Thursday,
August 1, 2019
Well, the idea of having the roadster running today didn't quite work out. I took a few hours off from reassembly to make a new web page, and there are a few more parts I still need to install. I also have to make a new speedometer sensor mount, and I have to wait for some brass tubing to arrive before I finish that. If the tubing arrives tomorrow I should be driving the car this weekend. If not it will more likely be early next week.
Friday, August 2, 2019
Roadster reassembly continued today. I
installed the radiator, coil box, wiring, spark plugs, and one of the
most exasperating features on a Model T—hood latches. Those seem like a
simple thing, but compressing the spring and holding it while inserting
the cotter pin is an exercise in frustration. It would be a lot easier
if I had three hands. Anyway, I got them in and I'm getting close to
having this job done. This weekend I should be ready to put in oil and
fuel and start it up. I'm still waiting for that brass tubing I ordered
for
the speedometer sensor, so that part probably won't be done until next
week. Something else I need to do this weekend is pull some
weeds. A nice rainstorm overnight softened up the ground and made it
just right for that work.
Saturday, August 3, 2019
Nope, no weeding. Another overnight storm brought the total for the month up to six inches. Maybe tomorrow. The rain had let up considerably by nine, so I drove over to Oxford to check out an auction. I didn't see one thing that persuaded me to stay, so I came home and worked on the roadster some more. I adjusted the parking brakes and put in oil, gas, and water. I was disappointed to find a small radiator leak, but it's so tiny I'm hoping it will fix itself. Even if it doesn't, it isn't bad enough to keep me from running the car. I should be ready to start it up tomorrow.
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Well, that was a disappointing fizzle. I tried several times to start that new engine, but it was a no-go. I checked the spark plugs and found all of them working, but changed to others that appeared to be sparking better. I tried two different carburetors, each at several settings. Many times the engine acted like it wanted to start, but never actually fired. I still have to finish the speedometer. If I don't have the car running by the time that's done, I'll call Wally and we'll pull-start it.
Monday, August 5, 2019
Aggravation! I squirted oil in all the cylinders to seal the new rings and draw in mixture from the carb, and managed to start the engine half a dozen times during the day. But each time, it would run for a second or two and quit. I thought maybe I was flooding it, but when I looked at the plugs they were all dry. Maybe I didn't get the intake manifold properly seated when I installed it. A leak there would have the engine sucking air instead of fuel. That's the first thing I'll check tomorrow. I hope that's what's wrong, because it would be easy to fix.
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Success! I checked the intake manifold and it was OK. So the next suspect was the carburetor. I took it off the car and opened it up and was chagrined to find that the float was set at ½". I have no idea why I would have done such a thing. I changed the float setting to the correct ¼", put the carb back on the car, and soon had it running. For the next hour and a half I cured the hi-temp paint on the exhaust manifold by running and cooling, running and cooling, running and cooling. I made a little video of the car running. Now I'm waiting for a new battery to arrive (the old one won't hold a charge) and the brass tubing for the speedometer sensor. Then I'll be ready to get out and do some Model T driving.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
What did I accomplish today? Not much. I went to town and paid the bill for house insurance, which gets more expensive every year. This time it was $293 more than last year. I don't expect it to go down, but it would be nice if it stayed the same or went up less than $100. While I was out I went to the gasino and gassed up the car for this evening's drive. I don't get to a lot of Model T club meetings because they're halfway across the state for me, but tonight I attended the East Central Kansas T's meeting in Burlington. That's 2½ hours away (a five hour round trip), so I don't go often. I was thinking I might go by Model T then go exploring tomorrow, but the runabout isn't quite ready for a trip and the weather said no.
Friday, August 9, 2019
First up today was an auction south of town. I didn't find enough to keep me there, so I came home and went back to work on my speedometer sensor bracket. Welding a piece of tubing to a piece of sheet metal is tricky, but I used a tiny 000 tip and managed to get the thing together without burning a lot of holes in the tubing. My last job of the day was painting the parts. Those will bake overnight, and in the morning I'll assemble and install the thing.
