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Mark Osterman

Glad I didn’t have them when my T turned turtle after someone cut me off in traffic years ago. I would have died.

Mark Osterman

Larry, I know you have mentioned before that the “hidem” trim end pieces were finished in raven black in some years. Were the other fasteners on the top and side curtains finished that way as well ... or the standard nickel finish?

Mark Osterman

Yes, Mike was very helpful when I couldn’t figure out the written instructions for the seat kit. The product is good, the support is great ... if only they had better written instructions and videos for their products.

Mark Osterman

The paint is rubbed off from when it was attached to my side mount. (See picture) But it’s really tight on this tear bracket for some reason. Maybe I need to grease it up and whack it with a rubber mallet.

Mark Osterman

Ok .. I found that the geometry worked better with a spacer where the bolt goes through the bottom holes of the stationary and movable clamp, so I installed a cut down band spring. Works nicely. I believe the nut probably had a wide flat integral washer rather than the taper but I don’t know. Now I ...

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Thanks Dan, That was exactly what I was looking for and I think a few others were schooled as well on this one.

Mark Osterman

Yes Steve .... that’s how I’ve always used mine but with the accessory Slow/ Stop tail light installed on this carrier I need to used the clamp the way it was designed.

Mark Osterman

Any pictures? Nothing lines up or clamps on the rim.

Mark Osterman

In the past I have just turned the rim so that one of the lugs lined up with the lower “keeper” on the carrier. But now I actually have to use it the correct way to allow room for an accessory tail / stop light. So I can seem to figure out how the outer clamp is supposed to fit. I have two clamps. A...

Mark Osterman

I was under my runabout this morning switching back from my side mount spare tire carrier to the stock back mounted variant. Boy it’s a dirty job anytime you work in the area where the exhaust leaves soot. I had one of the stainless steel exhaust deflectors from my previous T and installed it on the...

Mark Osterman

I would urge you to keep it as designed. Sure play around with the three basic timers but run it with six volts. I drive my 23 runabout nearly every day and about 100 miles a week until the city lays down salt in December. There are times in the winter if we don’t have snow for a stretch when I driv...

Mark Osterman

I made one specifically for that if you are interested. $20 plus post.

Mark Osterman

Just picked these up today. They could be used for truck lights or a speedster. Not a left / right set but the same identical lights. $30 a piece or $50 for both plus post.

Mark Osterman

Sent you a PM

Mark Osterman

Mine leaked due to the upper surface of the float not being smooth. The butterfly weight regulator would get snagged at times.

Mark Osterman

Well, I’m only 65, a relative youngster, but the first vehicle that I actually bought with my own money was a model TT farm truck with a heavy oak open stake back. I was 15 at the time. It had no hood or fenders and was being used to hold a large sign for a church along the side of the road. It said...

Mark Osterman

I generally start and then run my car on magneto. In the past month or so I was showing people how it could both start and run on either, but I noticed it was not running well enough to drive on battery. I cleaned the plugs, the timer and adjusted the carburetor. Still it wouldn’t run smoothly on ba...

Mark Osterman

The cover and lower fitting for $130 plus post. Email me at Markosterman@icloud.com

Mark Osterman

SOLD .... thanks MTFCA

Mark Osterman

Here are pictures showing the hole spacing. Email me if you want to purchase these (new email)

Markosterman@icloud.com

Mark Osterman

Aluminum accessory extra oil outfit. $130 plus post.

Mark Osterman

Nice aluminum uptake manifold. Spacing is correct for model T but can’t be used with the stock exhaust manifold. $125 plus post.

Mark Osterman

A nice pair of vintage aluminum step plates with shoe scrapers. One mounting hole is slightly enlarged. $100 plus post in the US.

Mark Osterman

Drove the T every day from beginning of April when I was on unpaid furlough to May when I was reinstated. Now I’m working at home ... and still driving it every day.

Mark Osterman

Pretty funny post title given that most of the people on this forum are old men in their “never years” ... as in “I never had to worry about that before”.

Mark Osterman

I used to be a musical instrument maker ... now I make cameras. Over the years I’ve seen a lot of things made by people who thought a non traditional wood might be a great alternative but it turned out to be a disaster for the particular application. The most humorous was someone who used spalted wo...

