Relax. It's usually best to keep things to the thread. I know it was starting to drift, but it will come up again. He posted what was relevant to the question. Lets either start a new thread about timing or wait until it comes up for some specific application.

As far as distributor machine, there's a fella in Halifax Pa that's been restoring Sun machines - and there's another guy in the midwest that restores Allens and Sun distributor machines. Let me know if you need more specifics on either.