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Thanks Peter, that's a clearer picture with a better description. It looks like the photo was taken by a German press/travel photographer named Walter Gircke. https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/alaska-motor-sleigh-in-alaska-vehicular-with-occupants-ca-news-photo/543909715 There are a l...

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I came across this interesting photo in The Oriental Motor magazine.

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It looks like one wire wheel and one artillery wheel up front.

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b ... .r=voiture

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Transferring mail bags in Philadelphia, PA, to an airplane bound for New York, May 1918.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight ... f-airmail/

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I reported his posts using the exclamation button.

There are some suspicious links at the bottom of his posts too. Don’t click on those!

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https://www.justcars.com.au/cars-for-sa ... JCW5092250

Looks fairly original...

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Ben Shahn was part of the photographic unit of the FSA along with Dorothea Lang and Walker Evans. He used a Leica with a waist level viewfinder. Here is the photo on the Library of Congress website. https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsa/8a16000/8a16200/8a16233v.jpg You can download a large version of ...

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Here’s an interesting article on McIntosh Labs in New York. It’s not really T-related but they do still pot their transformers in tar like the Model T coils.

https://www.popsci.com/story/technology ... ory-photos

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Duey C, this thread from 2011 has a lot of useful information about coil capacitors: http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/179374/249885.html?1322781074 I had the Bosch ZE1 in my Le Zebre rebuilt a year or so back by the local magneto guru. The capacitor in that was a lot smaller than the Model T cap...

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Some really interesting shots. I think the car in the last photo is a Model T.

https://torontoguardian.com/2016/02/vin ... m-toronto/

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Yes, a quality drill bit will be fine. I know someone here in Sydney who has had drill bits as retainer pins in his tourer for the last ten years/20,000 plus kilometers without any issues. He did this as he found the repro pins were to soft. I don't know if the current repro ones are better or the s...

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Not Model T but still interesting.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... ls/606781/

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https://youtu.be/mtTkpCeA4yg

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That was a nice video.

I remember the one he made about his grandfather's T-powered buzz saw. That is also worth watching if you haven't seen it.

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I think the Glion Museum in Osaka has a few Model Ts. http://glion-museum.com/ There is an interesting carpentry museum in Kobe that is worth checking out if you are stuck in Japan for a while. Its a 10 minute work from Shin Kobe station. A visit to there and Himeji Castle is a decent day trip from ...

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The suppliers have two types of adjustable lifters, self-locking for 2 wrench adjustment and lifters with locknuts which require 3 wrenches for adjusting.

What are the pros and cons? Are the ones with lock nuts less prone to coming loose?

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That's a great museum. They used to offer Model T driving lessons.

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It looks like Hertzian fatigue/macropitting on the crownwheel.

The pinion looks like corrosion. Could it have been like that when you assembled the axle 20 years ago?

I would replace both.

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Here's a truck at the 2020 Berrima Rally.

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Previously on the forum:

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/33 ... 1384208197

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Thanks for the advice guys.

I'll go with the 40T/12T combination on the Tudor and set aside the 39/13T gear set for another car.

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Allan, it’s got a hopped up motor so it should be fine.

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Dan, thank you, that is a relief. I'll use these in the car.

I know Fairfield for their Torque Hubs. It's interesting that they made aftermarket Model T parts.

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I'm rebuilding the Ruckstell on my 1924 Tudor at the moment. I have a new 39T/13T crownwheel and pinion that I picked up a few years ago off a guy who was getting out of the hobby. The crownwheel has a copper colour to it. Has anyone come across this before? The item is magnetic. Both items are stam...

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Bob, that is a great way to pour the tinning sticks!

I used to pour the babbitt onto a length of angled aluminium but I think your method is more appropriate for Model T work.

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Here's a Covert at the Dr Carl Benz Museum in Ladenburg, Germany. The firewall and fenders are a little bit different but it looks quite similar otherwise.

http://www.automuseum-ladenburg.de/

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A few “Model Ts” amongst it all.

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That’s my kind of racing!

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So many great cars! Thanks for sharing.

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Related article here:

http://hsrca.com/wp-content/uploads/201 ... 7Print.pdf

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Clearer version on here: http://cdm17061.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17061coll21/id/18073 9BA30D94-E8D6-4292-9CFC-A82CCE9D8E32.jpeg Description ca. 1914. This young driver, sitting in his unnumbered race car, is believed to be Walter Grossman of Los Angeles. He and thirteen other racers h...

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Martynn, The original pipe I have does have the compression bead for the muffler to locate against. The geometry of the pipe is also different to the LHD versions. I think this was to clear the pedals. Your Facebook friend with the red car at the top of the thread should be able to confirm the diffe...

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Someone emailed this to me today.

Looks like a T axle in the front, not sure about the rest.

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Here is the RHD exhaust pipe.