Saturday, August 10, 2019
A check of the auction in Winfield found nothing to keep me there, so I came home and installed the new speedometer hardware on the runabout. The next little chore was to finish greasing the U-joint. The stock Model T greasing method is to turn a grease cup. As the cup screws in, it forces grease into wherever it should go. As an experiment, this time I didn't grease the joint before assembly. I wanted to see how many cups of grease it would take to fill the space. It turned out to be 23. Regular greasing won't take that much, of course, because there will already be a lot in there, but I may install a zerk inside the cup so I can use a grease gun. Another job today was to prepare some body-to-frame bolts. Prepare means drill holes for cotter pins, chase the threads, grind off the modern marknigs, strip off the cad plating (paint won't stick to it) with muriatic acid, rinse and prep with phosphoric acid, paint, and put them in the oven to bake overnight.
Sunday, August 11, 2019
You know how it is when you want to drill a hole in a bolt, and you miss with the hammer, and the punch sends the bolt flying into another dimension? Don't you hate it when that happens? I sure do. In one place the 1½" bolts were too long and the 1" bolts were too short. So I thought I'd just shorten a long one to 1¼". I cut it and was about to punch the spot for drilling a new hole when the aforementioned incident happened. It will be days, weeks, months, maybe even years before I find the lost bolt. Should I start over? To heck with it. I'll put in a 1½" bolt, pin it, and if it loosens up and rattles, so be it. With a Model T rattles are just part of the show. Eventually I'll get around to making a batch of 1¼" bolts and I'll replace the one that's too long. But right now other things take priority. So after I finished putting in body-to-frame bolts, I cottered the spark and throttle control rods, washed the dust and bug splatters off the windshield and headlight lenses, and transferred the runnng board gas cans and luggage rack from the touring car to the runabout. Finally I got started on putting things away and clearing clutter in the shop. That will need to continue tomorrow so I can get the car out.
Monday, August 12, 2019
With a predicted high of 98º and enough humidity to make me feel it, today I took advantage of the morning cool to do some long-neglected yard work. Starting at 6:40 I pulled weeds for an hour and then mowed until about 9:20 when direct sun was heating up my mowing area. Then, except for a late afternoon grocery run, I spent the rest of the day in the shop, cleaning up and putting away. Tonight brought more rain, which should soften the ground again for more weed pulling.
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
First up this morning was more weed pulling, first in the yard behind the house, then west of the shop. Then I bought ink. Several days ago I received an email from Kodak about a half price sale on printer ink. The sale ran through today, so I thought I'd stock up before it was over. What should have been a simple thing taking a few minutes ended up taking a couple of hours with three different browsers, extensive searching, dead links, a support phone call, and a change of passwords. Some companies have user friendly, well-organized websites, and some prefer to present an opaque, exasperating ordeal. I consider Kodak one of the latter.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Friday, August 16, 2019
Due to a depleted supply of clean sox this was laundry day. While the old Maytag did its thing I set up the spark plug tester and cleaned, gapped, and tested a dozen plugs to carry in the car as spares. I also repaired a plug in the runabout that had caused it suddenly to become a non-starter. If fact, the car sat outside all night because it wouldn't start for me to put it in the shop. With the car able to start again, I adjusted the idle screw on the carburetor so the car won't die when I throttle down at stops. I aim to drive it to the fairgrounds tomorrow for the tractor show.
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Shorty and I went to the tractor show at the fairgrounds. The photos and a link to the video are here.
Sunday, August 18, 2019
All morning and into the afternoon I slaved over a hot computer, editing video and photos, checking various websites, updating things that needed updating, etc. In the afternoon I took an inspection walk in the woodlot and found that the road is no closer to being usable than it was the last time I looked. In fact, the recent rains have made it even swampier. In the shop I reinstalled the oil sight tube on the runabout, then started stripping the old paint off a running board can I'll try to fix. More than one treatment will be needed to get off all the old paint.
Monday, August 19, 2019
The plan was to spend all morning on yard work. But about 11:30 I ran out of Tordon and had to go to town for more. I bought that and bananas, and when I got home went to work on the runabout. The speedometer had gone erratic, showing crazy random numbers, so I repositioned the magnet to pass closer to the sensor. Speedometer cured. The engine idled too fast, racing at stop signs, so I adjusted the length of the throttle control rod. It looks weird because it now has a curve at one end, but the engine idles slowly the way it should. When I took the car around the block to check the speedometer it ran rough and lacked power, so I checked the plugs and found one had worked loose again. I retightened the plug and set the gap and went for another test drive. Much better. It seems there's always something to do on a Model T.