Mark Osterman

This was the one I made from vintage parts. Included is the no name updraft carburetor I rebuilt for this car. It was so much fun to drive. Sold it to afford the 1923 runabout I now have.

Mark Osterman

Still have this upholstery for sale. Might be for a speedster or economical solution for a low cowl roadster.

Mark Osterman

The typical carburetor for a model T made in Ireland was the Zephyr (made in Leamington Spa, England) which looks very much like a straight through NH. So if you find one of those (or a straight through NH) and rebuild them combined with cleaning up your spark system and testing compression you shou...

Mark Osterman

I have two .. but the same side. $30 each plus post

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Welcome to the world of model Ts. They are a lot if fun and a great distraction from the stresses of everyday life. I drive mine nearly every day. What part of Kansas City. I went to the Kansas City Art Institute and have pieces in the Nelson Gallery collection. Beautiful city.

Mark Osterman

France as K.T. Oakley and me as Dr. Bumstead with the Lenape Liquid Show.

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Lookin good. Now let the wind dust it off some more!

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No really ... am interested in what the application is for this so I can sell it.

Mark Osterman

I originally bought this NOS manifold for my U&J carburetor and even had Stan drill it to fit. Turns out that while the intake hole line up ... there is no room for the exhaust manifold. Anyone know its application?

Mark Osterman

I have a Classtique seat back upholstery assembly for a 23 runabout that I didn’t install correctly. When I took the car to an upholstery shop to fix what I screwed up they didn’t want to use it so I had to buy a second assembly. This has staple holes where I installed it and a small section cut out...

Mark Osterman

Well ... that’s pretty much what I did for twenty years. I sold a lot of stuff.

Mark Osterman

Back in the 1980s I stumbled on a small article in a 1930s copy of Billboard Magazine on a pitchman who built a podium on the back of his rumble seat coupe. I owned a 1933 Plymouth rumble-seat coupe at the time. So, I built my own version. The podium unfolded when the lid was opened and it had diffe...

Mark Osterman

I just want the top to have a proper fit. I’ve seen lots of seats and top kits that are ok ... and some that were not so great installed by people doing it for the first time. Not their fault. I’m a pretty good craftsman but no matter how slow you go, if you don’t know the tricks (as you pointed out...

Mark Osterman

I’m actually looking for physical on-site help, not a phone conversation or a bad video. When I did the seats the written instructions were so cryptic that unless you had done one of these before it was impossible to do a really good job. After doing the job based on guessing what needed to be done ...

Mark Osterman

I am finally planning to install a top on my ‘23 runabout this summer. If possible I’d really like some help from someone who’s done this before. When I installed my seats everyone said it’s much easier the second time. An odd thing to say I think. I only have this one T and want it right the first ...

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Ok Dan. I stand corrected!

That design is older than I imagined.

Mark Osterman

Robb, I’m so impressed with your camper. Wonderful.

Mark Osterman

Like the reflector. Must have had another clamp. That is a more modern reflector light clamp still being made today.

Mark Osterman

Found this at a car boot sale in Wiltshire, England a few years ago. Has a hand cranked 12 foot long retractable cord. The bulb is a vintage double contact headlight bulb.

Mark Osterman

Living in New York State we are seeing it creep out into our county. People are dying. The big stores are usually out of paper but the very small stores at gas stations and little corner shops have toilet paper and paper towels. What I can’t understand is hoarding bottled water. We have decent tap w...

Mark Osterman

Well, Japanning is essentially a baked on asphalt and lampblack coating, the same as used to make tintype plates. No problem .. I make tintypes for my day job.

Mark Osterman

Unrestored plates on my 1923 Runabout. The rear plate view is with the Ford-O oil lamp and bracket. I have the spare in a running board mount. When I put the spare on the back with the regular Ford mount I put the light and plate on that spare bracket.

Mark Osterman

Well, here is an update. As I suspected the NOS brush I put in my New Day Timer was set at a slightly pitch than the new ones I recently got from Langs. It threw the advance off a little. When I replaced it with the new brush from Langs the advance lever was exactly where I had set it back when I fi...

Mark Osterman

I got this nice set of top prop nuts today. Am curious if these were significantly different for different years. Were they always painted black? These appear to be nickel plated under the paint.

