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Scott_Conger

Did the guy actually say "RAW" linseed oil? If true, that is an absolute shocking thing to do unannounced to a customer. If it was "Boiled Linseed Oil", that would only be a very very surprising thing to do to a customer. the two products are very different, with very different drying times and each...

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There is the way it was done simply and originally, and then there is every other possible way. Not all of which have likely been tried, but no doubt, eventually will.

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Your brake levers at the backing plates are perfectly aligned for full-on braking (straight up) Based on how far backward they lean when the brake lever is (I assume) full forward, you may actually have the brake cams going over center and starting to set the brakes (due to the cam going too far bac...

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Harry the NH idle circuit actually powers the car from idle to about 1/4 of the throttle movement. With that circuit blocked and the carb adjusted to compensate, the car will be lame for sure. 99% of the guys who either love to or simply must fiddle with their carbs all day long while driving with a...

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Having brought back a '23 runabout back from the brink of scrap, I can state with total certainty, that adding the complication of adding in a door to a driver's side panel would have added intolerable time and effort to the complication of the not-so-simple creation of the wood structure and the re...

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FWIW, My Jan 2, '13 car sports a set of these, and I believe them to be original to the car

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Bruce

you're making a good choice. Glad Dave is going to be able to help out.

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The Ford puller for wire wheel hubs was a massively proportioned two-fingered affair and sported a "5-Z-1172" number

If this is a tool for a Model T, it is an aftermarket tool, and very lightly proportioned for the job.

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After you seal up the hole and can no longer run a standard intake, standard exhaust or standard carb setup, and have to change over your steering column, give me a call. I have an old vaporizer that is just dying to be installed. You're on your own, converting your steering column, though. It is a ...

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Free? So China is paying for these? Huh It will be interesting to see how long the supply of testing kits actually lasts. Fully expecting to become infected eventually, I bought my first and only one just last week, no problem, but given that the feds are also now in charge of Monoclonal Antibodies,...

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Mark

be sure to check that your piping system does not contain any copper fittings.

An internet search or "MTFCA" search will provide more detail on the subject.

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Keep the nifty engine mount/spring attachment accessory consider a new frame or spend a LOT of time inspecting and repairing everything (front crossmember and it's attachment is a particular mess). steering bracket has been hacked on, too, and the drag link has either been repaired or lengthened. Lo...

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sending an email

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It's a Model T.

It should survive just fine as it is.

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ttt.......

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Makes it easy to get to the bolts when installing/removing carb. Suppliers want $16+ for a set.

here are two brand new sets sold together (packages have shelf-wear) for $10+ postage

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None of these parts are gorgeous, though they will clean up and function fine. Bowl exterior is pitted, but these bowls are made like bomb-shelters and is just fine from a functional standpoint. Flapper, flapper hinge, and flapper bumper are not pretty either, but will clean up. If you love L-4's, h...

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New heating plate and like-new intake manifold (painted Model A green)

$15 plus postage

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Didn't lay it, but knew the guys who knew the guy! Got to meet a lot of very interesting oldsters back then, including Fred Selchow, the fellow who invented Scrabble...what a fine and distinguished gentleman he was, and always had time to speak to me, when many other far less auspicious folks did no...

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Nicely done, Hank

If I didn't have something similar, these would be very tempting.

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Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall, when the inspector is presented with this?

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You didn't ask my opinion, but sanding ANYTHING to make the bushing work is not a great idea leading to a proper close fit. It sounds like you were looking for a facing tool, though you never replied to folks asking which you needed.

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Years ago, my wife and I had just moved into our home...the dryer was broken, so we introduced ourselves to our elderly neighbor and asked if we could borrow her clothesline. She eyed me up and down and said "I suppose so, but I don't know how you're going to get it out of the ground". I smiled and ...

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I'll bet that no one has a lower number: NAWCC #18199

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Jeff to your testing speed. As set up, you're running at a fairly lower speed on the generator. A directly coupled motor/generator setup at 1725 RPM is a very good generator speed representing a brisk drive. Once you begin to really pour the coal to it, output will fall off some when approaching ver...

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email me

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Josh

the kit Lang's sells is the very best system you could purchase. I have plenty of experience, 100% success and am willing to give you any advice you wish, OFFLINE via email.

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Soap......

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It didn't give you what you wanted; it gave you what you needed, and nowhere does it use the word "drag". I've watched your progress with interest like everyone else, particularly enjoying the fact that you and your son are working together on this, and do wish you the very best on your project, but...

