Really!! You have obviously missed my point. And what does the statement above mean, inquiring minds want to know.
Sorry, my fingers didn't type what my brain was thinking.
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condensers will work. What I meant by softening the blow is that the condenser is there to absorb the current, soak it up, so that you don't get arcing across the points which eats up the contacts fast. No, that's not a good technical description but it sort of explains it.
And yes, I don't see the point of replacing the points with HD or some car points. The only reasonable things that come to mind are availability or quality. Either of these is most readily solved by EI. Auto manufacturers didn't change over because EI was cheaper to manufacture.