Let me be clearer about this David, I'm under no illusions that programmable injection and ignition is superior. If I wanted to I'd go that way, I'd do it, and would have no dramas with the tech side of it. I like older stuff, but am still a realist about the relative merits and pros and cons. In all probability I'll end up buying one of the machines anyway, just because they are available in refurbished 'as new' condition, and they are a part of history, albeit a vanishing one. I don't think for a minute that I'll be retiring on money made from recurving people's dizzies. Not a chance of that. I was curious however to see if anyone was in fact interested in it and how much they thought such a service (at mates rates, because I'm not looking to make a fortune, hell I'm not really even looking to break even) would be worth. some time ago a family friend had a valiant slant 6 and before I 'could get to him' he ended up paying over $500 for some dizzy specialist (I won't name them, though they've never been mentioned on this forum as far as I know) to recondition their dizzy. $500 for a points dizzy. Had I gotten to him in time, the later model hemi 6 dizzy is adaptable, and is electronic in std form (still using a points spec coil, so it works like points on their best ever day, day in day out) and for about $40 more it can be adapted to the bosch hei module fitted to blue motor commodores and the last of the pushrod ford 6s - so then it runs a much higher output coil too. SO all in all he could have had something with probably 3-4 times the result in terms of starting and cold running etc, for 1/5th the price.

I've recurved plenty of dizzys, it's just time consuming to pull them in and out of the motor, strip em, alter them then re-test with a timing light and someone else writing down the readings rpm vs advance. being able to do it on the test rig will cut the time down massively, and is also fun (it also means I don't need to have a running engine of the type required for each specific dizzy.

In very general terms, everyone who I have helped put hei on an early holden and/or valiant has all said the same exact thing - had they known the improvement it would make, it would have been the first thing they did when they got the car.

Dennis I like the drill idea, and I may even try that - I can certainly see how easily it could be hooked up to any dizzy.