setting the points is a 2 minute job, its so easy, once youve done it once itll take you 2 minutes, obviously the timing will then need doing, but that again doesnt take long at all! the only painful bit to doing the points is getting the fan off, ive mastered this, i have the nack
my trick is to et my 14mm socket on the end of my 3/8ths extender bar, and position it in 4 different positions, for example north east south and west, and give it a good tap with the hammer in each position, and i keep hitting going round until eventually ping, of it comes, works every time!

Learn!

quite, but it doesnt do any harm, helpful for other people at the same time, and also sometimes reading things in type isnt as easy as someone telling you how to do it in front of a 2cv, thats probably why iget confused so easily when trying to depict what people are tellnig me to do, never mind!