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Phil 32DL6

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  1. I slapped in those sealed beams after getting stopped for having too dim headlights. Daphne needed to have her reflectors re-silvered. Me being still in school and my wife supporting us (on a $3800/year salary) who could afford that!? One did what they could back in the good old days (1968).
  2. Dick...I'm not quite ready for a new exhaust system but I might be interested in having one of those brackets on the shelf when I am.
  3. I can't tell you if the color DBC member Ken Williams used on his 1930 Coupe is dead on original or not, but anybody who has seen it in person agrees that the blue is gorgeous! If interested you might try finding out what he used.
  4. Dick...I don't know if this will solve your immediate problem but for general information you might want to check out this link: http://forums.aaca.org/f165/lever-shock-leak-cure-268664.html Scroll down to the 9/18/09 post by Nickelroadster in which he includes scans of a Skinned Knuckles article on rebuilding Lovejoy shocks.
  5. Members receive a DBC Roster when they first join and later updates as they come out. If you joined very recently, you may not have received the 2011 version in anticipation of this new Roster, so the best thing to do would be to fill out the card with all of your current info and send it in.
  6. On the other hand, I remember thinking at the time I saw your dented '38 that if it had been a (now antique) 1988, it probably would have been totaled!
  7. There's no problem with your size. In fact those are pretty small files. If you keep individual files under 1.8MB you should be fine. If not, you have some other problem going on.
  8. They're '15s and there will be a short story in an upcoming issue of the Dodge Brothers Club News on one of them.
  9. Here's a good discussion on the difference between "backfire" and "afterfire" and several of their potential causes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-fire
  10. True...as long as one realizes that there isn't an OUNCE of truth in this ad. Only TONS of sales desires. Believe me...I've spent a 45-year career in advertising.
  11. "Maybe" to both. My '32 (which is very similar to your) reads about 40-45 PSI cold. And when I'm doing a valve lifter adjustment with the engine running I have to shield the whole area outside of the valve access ports with newspapers, but there really isn't a whole lot of oil spurting out. The other thing I wanted to recommend is (if you haven't already) try to obtain an original copy of the owner's manual for your car. There isn't an "official" shop manual dedicated to your car, but the owner's manual will give you tons of details about your car that normally you'd expect from a shop manual. (Like diagrams that show how the oil pump and distributor are both driven by the cam shaft!)
  12. eBay of course. I knew exactly what I wanted: the same thing I already had, stored away for 40 years, but needed too much work. So... I sought..I talked...I bought. Cute, isn't she?
  13. The same thing happened to my wife & me back in 1968. We were driving our '32 DB from CT to upstate NY on back roads and pulled into a small town where a 4th of July parade was in progress. There was no way around it so we just hopped in line, honking and waving to the folks lining the curbsides. Three blocks later we were in the clear and headed outta town laughing!
  14. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dodge-Other-none-1930-dodge-firetruck-original-vintage-barnfind-/221532410484?forcerrptr=true&hash=item33945c5274&item=221532410484&pt=US_Cars_Trucks
  15. The link you provided is actually for two programs from Adobe. You may or may not need Premiere (for video editing), but you will need Photoshop Elements. The good news is that'll save you some bills. Here's but one source: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1004658-REG/adobe_65224820_photoshop_elements_12_for.htmlAs far as fisheye lens examples, click on the link in your first post, then look over on the left. They show two examples taken with the lens you were considering. Just hover over the thumbnails to enlarge the images. Or if you want to see more, click here: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1195&bih=768&q=fisheye+photography&oq=fisheye&gs_l=img.1.2.0l10.900.2786.0.7514.7.6.0.1.1.0.214.920.0j5j1.6.0....0...1ac.1.51.img..0.7.918.z1hCpaKwpek&gws_rd=ssl Notice how all of the fisheye images are round...not panoramas. Actually, you don't need a new lens to take panoramas. Whatever is on you camera now will do. You WILL need a program like Photoshop Elements to do the stitching. Oh, and check Photoshop Element's tech requirements carefully to make sure your computer system can support it.
  16. You're talking about two different effects so here's a little background, then you can decide which way you'd like to go. The lens you've linked to is a super wide-angle lens...often called a fisheye lens. It's used to take pictures (like those shown) with a 180 degree field of view...IN ALL DIRECTIONS. Those are specialty lenses that create dramatic, unusual perspectives and work for some subjects...but not all. When viewed from a normal distance the images they take make the world seem highly (and unnaturally) distorted. They are usually not cropped and so appear round. A panorama on the other hand, is usually thought of as a "widescreen" image: longer side to side in proportion to its height. There are several ways to achieve that effect. One way is to back away from the subject until you have the entire width of the subject you want in the shot. Then, crop off all of the extra height you don't want. The result will be a panoramic view. Another way is to use a wide-angle lens (but not a fisheye) to get the entire width framed, then crop off the height as above. What the wide-angle lens does is allow you to stay closer to the subject, so you don't have to back off. Many photographers carry around different length lenses so they can frame their shots without needing to moving closer or further away. Another way to do the same thing is to use one zoom lens...which comes with a continuous range of lens lengths built in. There's one more way to create a panoramic view. You can take a series of shots from one vantage point, starting at one side of the subject you want, and then swing around taking additional sections of the subject until you reach the other side of the subject. Then, import the sectional views into a program like Photoshop and use its capability to "stitch" them all together into one panoramic image. To do this correctly you MUST overlap the individual sections and for best results, you should use a tripod with a swiveling head. With practice, and good lighting (to allow a higher shutter speed) it's quite possible to hold the camera very steady and swivel at the hips to take the sectional shots. For all of you who are members of the Dodge Brothers Club and receive the DBC News, the latest issue coming in the mail has a bunch of panoramas from this year's Centennial Meet that were created by the last method described above.
  17. It doesn't get very much, but it does get an average of 6.5 inches per year overall.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Antarctica
  18. My everyday camera is a Canon EOS Rebel T2i which is now about 4 years old. Last time I looked current versions of that one ran about $500 to $850 for just the body depending on options. A decent zoom lens like Canon's EF-S 18-135mm will set you back another $550. The camera takes both 17MP stills and HD video and would completely satisfy most non-professionals. (My pro system is a Canon 5D III with a $10K lens system.)Adobe Photoshop Elements ($70) will give you plenty of bells & whistles to play around with to alter images in interesting ways.
  19. Dick...took yours and knocked down the contrast to give it the faded look like one of those "Pics from the Past" images I deal with all the time.
  20. Joe, you might try Then & Now for those inner seals. I ordered a set for my '32 and they came made with modern materials. Their email is: ljthen2@aol.comAnd, let me know if you want to place a wanted ad in the DBC News. Email: DBCNews@cox.net
  21. A few pictures I've seen of that year didn't have cowl lights...which probably is why they aren't in the wiring diagram Doug mentions. On my '32 cowl lights have their own steering column light switch position, which means they are off when the headlights are on.
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