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Even Ford's books say to not bend over all the tabs, to save them for later use, if needed.

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Even Ford's books say to not bend over all the tabs, to save them for later use, if needed.

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Scott, that's what happens on dial-up when the screen goes blank & you think you lost the page entirely. Oh well. . . .

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Terry, I hate to mention it, but that field coil doesn't look too healthy either. While you're in there. . . . .
Nothing else to do right now!

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Well, if I read your post correctly, you have .0005 (half a thousands) out of round on your pins. For a loose-fitting bronze bushing, that's not a lot, but it is some. IF the pins are nice and smoooth, I wouldn't worry about a bronze bushing with enough oil clearance on those pins. One could even "s...

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But correct!

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Ah, but I do have one for this thread; unfortunately it wasn't in a Model T. Back in 1976 I was reupholstering my 1939, um. "Other Make" car (OK, it was a CH@@y) and found within the original upholstery a 1939 SF World's Fair key fob! That had to have been lost in there when the car was nearly new. ...

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I INOW! I KNOW! CALL ON ME!! i KNOW! Well, that is I THINK I know! Travel Trailer. That style handle was quite popular, and there were even companies that made "knock-off" replacement handles for Model As and other cars, I once saw a flyer for some, it was most interesting as the construction method...

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While I like this subject, the first entry jarred me into the realization that 1981 was 39 years ago. 39!!!! Yikes, when/ how did that happen?? Let's see, 1981; we were just settling in from a move from my hometown to Oroville for a "temporary" 6 month job that I held for 25 years. Uh oh, it's start...

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I'm an "old school" guy; while I do have updated pinion bearings in my cars, I think ball bearing 4th mains are a complication to the design just something "new" to go wrong. I think that particular bearing are requires more "give" than a ball bearing can provide. BUT! That's just my personal opinio...

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I was going to just post an acceptance note, but then Phil actually called me! He spent time looking for an old HCCA roster with my name & number in it, and we had a good conversation, a great one actually, and I have purchased parts from him over the years (I am terrible with names & faces). Anyway...

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I read my posting to SWMBO, Linda, and she said, "5am? The ones putting up the swap meet are up at 5am!" Well, yes, she IS correct; I barely remember that from decades ago when the Redding Rambling A's put on their meets (yes folks, I'm a backslider Model A guy)--but I was MUCH younger then. . . . :...

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Wow, thank you all! Phil didn't bother me (much), he's probably also going stir crazy like the rest of us. Shortly after posting that a lightning storm hit and wiped out my modem! I'm downtown right now (had to go buy a new modem!) and on wifi, so finally am seeing the responses. Richard, we may hav...

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"A thin spot" egads man, do you know how thick those things are? now that I've said that, I don't really know myself, but at least 1/4" if not more. Yes, do mask off the valve before blasting, and if you want it to look really snazzy, polish the valve (ON THE TANK, don't try to take it off) before y...

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Phillip, I am sorry you failed to recognize my "awkward" way of expressing disappointment that you will have a food truck instead of the wonderful homemade food the club has always prepared. While this is the best EARLY car parts swap meet in northern California (and actually only eclipsed in ALL of...

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Say, Maw, this here don' look like the main road. . .
Pa, I told you to make a left turn at Albuquerque!
(Linda & I in Barney)

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I would be leery of bubble wrap to protect painted parts. In storing model trains, it has been found to leave marks on the painted surfaces of the trains.

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I have some copper-tops for my 16, what is the date difference between six screws and four screws--or is there some other difference?

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Wayne, I know that problem, so I have an alarm set on my cell phone for 9:15--PIE TIME. I used to set it for 9:30, but I missed out one year, so . . . .

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Just found the flyer for the Motherlode T clubs annual swap meet--arguably the best N. California OLD car swap. Still scheduled for June 7, though hard to say if we will be allowed out of our homes by then. But I notice it says, "Food on site provided by Maria's Food Truck." What, no club-made burge...

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That couch reminds me of an TV commercial with some kids driving around, see a couch becide the road, load it into their car and go a few blocks before they are driven out of the car by the smell of the couch--which is again, beside the road. As for blaming the second engineer, do you know why you c...

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I'm an old timer too; this thread has brought back many memories. I felt a special connection to Reid Welch, because we are both piano tuners. Hurck always seemed to find something funny to mention. Met Terry H. here--and I remember when Rick & Gene figured out they were neighbors. At the time Terry...

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Y'all are gonna "hate" me; a few years ago at a swap meet, at noon (near quitting time for that meet) I bought a T engine in parts, ready to go together from a well-respected T guy who had to downsize. All rebabbitted, machined, ready to go. $400--that's what he asked, and I gladly paid it. No, didn...

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Model A reflectors are very different; for one thing, they clip into the headlight bucket and are not spring loaded like the T ones. These are fairly uncomon, not being used very long. The upper bulb is actually a parking lamp bulb, but could be used (I suppose) as a "Low beam" bulb.

