Frank DuVal

SInce when does a museum need a theme other than old stuff???? ❓ Seems elitist comment.

"Cheesegrater" file (Shurform) and then an 8" DA with 40 was my go to. 36 seems waaay to coarse, leaves too many deep sand scratches. OK, so does 40! But if you use 100 to rough out plastic filler then you will never get the area flat, just ripples. In case it was missed, there was a change in body filler about 40 years ago. It went from dense (what the 36 comment was referring to) to "liteweight". The dense stuff could be used to fix gasoline tanks! Directions right on the can of Slix (Slicks?). Liteweight much easier to sand.

Yep, that is correct, then reality sets in, and a filler of some sorts is required. Go ahead and put on a door skin and use no filler. 🤣 Even GM used lead to fix seams for years, and to fix cars damaged on the assembly line.

While your 70% lead and 30% tin is correct, Solder is commonly listed as Tin/Lead, so 30/70 is body solder. 60/40 is electronics solder, that's why I knew it was backwards. 😁

Alex, that receipt from Summit shows not only a Chevrolet coupe/convertible but also shows DW636 which is a CORVETTE windshield. The DW629 is the number for a Riviera. DW means Domestic Windshield FW means Foreign Windshield, so do not think a FW629 is the same glass with a different tint. In fact it fits a Subaru Legacy. The suffixes G is for Green and S is for Shaded band. IIRC, 6 is the color of the shade.

Nope! Cheech And Chong "Up In Smoke" movie. The car was a blue Impala in the movie. This modeler got the color wrong, or I am remembering wrong!😉 Only been 42 years since I saw it on TV.😁 Long before the current vaping products. And back then I only owned three Corvairs..... Always wanted an early Beetle, but never found a low rust one around here for my price. I did a lot of mechanic work on friend's Beetles. Easy Peasy back then. $200 exchange for an engine!

See Steve's picture. Ohms is the size of the pipe. Inversely that is. Larger pipe fewer ohms (resistance). I have that picture posted at work to explain ohms law!

Starter (and most DC motors) rotation is determined by the relative electromagnetic fields of the field and armature. Simply reverse the armature to field lead wiring.

The recall is back from when people had common sense. And it was common sense to remove the guard to see the blade better.😮 I once used my neighbors RAS (without guard) with him, my father and a friend of mine in the garage. I did a cut, all three other people screamed. I said "what?". I still have no idea how close I was to loosing a body part, the cut action looked fine to me. I agree to a guard and stop fence and keeping hands away, no small pieces being cut should go a long way to safe operation of a RAS. I now use a sliding compound miter saw for the last 20+ years. And I've learned these do not like small pieces either!😮 You can collect a recall check for every saw which you follow the instructions to get the money. And yes, people do pick up free RASs just to collect the recall. I read about these on woodworking/building forums.😉 ❄️❄️❄️☃️🛠️☃️🛠️

There were some sold in the first surplus sales of them. Then the next ones to the end were all cut up before being sold as surplus. Some enterprising people bought the pieces and reassembled them. So, there are some in civilian hands. Like this one: https://midwestmilitary.com/1963-m151-jeep-for-sale-4700-00/

OK, Glenn.... I shall quote Big Wave Dave, a Corvair historian: Obviously someone put this bit of misinformation out years ago until people over time just take it for granted it is true. I'm here to tell you it is not true!!! I'll have more details in the update, here are the basic facts. Both Chevrolet and Oldsmobile were working on Turbocharging programs in late 1961.There was a definite rivalry among divisions within GM. Chevrolet was always very secretive regarding their programs, and did not leak anything about the Corvair Turbocharging program. On the other hand Oldsmobile was not nearly as secretive and released some preliminary details of their turbocharging program in late 1961. This is the main reason many think Olds was first. Now both programs were not anywhere near completion in 1961 and both Oldsmobile and Chevrolet produced Turbocharged "Pilot" show cars for the large and prestigious February 1962 Chicago Auto Show. The Oldsmobile Jetfire at the show was a hardtop, and the Corvair Spyder was a convertible. After the show ended Chevrolet immediately began production of both the new Convertible and Spyder Turbocharging option in early March 1962. Official announcement for both the Convertible and Spyder options was on March 27th 1962 which was several weeks after production began. The Convertible and Spyder option was then available to order in April 1962. Early production was primarily to supply showroom display cars to the thousands of Chevrolet dealers nationwide. These cars were to be displayed for several months before they could be sold. Oldsmobile started production several weeks after the Corvair Spyder but also could be ordered by April 1962. So it was practically a dead heat. Both developed around the same time. Both shown at the same time at the same Chicago show, and both available to order from the public in April 1962, but Chevrolet beat the Oldsmobile to production by several weeks so the Corvair Spyder is actually the first American Production car to have a turbocharger. PS: This information is sourced from GM documents and period automotive articles from March and April 1962 and information from the 1962 Chicago Auto Show among others sources. Bigwave Dave Trull, Sierra Vista Arizona My second gripe is about the know it all pundits who lump the Corvair Spyder with the Oldsmobile Jetfire as a failure that set back Automotive Turbocharging decades. I do agree that the Jetfire Turbocharging system was a failure. It was too complicated and was too dependent on the owner properly maintaining the water alcohol turbo rocket fuel. Only 9607 were produced over two years and Factory Oldsmobile technicians estimate 80% were returned and had the Turbo removed and replaced with a carburetor. The Corvair on the other hand, produced 9468 Turbos the first year, nearly equaling Oldsmobiles total output and over 50698 turbos in a 5 year span, which is an enormous amount. Corvair Turbos also were not replaced by the factory for carburetors and a great many Turbocharger equipped Corvairs have survived till this day. How dare you call the Corvair Turbocharger a failure and lump it in with the short lived Jetfire. It was a amazing piece of engineering for its day, warts and all!! So over 50,000 turbocharged Corvairs produced vs less than 10,000 Oldsmobiles. I'll just leave it at that.👍😁

