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What is this?

Post by MarkS » Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:47 pm

Anyone know what this is? Looks like to hoses attached, I doubt for an air conditioner, but people have done stranger things!
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Re: What is this?

Post by Ron Patterson » Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:49 pm

That is an accessory starting motor for a Model T.
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Re: What is this?

Post by MichaelPawelek » Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:28 pm

The reason OSHA was initiated…😊
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Re: What is this?

Post by MarkS » Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:23 am

So what are the two things that look like hoses for?
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Re: What is this?

Post by Kaiser » Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:04 am

Not hoses, wires for the electricity, it's an early accessory electric starter motor.
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Re: What is this?

Post by A Whiteman » Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:06 am

Photo date marked is '6.3.12" down by the axle to the left so yes, a very early starter I would think.
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Re: What is this?

Post by TXGOAT2 » Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:21 am

Model Ts aren't that hard to start!
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Re: What is this?

Post by DanTreace » Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:32 am

A Whiteman wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:06 am
 Photo date marked is '6.3.12" down by the axle to the left so yes, a very early starter I would think.
Yes, many early electric starters were being made for the Ford, that one is external and more developed in early teen years to be placed under the hood for better protection and look.

Here are a few of these in electric, using the newest of storage batteries carried on board.

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Re: What is this?

Post by John kuehn » Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:40 am

Eventually Ford came along with a “better idea” in 1919. After a few broken wrists, arms, wrenched backs, and forgetting NOT to over advance the spark the light bulb came on.

And yes if a T is tuned up and running correctly hand cranking isn’t that hard but for some it wasn’t always that way.
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Re: What is this?

Post by A Whiteman » Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:02 pm

Have a look in the Gallery section here for a few more starters: app.php/gallery/album/75/page/27?sk=n&sd=a and the next pages.
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Re: What is this?

Post by JTT3 » Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:17 pm

I think it’s a combo starter generator
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Re: What is this?

Post by OilyBill » Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:56 am

Yes, and with the gas lights, it would not have been an electric-equipped car. It probably IS a starter-generator unit. I wonder where they mounted the battery?
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Re: What is this?

Post by Jerry VanOoteghem » Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:25 am

OilyBill wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:56 am
 Yes, and with the gas lights, it would not have been an electric-equipped car. It probably IS a starter-generator unit. I wonder where they mounted the battery?
I believe I'm seeing a reflector in the headlamp, suggesting that they've been converted to electric.
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Re: What is this?

Post by Chris Barker » Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:56 am

It's an early hybrid. Toyota copied the idea for the Pious
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Re: What is this?

Post by Ed Baudoux » Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:36 am

Bud Delong (RIP) would call that a Self-Commencer!
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Re: What is this?

Post by Gen3AntiqueAuto » Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:50 am

It's a chunk of awesomeness is what it is! I want one!
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