Where can I get these ignition points from?
LOL. That phrase does not mean what you appear to wish it meant.
I make my living at various applications of electronics from a very wide range of years.
I appreciate the things that permit service.
If the manfucturer will provide documents that allow me to service easily, that's a plus. If I have read the circuit board to see what's going on, I can still do that, but I can't imagine replacing a failed electrolytic capacitor on circuit board, on the side of an interstate while we are already late getting to cousin Jeryld's for Sunday dinner.
I've made some pretty crazy repairs to keep multi-million dollar presses in production over the weekends, and seen some damn-fool engineering fail where straight forward common sense wouldn't have failed at all.
Touch-pad interfaces, LCD displays, all designed to impress the people who buy the stuff, but don't consider that when the damn thing doesn't work, they can't just put in a simple switch to get by, and they miss a deadline on a hot job.
No one wants to stock all the things needed to support the gee-whiz tech, but they'll still piss and moan monday morning about a press being down all weekend.
I once kept a Kodak Nexpress running all weekend, where a tiny bearing on a delivery belt failed. They were DOWN, and Kodak couldn't be in till Monday, but they'd still like to run.
Could I please try to do something?
I took the bearing apart, threw away the galled ball bearings, cut a tiny piece of leather to go snugly between the inner and outer races, locked the outer race to leather with super glue, greased between both sides, and they ran over 100,000 impressions over the weekend.
Kodak came in Monday and said, "What happened? You said you were down."
They were quite impressed with that stupid little bearing, and kept it for show-and-tell.