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That is covered in the (Model T) Ford Service Manual, paragraph 66

It is book "T-1" at every supplier and needed to be in your library last week.

There is hardly a question which will come up during your work which will not be answered within its pages.

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It is definitely a FB special, that's for sure.

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I'm not immune to beating a dead horse, I suppose. If there was a doubt, this should remove it. You've measured the bearings at 1.057 and now 1.06 "but won't go over the shaft"...a shaft that measures 1.060. You're guessing that the bearings are made wrong, but still do not know what they actually m...

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Morgan if you look at the instructions again, I think you're going to find that the "1.06" turning is BETWEEN the bearing surfaces so as to keep you from having to push the bearing along the ENTIRE length of the axle shaft. You would NOT turn down the area for the bearing nor the keyed gear. And I'd...

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I doubt the measurement on the bearing. I would believe 1.0623 but not 1.0570. Calipers are not adequate for this job if that is what you're using. In any event, whatever you're using, I'd calibrate against a known standard and ensure an accurate reading within the capability of the device. With bea...

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at 3x+ the yield strength of brass, manganese bronze is an extremely distant cousin

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Brass would be no more scary than cast iron

Hopefully, those are cast or forged steel ...a spark test would tell

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Andy, removing the transmission is nearly a full engine teardown. You can remove the rear end, but the fact is, the engine must come out of the frame and extensive work is involved. You posted on another thread that you can start the car on jackstands and once warm, the car works just fine. To that,...

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William what is your source of information regarding the screws being bronze? I have never torn down an engine that had bronze screws. And according to factory drawings, that is because they never built one with them. Here is Ford's drawing, which specs 35,000 Elastic limit and 50,000lbs Tensile str...

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Jerry

this will answer all of your questions: http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/17 ... 1325030711

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Hi Ken, thank you. I've sent you an email

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Steve and I made a good deal...how about you?

also looking for Zenith intake manifolds

what have you got?

emails, please...thank you.

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OK, so you made me look... The fact that a street-rod is now happily discussed (WHY NOT?) on this forum cements my opinion as to where the forum has been headed in general, for a l o n g t i m e . Too bad.

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With suppliers closing up shop left and right, and cottage-industry tradesmen ceasing production even faster, a new $1000 radiator will seem like a bargain in a few years.

Good luck with patching up an old one...you're certain it cools, right?

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David make the tube longer than you want. get a small piece of aluminum and drill just barely over the diameter of the tube for a close slip fit place former face down, with tube 1/2 in the aluminum and 1/2 sticking out toward you. Fixture the "legs" of the former to the thickness of the aluminum bl...

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Here are my thoughts: the next time your friend does this, he needs to set the pistons at 1/2 throw and lay down a bead of grease around the circumference of the top of each piston (and adding a tightly packed set of rags into each cylinder won't hurt, either). This will catch and retain all of the ...

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and it's -10F here today

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Jonah unless you are using an analog meter and a load, you really don't know what your mag is doing. do the test here: http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/708324/MAGNETO_TEST-760271.pdf starting with the mag post output. If no go, then pull the mag post and test directly to the solder blob on the t...

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25 year mean winter temperature from 1000 to 1800 fell steadily. From 1800 to present, it has generally risen steadily with a distinct drop in rate between 1910 and 1940 and a rise in rate from 1940 to 1975. This 1800 date of the start of steady temperature increase correlates perfectly to southern ...

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Yes, it is a LOT of work, which I think most people cannot appreciate without seeing the process

I am most jealous of your facing tool...I have been looking for that tool for years!

Good of you to take the time among your effort to document the process for others to see.

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Michael

that was a screaming deal

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George, on your other thread, You did not suggest a connection between Tesla and Edison...and Huff, you specifically suggested that a Tesla motor/generator design was incorporated into the Huff magneto. Then you proceeded to trot out a Tesla patent which timed a battery ignition to a compression str...

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Michael the only "good" new ones I'm aware of were John Ragan's and they were to the original drawing, from dimensions to material - phosphor-bronze as I recall and will be springy until the end of time. These are not those. Sadly, I believe these, like all of the old Fun-Projects line, are not bein...

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16 magnets 16 pulses (revised back to my original wording after rethinking it; with each pulse being alternately +positive, and -negative, etc) once a HCCT is spinning fast enough, a coil will/should fire 16x per full revolution of the crank/flywheel as I recall, a KR Wison HCCT runs at roughly 160 ...

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seriously?

