advance retard weight springs

[triple tango]

Overhauling my dizzy today & noticed one of the advance / retard weight springs appeared stretched & loose. So I raided a spare dizzy & that was the same. It made me wonder if it was meant to have odd springs?

[Jod Clark]

This would be a 45D4 dizzy Roy? I've seen exactly the same thing in every single one I've ever had, so I guess its either a very common fault or they're supposed to be like that. I put two of the smaller, unstretched springs into a dizzy once and it seemed to work very well.

[triple tango]

yes thats what I did. But then I wondered if it was deigned like that.

[george]

iirc the springs are different. But it's been many years and the resultant loss of grey matter has made its mark

[Stagger]

The springs are supposed to be like that to achieve the correct timing curve.