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I like that, Tim!!

True but the cars are not gone. Some of them went back to being driven, some went to other collections, some went overseas to either collections or enthusiasts. Other than giving people a place to take a quick look at the past, I sometimes question the value of museums that take various things out o...

The Museum at the Old Prison Complex in Deer Lodge had Model T's in it at that time and still does. Several of the more interesting and valuable cars were bought by Sherm Anderson, the owner of a large sawmill and lumber company. He then either donated or loaned them to the museum. Other people also...

Sorry....................

Sorry, mine is an Aske. Old and senile. Don't send money.

OH, I'd better go look at what I have. I might be wrong on this. Mine are the ones that have the electric heater thing in the middle for the riser. Don't send me any money until I take a look.

Lewis Rector moved to Circle, Montana in about 1960 to run Ed's restoration shop. He and his wife bought a nice home in Circle and lived there until about 68 when they moved to Helena. I moved here in 72 and renewed our friendship. Lewis lost his wife and later married a widow from Circle, Anna Jame...

Unless it is some rare, early head. Why not just replace the head??? They are readily available and cheap. Here they charge about $20 to surface one. Find one with good spark plug threads, good outlet threads, put it on and go driving.

Women are made to love, money is made to spend. We've had a lot of auctions for people that were "Going to restore that tractor or that car" or whatever as soon as: 1. work slowed down, 2. they got caught up a little on money. 3. other reasons. Most of them were estate auctions. I have yet to talk t...

Yes. $125 + 15 shipping.
Its been beadblasted and in my showcase for years, picked up a nos one to replace it so this one is for sale.
Stanhowemt@aol.com

I have one.

Yup! However you cannot post a post of only 4 characters so this sentence is to follow a rule somebody made that you have to post a comment with at least ten characters or it will not allow you to post it on this forum for some reason I'd don't know or understand but this sentence should be long eno...

The purists hate me for this but when I was rebuilding NH's I found that drilling out the brass plugs in the body and cleaning the passages behind them was very important. Just be careful not to drill the holes oversize when you are cleaning them. The easy way to seal the plugs back up is to tap the...

Tim, go to the typical small town auto parts store and try to buy a 100 foot roll. First of all they probably won't have a clue what you are talking about and second, how many people need a 100 foot roll?? There are a lot of ways to work on old cars. We all know some of them but nobody knows them al...

The Imperial thread system is slightly different in nomenclature compared to the metric. Metric sizes are in MM with the thread pitch following. 14 1.25 or 1.50 etc. Imperial is the size followed by the TPI - threads per inch. 1/4 x 20, 1/4 x 28 etc. There are two "standard" pitches or TPI for each ...

There is a lot of difference between the commonly available copper tubing sold in hardware stores today, most of which comes from China and probably has little copper in it and is so thin you can practically stick your fingernail through it --- and the copper tubing sold years back that was American...

Andre, if you have a lathe it is easy to do the bushing or ream the hole and tap it 11/16-24, lock tight a bushing with female 9/16-24 threads in and use the original drain/bowl fitting.

I have over 100 non standard size taps, some I made from drill steel and hardened but there are places that have taps from 080 64 to 3 inch.

A 1/4 - 32 tap and die set is a good investment.

1/4-32 is a very common thread size in carburetors. Not in NH but 5/16-27, 3/8-27 , 7/16-27 are common. 3/8 are usually standard 16 or 24 but many are also 3/8-20. The fuel fitting is standard 1/2-18 except for some early 1/2-20. The bowl fitting on early Kingston is 17/32-18. The bottom thread on N...

If you want a check on how thin your skin is, just go in the auction business. Generally speaking, you do the photos and any video pretty early on in the process so you can start getting advertising out. The heirs don't care how cold it is or how much snow, they want it done and done now. If you go ...

There are half a dozen T's at least, lots of parts, some pretty collectible other things. If anybody is going you'd better take a friend and a set of those little walkie talkies because there may not be cell service out there. There is a lot to sell and they will probably be running two or three rin...

I cannot not endorse these strongly enough. I do not rebuild NH's as a general rule but did a lot of them years back. All you have to do is find an original to compare to the ones most of the vendors sell and you can see why they run out of fuel. These have the correct sized hole, the correct sized ...

That's funny Chris. I just took some photos of one of those last night. Too busy today to post it. Hahahahahaha. It looks like a pretty good design to me. I think yours is in better condition than mine.

Jay's son Alex lives here in Helena, Montana. He has a facebook page and would be easy to contact, there are quite a few photos there.

The lower one is not a New Day, the box just ended up in the photo. It is a Recto.

Here is the ECCO with the ball bearing roller. This is the one we were going to try to reproduce. Didn't work out. Too much money.