The new one is available from Keith in Ballan.

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Here are a few more photos of my 26 Tourer. I'll add some photos of the RHD exhaust pipe tomorrow,

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Here is the hogshead out of my 26 tourer.

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Here are some blurry photos of my 1924 Tudor I took a few years back. You can see the linkage Allan and Frank are talking about.

I'll try and take some better shots tomorrow.

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Does anyone have experience with towing an Oldsmobile Model N? Should the engine be kept running? Any precautions to take?

This is towing around 100 metres at low speed.

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Here are a few photos of my 26 Tourer as found. Note the location of the outlet on the sediment bowl. I’ve since replaced it with an S.61578 tractor sediment bowl. I’ve got a fuel tank in one of my boxes of treasure. I’ll see if I can find it tomorrow and take some photos. Thanks for drawing this up...

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Here's the setup to install the gear on the shaft. I use a bearing heater to heat the gear up to 115°C and a freeze spray to shrink the shaft. The photo of the frosted shaft only shows the top area being cooled. I apply the freeze spray for the full length of the gear location. DSC06952.jpg DSC06954...

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Here's my setup to remove the half moons. You can't see the top of the shaft very clearly but it has a nut on it to protect the thread.

The highest I've had to go is around 15 tonnes.

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Are you asking how to move the gear down the shaft to remove the two half moon retainers? I drop the bed of the press right down and have the gear sitting on a cupped tool that supports the gear in the area between the teeth and the axle shaft and press down on the threaded end of the axle shaft (wi...

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Looks good!

Is this going into a speedster?

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I agree with all the advice above.

One other suggestion is to make sure you put "EXW" next to the price on the invoice. This makes it clear that you are supplying the goods only, and on an Ex Works basis. This may be usefull if things go sour with the shipping.

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Is anyone going to this?

http://www.rodshows.com/gnrs/index.html

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The earliest mention of Leapin Lena I could find was in the Harold Teen comic (published 1919-1959). I wonder if that is where the name originates? harold-teen-1928-arthur-lake-mary_.jpg There's a nice video of a Leapin Lena here. I think I got whiplash just watching it. https://youtu.be/vG4yPl5qVT0

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I would choose the Touring over the Depot Hack. I did notice the Touring has a water pump, so you may need to replace the radiator (around $900 from Bergs). The paint looks in pretty good shape to me. I would probably leave it like that. Here is my 26 that I drive quite regularly in and around Sydne...

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Thanks Richard, that’s an interesting setup. I’ll take a closer look under the bonnet of Leapin Lena next time I’m in Temora.

Here is the original thread with pictures:

https://www.mtfca.com/phpBB3/viewtopic. ... enA#p51981

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Have you tried contacting Crucea Rosie? It looks like these were kept in service after WW1. Perhaps they have more photos and information in their archive. 63BA86BC-8057-4C70-AB47-C269C9B37B41.jpeg https://crucearosie.ro/cine-suntem/istoria-crucii-rosii-romane/istoria-crucii-rosii-romane-1919-1938/ ...

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Interesting engine.

I wonder if the conrods are off a Smith Motor Compressor?

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Merry Christmas from Shanghai.

Here is a Model T in the Shanghai Auto Museum.

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A photo would be helpful.

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It looks like a fun car.

That's a Waukesha Ricardo head by the way.

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Looks great!

What is the machine in the background of the 2nd and 3rd photo?

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I saw one of those Bugatti replicas outside a junk shop in South East Kansas a year or so back. It's probably still there. The wheels look vaguely familiar... Bugatti-South-East-Kansas-00000001.JPG Bugatti-South-East-Kansas-00000002.JPG Bugatti-South-East-Kansas-00000003.JPG Bugatti-South-East-Kansa...

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You can see some of the photos from that site on the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20190312214930/http://www.fordfarm.net/ If you paste https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.fordfarm.net/* (with the asterisk) into your web browser it lists all the photos that have been archived. 11...

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Is it this lot?

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/70 ... 1494187055

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That was a great video except for the bow tie.

My 1924 Tudor has Robertson screws. They are much easier to use than just about anything else.

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I don't know if this was the first appearance of this cutaway but it appeared in Volume 6 Issue 67 of a UK magazine called "The Car" in the eighties. The deal was that you bought an issue each week and ended up with a complete set of books. I think the publisher would buy the rights to an existing b...

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Moxons Motor Engineers were in High Road, Whetstone, London.

H. Pattison & Co built similar Model T & Model A based tractors. You can find a few photos of their tractors on the internet if you search for Pattison Beta and Pattison Super Beta.

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I was having a look on the Shanghai Auto Museum website on WeChat and noticed a few Model T photos. The webpage is advertising a class held in the museum covering the variety of car races around the world. The class is targeted at 6-12 year olds. F8C2E93F-5A09-4321-AD3A-AABA16D16A75.png http://www.s...