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
More variety. I finished stripping the old paint off a gas can I need to fix. I destroyed unauthorized little trees west of the shop and dosed the stumps with Tordon. I searched through old pictures for views of the house in Lomita with and without hedge. The city has been harassing my brother over the hedge in front of the house, and he wants to show them that the hedge is grandfathered in because it was planted before there was a city. It was, and is.
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
First up today was mowing in front and east of the house. In the shop I converted a rubber stemmed tube to a metal stem and put the tire back on the car. When I went grocery shopping in the afternoon I stopped at O'Reilly and installed new spark plugs in the runabout. That seemed to help, but it still doesn't run as smoothly as it should. I doubt that the timer is a problem, but I'll clean it anyway, and I'll see if a different set of coils makes any difference. Here in my office I'm about to start updating the home made trip atlas I made last yeart for my drive to Michigan. It will be time to go again next week.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
From a little before midnight until a little after nine, a storm dumped 3¼" in the rain gauge. I spent a good part of the morning working on my road atlas, then did a little on the runabout. I cleaned the timer, which didn't seem to make any difference, and robbed a set of coils out of the touring car, which did. Apparently one, some, or all of the coils that were in the runabout need to be adjusted. So far I don't have a coil tester, so that will have to wait. When we went to town for shopping, the car ran much better than it's been doing lately.
Saturday, August 24, 2019
This morning I drove the runabout to Winfield to check out the Defore auction. There were a few items of interest, so I sat and polished hubcaps while I waited. A few things got away to folks who were willing to pay more than I was, but I ended up with a power strip to replace a broken one in my shop, and a good heavy duty extension cord. I spent $5.40. In the afternoon I worked on maps a little more, then headed to Wichita for dinner and a movie. The enchiladas supremas at Mexico Viejo were delicious as usual, and The Peanut Butter Falcon is one of those small films that don't get a lot of attention but are excellent.
Monday, August 26, 2019
This was going to be mowing day. I got a good start until the mower stalled on too big a bite of tall grass and I couldn't get it restarted. It sounds like the bendix has gone haywire. I'm planning to start my trip Thursday morning and I have a lot of preparing to do before then, so I'm afraid I may not have time to fix the mower. If not, I'll have some really tall grass when I get home.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Get ready day. one way or another, most of what I did today was getting ready to head for Michigan on Thursday. That included stopping the mail, arranging for my cousin Pete to feed the cats, buying medicine to take along, and working on my road atlas. I finished copying maps for the atlas about midnight and hit the sack.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
One more day of getting ready to go. I did laundry, took the carburetor off the runabout and readjusted the float valve, changed the oil, lubed the car, printed the last of the atlas pages and put them in the book, and gathered stuff I aim to take with me. It was almost midnight when I finally had things ready to go and hit the sack.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
On the road again. The story is here.
Friday, August 30, 2019
On to Lake Ozark. Same link.
Saturday, August 31
Ditto.
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Well, the idea of having the roadster running today didn't quite work out. I took a few hours off from reassembly to make a new web page, and there are a few more parts I still need to install. I also have to make a new speedometer sensor mount, and I have to wait for some brass tubing to arrive before I finish that. If the tubing arrives tomorrow I should be driving the car this weekend. If not it will more likely be early next week.
Friday, August 2, 2019
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Saturday, August 3, 2019
Nope, no weeding. Another overnight storm brought the total for the month up to six inches. Maybe tomorrow. The rain had let up considerably by nine, so I drove over to Oxford to check out an auction. I didn't see one thing that persuaded me to stay, so I came home and worked on the roadster some more. I adjusted the parking brakes and put in oil, gas, and water. I was disappointed to find a small radiator leak, but it's so tiny I'm hoping it will fix itself. Even if it doesn't, it isn't bad enough to keep me from running the car. I should be ready to start it up tomorrow.
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Well, that was a disappointing fizzle. I tried several times to start that new engine, but it was a no-go. I checked the spark plugs and found all of them working, but changed to others that appeared to be sparking better. I tried two different carburetors, each at several settings. Many times the engine acted like it wanted to start, but never actually fired. I still have to finish the speedometer. If I don't have the car running by the time that's done, I'll call Wally and we'll pull-start it.