I think that was the big improvement over some of the others that used a ball bearing. The Ecco that we were going to reproduce has a little brass wiper brush the runs on the side of the ball bearing that probably worked great as long as it was new. They were very well regarded timers but cost $3.50...

Without going back to look I think the date on it is 1922. Plus a LOT of T's had a battery but no starter. That's why there are two positions on the switch, even on early cars. So you could add a dry cell to power the coils even if you were hand cranking.

Good! Mine is usually some kind of operator error. I'm not as smart some days as I think I am either.

Chris, I would guess the Edison design is as accurate as any. Timing is probably accurate enough for the coils. At 1000 engine rpm the timer is rotating 500 times a minute, making 4 contacts on each rotation. 2000 contacts a minute. I don't think any of them stayed perfectly in time , especially sin...

I was looking at some of my Ford Dealer magazines last night. Lots of "better ideas" for timers.
These are 24-26, I think the heyday for timers was a little earlier.

I've never seen a brown but its probably similar to a New Day.

I think it depends on what you are going to do with the engine. 1. Blocks are cheap. 2. What is the worst thing that can happen? 3. Go through the side of the cylinder boring it?? I doubt it but if you do you're not out much. I have my own boring bar and piles of blocks. Dave Huson would give you al...

Donnie, there is a little slider on the screen by the speaker icon that you click to unmute the sound and on your keyboard above the numbers on the right side there are two press buttons with speaker icons on them. Press the right one to raise the volume.

Terry, that is almost exactly what I'm planning for my 27 coupe except I have a Haibe Giant Power head and I'm going to start out - at least- with a prototype Cyclone carb and intake I picked up a few years ago from the grandson of the developer of it in Denver. It's about like a U & J. Might be too...

That is the next one I was going to post!
Simple but well done!

This is one I'm going to try when I get a chance. Invented by Thomas A Edison Jr. It has very minimal use. I'm not sure if it was ever on an engine, I don't think so, must have been on a counter display or something. 100_0555.JPG 100_0558.JPG 100_0559.JPG 100_0560.JPG 100_0557.JPG

WHOO!!!!!! That's great!!

Here is probably what the deal is with the sound. Default is mute. There is a little thing that looks like a speaker in the lower right hand corner, that is the mute button. If you click it it unmutes the sound.

So talking about trailers, enclosed and otherwise, I've been thinking about a new enclosed trailer for my 27 coupe since I don't have a garage for it, thinking it would be good storage for it -- I hate having it sit outside but at this point that is the only option -- and don't want to try to build ...

Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Maybe I should have my wheel bearings checked. I've pulled my 24 foot flatbed thousands of miles. It came out of Canada, built by Trailtech, probably 15 years old, has two 7,000 lb axles with 285/75/16 tires under it. Spring axles. I have never checked them altho John might have when h...

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Whatcha working on Jethro??
I might have one, I'll have to look.

Montana is huge. We have several counties larger than Connecticut. There are two major east west paved roads. Three major north south. About 600 miles apart. Pretty much everything else is gravel. Lots to choose from. It is further from Yaak in Northwest Montana to Alzada in southeast Montana than f...

Bill WOW!!
I have a bunch but nothing like that. Good idea on the display mounting.

Chris. Interesting idea. I never liked Anderson but the earlier ones were better than most of the new ones I've seen.

Martin, that is a spacing tool for one of the others, the Sun. You can also see how the timer rod in the slot keeps it from moving too far. If you want to draw these, I can send them to you and you can send them back when you are done. I'm going to try the No-Kick on my coupe when I get time but tha...

Chris, I would guess the NO Kick worked well because of being centered with the bearing holding the cap in place. I think it probably suffered from the same problems most of the point type did, oil to keep the bearing lubricated also caused the points to not make contact. This one has a hard felt se...

There seems to be three main types. Roller in a lot of variations, Brush in a lot of variations, Points being closed by some kind of riser turning against them. A lot of people thought they had the answer to Ford ignition problems and some of them pretty much did. Without starting a war over which i...

Jay has so much good stuff. He's sold me a few things over the years. He had the only NOS Rayfield UF I've ever seen. A friend bought it for his carb collection -- he also has cool stuff. I don't have as many timers as I thought I did, but I have some interesting ones. I'll post a few more after som...

This is a fairly rare new old stock 100 ++ year old timer.
It is from my collection. It is not perfect but is new old stock, as close as you are going to get.

Here is a No-Kick

Unpacked the box I got from Ron Patterson with the NOS New Day timers along with a Crystal timer with the aluminum ring that actually fits and got to fooling with some timers in my collection. So let's do this for the new year. I'm going to post a couple of mine, anybody that has any kind of accesso...

Don't tell somebody you will send a check and then not do it. If you have to check with the wife first or save up a little more money don't ask a vendor to "set it aside for me and I'll get a check in the mail." About one person in ten that I talk to that is going to send a check never does it. Of c...

