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On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 12:29, Everett Barnes wrote: > >I believe that the Bentley describes a flat tool that was aligned to the > flat on this finger, and would hang down into the timing hole. Most folks > just eyeball it. > > > I have a little piece of thin board I cut out to match a pattern in one > of my Type 3 books, I think it's the Orange one: > http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/books/neil/elfrink01.jpg > > It lays on the little "finger" and drops down into the hole, as you mentioned. > > I also recently bought a weird tool on eBay that clips on there with a little > spring-loaded clamp but I haven't tried it yet. > > Or I eyeball it... > The official tool was a metal piece with a spring loaded clamp that clamped to the "finger". It would not be too hard to make something with a snapping clothes pin. Or does the modern generation not know what a clothes pin is. :=) J/K -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org