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Frank, what are those hubcaps?

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The first one looks like a bicycle spoke wrench.

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Here is the ad from the link I posted above. The Beverly Times - Friday 8th October 1926.

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Here you go.

Ad from The Beverly Times (West Australian newspaper) - Friday 8th October 1926.

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Here is my 1926 De-luxe Ford Touring Car. It doesn’t have the medallion.

Here is a newspaper ad from 8th October 1926 for the De-luxe Ford Touring Car.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/22537196#

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They've got some interesting gear.

https://matterport.com/3d-space/queensl ... ry-museum/

http://www.queenslandsteamandvintagemac ... u/Gallery/

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There is a description of the clutch adjustment in the 1919 Ford manual.

You can download it for free from archive.org

https://archive.org/details/1919_Ford_M ... l/page/n29

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It looks like the car in the new Nintendo Switch game Luigi’s Mansion 3 is a brass era Model T.

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Jackson’s Faces was a photographic studio in Great Yarmouth, England. Belle Coaches show a similar bus on their history page: http://www.bellecoaches.co.uk/History There is one of those buses (with a roof) at Ipswich Transport Museum, the chassis and front brakes look interesting. C6E2A3F2-548F-4781...

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I plan to attend.

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Thanks guys, the 50-75 lbs figure is what I was looking for.

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Does anyone know how much the chassis weighs on a 26/27 Model T?

I can find info on a running chassis, i.e. a car without a body but nothing on the bare chassis (no engine, transmission, axles etc).

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One of the more senior members in the club here in NSW uses a GPO spring tension gauge to adjust his coils. These were used to adjust relays in the old telephone exchanges.

I wonder if it is something like that?

http://doc.telephonecollectors.info/dm/ ... _ocr_r.pdf

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A few more.

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Have you tried contacting Snap-On? They might have something.

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I changed these on my 26 last month. Here are some drawings from a previous thread. From memory the studs are slightly longer on the 26/27 kit but the rest is the same. 191291.jpg 191292.jpg Now might be a good time to replace those studs as they look a bit flogged out. I used a couple of prybars to...

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Would the Model A & B crankshaft also be 1/8"?

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A few photos.

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An EFV8 guy gave me this a few years back. I imagine the two items give a similar level of improvement to your car’s economy.

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Interesting stuff.

I had a look at your YouTube channel. Is that a Sachs rotary engine on your bicycle? I picked up one of those a few years back but haven’t worked out what to do with it.

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I finally tried out my 6 volt LED headlight bulbs. They light up the road really well.

This design points the light sideways and uses the reflectors to point the light forward which I think gives better control and avoids dazzling on-coming drivers.

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Trailering up to the Australian Nationals in Maryborough.

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-14/ ... i/11500780

Looks like there were a few Model Ts.

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https://mgnsw.org.au/organisations/temo ... ciety-inc/

There’s also a very good Aviation museum down the road.

https://aviationmuseum.com.au/

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More pics.

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I think they are Sanki wheels.

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I came across this T at a museum out at Temora last weekend.

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Matt, I’ve got the same Goodyear rims on my 1912 Regal Underslung.

I would be interested in those if they are for sale and JMC doesn’t want them.

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Paul, there’s a Mack AC model kit for sale here if you don’t already have one:

https://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php? ... Truck-7539

Duey C, Renault had a similar radiator setup.

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Thank you all for your replies.

A customer dropped by on Wednesday who is a welder by profession. He gave me some good advice and I'll weld it up on the weekend.

The MIG welder I have is a 240 volt machine.

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I've got a crack on one of the pan ears on my 26 Tourer. How do people normally fix these? I was planning to drill out the point where the crack stops and fill in the hole with weld, and then run a weave along the crack (topside and underneath). The other way I thought to do it is to tack the end an...

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I had to pull the hogshead on my tourer to chase a broken o-ring pick.

Here are a few photos if anyone is curious how they compare with the left hand drive hogshead.

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Photo L22 is a 1911 Le Zèbre Type A Rotonde.

It has a 4HP 600cc single cylinder engine.

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Can you post your questions on the forum?

I've got an engine sitting on a stand I can take photos of if that would help.

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Just in case anyone in Australia stumbles across this thread, I use Consolidated Alloys "Auto" white metal. http://www.cagroup.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Bearing-Metals-2017.pdf http://www.cagroup.com.au You can buy it direct from them or order it through a reseller like Blackwoods or Bunning...

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Did the green Le Zèbre Type A make it this year?

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Herm, thank you, that is good information. Is the gold rod photo in your post as poured? Do you have a side-on photo? It's hard to compare it with the static-pour rod being from two different angles. I can see you had leakage with the static-pour rod. I used a combination of aluminium welding wire a...

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Bill, that is a great looking setup. The way you've done the big end adjustments must cut down on setup time a lot.

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