Switch the vaporizer to a NOS Cyclone carb, install the heater, Ruckstell and sure stop brakes, remove the panel below the trunk lid and build a wooden pickup box to fit in there, redo all the wiring, put a top on and go drive it. Same list as last year - never had it started this past year, never p...

I make a lot of needles and seats. Just about anything you can buy the seat is designed for pressure flow fuel inlet and the hole is quite small. I have boxes of steel needles and viton tipped needles and make the new seats the size or larger of the originals. Often I can just rework the existing se...

What is the Lycoming engine in?? There are probably TX4 carbs available and there may be other recommended carbs for the car.

Now THAT is a good running T!!!!

Good carb.
The TX4 is also good.

Well now, there is a good idea. You should also write up a rebuild sheet about removing the old seat, cleaning the mating surface and installing the new one. Does the seat tool have a center drill hole in the upper end? That would make it easier to center in a drill press. You probably also do this,...

Yup, That's the Dam Bar, right next to Canyon Ferry Lake, just off the government property where they can't sell alcohol. Still there, still great burgers, probably 4 or 5 owners since you were here.

56 Packard two dr hardtop.
63 Corvair convertible
66 Corvette
55 Ford pickup
39 Plymouth
79 Eldorado

No kidding. That pass was really something in spots before they rebuilt it in the 80's and turned it into a 4 lane. I came to Helena because I got a job here teaching school. I knew little about Helena including how much it snows. I had been driving fuel tanker for H F Johnson out of Billings for se...

Car guys. Drove my 1986 F-150 with 82,000 actual on it to Avon. Two old guys in a 35 year old pickup pulling MacDonald Pass at 45 on a Tuesday morning just enjoying the conversation and the Montana December sun. Not many years ago I wouldn't have owned a pickup that wouldn't pull the pass at 65. I'm...

Thank you everyone, I had a great day. Breakfast with friends at the Avon Cafe - up over the mountain west of Helena 30 miles; back home just as the phone was ringing for what turned out to be a two hour plus conversation with Savanna, my college age "daughter" who is a junior at Stanford; just time...

Hey Ron, can you throw it in the box with the other two?? I'll send you an email.

You might be surprised at how much is still out there if you know where to look!! True, probably not like it used to be but there are some pretty good stashes of stuff. One thing we are concerned about in Montana --- the Californians and other self righteous that are moving in here want everything p...

They are sold. I bought them an hour after Ron posted them.

Thank you, guys My birthday is actually Tuesday the 29th which means there is still time to get my presents here if you send them Fed Ex overnight, Next Day Air UPS or USPS Express Mail. Although a day or two late is OK. I will be 78. All things considered, I'm pretty healthy, girlfriend can drive a...

I think I have a decent set of 20 inch rims. They are the snap ring type originals. If you are interested let me know and I will go to the ranch and check them. They are the only thing that fits the wooden wheels. If they are not rusty and the snap ring or wheel ruined they work fine if you mount th...

Me about 20 years ago with my new-to-me 64 Eldorado convertible in front of the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming where I was headlining the show.

Email me your address and I'll send you a copy. stanhowemt@aol.com

My publicity photos are mostly with a guitar instead of a fiddle and leaning on or standing beside one of my Cadillacs. It's a Country Music thing.

I don't really play that kind of fiddle -- where I'm playing old timey fiddle tunes. I play Western Swing backup and Honky Tonk Country fiddle but not things like Arkansas Traveler etc., I used to do some show tunes,-- Orange Blossom Special, Black Mountain Rag, etc., but I never got any recordings ...

Oh, I'd love to. You may remember that several years ago I roughed out a story "Einar and Torvald Go Racing." The boys build a fairgrounds racer to win the $100 prize at the county fair, organized by the tall, dark haired boy that came to the Norwegian Sheepherder's Ball and danced with Tillie. Of c...

No, it has to have Ford factory script.

Rural America the way it used to be. This is actually a Facebook post from last year that popped up on my feed today as a memory. Jest Before Christmas -- Eugene Field December 19, 2019 · In a feeble attempt to celebrate the fun part of Christmas which used to include one room school programs, brown...

A mag that runs directly off the camshaft gear -- as most do -- will be clockwise, as the cam gear turns counter clockwise. A mag that runs off an intermediate gear -- such as the Bosch side drive -- will turn the same direction as the camshaft; counter clockwise. It is easy to forget that the cam g...

And mine! One will go on my 27 coupe , one for a spare.

Should have a like button!!!

I'm your huckleberry!

I usually deal with 50 to 100 emails a day + phone calls and texts. 75+% are for free advice or wanting some piddly part. 20 % are people wanting to know where the hell their carburetor is!!!!! 5% turn into business. I'm doing everything I can. I was in the shop last night until 11:30. Trying to fin...

