ignition conversations in 2015 are akin to magneto conversations in 1985. There is a ‘passing of the torch’ that is a necessary reinvestment to attract new members (30-50 years old). I seek knowledge, and am thankful for the resource that the forums represent from the 5-7 regulars who are here just to help everyone, personal and political views aside.

Thank you everyone for your devotion to keep these motors alive…I have had such an outpouring of folks who have said this to me as I’ve worked on their motors that marinas tell them to throw away, and I consider myself to be a newbie to the repair profession. I’m just passing along the knowledge you all have worked long and hard to accrue. I will say I had a local emergency department ask me for a motor from the 60’s for a rescue vessel. If it were not for the outpouring of support in these forums, the vessel wouldn’t be supplied with a cost-effective motor that once I am done with it, will be (other than cosmetically), as good as new to help rescue folks in the water.

I shake my head at what marinas have said to customers bringing their motors in for normal service orders, only because in many cases the motors require very little to be reliable and serviceable.