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Like real estate, value depends on location, location, location. the 28-29 wheels have a rolled round "edge" on them, and if you are in a winter salt area, they can rust out from the inside. Also there are "AR" wheels used in the first months of production that are hard to find. The 30-31 wheels don...

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I think you will find that side window safety glass is the right thickness. Technically not what is used for windshield glass, but I believe a good glass shop will recognize the difference and use it. You might have to sign a liability waiver!

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Erik,
Very sorry to hear of his passing. I really liked your Dad--I like you still too!(it suddenly occurred to me that I didn't word that well) I hope his passing was peaceful. Another great one has left our world.
David & Linda Dewey

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These screws are a great deal. I took my "baggie" of them and put them in a sand-filled tumbler--they cleaned up quickly and now look great! thanks Rodger!

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I think the coils and the bracket with the 'wings" are for Dodge (or Chrysler) products, in the '30s to '40s.

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You think black beauty is a mild abrasive? I always understood it was much more aggressive than glass beads.

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I agree!! Erick can do that and LOTS more.

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PS you ought to see if you could trade him a frame also and get the whole chassis intact. He's probably going to box the frame anyway (would be cheaper for him to buy a repro boxed frame already set up for a Hot Rod. )

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Blankety Blank Hot Rodders. Taking a perfectly good-looking, and apparently running T to make a hot rod when there are parts piles out there that could be done easier and with less loss of history. Would need a close up photo of the spokes to try to identify the wood. meantime, without knowing what ...

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Kroil!! hands down, IMHO.

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Well, I see I was quoted here, so guess I'll chime in. "back in the day" the nickel had to be polished to become shiny. the best plating starts with a copper plating, that gets polished to remove as many imperfections as possible, AND to provide better adhesion to the base metal. I find the Chromium...

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Happy Birthday Larry! I celebrated it by working on an Ampico pump.
David

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Back in 1977, I was one of the local sponsors for the Radio Mystery Theatre. My ads were advice on caring for your piano. While I was a sponsor, I never got one call that I could credit to the ads. Two weeks after I stopped running them, I got ONE call!

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No hurry on my part, just was wondering if I was still in the "in" crowd!

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Um, I think I'm on the list, but I haven't heard anything yet--should I be worried???

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Yes, keep the thread going, this is fascinating!

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Oh I was NOT suggesting they slip the badge in with the book--I use media mail quite a bit with piano rolls and I know you can get in big trouble with the post office if you abuse the service. Actually, we sometimes have problems with that as apparently some postal inspectors don't realize that pian...

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Recently some low-life kicked in a small stain glass window panel at our church (12" x 18"), so I went looking for replacement glass. The local shops wanted over $100 for this little piece of glass. I found a mail-order stain glass place that had it for around $20, but there's a minimum quantity ord...

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DP primer spec sheet used to state that it bonds better to bare metal, not as well to "treated" metal. I haven't looked at the product for a number of years now, so things may have changed, but back when I did a corrosion resistance test, it verified that--and I thought it was an anomaly of my test,...

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A four letter word: WOOD.
Unfortunately that won't solve the other parts problems that seem to be overwhelming right now.

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Actually, Wayne (at least now) lives in the north part of the state, on the southern edge of an area some of us refer to as "The Great State of Jefferson" and there's quite a few of us who are similar to him here (note I did NOT say "like him" but "similar" no one is quite like Wayne (this is meant ...

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Wow, looking good. I have a friend who had a similar Porsche, but his had the very rare bench seat in it. He's had it some two to three decades and finally was almost finished with the restoration. BTW, that bench seat is so rare, the factory museum offered him $20K just for the seat. In the Camp Fi...

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With multiple responses indicating having the same "serial" number, is it possible that is a Ford Tool Number?

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Yes, I found the HCCA website and discovered that "minor" date detail! The Convention starts the day after the swap meet, so there isn't an overlap, except for those that have to trailer their cars from Bakersfield to Stateline, they will have a fairly long day on the road!

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Interesting; the HCCA national convention is in Stateline, NV the same weekend. I haven't been keeping track of this (need to read my Gazette, I guess!). but it seems like a major change. Bakersfield is the largest early car swap meet out west here, I would hate to see it end, even though I can seld...

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Hi Wayne,
He's been distracted with other projects, house, shop & other cars. Don't think he's done much yet, other than finding replacement parts.
I've been too busy to stop by and visit much lately; will have to try to do so this week.

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Well, adding lights, etc. in this situation probably wouldn't have helped--lookit the bright red (maroon??) paint job on the body--if that isn't visible, what is?? Still would like to know what happened. Modern driver just hit them from behind, or pulled out of a side street into them? My friend Llo...

