Topic: Best place to source 2-3 cylinder TEC points in the USA

[Oddjob]

I've managed to find a few sets of TEC 1-4 points so I thought I'd like to make them into pairs and marry them up with the 2-3 TEC points, seems these are getting harder and harder to find. I know South Sound have some but they ain't exactly cheap so I was wondering if anyone knows anywhere that sells them cheaper than $29 a set. I have a mate working in the USA at the moment so I can get them sent to him and he'll bring them back FOC.

Anyone?

Bike of course is a 500, so any 750, 550, 500, 400, 350 points will do. So long as they are TEC of course.

[seanbarney41]

Check eBay...really, the only source for them other than a Honda OEM parts dealer, and those are always gonna be the same price as South Sound

[newday777]

Unfortunately the supply of TEC points are drying up unless you call around to old dealers that have NOS parts still.

[newday777]

Hondaman says that the DAIICHI points from the 70s are as good as the TEC. There are still some of the DAIICHI around. NPN has them on ebay.

TEC points are no longer available for the most part.

[Oddjob]

TEC are still available but not as readily, I have quite a few sets of 1-4 and some 2-3 and I usually sell them to the UK members if they can't find any, I don't trust Daichi at all, in fact I salvaged a really good set of 2-3 points from an old points plate the other week, faces were still ok so I dressed them down only to find the circlip missing and the arm was sticking a little so took them apart, I wasn't aware that the arm is bushed on TEC points, what looks to be a phosphor bronze bush sits between the arm and the pivot pin, inferior points seem to think it's ok just to run them in the bakolite stuff the arm is made of and then wonder why they go out of adjustment so easily. I took a circlip off a ruined set, so now I have another pair ready for use.

I'll keep looking, tried Ebay, nothing worldwide and Yamiya have them but still around $29 a set.

[HondaMan]

The Daiichi points from 2008 or so sure sold a lot of my Transistor Ignitions. They can operate for a very long time if operating 'statically', i.e., not having the points weld shut on every closure (which is normal operation for points), because the pivot is good so long as the loads are not high. I ran 3 years of a test on Daiichi points (the cheap ones) with my box and they never did shift timing after their first 300-mile check. Unplugging the box made them shift time the next year in just 1 month of riding to work (about 1000 miles then).