Sorry mate, didn't mean to give you the fear!
One of my neighbours is an ex-mechanic, an old boy down the road who's no slouch when it comes to working on cars and I like to think that I'm ok with the spanners; and we were all stumped.
The timing was spot on, had a nice fat spark, fuel was coming through, good compression, but the engine didn't even try to fire.
Put the 'traditional' components back on and she fired straight up.
I then removed the points etc and re-fitted the (2nd) unit and nothing... points back on and once again she fired straight up. Clearly I was unlucky and was sent dodgy modules - I'd say that if your car is running ok at the moment then you've probably got nothing to worry about. But as you say, it can't hurt to keep a spare set of ignition components in the boot.
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