Ya I feel a little sheepish for suggest the melting idea, especially since
I hadn't really tried it out! As for the wire stripper idea, I managed to
expose one wire... barely. I see now how the knife is the way to go.

The cap is installed but made no difference to the slight-medium surging at
~ 2K RPM's, foot off gas, or foot lightly on gas. It may have smoothed out
the idle but I'm not certain of that.

Time to reread the Bentley and Pro Training Digifant stuff again and go
through everything on engine I can. It may simply be a worn throttle shaft
  (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEGAgefVyQY ) affecting ability to
get an accurate throttle valve switch setting, but the way I have the
switch set now, (hair past specified max of 0.10 mm)  I know it closes at
idle every time, engine cold or warm.

Neil.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

I've been doing some of this the last few days - gauge project and the
> resulting foil repairs, grr.
>
> All David wrote in other message is so true.
>
> And trying to use wire stripper to make bare spots in the bight, so to
> speak, did not work out for me. I went back to sharp knife.
>
> alistair
>
>
>

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