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Mark Osterman

Still looking for a good used right front fender with some original paint.

Mark Osterman

Yes, that is the standard Ford H lens. When I went to Hershey last year I went to the vendor selling the LED lenses and mentioned the odd pattern they threw. He said that yes, the vertical ribbing on those lenses was the reason and there was nothing one could do to improve the light. Now .. they do ...

Mark Osterman

The only thing I would say that they throw a strange pattern if you have the later lenses with the vertical fluting. I assume they would throw a more consistent pattern with clear glass.

Mark Osterman

I used the original tool and then sold it thinking I would never need it again. Fingers crossed.

Mark Osterman

If you go to Harbor Freight you’ll find black leather welding gauntlets. All you need to do is remove the sewn on tag and remove the graphics printed on the leather with paint stripper. They work great and come in different sizes.

Mark Osterman

What is the application .. and are your fingers really that short?

Mark Osterman

Yes, that was in regards to me looking for one of these mirrors. He mentioned were later than my car, but I don’t see that as a problem. People bought things for their cars back then. My car was originally a non starter type with oil side lamps. But at some point the starter package was installed. T...

Mark Osterman

In 1924 Ford offered a rectangular accessory mirror that attached to the top of the open car windshield. The mount was curved to conform to the rounded windshield frame. Two holes were required to be drilled into the frame for installation. My question is what type of bolts/nuts were used for this i...

Mark Osterman

Had you installed the intake and exhaust manifolds recently? Just curious if you have a leak. Also check the gas in your carb by letting some out the bottom into a white container like a coffee cup. Look at what comes out. I would start with setting the timing with the #1 spark plug out watching for...

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Was just wondering about those vintage air valves found on intake manifolds. They are designed to let more oxygen to mix with the gas vapors. If you restrict the air with a filter on one end ... could you add it at the other? Or would drawing unfiltered air on that end just suck in more debris? Just...

Mark Osterman

These NOS brass jets came to me in a mixed lot of 1920s era carburetor parts. Anyone have a hunch what company used these? I have a lot of both types with varied hole sizes.

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Cold and rainy outside so it’s a good day to organize boxes of unsorted parts. I have no idea what these clips are for. They are about 5/8” long. Came to me in a box of 1920s era carburetor parts.

Mark Osterman

Somebody find me a nice fender please.

Mark Osterman

Yes, daylight is very blue. And if you shoot outside try to do it on an overcast day or cloudy bright to avoid hard shadows.

Mark Osterman

Thanks Bill. Never saw that thread. Interesting that there were a couple with exactly the same graphics of mine. Wonder if they were available through the Ford company.

Mark Osterman

Very neat. So it was on the steel dashboard and not the firewall. It has a lot of relief compared to the one I posted,

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Well, it’s new sheet ..

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Bought this NOS dealer badge the other day. Was wondering how common they are and would like to see some more if you have one to post here.

Mark Osterman

One of the more frustrating things about buying model T parts on line (both here and on eBay) are bad illustrations of what people are selling. It’s as if they don’t actually look at their own pictures. Tonight I was trying to help someone selling model T parts on Facebook Marketplace to shoot bette...

Mark Osterman

Facebook ? LOL ... that sequence happens here on the Forum for certain topics! Thanks Steve. Reminds me of a series of line drawings my father had of the evolution of marketing a rope swing. He was in advertising.

Mark Osterman

looking for a right front fender 17-23

Mark Osterman

Some things can be copied and inverted but you can’t do much with underexposed and out of focus. Funny isn’t it, that carburetors get the worst documentation even by some familiar with them. Here is a comparison I shot to help identify the NH straight-through configuration. This can be difficult to ...

Mark Osterman

Have never seen the mag coil on any of the Ts I’ve owned affected by anything really. And I think that most of the various carburetors I’ve tried had brass floats. Now several years ago I left conventional alcohol additive gasoline in my previous T over the winter and I didn’t start it for a few mon...

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I’ve been helping her identify and price things but it’s slow going. Trying to coach her on hw to photograph pieces. I want a carburetor but she has sent me about six bad pictures and from the least helpful angles. 😀 Kinda like the people on eBay who sell T parts but always post every angle of a car...

Mark Osterman

Funny, I was gearing up to make some cork insert type model T band linings for installation in my ‘23 runabout this summer. Bought some original corked band linings at Hershey last October as samples.

Mark Osterman

Anyone out there from Maryland. I have a contact of some people who have T parts but no idea of what they are or their worth. The husband want to trow them out to make room and the wife has been trying to sell them on Facebook.

Mark Osterman

Larry, I have a windshield I recently purchased specifically for the bottom frame. The bottoms always rust out so I replaced the bottom on my car with this new purchase. So now I have the top frame which is drilled for the wiper and wanted to fill the holes. Even if I don’t actually have it on the c...

Mark Osterman

Crap ... so close. Been looking for a front 1917-1923 fender for months.

Mark Osterman

Now you need to dirty up the face to match!