Radial arm saws were considered so dangerous there is still a $50 bounty on the motor paid by Emerson Electric, used on Sears Craftsman saws. http://www.radialarmsawrecall.com/

Corvairs had an optional oil bath air cleaner through the end of production in 1969. RPO K47AA and K47AB in 1969.👍 🛠️❄️☃️🐫

So, good luck because they chose a hauler whose expertise is in hauling totals? Because it is an open haul, and possible to get a windshield rock chip being the front car? (happened to my own Greenbrier being hauled just 100 miles by a friend) Because the tires are low, and if they loose more air the straps will be loose? It's Love Bug season? (That is late April and again late August) What else?❓ Glenn, I agree, the stock '61 wheel covers would be sooooo much nicer. And this is from a guy who has bought two Corvairs with Rally Wheels. Can't wait to put stock 13" back on the newest one, as soon as weather holds out so I can sandblast and paint the set. A lot of Corvairs got 14" Rallies when 13" tires became unobtainium around 2008. Yes, Bel Air.

From Memory: 1958 Chevrolet 1960 Corvair 1951 to 1953 Chevrolet 1968 to 1970 Chevelle (and probably Chevy II, Camaro) ? Mercury 1957 to 1959 Ford

A very common MISCONCEPTION! Since 90%+ of cars on the road are 12 volt negative ground, everyone (racers, etc. that have to have a disconnect) says it goes in the negative battery lead. But, that is because they have a Negative Ground Vehicle! The disconnect switch always goes in the grounded lead of the battery. So on a positive ground car, it goes in the positive battery lead. As to those green plastic shut offs, I couldn't even put them in my Lead recycling box, and I have no Zinc recycling box....😮

And one and two are??? Not suitable for publication?🤣

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Ed, what about the 00 grease Tractor Supply sells? It is a liquid, comes in a plastic bottle like gear lube.

Look at them! 😉 Just sit and look at them.

And don't even try this job without a torque wrench. TIFIFY (there, I fixed it for you) I hope! In my younger years (early 30s), helping a friend, I did a crank shaft replacement on a 200 in a Maverick 3 speed with the engine staying in the car. I did several laying on my back crankshaft kits back then (Buick, Chevelle, etc). Somehow I thought it was easier than removing the engine....🤣 On valve seal replacements. I tried the air holding the valves closed but I had engines that would rotate to BDC from TDC while air was on them, and if the valve fell, well, I got one out with a small magnet tool, the other required removing the head, I did all the rest with rope holding the valves closed. No compressor needed, no fear of dropping a valve, easy peasy!👍 Sure, adds a few minutes to the job, but less sweating in fear of dropping another valve. Or stick with Corvairs, no rope or air needed! Gravity not working against you.😉

One disconnects the negative terminal on a negative ground car so the tools used to loosen the terminal will not make the BIG spark when they touch both the terminal and chassis. On positive ground cars one disconnects the positive terminal first, for the same reason.😉🛠️ While I agree with this, remove all known loads, the spark when first touching the terminal to the battery but no spark touching it again does not fit a dome light sparking characteristic. It fits a clock winding or capacitor charging spark characteristic. Is this a Beetle? Then yes, the dome light is above the battery.... Not sure there is a switch to turn it off. Pretty basic car.❗

Right, but the switch has to come out first. Yes the ignition cylinder needs to be removed first. Then the indented ring/nut can be unscrewed to remove the switch from the bezel (escutcheon). Only early cars with LOCK-ON-OFF do you turn the cylinder CW and insert the pin. All the others are turn cylinder CCW and insert pin (paper clip). Yes the key needs to be in to do this. Russell Davis makes tools that fit the indented ring/nut so it can be removed without damage. He started making Corvair tools then expanded into other models. Blue Chip Machine is his company.

That's the confusion, which nuts/bolts did he remove already! ❓ 🤔 To hold the water pump hub steady on a longitudinal engine vehicle, just use a screwdriver/pry bar between the bolts/nuts and the shaft of the fan clutch, no belts needed. Much easier than using the screwdriver/pry bar on the bolts holding the belt pulley to the water pump hub on transverse engines. Note there are FWD vehicles with longitudinal engines, GM & SAAB to name two companies that made them.😉

Corvairs are modern cars, drive in ANY traffic!👍 They are meant to drive.😁 That blue one is the owner's only daily driver. Lives in the DC suburbs. He bought it with the dent in the RF fender.