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Now we have to talk about price. No it’s not $299. I’ll be supplying a plate, two new yellow zinc hold down/mounting bolts. The plate will be either unfinished, powder coated cast aluminum or glass black, or yellow zinc plated. I can also soak yours in water and muriatic acid and let it rust on the bench for while so if you like the patina look.... I want to price it low so that there is no barrier to access. I also want to make a bit of profit so I can afford to keep building Datsun’s and maybe invent more parts. What I’d like is a little focus group-like input. I would like a price range that YOU think is, on one hand, is the likely production cost and represents the break even point, and on the other end, the most you’d ever pay for something like this. Consider the total price, including shipping in your input. I have a number in mind, but I want to get an idea of what you feel is reasonable. Thanks in advance for your input.

Yup, just one screw to take out of the dizzy (M5 8mm head) then put it back in through the new plate. I’ll be supplying nice new yellow zinc bolts for that M5 and the M6 that you tighten to set the timing. Everything has to look new and shiny

I’ve been quite shocked how much transmission noise came and went as I changed bushings, shift knob size and weight, shift lever lengths, etc over the years. A LOT of noise and vibration comes from the trans, made worse I’m sure by internal wear and slop. A friend of mine related an interesting story that shows that Nissan recognized this as an issue. First we know about the ZX shifter bushings that have the plastic bushing plates with the embedded spring to absorb vibration, and with at some or all of the C type shifters, if you foolishly cut the shifter rod off to lengthen, or shorten, or change the angle, you find that the shift rod is actually a composite of a small internal metal rod that connects into the transmission selector hole, then a laminated rubber coating over that, then the outer metal shift rod that you see and feel. Makes welding really fun, and you will lose all that nice isolation....

She has been convinced to donate her wages to the cost of our Disney+ subscription....

There are silver linings indeed. Spending more time with my 3 yr old grand daughter than I ever thought I would. We are playing daycare four days a week. Never played so much barbie or Hide and seek in my life. Even have an indoor swing, and that thing does NOT swing itself. Also have her earning her keep in the shop. Doing her part sanding the air cleaner bolt cup washers. F495BC45-70B6-4744-9B6E-545B7CC5E79E.MOV

Small medium, no wait. Tall, Grande, Venti? All the holes are exactly 17mm

Progress today. Cup washers are back from the plater. Look good to me! Now I have to go buy more plumbing rubber washers to complete them. By “go out” I of course mean, order on line. I found some at Ukrainian Tire. Coming next week. Never ordered anything from CDN Tire. usually it’s a reason to go out for a look-see, like Princess Auto or Harbour Freight....

Regarding naming. Leading contenders are: Dizzy Disk TimeSlot FreeTime DatSlot DatTime AnyTime EasyTime

Some progress. Got some test plates back from the plater. Big one in yellow zinc and little one in powder coat 'cast aluminium'

Let me look. I likely have one. At least I’ll tell you the size of the hole. Making one should be pretty straight forward. Do you have the clips that hold the clutch line at this hole? I can send a set of these too.

I have some spares. PM me.

Oh sure I mention a stupid high price in a moment of jest and everyone goes quiet. There was a WINKY face people! Maybe there’s a world crisis that has you pre-occupied. That must be it. ? I would like to get a couple of others in tester’s hands, let me know if anyone else wants one.

This here is the tab that you see when you take the ring off. The sender body has the matching notch.

Oh I'll make all my money back when I go commercial. They are going to be $299 USD! ?

Have you seen the exchange rate with It's 1.16 right now CAD to AUD. Time to hit up their Datsun vendors. For the US, it even crazier 1.63! Huge advantage for us North American's

I have a couple of requests so far, and I've started the shipping process to send them out. I've done a bit of postal shipping estimates to the four corners of the lower 48. The packaging I'm using a bubble mailer, 24x18x1cm, 0.14 kg for the large plate. It's the same no matter where it goes. Given the usual payment method of paypal, I decided a flat $15 USD charge no matter where you are in the USA is the price to play for the few of you that will be the testers. Postal rates in Canada vary greatly, I'll quote actual rates as needed, and we can send cheaper e-transfers. In the spirit of the current reality, I will also disinfect the package contents before I seal the envelope.

Send me the email or PM me with your shipping details, we’ll get one on the way.

Did any specific machines catch your eye and not your wallet?

Send me an email to z240@shaw.ca and we’ll exchange contact info. I’ll only ask for the cost of postage to for a proto type Obliges you to test, feed back, send some pics, maybe some good press if you like it.

Jim Shim. Nice ring to it. Add it to the list. “About Time” is leading in my book. Quite an advanced concept really. The onesix has it’s own base, this thing won’t help.

I like that idea. A quick browse of laser engravers that can do steel are out of the price range of practicality and $$. I may be able to find a service that does it that makes the per item cost reasonable. I know! I’ll hand engrave and sign each one. Harder to knock off. I have one of these.

The danger is in the advance getting too high, retard is not an issue. Even things like spark plug wire tension might affect which way it would tend to wander. Maybe an addition “Stop” of some sort (small bolt and nut) to add to the slot CW of the main hold down bolt to prevent it wandering in that direction?

Since it works on the L4 as well, would have to include 1342 as well. Maybe not a bad idea to inscribe both. It does add considerable expense to have them engraved however. The laser cutter cannot be used to do both cut and engrave. I suppose I should engrave a trade mark as well. Trying hard to make this cheap and easy, not get rich or make so expensive that it won’t do all the good I hope it does. I understand the danger of feature creep. Add this, add that, make it shinier, etc etc.

Interesting point. If the main bolt comes loose, I wonder which the dizzy body would naturally tend to rotate? At least a good point to include in the instructions.