Mark Osterman

My soup is usually brass parts in ketchup

Mark Osterman

Hey Henry ... thanks for the offer but I think David has the right one for the open windshield.

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Still looking

Mark Osterman

There are vintage tail lights with two bulbs that are very nifty for multiple uses.

Mark Osterman

Title says it all. Still looking.

Mark

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The recent seat upholstery needs some tweaking on the seat back assembly of my 1923 runabout. There was a problem when the local upholsterer took over when the cold weather set in and I felt I couldn’t do it in my cold garage. The result was that certain things were not lining up the way they should...

Mark Osterman

Looking for a vintage mirror that screws onto the top of a windshield. Langs sells a repop but I want an original. Silver doesn’t need to be good on the mirror.

Mosterman@eastman.org

Mark Osterman

They look like poor quality xerographic copies.

Mark Osterman

How does one look up the email or contact information of a MTFCA member?

Mark Osterman

I love those things but they don’t come up on eBay that often except in single issues taken from bound editions. Would love to have a stack to look through these winter evenings.

Mark Osterman

The banjo peg head

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This is me playing a 1921 vintage Van Eps Recording Banjo. There was a lot of different music recorded in the teens and twenties. This type of music can be found on the Edison cylinder and diamond disc records from that period. Fred Van Eps was one of the best known banjo players of this style and h...

Mark Osterman

Hate using a screw driver. Really needs to be a steel blade and central rod with a square torque top for applying a wrench.

Mark Osterman

Scott,

Do you also make the tool to remove the seat?

Mark Osterman

Brent did my coils and I also used a TW for about a year before I had trouble. Tony turned mine down and gave me a new brush. Have since switched to a good used vintage New Day timer. Will probably stick to that since it works fine. I do wipe it down from time to time.

Mark Osterman

Where does one place it under the seat on a 23 runabout?

Mark Osterman

Not for sale .. I just posted it for people to see. An interesting variant.

Mark Osterman

I’d like to find an original inside type mirror that screws into the top windshield frame. My windshield has the two holes and I want to fill them with a mirror installation but din’t want a reproduction. Looks like this, offered by Langs.

Mark Osterman

No rain where you live?

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Merry Christmas All

Our model T era home in Rochester, NY

Mark Osterman

Ok .. so I have to salt my own stocking. Here’s a windshield wiper with two blades. The exterior blade is rubber and the interior blade is felt.

Mark Osterman

Merry Christmas

Mark Osterman

What’s the difference. Can you post comparison pictures?

Mark Osterman

On the farm where I worked as a boy the farmer had a “route” that included the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. He drove a 1932 Ford produce truck (he bought new) there twice a week. Working in the fields early in the morning I picked corn that we dumped into a wooden skid sled pulled by a d...

Mark Osterman

Went out today to buy a front axle assembly I found on Craigslist. There was also a nice frame and a rear axle for a TT, but I went for the front axle assembly. While I was there I found a straight through carburetor and bought that too. I cleaned it up to evaluate the condition and found this cast-...

Mark Osterman

When I took the runabout apart in 2016 it was this time of year. I put all the fenders, turtle back and other sheet metal on my front porch. I hoisted the body as high as I could in the garage so that I could work on the chassis elements piece by piece. By the next July it was inspected and on the r...

Mark Osterman

Yes, that’s a great point Humble. Actually I put the heater on the ground for the video. It’s usually up on the steel top of my table saw.

Mark Osterman

Lots of room when I pull the T into the driveway.

Mark Osterman

Here is an instagram link too:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6T0TkxAI9R ... aau7vniz4h

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Norm,

It’s a you tube video.Isn’t it showing?

Mark Osterman

I envy you guys that have spacious garages in the country that have room for five cars, mountains of specialty tools and .. even heat. Thought you might enjoy what an urban model T owner has. My house and garage was built in 1919 and there are two bays in the unheated garage. One side has a table sa...

Mark Osterman

Was looking at some vintage toy model Ts on eBay and there were a few with words and phrases painted on them. We’ve all seen them. I was wondering when this trend started. I think I’ve seem examples that date from the 1930s to the 1950s. Would love to see more vintage pictures and are there any that...

Mark Osterman

Does anyone have an email or phone for him?

Mark Osterman

I need someone to inspect and possibly pay for a fender in a barn in New Hampshire for me. Anyone out there? It’s the fender on the far left.

Mark Osterman

Make the firewall yourself or have some skillful woodworker make it. The ones available from vendors are made from off the shelf plywood and nothing like the originals. Use yours as a guide.

Mark Osterman

Let’s see some pictures. Is it a wood or steel firewall? And if steel, is it a high or low hood?

Mark Osterman

Our garage was built in 1919 so the T feels right at home in there despite the lack of regular heat. I have a kerosene heater in there for when I’m working. No need to worry about fumes ... it’s well ventilated.

Mark Osterman

Started decorating for Christmas today. It’s snowing like crazy. Our tiny unheated garage and the T snuggled inside got the treatment too.