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John, that is probably prudent advice... Dick & Norm, EMI and RFI, while similar are NOT the same. Intimate proximity to strong enough EMI MIGHT but will not definitely pose an issue with a pacemaker, and while RFI from the ignition will likely goof up your Blaupunkt, it will not screw up your heart...

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And to add to Eric's response, 1915 was the first year of thicker magnets and oval coil windings, creating a more powerful magneto overall. See the Valley (same as St. Louis) Magneto-meter dial...the 1915 output was a good deal higher to support the use of lights... http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messa...

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There is more than one thread to refer to. After my father received a pace-maker, I looked into it. Searching the internet brought up Boston Scientific's safety matrix, a very informative matrix of what his pace-maker could and could not handle. At the time, I posted the information, it's source, an...

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Century Furniture - Founded in 1947

As are many other items, this was sold through the Museum, though not sure when.

FWIW - that same (type) cabinet here: https://kaiyo.com/century-furniture-cen ... wer-chest/

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You know, Ed, I don't really have an affinity for speedsters, and can state with certainty that I did not look at it like you have, nor could I have articulated it; and yet, reading your post, I can say with certainty that I agree with every aspect of it. There is a huge difference between a RAJO po...

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...A-Yup!...

Look THAT up in your Funk and Wagnall's

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early '28 Model A Powerhouse generator

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All roads lead home for Christmas

Merry Christmas from the Congers' ranch

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If one is looking for extra testing equipment beyond the coil tester itself, the most important and probably only tool you need (beyond the obvious OHM meter with capacitance checker) is a Megger. Anyone who has ever rebuilt a coil and found it to remain inoperative, didn't use a Megger, and if they...

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Kurt when the crank pin is at 9 o'clock/3 o'clock (absolutely parallel to the ground) you have SOME cylinder at TDC...doesn't even matter which one... follow this: http://dauntlessgeezer.com/DG97.html to find 15 degrees ATDC and set up the timer the instructions tell you to look for compression on #...

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Kurt it sounds like you are doing all of the right things. The rubber/tin boot is an accessory and as Jerry advised leave it out. If after everything is running right and you just love it...put it back in and see how things go. Get your coils tested/rebuilt...no point struggling with something that ...

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Jerry you are absolutely correct and right to point that out. And with particular emphasis on Tim's point, he is right that there is no one rewinding starter armatures and with the "hairpin" style winding, there is absolutely no need to. too much on my mind and too little attention paid to the initi...

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I would either very carefully measure the dimension from the seating face for the roller/flapper, to the sheared off pin, or better yet contact STIPE and say "pretty please" and get the mfg value. Follow up with a precision sleeve with cross-hole for a drill guide and peck it out. You may not THINK ...

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https://www.modeltford.com/item/5120R.aspx and my stock shelf say otherwise

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Just for info: the parts required for a real rebuild, meaning a rewound and turned armature, new field coils, remanufactured brush plate, new bearings, new drive gear all come to around $275. Add abrasive blasting to the housing along with a quality paint job, and you must get around $400 for the jo...

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I fear that one day far into the future, an archeologist and historian will be sifting through the rubble that once was civilization and the archeologist will unearth a buzz-box and the historian will read the period instructions claiming 50% increase in mileage and improved reliability and exclaim ...

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I guess I missed the post that said the average T owner must personally own specialized adjusting equipment in order to end up with properly adjusted coils. Even our resident forum teen-ager has managed to find someone to befriend him and adjust his coils for him. He has shown a willingness to learn...

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How many made? That's a great question...one that no one really can answer, including factory paperwork
https://www.mtfca.com/encyclo/fdprod.htm

How many left? Not many

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now 'yer talkin'

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$10,000 in 1913 dollars is 280,755.56 today.

Assuming that room across from Ford's at the Piquete plant used by Huff, meant he was not there as a volunteer, it's a mighty fine payout for an employee, actually.

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Mark Nor am I bitter. Just surprised that my career took a turn where those things showed up. Like yourself, it was no surprise, as it was the cost of getting what turned out to be a really great job at a company that ultimately went down a terrible management path as so many have. The payout was th...

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The company that I retired from after 33 years would not hire me unless I signed away rights to ANYTHING developed on company time or MY time. In the factory or in the garage, I did not own it, and I have the walnut "thank you" plaques to prove it.

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Allen

are you saying that there is absolutely no hole drilled 1/2 way through the cam per this circled feature below?

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I do not own one to give a testimonial, but by all other accounts, it works very well.

contact Mike Kossor (MKossor) through the forum. It's his product.