Mark Osterman

Like the one that is rounded over on the inside bottom. Would work much better with the rubber doughnut gasket.

Mark Osterman

Rich, Here is one of the photographs that was based on the sketch. Most people probably don’t realize that some fine art photographers often do preliminary sketches for their photographs.

Mark Osterman

I went through a pair of front tires in about four moths of driving because I left the tie rod as I received the car. Then it came to me that the toe in was screwed up. I adjusted it after I installed another set of front tires and it still wasn’t quite right so I adjusted it again using a different...

Mark Osterman

Pardon ... these are pencil ... but sketches nevertheless. From an exhibit of my photography last year. These were preliminary sketches for photographs.

Mark Osterman

LOL ... better learn to hunker down; we’re in the infancy of the virus here in the US. It’s a good time to sit down with a good novel or history book if you are retired. I still have to work on the weekdays even though I am not actually going into the Museum. I have a lab and studio in our home whic...

Mark Osterman

This was me back around 1980. I was traveling around to festivals performing medicine shows off the back of my 1919 model T. I had built a folding stage that extended out the back. At the end of the day I would remove two of the poles on the stage that held the painted back drop and use that with an...

Mark Osterman

Yeah ... depending on the time of year (temperature and rain) I could go with very little and be in my happy place. The idea is to enjoy a short trip and then relax at the destination for a few days. The tent is heavier than what I want or need.

Mark Osterman

In the past year I’ve been collecting vintage information about camping trips with a model T. Sometime this summer I want to go out for a few days in my runabout and get away from it all. I bought an original pickup box for my car to allow me to carry what I need when I venture out with my wife, whi...

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Jim ... love that they are displayed in what looks like a muffin tin!

Mark Osterman

So Dan, were there non-script ammeters installed in the factory as original equipment or are they always replacement units?

Mark Osterman

Looks great. How did you add the missing area of the casting?

Mark Osterman

Interestingly we now have 10 cases here in Rochester NY and two are in the hospital two blocks from our house. As of yesterday I am working at home, the Museum where I work is now closed to the public and the head of my department said I should stay home for the next two weeks. I have cancelled visi...

Mark Osterman

I’d be interested in seeing the variety of ammeter designs used in model T instrument clusters. Were they sequential in the changes of where the needle comes out, the screws attached and the Ford logo placed or were different manufacturers supplying them at the same time?

Mark Osterman

I hear you guys. It’s really disappointing when your plans are pulled out from under you. I have a five day workshop schedule for this week and had people coming from all over the US and Europe. We cancelled last Wednesday. Took me a week to prep. Also had a workshop cancelled that I was going to te...

Mark Osterman

Interesting that it’s from a frame from a strip of 35 mm black and white film.

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The inventor of the digital camera is actually a friend of mine. Come in our Museum from time to time. I remind him it’s a fad on a regular basis.

Mark Osterman

I’ve run the car once a week all winter even if it was only to have it get up to operating temperature in my driveway. The snow hasn’t been that frequent this year and there were lots of days between that were good for chilly rides.

Mark Osterman

Seems this was a good day to take this picture. George Eastman took his own life on this date in 1932. He was 77. He left the following note: “To my friends. My work is done, why wait”

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Ha ... I’ll get it done this summer for sure, though I suspect it will spend more time down than up. I can’t imagine how I’ll be able to see stop lights here in the city with it up. At my height and these new seat cushions and springs I view traffic mostly from over the windshield.

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One of my banjos.

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Drove to a car and coffee get together about 15 miles away this morning. Got there and no coffee or cars! LOL .. turned out that it was cancelled due to the Corona Virus. So on the chilly drive back home I drove by the old Kodak headquarters.

Mark Osterman

Nice original ammeter. The surround is a little beat up and there is only one tab, but once it’s screwed into the instrument panel it would be secure. $40 plus post.

Mark Osterman

Yikes, that’s not very good. I drive my T around 100 miles a week. Guess I need the bronze type brush.

Mark Osterman

Thanks for that story. Very interesting. Yes, I think it’s too strong and although it works fine as far as running smoothly I’ll take it out of there. Last night I went through my electrical stuff and found a generator brush that I cut down to fit the old brush housing I have. Will try it out after ...