Mark Osterman

Merry Christmas to all from Rochester, NY .... the land of Kodak.

Mark Osterman

Funny .... in all the years I drove my 1919 .. first as a mobile stage for medicine shows and after an accident rebuilt as a speedster ... I never ran out of gas; until the day before I sold it! I guess it was upset with me.

Mark Osterman

Thanks, yes these pictures and the reluctance of the seller to communicate is a red light.

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Hey Mike ... wish you were closer. That’s a long drive.

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Ha ... no of course Allan. It’s context in this case. I would never buy a fender that coast me $500 for shipping. So I can say passenger side here in the US. Next time I go to one of the RHD countries I would say drivers side. But if you prefer I say right side ... ok. I need a right side front fend...

Mark Osterman

Appreciate his contact email

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I’m trying to buy a pair of front fenders from a guy on Craigslist in Pella Iowa. He doesn’t have email and can’t take pictures and the ones on the listing are poor. He’s not a T guy either. So I need someone to look over these fenders before I buy them and have them sent to Rochester NY.

Mark Osterman

Finished reupholstering the seat cushion and back on the ‘23 runabout.

Mark Osterman

A little while ago someone posted a craigslist listing in Iowa for me that had two front fenders for sale. Now I can’t find it. Can someone please repost that link or send it to my email mosterman@eastman.org

Mark Osterman

I’m actually pleased with the overall results. From what I’ve seen in vintage photographs and pictures of unrestored cars the details were not so uniform so it can be difficult to point out areas that are “not right.” I think it’s more important that the work is consistent throughout the installatio...

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Thanks Mark. I’ll follow up on that Craigslist post. Hope he will ship them if they fit the bill.

Mark Osterman

LOL ... well Allan, I assumed that any fender I would find would be in the US so passenger was more specific than “right” side. Right and left can be interpreted two ways depending on if you are sitting in the car or standing in front.

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Henry,

Sorry to hear of your wife’s mishap. That takes awhile to heal. For you .... dishwashing rubber gloves.

Mark Osterman

Spent a couple of months looking for a good solid passenger side low hood type front fender. Failed several times despite the efforts of a few good people who tried to help. Frustrating. On the other hand I finished installing my seat upholstery. Now I need to work it in. Looks like when you get new...

Mark Osterman

Looking for a good, solid. passenger-side front fender 17-23. Original paint in places would be great.

Mark Osterman

Here is where the pleats were not sewn at the same width as the others. So, there are a couple of rumples. I suspect they will settle over time.

Mark Osterman

I completed the seat cushion assembly a month ago but ran into some trouble with the back assembly kit. Then we got cold weather early so I couldn’t do anything in my unheated garage here in Rochester. So I asked a local shop to fix my messed up job. I had to order another back kit as there were too...

Mark Osterman

Anyone have good photographs of the back like I originally posted. I pulled my picture from the internet and I’m looking for better resolution.

Mark Osterman

Anyone out there have a good example of a cardboard winter front? These were mid-twenties usually had an advertisement on the front. I’m looking for a good hi resolution photo straight on for the graphics.

Mark Osterman

There’s always next Christmas!

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Looks like the side light brackets are there. Just no lights.

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Hey Larry, wish we could. We shoot today then are meeting another business contact over dinner and then fly back to the land of cold tomorrow morning.

Mark Osterman

True, thought none of the buildings in that
picture exist today. Replaced by the Orpheum .. United Artists theaters and more modern apartments. We are at the Magic Theater in Hollywood tonight.

Mark Osterman

Are these spring loaded balls an indexing system to hold the needle in place during adjustment?

Mark Osterman

We are at the Hoxton Hotel on Broadway. The garage is around 1030 on the same side of the street. There is a 1930s Packard parked in that garage. Can’t talk to much about the Discovery project. It a pilot program on historic photographic forensics and France and I are the historic process specialists.

Mark Osterman

Yes, I’m the short one. How often can I say that?

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My wife and I are in Los Angeles to film an episode for the Discovery Channel tomorrow. Came upon this mural in a parking garage a block from our hotel.

Mark Osterman

Need a good solid, dent & tear free passenger side front fender for a low hood car ... so without the lip on the front for the apron. Please email me at mosterman@eastman.org

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I once drove a 1933 Plymouth PC as regular transportation. It had a straight 6 with hydraulic brakes and a free wheeling transmission. There was a knob on the dash you pulled to get it into free wheeling and pushed for normal.

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These guys were in their late teens or early twenties ... so they were in their fearless years.

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The size of this image is actually 2 mm x 2 1/2 mm. Pretty small. And it one of the largest ones we make.

Mark Osterman

Now’s the time to put your candidate on your model T. Here it is for the primary of 1924 or the election of 1928! All years model T are eligible since people drove them for years.

It’s not perfect but original paint. $ 125 including post in the US.

Mark Osterman

Ira’s notes on the back of the prints.

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