Monday, August 5, 2019
Aggravation! I squirted oil in all the cylinders to seal the new rings and draw in mixture from the carb, and managed to start the engine half a dozen times during the day. But each time, it would run for a second or two and quit. I thought maybe I was flooding it, but when I looked at the plugs they were all dry. Maybe I didn't get the intake manifold properly seated when I installed it. A leak there would have the engine sucking air instead of fuel. That's the first thing I'll check tomorrow. I hope that's what's wrong, because it would be easy to fix.
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Success! I checked the intake manifold and it was OK. So the next suspect was the carburetor. I took it off the car and opened it up and was chagrined to find that the float was set at ½". I have no idea why I would have done such a thing. I changed the float setting to the correct ¼", put the carb back on the car, and soon had it running. For the next hour and a half I cured the hi-temp paint on the exhaust manifold by running and cooling, running and cooling, running and cooling. I made a little video of the car running. Now I'm waiting for a new battery to arrive (the old one won't hold a charge) and the brass tubing for the speedometer sensor. Then I'll be ready to get out and do some Model T driving.
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Wednesday, August 7, 2019
This month's water bill being nearly double the normal amount reminded me that I needed to do this job. So in the cool of the morning I started digging to remove the old leaking hydrant and put in a new one. A nice cloud cover most of the time kept the work from getting too sweaty, and I had the project finished by 11:30. Taking more advantage of the cooler-than-expected day, I pulled weeds and cut little trees in front of the shop. An inspection walk down to the wood lot revealed that the recent six inches of rain set back the drying-out process. That road may not be safe to use until fall. In the afternoon the mail brought the new battery for the runabout, so I'll install that tomorrow. I'm still waitng for the brass tubing to finish the speedometer sensor bracket. |
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Thursday, August 8, 2019
What did I accomplish today? Not much. I went to town and paid the bill for house insurance, which gets more expensive every year. This time it was $293 more than last year. I don't expect it to go down, but it would be nice if it stayed the same or went up less than $100. While I was out I went to the gasino and gassed up the car for this evening's drive. I don't get to a lot of Model T club meetings because they're halfway across the state for me, but tonight I attended the East Central Kansas T's meeting in Burlington. That's 2½ hours away (a five hour round trip), so I don't go often. I was thinking I might go by Model T then go exploring tomorrow, but the runabout isn't quite ready for a trip and the weather said no.
Friday, August 9, 2019
First up today was an auction south of town. I didn't find enough to keep me there, so I came home and went back to work on my speedometer sensor bracket. Welding a piece of tubing to a piece of sheet metal is tricky, but I used a tiny 000 tip and managed to get the thing together without burning a lot of holes in the tubing. My last job of the day was painting the parts. Those will bake overnight, and in the morning I'll assemble and install the thing.
Saturday, August 10, 2019
 The parts: sensor with enough plastic
ground off to fit in the ³⁄₈" tube; the tube welded to the mounting
bracket;
¹³⁄₃₂" brass tubing to cover and protect the sensor. |
 The unit installed. The delicate wires
are protected inside a length of rubber fuel line.
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A check of the auction in Winfield found nothing to keep me there, so I came home and installed the new speedometer hardware on the runabout. The next little chore was to finish greasing the U-joint. The stock Model T greasing method is to turn a grease cup. As the cup screws in, it forces grease into wherever it should go. As an experiment, this time I didn't grease the joint before assembly. I wanted to see how many cups of grease it would take to fill the space. It turned out to be 23. Regular greasing won't take that much, of course, because there will already be a lot in there, but I may install a zerk inside the cup so I can use a grease gun. Another job today was to prepare some body-to-frame bolts. Prepare means drill holes for cotter pins, chase the threads, grind off the modern marknigs, strip off the cad plating (paint won't stick to it) with muriatic acid, rinse and prep with phosphoric acid, paint, and put them in the oven to bake overnight.
Sunday, August 11, 2019
You know how it is when you want to drill a hole in a bolt, and you miss with the hammer, and the punch sends the bolt flying into another dimension? Don't you hate it when that happens? I sure do. In one place the 1½" bolts were too long and the 1" bolts were too short. So I thought I'd just shorten a long one to 1¼". I cut it and was about to punch the spot for drilling a new hole when the aforementioned incident happened. It will be days, weeks, months, maybe even years before I find the lost bolt. Should I start over? To heck with it. I'll put in a 1½" bolt, pin it, and if it loosens up and rattles, so be it. With a Model T rattles are just part of the show. Eventually I'll get around to making a batch of 1¼" bolts and I'll replace the one that's too long. But right now other things take priority. So after I finished putting in body-to-frame bolts, I cottered the spark and throttle control rods, washed the dust and bug splatters off the windshield and headlight lenses, and transferred the runnng board gas cans and luggage rack from the touring car to the runabout. Finally I got started on putting things away and clearing clutter in the shop. That will need to continue tomorrow so I can get the car out.