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John

using any internet search engine and typing "MTFCA your subject here" will bring up tons of pertinent info
using the forum's search engine and typing "your subject here" will bring up something. Maybe.

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you know, Pat, that is a perfectly accurate and succinct answer...there's simply nothing left to say after that.

I'm going to have to remember that one!

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Jonah

I really suggest that you call Dave and take him up on his offer. He has a lot of things at his place that you will appreciate seeing and learning about and will likely end up making a very good friend in the process.

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Or, you could ship FedX and have your package delivered to a ravine somewhere in rural Alabama...

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OOPS!

sorry about that Andy. I knew better but my fingers didn't!

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Very nice looking vehicle and appears to have been put together with considerable care. It's a home made thing though, which will limit it's resale value. If that is of no concern, and you like how it looks and drives, then whatever you decide to pay is fine. As for value, that's for others to advise.

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David Hand cranked testers do an interesting thing...at about 60RPM they are putting out around 4V, but are testing the coil very fast, as though the car was running around 2000RPM. In both instances, they are firing at their set amperage, but there is rise time to consider and the higher the voltag...

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Jim

shellac is thinned or dissolved by alcohol. Varnish is impervious to alcohol.

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Dan Blayton when you first posted your plans, and what you were starting with, I was skeptical as to what would come out of the effort. With that preface, I've mentioned before and will mention again: you and your dad did a superb job in putting your car together. Before seeing your final result, I ...

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yes.......

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To me, it's a $4000 car all day long. I don't care one way or another that it's a cut-off, but that DOES affect its resale value, since it affects the number of people who will want it in the future. Whether it's hauled out from under a manure pile or straight out of a non-T restoration shop, a runn...

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Glyptal is a Trade name of an alkyd additive to paint, and has been around 90+ years having been developed for GE in the late '20's. It's pretty much been co opted by the trades as "Glyptal" much as "Q Tip" is synonymous with cotton swabs. It really is good stuff, but requires a bake as Jim mentione...

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Rainer rereading your question regarding voltage...starting on MAG, with a good magneto and a not-too-stiff clutch, you will or should get, about 2.0 - 2.5V from the MAG. If your coils are properly adjusted to 1.3A, then you should be able to get it to fire. Starting is not about voltage; it is abou...

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this compression tester: https://www.amazon.com/Engine-Compression-Tester-Testing-Gauge/dp/B01FOQJL0E/ref=asc_df_B01FOQJL0E/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167143431342&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8582258637225087501&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9029301&hvtargid=pla-3014...

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Craig as an aside, I put together a dandy compression tester just as you described. I love it...and at the time I made it, I loved it so much, I made 6 more and tried to hawk them. The whole project was entirely unsuccessfully. No one else shared my enthusiasm, even at cost. I eventually gave them a...

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I rebuilt my own coils on the journey to several hundred more over a couple of years. Having lived in FL for the bulk of my T owning experience and going through multiple summers of high humidity as well as winters with low humidity, I found the nuts would relax or more correctly the wood would move...

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You're looking for a pressure gauge to replace the "300" one

my internet search for "100 lb pressure gauge" brings up hundreds of gauges of every npt, dial diameter and brand imaginable

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Neil

do the T world a favor and describe for everyone how the T ignition operates. For the betterment of humanity, this should not be kept among just you 3 or 4 folks.

Ron Patterson did a very nice job of it about 15 years ago and I'm curious as to how your understanding varies from that.

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J&M that was a good call out...I did not mean he made them new, just that he reworked old drums to a very high degree of finish by turning. I reread my original post, saw that I typed a very misleading statement and just now have revised it to read as I originally meant/intended. Many thanks for tha...

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Darren you will want to avoid pretty much everything on eBay. Neway makes a myriad of cutters and you will never likely get exactly what you want/need, without spending even more money buying what is missing in the kit... Give Neway a call and tell them you wish to do a Model T and their phone perso...

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Someone will have a drawing, and I'll bet there is no surface finish call out that equates to modern measurement systems (if any at all). In reality, a 32Ra or 16Ra finish is fine. 16 being a bit of overkill. With the correct tool and surface speed, lathe turning is absolutely fine if you know what ...

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If the machine shop is not a "T" shop, you may very well end up with beautiful but broken drum(s) after the 2nd or 3rd assent/descent of a tough hill. Removing material is not always necessary...bands will conform to excursions created by rivets without any extra help, and there is precious little e...

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