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I need to find out (and it's driving me crazy)
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Oh wow! That looks awesome! I love leafing through things like that! They are almost like they are from another world. In a sense they are!
To see the way things used to be done and compare that to now is always interesting to me. How you can see the iterative design. What's really cool is if you have enough patience and the correct tools, you could probably build a replica of these mechanical wonders with the information they contain!
I love the illustrations too. It's not often you see such detailed hand drawn images of systems these days. At least I don't think I've seen anything like this is modern books.
That book is only from a century and a year ago
It's amazing to think that isn't it!? Books are great, they are like timewarps for this sort of thing!That book is only from a century and a year ago
The '13 manual shows you how to convert a chest of drawers into a ball bearing sorter.
It shows many "handy" rigs such as a transmission lifting cradle that you place on top of the frame.......after you remove the body to get to it.
The section on clutch issues is a howl.
There is a picture of a tool for cutting bottle corks to length after the new "lining" is replaced.
There is a trouble shooting section in the clutch chapter that spells out that the most common issue will be slippage, which at times can be temporarily remedied by tossing sand, dirt or other matter into the clutch drum although it isn't recommended.
What you have to keep in mind is that early clutch assemblies were exposed to the elements simply bracketed to the frame behind the engines.
The section on state by US state traffic laws is a hoot too.
Towns often had a 5 mile per hour speed limit and would allow up to ten miles per hour in the country.
Some required the motorist to switch off the engine in the presense of a horse drawn vehicle and any male passengers that were capable had to assist the horse owner with getting the horse/horses back under restraints after they got riled up.
Some states didn't have any traffic laws.
It shows many "handy" rigs such as a transmission lifting cradle that you place on top of the frame.......after you remove the body to get to it.
The section on clutch issues is a howl.
There is a picture of a tool for cutting bottle corks to length after the new "lining" is replaced.
There is a trouble shooting section in the clutch chapter that spells out that the most common issue will be slippage, which at times can be temporarily remedied by tossing sand, dirt or other matter into the clutch drum although it isn't recommended.
What you have to keep in mind is that early clutch assemblies were exposed to the elements simply bracketed to the frame behind the engines.
The section on state by US state traffic laws is a hoot too.
Towns often had a 5 mile per hour speed limit and would allow up to ten miles per hour in the country.
Some required the motorist to switch off the engine in the presense of a horse drawn vehicle and any male passengers that were capable had to assist the horse owner with getting the horse/horses back under restraints after they got riled up.
Some states didn't have any traffic laws.
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That's so cool! I once over heated a clutch holding a car at biting point on a steep hill with a hefty engine in the trunk! I was going to trade it in for another engine. I had to try and keep the car in a ready state to cross a busy motorway to get to the salvage yard! When my opportunity came the car crawled along at 5000rpm! I could maybe gave done with a bit of sand it seems!
I also remember at school history class learning about the laws regarding early "horseless conveyances" on British roads. At first you had to have a servant walk in front with a white lantern and one behind with a red tinted lantern. So to begin with you could only perambulate at walking pace lol! It was a law that had been in place for horse drawn vehicles and it appears that no one had realised that cars could go much quicker!
I also recall in history class the story of a steam train that could only travel at about 1 mile per hour. Someone actually got ran over by it when it was put into service. I found it quite ridiculous, like something out of a mike Myers film. But my history teacher explained that in our modern world we are used to huge objects flying past at speeds unimaginable to people back then. So the unfortunate guy had probably seen the train a few feet away and had not enough experience to realise that it wouldn't be there for long!
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That looks about right. I've had a busy weekend
I often lament that I lost all of my automotive history in photographs in a 100 year flood.
Every once in a while, someone will offer me either the originals they took or ones I gave them.
A few days ago, my younger brother sent this one to me:
The #76 Datsun B210 was a ride I helped build and pit crewed for a guy that ran it in SCCA GT3 class back in the late 70s.
This was captured by me pre-race on the paddock at Road Atlanta during the national runoffs.
Visible on the front splitter is Alderman Datsun where we dyno tuned and tested our 1.4L pushrod motors that would output 175 horses on average with basically a hand fitted stock bottom end with a performance camshaft mated to a competition cylinder head equipped with twin Dellorto side draft carbonators, one throat per port.
We did dyno pulls on them to over 10 grand and more often than not, the tell tale tach would record 11500 from a cornering downshift.
As the engines revved past 7,000 RPM, they became blurry looking from vibration in the dyno cell.
When they scattered, it was like they had a stick of dynamite inside of them
It was very exciting to travel from track to track in the north east division as a young man where I gained even more knowledge and skills about competition vehicles as a result of direct involvement with them.
Every once in a while, someone will offer me either the originals they took or ones I gave them.
A few days ago, my younger brother sent this one to me:
The #76 Datsun B210 was a ride I helped build and pit crewed for a guy that ran it in SCCA GT3 class back in the late 70s.
This was captured by me pre-race on the paddock at Road Atlanta during the national runoffs.
Visible on the front splitter is Alderman Datsun where we dyno tuned and tested our 1.4L pushrod motors that would output 175 horses on average with basically a hand fitted stock bottom end with a performance camshaft mated to a competition cylinder head equipped with twin Dellorto side draft carbonators, one throat per port.
We did dyno pulls on them to over 10 grand and more often than not, the tell tale tach would record 11500 from a cornering downshift.
As the engines revved past 7,000 RPM, they became blurry looking from vibration in the dyno cell.
When they scattered, it was like they had a stick of dynamite inside of them
It was very exciting to travel from track to track in the north east division as a young man where I gained even more knowledge and skills about competition vehicles as a result of direct involvement with them.
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