Frank DuVal

Glad to help!👍🚗 I know postage costs will be about $20 round trip for a small flat rate box. That could make local a better price, even if they are higher than me.😮

I find engines that have sat for a very long time have clean oil on the dipstick. But if you start it all the dirt/sludge that has had years to settle in the pan gets sucked up and you have very dirty oil circulating. Or worse, the sludge in the pan has clogged the oil pickup. 😮 Please change the oil before starting.👍 That reminds me, I have to get to Walmart, my truck just gave me the Change Oil Soon message...😁

I am an AACA member, and frequent other sections on this AACA Forum. I want to spread the word that most of the well known Corvair gurus are currently on corvairforum.com .👍🛠️🚒🚗👍

I've rebuilt many Ni-Cad packs with Ni-MH, but as you say, charge them then remove the batteries from the charger for best life! I did the "upgrade" to get more use per charge (higher amp hour ratings of the new cells). The replacement Ni-Cads will work as well as they did when you bought the tool if you buy the same amp-hour cells. I did buy two cheap 18 volt batteries off Amazon to see and yep, cheap = not many amp hours. But, if you just need a Dewalt 18 volt tool now and then for a few minutes, then perfect.

1965 GS. Buick?

??? Oh, you are young! 🤣 Us old guys know it, we grew up with Eric in the Animals aka "Eric Burdon and the Animals" band and then War.😉🚒🚓🚋🛠️🏎️

Must be a California thing. Richmond stations continued to play the 50s songs up into the 70s. I was listening to them when I was in high school. Then they were oldies stations to take over. 😉 The late 50s songs finally went away from the oldies stations in mid 80s there. Yep, that's why I never signed up after the initial trial period on the wife's car. Same thing over and over, just like the local radio stations. I have to seek out further stations, many low power FM (LPFM) stations play a wide assortment. Since they are low power you have to listen on the web. My friend runs one in Charlottesville, WREN 97.9. He says they very rarely play the same song in a day. 50s to 70s is their range. But, as you say, 50s starts in 1955 right, Elvis?🤣 I know, 5 months later I reply. Ha!😁 I did TV repair back then at night, and it was extremely common to see a portable on top of the console I was called to fix. And then when the console was too expensive to fix I would be back to fix the portable in a year or two! I have tinnitus, so it is NEVER QUIET!!! I like background music to break up the ringing.❗😉

To have some light if a headlamp goes out. Safety. No longer a motorcycle coming at you, but a wide vehicle. But, they are still used as parking lights when you want them to, like parked on a side street. Not needed when moving. Now three pages later, the real reason NOT to use "parking or marker" lights when driving is when it gets darker the driver will forget just the parking lights are on. I see this all the time in city and suburban driving. Only when the car gets out in the country does the driver notice he cannot see. Sure, you think, I'll remember, then the kid cries, the wife gets you in conversation, you yell at other drivers for flashing their lights at you (what's wrong with those people?) and finally, hey why can't I see the road, my lights are on, just look at the dash.....😮

And the paint manufacturer will confirm this! Paint needs to evaporate to cure, along with oxidizing and other reactions. Old paint recommendation was six months to a year.

Larry, Sussh! You are going to raise the prices on these wonderful cars!😮🚓🚒🚕🚗 Seen the prices on Rampsides and wagons recently? ❓

If I LIKED a collector/second/sunny day car I would never sell it because of fuel milage. It is Smiles Per Mile I want. Do you hear of happy boaters complain of the cost to fill those fuel tanks on large boats? Or airplane owners? It costs money to enjoy hobbies. Period. 10 MPG. Just how many miles do you drive your collector (etc) car in a year? I doubt it is 10,000 miles. More like 1,000 or less for most people. That's 100 gallons so under $500 for most of the US for a year's enjoyment. Maybe soon close to $700 for premium in California. Just look what Europe pays! Cheap here!!!!!! Does one also look at how many quarts of oil the pan holds? Oooh, 7 quarts, can't afford to change that every year....😲 I need a 4 quart car (4.5 for some models of Prius). I just do not get the complaints. Of course I wondered how many people took a bath during the oil crises in money lost in car value just to get a better fuel mileage car to drive to work vs cost of fuel? I'm sure many would have been money ahead to keep their car. You have to do the math to get an answer, not seat of the pants "oh *&^ I need another ten at the pump".

And there is the flaw in your argument again. Repeating BAD advice does not make it GOOD advice!😲 If one wants to be seen, nothing works BETTER than turning on the headlamps. If your instructor taught you to hold the car on a hill at a traffic light by riding the clutch, would you repeat that advice? ❓ Again in the semi truck/trailer game there are marker lights. They are seen on roofs of semi trucks (and pickups that think they are semi trucks 😉) and sides of trailers. On passenger cars? No. OK, we do call them side markers on cars, but they are designed to come on with the headlamps, since they are part of the tail lamp system. We DO NOT call those red things on the rear of the car rear marker lamps!🤣 I can bring up that new vehicles have electrically applied parking brakes. How do they work in an emergency? Actually I would really like to know that, if I ever buy a car new enough to have them.🤔 But not for discussion here.....👍

Great. Now I really need to think about buying a tow vehicle. 👍 Maybe those will be there too, along with trailers for sale.🚋😁

Have you tried using flux? That is what it is supposed to do, clean surfaces for the solder to wet to. There are two common types, the paste type from the hardware store for use on copper plumbing and such. That can be "acid core" aka contains zinc chloride. I would avoid that for decorative brass. Then there is the liquid type used in electronics, rosin is the ingredient, especially in the mounting surface mount parts on circuit boards. I would try this type first. Rosin can usually be washed off the part when you finish soldering. Hot water helps. Then there are the uncommon types used for brass, copper, stainless steel in HVAC work. Oatey, Harris and Superior are several brands. I offer these as suggestions, but without actual decorative brass experience, just plumbing, electronics and HVAC soldering.

That was the old rule in Virginia, it is now written as sunset to sunrise. And they say using your headlamps all the time is better. If it was to allow eyes to adjust for changing conditions, then putting headlights on before sunset would be better, as the pupils are small then (in the sunshine), not expanded as they are when the sunlight goes away! 😉🚕🚒 I think police cars and firetrucks have way too bright of lights, as it is hard to even see the policeman waving you on or waving to stop you since all you can see are the lights. They should be taught to be lit themselves so other drivers can see them! Standing beyond the bright lights makes them impossible to see. 🚓🚒🚓