Ford 9N ignition question.

NAPA / Echlin was still using Condenser in 1998 (their catalog U138)

It hung on later in reference to car ignotion, though. I remember seeing it in some tune-up manuals from the early '60s.

I really don't want to go into that corner of the attic but maybe I'll get to it.

Condensor is the old Latin name for them.

"Points and condenser" disappeared with the electronic ignitions and fuel injection, THANK CROM! Most had gone away by '85, when I got out of the biz.

Are you gushing over guitars and bashing bonnets, boy?

My '78 Fiat manual used "condenser"

I wonder in that case if you were seeing an accepted use, or a translation from Italian that happened to use an old technical word from English?

For example, I once had to read an Italian engineering paper on the subject of electrical discharge machining. The first sentence of the paper described EDM as a "freaky appelation." d8-)

I know the condenser is a capacitor. But when you say "I replaced the points and capacitor" people look at you strange. So when I am doing a tune up on a points ignition vehicle I replace the condenser. When anything else I say capacitor. Eric

On 04/27/2017 6:10 PM, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote: ...

Any vehicle w/ a distributor/points system...auto parts lookup is still the common name (at least in US; don't know for certain what the Brits used).

Not sure when production in US finally would have ceased, trucks were exempt from some of the more onerous emissions reqm'ts for a while after automobiles so therein is probably where the last would have been.

Off-road equipment, of course, lasted for quite a lot longer.

....... In front of the radiator, full of refrigerant.