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Maybe I missed it in this thread, but did anyone describe the accident? No, I don't want to see a URL to click on, as with dial-up, I can't access most newspapers or other media sites. Getting to this site can be a problem quite often.
Thanks

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Price went down the last few days, most town places are at $3.859, but the casino is at $3.709, your prices haven't been seen in these parts for over a year.

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Well, actually, many A bodies had wood side rails: Fordor Sedans, Cabriolets, Convertible Sedans, Vickys. These are not from the Fordors, nor the cabriolets, I would suspect Vicky or Convertible Sedan.

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I forget, why was I reading this thread??

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Wow, not one, but two Brush automobiles (or most of each one)--are those going to China?? that Brush Chassis would be enough to resurrect the Brush that burned in the Camp wildfire.

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Hmm,the only thing I can think of that Larry would use (and mostly because CA state law says we should have one) is a driver's side rearview mirror.
Will be interesting to find out what it really is!

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Yes, he was a great guy, and left us too soon (in our opinion, at least).

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Talking steam at a T outing?? Blaspheme! Well, I know it wasn't me as I wasn't there, but I hope you find the person, not a lot of us around anymore who "speak steam." (except maybe when the therm-syphon doesn't)

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Oak is actually a terrible choice for body wood; it splits easily, tends to warp and is an open celled wood. Ash is good, but very hard to find.

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The Cannonball, when you saw it in action, was/is Sierra RR $3, that's why the memories and videos seem so familiar. The Sierra T motora is also a '23, as I recall, but they used the fairmont brakes. If you're not going to run yours, then brakes are a moot point! Wayne, that's a neat story--but like...

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The two Brass radiator cars look to be on Kalamazoo wheels. The pair you show appear to be Fairmont. We built a '23 runabout into a railcar for the Portola RR museum, this is the only pic I could find when they were repairing it after someone ran a forklift through the pan trying to move it quickly....

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It's back together and on the road, new ball joint & axle, then I pushed down on the fender (carefully) and it went back into place.
Whew!

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Yep,sorry to say, my collection of T stuff isn't suddenly up for sale !

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Usually one says "Dodged a Bullegt, but this would have taken Linda and I out, so "cannon" I was driving her car ('02 Honda Accord) around town, and she had asked me, "what makes it pull to the right?" Hmm, did brakes recently, but not that recent, Hmm, yes it does pull to the right, but not every t...

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I turn wood on my lathe occasionally--however, it's pretty specialized turning; apple and manzanita to make bearings. Many uses for such bearings, the ones I made were used for Theatre Pipe Organ swell shades.

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Erik, I understand your frustration as I, like Ed, am a 7-5/8 (how many guys even know their hat size?). Hard to find specialty hats in that size--my Top Hat was a chance find at a swap meet.
Mark, why does your profile pic look like Red Green???

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Erik, I understand your frustration as I, like Ed, am a 7-5/8 (how many guys even know their hat size?). Hard to find specialty hats in that size--my Top Hat was a chance find at a swap meet.
Mark, why does your profile pic look like Red Green???

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While that top installation looks great, most of the evidence points to fold over welting being used, not hide-em. Minor detail, but thought you might like to know.

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the water pump and distributor are driven off the camshaft gear, which MAY be fiber. I will be willing to bet that the water pump shaft is frozen, causing your problem. The most knowledgeable Buick person on this forum that I know of is Erik Barrett--so ask him. Be very careful about that camshaft t...

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I remember watching it on my girlfriend's parent's TV, but why I was at Teri's house that day, I don't remember. I do remember she was saying that looking up at the moon wasn't the same now that we've landed there. Also we went to her neighbor's house where he had a twin pair of home-built reflector...

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Well, since I don't get here as often as I used to, I didn't know what time we were supposed to meet--at 9 am I asked about pie and was told only apple and peach left, so we had some crumble-apple pie--no lemon meringue thanks to the county food folks and the rhubarb was all gone too-if there was an...

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Our family resort had a small "laundromat" with two speed queen automatic washers, a dryer, and a Maytag wringer washer on a coin-activated time clock. Every spring we would wash the old-fashioned linen cabin curtains using the wringer washer, and afterwards iron them on the commercial mangle kept i...

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On of my Victor regulators stopped working correctly (the pressure would bo up over time--) I took it apart and found the valve stem disk had cracked. Couldn't find parts, and Oxygen regulators can um, do bad things if not rebuilt correctly (a little oil can cause explosive failure), so I paid to ha...

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If the other original boards are good, I think that I would only replace the one bad board--actually, knowing me, I'd patch the original board!

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I can see the gyptal (spelling? That's the red "goop" which is actually red insulating varnish ) being very useful on the inside of the aluminum hogshead, in case of casting porosity. Rolls Royce did this to their aluminum engine castings back in the 1920s & 1930s, if it was good enough for them, it...

