From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   AJL wrote:   
   >>It's kind of like how cars changed, where we changed the points every year   
   >>and replaced the capacitor and checked the dwell & timing, and now, none of   
   >>that is needed for the life of the car.   
   >   
   >   
   > I replaced a few vibrators. Remember where they were?   
      
   It's not a term I learned in auto shop, but they didn't teach us how to   
   work on the radios in the dashboard.   
      
   It's only when I became an electrical engineer that I learned how to step   
   up low voltage DC to high voltage AC and then Wheatstone it back to DC.   
      
   About the only thing today in engine bays even close to the golden era of   
   US automobiles is, oh, maybe the cooling system is essentially unchanged.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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