Mark Osterman

Stan,

Thought you were slowing down with your rebuilding activities but it looks like you’ve actually stepped it up. Glad you are running on all cylinders.

Mark Osterman

A little iPhone glitch at the end there ...meant to say the little piece that sticks out to the right is different than most.

Mark Osterman

LOL ... sure guys, I know how to reset the timer. And it works great so I may do that and keep the ones I ordered as spares. Only thing is that this one has a pretty string spring and might wear out the timer faster. Just thought something like that brush would be pretty standard. Here is the vintag...

Mark Osterman

I didn’t think it was in a different place. I assumed the pin hole was the same but that the other side that holds the spring loaded brush is slightly different.

Mark Osterman

My brush for the New Day Timer finally died. I went through my box of timer parts and found a vintage NOS brush. It had a stronger spring and I had to file away some metal so the the keeper pin would go all the way in. After I wiped out some grime and gave the timer a little sandpaper cleaning I but...

Mark Osterman

Picked up this Antique Auto Club badge today in an antique shop. I assume they made these for many years. Anyone have an idea of what vintage? It’s a very heavy brass casting.

Mark Osterman

Sure, they could shoot that on a sunny day with a focal plane shutter and a fast lens. But .... it’s combination printing. That stuff is as old as the invention of photography. Just like introducing clouds in photographs when there were none on the original negative.

Mark Osterman

Needs some love but an nice piece. I have one just like it on my ‘23 runabout. $85 plus post

Mark Osterman

I have a running board spare tire carrier for 30 x 3 1/2 if you’re interested. Looks like this one. Mosterman@eastman.org

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As the Irish say .. “I’ve seen worse”

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Some pictures. The repair was braised but never ground down. Some filling with lead or bondo and sanding / grinding would make a difference. There is some general pitting on the upper side that would fill easily. Still a solid fender.

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Right Scott. I carried that thing like a Robert Service’s Sam Magee. I think it might be for a Chevrolet.

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Whoops ... I meant the lugs are marked M M not M H

Mark Osterman

Whoops ... I meant the lugs are marked M M not M H

Mark Osterman

I bought this 30 x 3 1/2 clincher rim at Hershey a few years ago. It’s in perfect condition, no worn lugs or sharp edges, but it didn’t fit my wheels. Frustrating as Hell. The lugs are marked M H. Any ideas?

Mark Osterman

This is a solid front right fender with braised reinforcement around the area where it connects to the running board. Not so pretty there so could use some cosmetic work with putty if you want it to look good glossy. It was pitted from years of wet stuff sitting in that area. Email for pictures. $17...

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Located a decent front fender, knocked out a couple of dents and installed it in 20 degree weather. A warm spell.

Mark Osterman

I clean with a couple pounds of bbs and detergent. Then flush out well with water followed with an alcohol rinse. Then fill with gas and always have at least 1/3 full to keep the gas sloshing around as you drive.

Mark Osterman

Very fancy mounting bolts. Was that a U&J design or your own custom design?

Mark Osterman

I do like the idea of an electric speedo on the T as an option. Once I attached my phone to the windshield and used an app. It worked fine. But for the past several years I’ve been using the original set up with the Stewart 160 head and the chain drive. It’s great when it works ... which is most of ...

Mark Osterman

Anyone have a good 30 x 3 1/2 rim for sale?

Mark Osterman

I plugged both holes with dish detergent solution and a few pounds of bbs. Then rolled it around on the lawn. Flushed it out and removed the bbs followed by an alcohol wash and evaporation dry. Beautiful on the inside. I make sure there is always at least half full with non ethanol gas.

Mark Osterman

Thanks for the reminder !

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I plugged the bottom of my original tank and then poured in about 5 lbs of bbs. Then poured in hot water and detergent. I capped the tank and rolled it around for about 45 mins. Then I emptied the tank and rinsed with several changes of water followed by a gallon of 95% grain alcohol and allowed to ...

Mark Osterman

Is pushing quickly and firmly the same as stomping? This is how I’ve applied pressure on bands since 1979. Have yet to have catastrophic failure. But there’s still time. I’ve used Kevlar for the past seven years. But am thinking of making some cork lined bands for installation this summer.

Mark Osterman

Happy Birthday Larry. Hope you have a great day for driving !

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