little help here? Falcon ignition woes.

first things first; i bought a group 24f battery Saturday... JEEZ! did i do a Rip Van Winkle? when did batteries jump 100% in price?

anyways: i bought the battery, because i can't sell the Falcon if i can't show it with the engine running... but; she won't START. the points, coil, condenser are new... the wires are good, the plugs are clean and gapped right... she cranks over like a champ. just... no good SPARK.
if i have the cap and the rotor off, turn on the ignition (the "charge" light glows red in the cluster, ergo, it SHOULD be hot at the + coil terminal), and open the points, no spark. i've run a jumper wire, still no spark. tried two other condensers, no spark (they could all be crap, IDK)....
i'm gonna grab a NEW condenser tomorrow... but all this time, i'm wondering about the circuit from the SWITCH to the coil as well.....

i remember when i knew how to fix this shit.

 

should have advertised it B.Y.O.B. [bring your own battery] check for power at the coil. you didn't by chance leave or knock a wire off the starter solenoid?

 

Run a jumper from the battery positive side of the solenoid on the fender panel to the coil. See if it fires (you're hot wiring it). If not, coil is bad or bad ground is possible..

 

mine did the same n it came out to be the generator and the starter silinoid

 

There is a ground wire inside the dist. under the breaker plate. I have seen these broken.

 

got this figured out yesterday (Saturday) after work... (almost zero free time during daylight now, thanks Autumn)... turns out i had two issues compounding each other; oxidized points and the points grounding out from the wire terminal. i was checking for spark at the contacts and GETTING spark at the pivot.... WTF? look closer, and the terminal end is touching the spring. move THAT, and start getting spark at the contacts. not a GOOD, FAT spark, so out comes the emery paper... NOW we got a fat spark.... put it all back together, shoot a little gas in the carb, and she fires right up. no exhaust except for about two feet of downpipe, so had to cut it off before the neighbors shit bricks.

it reinforces my steadfast opinion that if an engine will turn over, it will RUN. assuming, of course, all the parts are there. now, if it weren't like 45 degrees outside.....