Monday, August 12, 2019
With a predicted high of 98º and enough humidity to make me feel it, today I took advantage of the morning cool to do some long-neglected yard work. Starting at 6:40 I pulled weeds for an hour and then mowed until about 9:20 when direct sun was heating up my mowing area. Then, except for a late afternoon grocery run, I spent the rest of the day in the shop, cleaning up and putting away. Tonight brought more rain, which should soften the ground again for more weed pulling.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019
The centerpiece of today's activity was more cleaning up and putting away. I took a little time out to fix the switch on my pole saw so I can trim some branches that need to go. In the afternoon Shorty and I went to town in the runabout for some shopping. Actually she didn't buy anything. All she cared about was gettng a ride. This was the first time this car has moved under its own power since last year. The fresh engine ran nicely until it started making a certain distinctive sound and lost power. I expected to find a loose plug when I looked under the hood, but it turned out to be more than just loose. Fortunately I carry spare plugs. |
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019
First up this morning was more weed pulling, first in the yard behind the house, then west of the shop. Then I bought ink. Several days ago I received an email from Kodak about a half price sale on printer ink. The sale ran through today, so I thought I'd stock up before it was over. What should have been a simple thing taking a few minutes ended up taking a couple of hours with three different browsers, extensive searching, dead links, a support phone call, and a change of passwords. Some companies have user friendly, well-organized websites, and some prefer to present an opaque, exasperating ordeal. I consider Kodak one of the latter.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
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 Again I started the day with
pulling weeds west of the shop. Then came a bit of work on the
runabout. I removed the Holley NH carburetor I've been using and
installed the stock Holley G. In the afternoon I drove to Winfield for
banking, a round trip of about 37 miles. I use $2 bills a lot, and the
only bank where I can buy more than a few at a time is in Winfield. I
also use $1 coins, so I picked up a couple of rolls of those too.
Coming home I was unable to pull the hand lever back for neutral and
had to use the pedal instead. In the parking lot at the farm supply I
pulled the floor boards and found the reason. Apparently I forgot to
lock the lock nut, and the adjusting bolt worked its way down to where
it blocked the pawl when I tried to pull back the lever. It would be
nice if all mechanical problems were that easy to fix.
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Friday, August 16, 2019
Due to a depleted supply of clean sox this was laundry day. While the old Maytag did its thing I set up the spark plug tester and cleaned, gapped, and tested a dozen plugs to carry in the car as spares. I also repaired a plug in the runabout that had caused it suddenly to become a non-starter. If fact, the car sat outside all night because it wouldn't start for me to put it in the shop. With the car able to start again, I adjusted the idle screw on the carburetor so the car won't die when I throttle down at stops. I aim to drive it to the fairgrounds tomorrow for the tractor show.
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Shorty and I went to the tractor show at the fairgrounds. The photos and a link to the video are here.
Sunday, August 18, 2019
All morning and into the afternoon I slaved over a hot computer, editing video and photos, checking various websites, updating things that needed updating, etc. In the afternoon I took an inspection walk in the woodlot and found that the road is no closer to being usable than it was the last time I looked. In fact, the recent rains have made it even swampier. In the shop I reinstalled the oil sight tube on the runabout, then started stripping the old paint off a running board can I'll try to fix. More than one treatment will be needed to get off all the old paint.
Monday, August 19, 2019
The plan was to spend all morning on yard work. But about 11:30 I ran out of Tordon and had to go to town for more. I bought that and bananas, and when I got home went to work on the runabout. The speedometer had gone erratic, showing crazy random numbers, so I repositioned the magnet to pass closer to the sensor. Speedometer cured. The engine idled too fast, racing at stop signs, so I adjusted the length of the throttle control rod. It looks weird because it now has a curve at one end, but the engine idles slowly the way it should. When I took the car around the block to check the speedometer it ran rough and lacked power, so I checked the plugs and found one had worked loose again. I retightened the plug and set the gap and went for another test drive. Much better. It seems there's always something to do on a Model T.