I spent my Sunday afternoon making some of the Zenith S4BF inlet lines. According to your Facebook page you are on vacation in South Carolina.. There are not enough hours in the day to chase every one of these little deals. The line is not quarter inch. It is 5/16. The fittings are 1/2 x 20 and 1/ 2...

I dunno. I don't know of anything but Dodge and Studebaker that used Stewart.

I'm probably wrong.

Sorry.

Looks like this Rayfield has found a new home. I have others not yet restored.

Update: Turns out the guy doesn't need a manifold and was looking for a matched set of Master "A" carbs to mount to a custom manifold. Well, ask and ye shall receive. Sold him a matched set of A's. So I have the Master manifold, correct for Master size "A" and a carb to go on it although not the one...

That is sad to hear. I talked to him a couple times when we were working on the Buffalo carb for the K. Interesting guy and a real craftsman. I saw that K radiator after he got it done.

Time goes on and the older I get the faster it is going.

My sympathies for the loss of your friend.

Stromberg MB-1

Zenith S4BF

Mayer

Rayfield UF

It is a Stewart, off an early Dodge.

Part of the problem here is that so many people are shopping on line that the carriers can't keep up with the volume and they can't hire people and train them before the rush so the whole thing turns in to a mess. My SO has been a mail carrier for 19 years in a rural town in Montana. 65 miles from B...

Local Radiator shop here just closed, hauled their inventory and tools in for scrap and have a sign in front of the building: For Lease or Sale. Probably be another Pizza place .............. no, they legalized Marijuana here for "Medical" use a couple years ago, there must be a dozen of them in tow...

Thanks Jethro. Makes you wonder why anybody would run a stock carb after you run a UF. They on my best five list, hard to find. I ran one on my 26 roadster for awhile and loved it. Here is the deal on this one. I sold it to a hill climb guy several years and two or three hundred carbs ago. He loved ...

Just wasted ten minutes typing, T Mobile doesn't have service enough to post it. Carb is sold pending payment. I have at least one more Master carb, if you are interested email me and I'll get back to you after my dentist appointment. Stanhowemt@aol.com No calls until the novocaine wears off. Somebo...

Bought several carbs lately. These are not rebuilt yet but pricing includes rebuild. Time line is probably mid February, I'm gaining on the pile every day but these are down the list. Good Christmas presents, tho. Show the page to the wife. I will have photos but I'm dead in the water tonight. Bed t...

It's for sale, it looked pretty good when I bought but you never know until you get them apart. Got another carb done about 9 spent an hour and a half taking this one apart. Stunk terrible, old gas, varnish, yuck. I probably smell just like it. Anyway this is most of the parts and pieces. 20201214_2...

These: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Norseman-29pc-CN-TECH-NITRIDE-CRYO-M7-Drill-Bit-Set-1-16-1-2-MADE-IN-USA-CT-29/162273916978?hash=item25c8477832:g:IbYAAOSwImRYIgYd $130 on ebay, might be cheaper someplace else. By the way, I disagree with the idea of drilling progressively larger holes. Drill a small...

This is the set I have. CN-TECH NITRIDE-CRYO---- https://www.ebay.com/itm/Norseman-29pc-CN-TECH-NITRIDE-CRYO-M7-Drill-Bit-Set-1-16-1-2-MADE-IN-USA-CT-29/162273916978?hash=item25c8477832:g:IbYAAOSwImRYIgYd $130 on ebay. I didn't buy mine there. Might be cheaper someplace else. I have no dog in this a...

That is just TOO COOL!!!

Absolutely the best drill bits I have ever owned or seen. Norseman, made in Minnesota. I have a dozen other sets and these will out drill them two to one. Hard steel, brass, whatever. Stay sharp. There is a tool company that comes to the Great Falls swap meet every year, they sell good tools. Also a...

Maybe Mike will reproduce the choke setup. This is the first Rayfield design I've seen. Several years ago we reproduced the choke setup for the U & J. I think we did 30 brass castings. I'm about out, I dunno if Mike has any left or not.

OK, to complete #5. I would have to pick the Mayer which is smooth operating, a little fussy to adjust but operates on the same principal as the Kingston 5 ball. Most of them are not very rebuildable because of the spring steel plates that hold the little balls in position. Either NOS or not rusty i...

I just sold it for you Hank. Mike will be getting ahold of you. Those are great carbs, They are one my top five list of great T Carbs. #1. All around best. Stromberg OF #2. Best for zoom. U & J 3. Best for quick acceleration, trouble free, excellent all around Zenith s4BF 4. Second only to Stromberg...

Keith Townsend in Gresham would be a great place to start. He knows the area and the market, has been a T guy for about 200 years, I think.

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