<VV> Carbon Tracking

[Mikeamauro at aol.com]

"... I prefer Brass,  which will be a lifetime cap, and will never  carbon 
track. ya pays yer money, and ya takes yer cherch..."
 
Sorry, Pal, but I'm am the writer of the original story, and the (my)  
failed cap had brass contacts (from NAPPA), so I guess your hypothesis doesn't  
hold true. I'm a Corvair owner who doesn't EVER spare the $$$ when 
performance  and reliability are at stake.
 
All the best...
 
Mike Mauro  



In a message dated 4/2/2010 4:55:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
virtualvairs-request at corvair.org writes:

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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 08:39:12 -0800
From: "lewisrishel"  <lewrish at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: <VV> carbon  tracking
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
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Mention was made recently hereon about carbon  tracking in the distributor 
cap. If you understand that the original caps  supplied by Generous Motors 
are black because they have someting called  lampblack (which is a carbon 
bypproduct) in them to make them black, then  you can see that tracking is 
very likely to happen eventually. And more  likely in the moist, hot 
southern 
places like that long narrow state that  extends down toward cigar land, as 
well as the northern one with the  million water holes for ice fishing, and 
also the humid areas in the rusty  bible belt, plus the places below the 
salty sea level ober der in die  Nederlaanndt.
So, what is the cure. There are several manufacturers of caps  without 
lampblack, Niehoff is one, these caps are available in blue, tan  and grey 
and perhaps other colors.  They have copper or brass  contacts inside, not 
that cheapie aluminium crap the general  uses,