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Old 03-25-2011, 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by widebear View Post
Somebody help this ignorant old guy with his poor grade ten math decades behind him.

Depite the radius differances of two different objects ,90 degrees between two points of a circle working from on centre equates to 25% of its total circ?, constant. I dont have a protractor to use I'm going bush legue here.
Here's what I did.

ON the ignition which has the mark, take a tape measure, and measure the circumference of the OD. Then, measure the distance from the raised magnet used to trigger the ignition to the mark.

Compute that ratio / fraction.

Then, with the new ignition, measure the circumference with the tape measure. Multiply the ratio above by the new circumference, and that is the distance the new mark should be from the same spot on the magnetic surface.

As long as the ratios are the same, you're money. no protractor needed.

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