briggs and stratton stopped using points in 1982.
what year did briggs and stratton stop using points?
1982
bullet::::- magnetron ignition – this solid state ignition system introduced by briggs & stratton in 1982 eliminated the points and condenser system, the performance of which steadily degraded between required periodic maintenance service. magnetron was made available for retrofitment to briggs & stratton engines made since 1963. competitor tecumseh had made a capacitor discharge ignition setup since 1968 for their cast iron engine models, expanding its availability and making it standard equipment on vertical shaft engines powering lawn mowers in late 1976, five years before the advent of the briggs magnetron. defunct competitor clinton engines commercialized a piezo "spark pump" ignition without breaker points in the early 1960s.
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after the war monfreid retired to a mansion in a small village of "la france profonde", in ingrandes (département of the indre), france. there he played piano, wrote, painted, and quietly raised in his garden a plantation of opium poppies, and took the habit of using the local grocer's scales to weigh his crop and divide it into daily portions. the grocer paid no heed, since monfreid's household were good customers, and monfreid himself bought huge amounts of honey, which he took to drive off the costive effects of opium. eventually monfreid was given away to the local gendarmerie, but he escaped prosecution; at that time opium was used only by unconventional artists, like his friend jean cocteau. monfreid boasted in his books about his ability to manipulate and divert prying law enforcers through clever speech.
henry de monfreid