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
More variety. I finished stripping the old paint off a gas can I need to fix. I destroyed unauthorized little trees west of the shop and dosed the stumps with Tordon. I searched through old pictures for views of the house in Lomita with and without hedge. The city has been harassing my brother over the hedge in front of the house, and he wants to show them that the hedge is grandfathered in because it was planted before there was a city. It was, and is.
 1955: No hedge yet.
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 1958: The hedge looks to be at
least a year old.
This is well before Lomita was incorporated as a city in the sixties. |
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
First up today was mowing in front and east of the house. In the shop I converted a rubber stemmed tube to a metal stem and put the tire back on the car. When I went grocery shopping in the afternoon I stopped at O'Reilly and installed new spark plugs in the runabout. That seemed to help, but it still doesn't run as smoothly as it should. I doubt that the timer is a problem, but I'll clean it anyway, and I'll see if a different set of coils makes any difference. Here in my office I'm about to start updating the home made trip atlas I made last yeart for my drive to Michigan. It will be time to go again next week.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
From a little before midnight until a little after nine, a storm dumped 3¼" in the rain gauge. I spent a good part of the morning working on my road atlas, then did a little on the runabout. I cleaned the timer, which didn't seem to make any difference, and robbed a set of coils out of the touring car, which did. Apparently one, some, or all of the coils that were in the runabout need to be adjusted. So far I don't have a coil tester, so that will have to wait. When we went to town for shopping, the car ran much better than it's been doing lately.
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Friday, August 23, 2019
It wasn't the plan, but I spent all day working on my road atlas. Why all day? The Indiana DOT has no county road maps on its website, so that's one of the states where I have to copy Google maps. Copying, typing directions, adjusting colors, printing, and assembling over two dozen pages takes longer to do than to say. I'm not a big fan of Google's practice of showing roads in white on a pastel background, but by darkening the background and increasing the contrast I'm able to help them a little. They do look slightly better printed out than they do on a computer screen. |
Saturday, August 24, 2019
This morning I drove the runabout to Winfield to check out the Defore auction. There were a few items of interest, so I sat and polished hubcaps while I waited. A few things got away to folks who were willing to pay more than I was, but I ended up with a power strip to replace a broken one in my shop, and a good heavy duty extension cord. I spent $5.40. In the afternoon I worked on maps a little more, then headed to Wichita for dinner and a movie. The enchiladas supremas at Mexico Viejo were delicious as usual, and The Peanut Butter Falcon is one of those small films that don't get a lot of attention but are excellent.
Sunday,
August 25, 2019
Today I made a discovery that may turn out to be a great time saver. A few months ago I found that the CLR I sprayed in the shower to remove lime deposits also removed tarnish from the brass plumbing. So today I tried it on the runabout's brass parts. I was delighted to find that it removed tarnish in just a few minutes, and finishing up with polish was a lot less work with the tarnish already removed. When I posted the results on the Model T forum a couple of guys suggested that this may be too good to be true, and that the CLR may damage brass over time. So I decided to test that. I cut a couple of small pieces of brass shim stock, .002" and .005", and put them in a sealed container of undiluted CLR. We'll see if soaking in the stuff for weeks or months does any damage. |
 Part of this headlamp rim shows how the
brass looks with tarnish removed.
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 Finishing up with polish is much easier
than before.
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 The best way to do the rear view mirror
is to polish the parts individually.
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Monday, August 26, 2019
This was going to be mowing day. I got a good start until the mower stalled on too big a bite of tall grass and I couldn't get it restarted. It sounds like the bendix has gone haywire. I'm planning to start my trip Thursday morning and I have a lot of preparing to do before then, so I'm afraid I may not have time to fix the mower. If not, I'll have some really tall grass when I get home.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Get ready day. one way or another, most of what I did today was getting ready to head for Michigan on Thursday. That included stopping the mail, arranging for my cousin Pete to feed the cats, buying medicine to take along, and working on my road atlas. I finished copying maps for the atlas about midnight and hit the sack.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
One more day of getting ready to go. I did laundry, took the carburetor off the runabout and readjusted the float valve, changed the oil, lubed the car, printed the last of the atlas pages and put them in the book, and gathered stuff I aim to take with me. It was almost midnight when I finally had things ready to go and hit the sack.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
On the road again. The story is here.
Friday, August 30, 2019
On to Lake Ozark. Same link.
Saturday, August 31
Ditto.
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