coil fire??

i put new points, condensor, rotor, in. i found the old distributor wire was almost just a thread holdin the wire together. put in another dist i had. coil is new. i have spark at both poles at coil, fire at points, they are set, they re movin, i disconnected coil wire from dist, my finger felt NO fire ( i hate shock!). new ballast, ....... this old (65 dart) had been sittin quite a while when i drug it home. i did find the fusible link had burned out, i replaced it, isee no burned wires. the test light at nrg pole of coil shows a constant current when i crank it. so why NO fire?????????? ( many times i wish i was an elecrical engineer, or socket scientist, or at least a decent shade treee mechanic!!!!!!)