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I was remembering the day I bought my Packard, she had been sitting maybe two years and would not start. On and on it went with no success... until an old timer Packard friend arrived. He took one look at it and said, "Anybody have any sandpaper or a nail file??" He nail filed something in the distributor and VROOOOOMMMM!!!!! Have you tried that??

That's funny...such a simple thing. Definitely worth a try.

...and then he walked off into the sunset with his burnishing tool in hand. We never got that stranger's name.

A good thing to try as the contacts will oxidize and fail to conduct. A quick burnishing will restore the surfaces.

(o{}o)

That't the points they're talking about filing. Just enough to take the oxidation off, sometimes in a pinch you can just pull a rough business card through the closed points.