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    Portland swap meet

    in General Discussion

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    4 hours ago, Mark Shaw said:

    The Pierce Arrow has been owned by a local HCCA Portland Group member for several years.  He sold it at the Portland Swap Meet last weekend.  Dandy Dave flew out from NY and stayed with us for the Swap Meet.  I am glad he got these photos so others can see what was there.  Other swap meets so far this year have been a bit thin on vendors.  The Portland Swap was also thinned by about 25% compared to pre-Covid swaps. 

    So were the customers! We knew that some of the distant venders were backing out and there might be others to take their place. The outside spaces were ok, inside, ya lots of empty. Working in the package pickup area on Saturday, there were a few from the Western Canada that I got to talk to. As a member of one of the clubs putting the Portland Swap Meet on, this is our club's revenue and were aware that income would be down this year and hoping for better in years to come. There has been a long downward trend in the brass and even into the 30/40s for a long time. Like I told a friend, man I got into the wrong era (late teens-20s) for car stuff! :) Should have kept all those 1960s muscle cars and imports I owned back in the 70s through 80s. LOL 

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    NOS Fiber Gear, Rolling the Dice?

    in Dodge & Dodge Brothers

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    There are two types of fiber gears; laminated and macerated. Laminated are made of layers of fabric bonded and pressed into shape, macerated is short, chopped fiber that is bonded and pressed into shape. For gears I would choose laminated, they have a better survival rate. Some gears it is easy to tell how they are made. Even with the good photos, I am thinking it is laminated, but not really sure. 

    Portland swap meet

    in General Discussion

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    Thanks for posting some of the cars at the Portland Swap Meet (Expo)! Between club duty and looking for parts for my projects Friday and Saturday, I didn't take time to really look at any cars, which were outside my budget anyway! :) 

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    The use of vintage license plate.

    in General Discussion

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    Mine was a toll road fee Xs 2 from the state of Texas. The plate in the photograph was on a tractor trailer. When they had contacted the state of Oregon, the Texas people did not include the letter(s) in front of the number that indicated it was a trailer plate. The plates on my Ford Model T have the same 6 digits but no letter(s) in front and has been parked under a tarp in the back yard for almost a year while the engine is being rebuilt. Not like I have ever been to Texas or drive a stock T on a freeway! They did fix their error. 

    Reamer

    in Technical

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    It is almost imposable to use straight fluted reams on any bushing that is split or has a grease groove. The flutes get hung up in either the groove or the split and jambs. Your best bet would be the spiral type that have a twist to the flutes. 

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    Wico mag. For model t

    in What is it?

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    On 3/10/2022 at 4:49 AM, Dandy Dave said:

    No gear. No tang. No keyway. No sheared off pin still stuck in the shaft? The drive must have been locked with a set set screw so the timing was adjustable. Without a tang on the end, it will not work in a Model A or B Ford engine.

    The shaft is too long for Model A or B engine. The hole in the smaller diameter shaft, may have been where the gear was mounted and rest of shaft rode in a pilot hole. 

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