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My wife is shorter than I am, but is about 50 pounds heavier, and I'm about 40 pounds overweight. Guess what she does for a living? Certified Nurses Aide--yep, health care. But does her Doctor mention her sleep apnea and bad knees might be related to that weight? Nope, and worse yet, our "friends" c...

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Well, I finally found a picture of Other stuff. These are photos that cannot be done today, taken about 1985 I think. Reason they can't be duplicated today? Turntable is still there, but UP won't let you drive onto the property, The 25 is no longer in McCloud but up in Oregon, UP now owns the railro...

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Matt; you do NOTkKnow In-N-Out; they have a not so secret "secret menu" that is available online. For instance when we go, I order two hamburgers, extra toast, grill the onions, and pickles on ONE (my wife's) and that's just a hamburger! You can also vary the number of patties. and you can order you...

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You can re-open the channel--it will take some time and probably a few scratched knuckles!

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Well, I don't have any decent photos to share, but my place is also littered with 'cast offs' of a previous generation. I hope to get to work on my house this summer, finishing the interior and the two windows still to go in (a bow window and a picture window both looking like they belong in a house...

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This is terrible news. I would think someone could take over the biz. I used up my "stash" fixing wooden pipes on theatre Organ we are rebuilding for the State Theatre. I had ASSUMED I could just replace the kit. UH OH.

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Ma Green,('30 A sport coupe) 52 years
'16 Touring 22 years
Forget the dates for the rest!

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Hear Hear!!

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Was at the local history museum today for an art show and was looking at the displays (some of which I built years ago) when I noticed the display on women of Butte County in the 1910s and 1920s. There was a picture labeled "Marching for Suffrage in 1911." Behind them was a row of cars and I was try...

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Every time you transfer energy from one type to another, there is a loss, the percentage of loss varies from conversion to conversion. To make the electricity to run a car, requires electrical generation, which can be made from wind, solar, or hydro power--and then you need power lines to distribute...

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Linda & I have known of each other since we were small grade-school children, although we did not live near each other nor attend the same schools (long story, short version is my grandmother and aunt got her parents together). When we re-met in our early 20s, I took her for a ride in my Model A (th...

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That doesn't appear to be a factory stamping, at least from the low resolution picture you sent. I can see part of the casting date at the right side of the picture, a 4, meaning April.

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Must not have been any old sailors or cannon loaders around!

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WOW Rich, that one should be poster for Yellowstone! I can see the art-deco title on the top, "Visit Yellowstone"
I am amazed at how you made the glass appear in the light bulbs on the one shape & texture study.

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Well, my first T, the '16 touring is called Henrietta after the person who had it in her barn. The '26 Tudor, Hmm, no name yet! and our '25 runabout is Barney, because he came out of a Barn in Nevada. My Model A is Ma Green, after the original owner (actually it was her Husband's car, but he died wh...

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Just realized this was the weekend of the Turlock Swap meet, anyone go and what was it like?

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I"ve been on a C-pap for at least 10 years. Back then, I worked for the City, and as the museum Curator, I was attending City Council meetings as staff. Well, I fell asleep during a meeting, and the city manager told the parks director to have me checked to see if I had a medical condition. Turns ou...

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Lft Rear painted forum.jpg PS the car in my photos is dark blue above the belt molding, not black! Here's a pic before I put the body on the chassis. I wonder if I could still do a paint job like that now? That's actually the room I painted it in! No fancy paint booth, just a huge fan in a window f...

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Harold, Last I knew, that A was in Louisville, KY. I haven't seen it for some 30 years! If you find a '29 Fordor with the standard "stepped cowl, you've found a factory Taxi Body, almost all metal, and last I knew, only about 3 survived. Yes, radiator shell, etc. is standard. The hood, and cowl are ...

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Definitely a Briggs Blindback, '28 or '29. Interestingly the '29 was a "plain Jane" model with plain seats (no piping) and less were made than of the infamous A-400 convertible sedan--but guess which one is worth more nowadays? I rebuilt one from a bare, wood-less body shell (with no dents in it!) a...

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Please don't break up the forum into separate subjects (newcomer, OT, etc.); it is much simpler to just look in one place and read whatever comes to fancy my mind at the moment. We talked about this on the old forum, and as I recalled most of us said, "It ain't broke, don't fix it!"

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the Caswell brush plating kit will re-copper oil cans beautifully. The one I did is put away or I'd take a picture of it. You do have to de-grease (de-oil?) the can to make it work, and when I did it, the plating looked spotty, but a quick lick of liquid polish evened it out.

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Rich Eagle wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 14, 2019 6:30 pm
Tusk, Tusk! David. Safaris I can tell it's a typical elephant tail. %;o)
Rich

Yikes!! OK Rich, you win!!
ROFL!!

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Hmm with this OT posting, has the Forum become a Trunk Line?

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