20-06-2020, 08:42 PM
Mike Watterson Wrote:Mazda Octal
The heater pins are usually 1 & 8. The heater pins are 55.5 apart and the other pins 43.5 apart. Not sure what units.
Units... Degrees.
if you add the seven remaining spacings 43.5 to the 55.5 between 1 and 8, you get 360
I have a NOS P base valveholder, I'll measure this to double-check, what the minimum hole size would be. But it does look like Amie's radio is octal from Day 1.
Agree with Mike, rivets aren't that hard to fit, with suitable tooling... Though nuts and bolts are even easier in the service workshop, so I'd honestly expect a retrofit to use these, not rivets.
And yes, fault could have been there from Day 1, too. Maybe it was even despatched deliberately misaligned, to stop it oscillating?
