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Well, this is a waste of time and frustration. I listed the first 5, if I try to list the second 5 I get a message that says, "You are not allowed to access this file, contact an administrator." I have 14 various web sites that I developed and maintain for various business interests but I can't keep...

I will be listing these here first, if they don't sell I will put them on ebay or back in the safe. I bought all these at the Les Shugard collection in Speakfish, South Dakota years ago, they have been in my safe since. Most are in mint condition, any shown with the original mailing envelope will be...

Sha nouuk'" is a Blackfeet Indian word meaning "snow eater."
It is a warm wind that blows down the east side of the Rockies from the Gulf of Alaska and can raise the temperature 50 degrees in a few hours.
It is always followed by bitter cold and snow.

I would guess the concrete foundation was added much later. Note that it had electricity at one time but probably from a wind charger as there appears to be no high line power anywhere near.

Homestead in Montana. Probably about 1912 or 14. That's when this was opened to settlement. I came across this while looking for more photos of the road down to the river. 60 miles northwest to Big Sandy, the closest town on the north side or 75 to Chinook to the north east. Too many mountains in be...

Nothing. If the owner wants to do something it's up to them.

Thanks, I'm just trying to make a living. Never saved any money when I was young, invested it in piles of Model T Parts, Cars, Women, Whiskey, Big Steaks, Truck Stop Cheeseburgers, raising some other men's children, got old and had to find a way to survive. I like the work but I found out years ago ...

Paul, I seldom post anything like this because every time I do I get a couple phone calls or emails about if I have time to do so and so's carb and put pictures of it all over the forum why the hell have they not got their carburetor back yet, etc., etc. Or they post on the thread, "When are you goi...

I couldn't find one of it before I pressure washed the mud off so maybe this is the first one I took. I dunno. It's hundreds of carburetors ago and I am more forgetful all the time.

Chris, yes, this the last thing they need to get it running after a 6 or 7 year restoration of the tractor.

My "Grampa Ludwig" who was actually my Aunt Grace's father was a clock and watch repairman. I had his tools and bench until my cousin retired and I gave it all to him. We both did a little clock work when we were kids on some cheap worn out clocks. I didn't pursue it but Larry did and was restoring ...

Somewhere I might have a photo of what it looked like when I took it out of the box three years ago. It took me that long to find a correct inlet for the Kerosene side.

If I ever find it, I'll post it. But now it's

BACK TO THE SHOP!!!!

Note that this is a Kingston ten ball, most of them did not have a tag on this saying Kingston so I did not add one to this. It weighs about 12 pounds complete.

Been working on this for several days. Laid in the mud in Minnesota for probably 50 years or more. It is for a mid teens Avery tractor. Dual fuel. Kerosene or tractor fuel on one side, gasoline on the other for starting. Been beat on with every pipe wrench, rock, pliers, hammer, etc., The balls were...

They are more common than you might think. Pretty much every company had cutaways for their salesmen and repair training. There are quite a few of those Kingston L carbs still around and in use, the flapper and the cork are usually in bad condition. Some guy somewhere was making flappers out of bras...

I have yet to see a Jr Rodeo team with shirts that say "Sponsored by Amazon," or one of the big box stores. I don't have a store front business anymore but I can tell you that the same people who will drive 100 miles to shop at a big box store or Walmart or on the Internet know where you are when th...

I think Rob Heyen has photos of his Model K. It is a big six cylinder with a two speed transmission. Fine car. That is the wrong carburetor. It should have a funky looking Holley with a spring tower on top for the air valve. Bob Richmon in Virginia has a fine either R or S. He is not on here but is ...

This has probably been posted before but I don't have time to read everything on the forum. I got my new Lang's catalog today. Finally got a chance to go to the truck stop for Breakfast about 2 PM and while I was eating looked through it. Great Catalog. More information in there than a lot of Model ...

Well, not being as rich as some here, I've been trying to sell some things to come up with the money for a set of Sure Stop brakes for my 27 coupe. Not quite there yet but I will. So this is my take on where I will buy them. Birdhaven -- Bill and Shauna, are trying to build a business and have spent...

Don't confuse them with facts, Dick. Once they find somebody to blame nothing will ever change their mind.

You are absolutely correct as to how the Postmaster General is commissioned to the job.

Service is good here. I've only had a few small issues. One of the things affecting service is the amount of Amazon packages + other internet deliveries. With the pandemic, more and more people are ordering on Amazon Prime with two or three day shipping. My SO has been a mail carrier for almost 20 y...

It will work with pretty much all of them but probably better with the later steel body cars with a dash.

Re: Interesting find....1/23/21 Now that's just COOL!!!!

Now that's just COOL!!!!

The original Stromberg connector is a brass tube similar to standard brass tubing with a wire inside it. It works pretty well but only if it doesn't have any fairly sharp bends. The newer ones have a standard wire cable with a wire inside, just like the choke and throttle cables, heater controls etc...

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.

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