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Jim Bollman

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  1. A friend restored/reconditioned one about 20 years ago. He only lived about 5 mile of country roads from work and still only drove it in a few times. I road in it and there was plenty of room for the 6' 1" owner and 6' me. Lots of rattles, felt like riding in a big can. He put new batteries in it as part of the reconditioning and decided to sell it after a few years while the batteries still were in good shape. As I remember, 35mph was pretty much wide open on the flat.
  2. They have already cashed my check. I almost forgot to send it in one year and don't wait now.
  3. I have given my opinion before but since the decision has restarted, I would rather scroll through a bunch of photos in one thread than open a bunch of links that have one photo. If a photo is being posted asking for info or it is expected to generate comments or additional photos start a new link. Most photos are not immediately identified so if that was a requirement they would not get posted at all or we would have hundreds of threads listed unknown car from 20s.
  4. I haven't used it much yet but I have an old SoniCare electric tooth brush I use for cleaning small parts with. I save the used toothbrush heads when we put on new ones every 3 months. They also sell third party heads that are cheap enough if I needed to switch them in the shop more often. Regular toothbrushes are good for cleaning also and the dentist gives us new ones every time we get a cleaning. I also have an old stick mixer on the shelf in the shop trying to decide if I can use it for something. A friend has more shop space an installed an old electric range and uses the oven to bake powder coating. Wouldn't dare use anything from the house my wife wasn't done with, the camper would get old to live in fast.
  5. I have a barrel of old shirts that I ripped into rags, mostly cotton or flannel. Years ago I hit a garage sale on the last day that had tons of shirts and was selling for $2/bag. It was fun, the lady kept trying to sell me stuff that went with what I was putting in the bag and I was going by feel. Since then just recycling our own families stuff has pretty much kept my barrel full plus a few old towels and blankets and sheets. I have developed a system to rip stuff up to a good size for rags. Use once and throw away. You already have lots of ideas where you can get such things. I only use the cloth rags for really tough/messy jobs I have actually switched mostly to the blue paper towel that they sell. I find them very durable and if you buy them in multipacks not bad for price. They even hold up to being wet and dried out. I put racks to hold the rolls all around my shop ere ever I might need them (5 places so far) so there is always one close by.
  6. If you're already happy with your 2WD tow vehicle or don't want the extra cost of 4WD when not needed, consider having an Eaton limited slip rear end installed. I had an F250 that I really liked but it would not pull a loaded trailer up my gravel driveway at my new place when we were getting ready to move. Buying a new place and moving everything 700 miles didn't seem like the time to go truck shopping. A local transmission shop installed the all gear, nothing to ever adjust or wear out Eaton. It wasn't cheap but a lot cheaper than changing trucks. 10 years ago I think It cost me a little over $1000 out the door, no idea what it costs now, but I was amaze at the difference. No problem with my drive or wet grass anymore. I have had some construction people with 4WD pulling a trailer up my drive have problems because there positraction was worn out or needed adjusting. Just another option, wish I would have done the swap years before when we lived in the North.
  7. Mine froze a few times in our old location, not much heat in the garage when I wasn't out there and vey cold on the floor by the door at times. Always happened when we were in a hurry. Finally solved the problem by not parking daily drivers in the garage, at least that. is what I told my wife was the reason 🙂. Should not be a problem at the current location, plus when it gets that cold or snowy here we stay home.
  8. If I build the new garage it will be cold storage/parking only, at least until my son inherits it all and has other plans, I have a heated shop if I can get a finished project or two out of the way. I plan a slight slope to drain water but also considered a drain into gravel. The problem I had in a much colder climate a few garages ago that had some heat was the snow melted off and ran to the door and would freeze the door shut.
  9. Since I'm think of having another garage built I have been watching for ideas. One comment from my old place on concrete. When the basement floor of my old place was powered I asked the mason if it didn't need seams he said no, it had numerous cracks after a few years. My shop at the old place without asking a different mason he put seams every 12' front to back by pressing in this plastic piece that once they were done smoothing was completely invisible. After a few years a very fine straight line was visible every 12' hardly noticeable and no cracks. The other thing that the shop mason suggested and did was put a piece of angle iron with some holes that he put flat head bolts in and pushed into the concrete at the door openings. Made for a clean edge and prevented any chipping.
  10. I successfully used ER to clean one of my Crosley's cooling systems. Decided to get more sophisticated in my next Crosley to clean and put a filter in the upper radiator hose. I filled it with ER and ran it a shot time and was letting it sit with the plan to run it a few more heat cool cycles and life got in the way and when I got back to it a few weeks later its had found a rust filled pin hole in a metal adapter in the lower hose that was for the heater and all the ER was on the floor. No problem changed the lower hose and when I was getting ready for another try I filled the system again. Not sure why I didn't wait till I was ready to run the system but again I filled it and it was few days till I ready to run the engine. When I walked into my shop to another mess. Not sure exactly what happened but apparently the radiator had some leaks that were plugged by rust. So now it has fallen back on my list of projects so I will leave it empty till I get a clutch put in another Crosley and a radiator in my Ford F1 fixed. Still haven't tested the filter idea but wait to use another gallon of ER.
  11. I have a lap rob that came from my great aunt. It was in the back of a 1954 Studebaker that my Dad bough from her estate. I think she was around 90 when she died in the early 60s. It doesn't have any tags on it but is a hide from some animal with long black hair, we have always guessed buffalo or bear with a wool blanket backing. We have used it on several stair cases to keep cold air from coming down or hot air going up. I'm guessing it was used by her in cars for years and just moved from car to car. I assume maybe early 20s but may be older.
  12. He is a friend of mine he has a booth with his son so he probably had help getting unloaded. He's 85 and says he has another 15 years of projects to finish. He is working on a restoration now. The tires are for another enclosed trailer he bought that needed better tires. Here is a picture of him when he stoped by my booth on his way back to his space.
  13. This was Western NY so the heart of Winter rust. Not me but a couple of Model A friends back in the late 70s early 80s that wanted to drive there As year around. Imron was pretty new at the time and they painted the chassis and fenders with Imron with the idea of keeping everything well preserved and they partially dissembling every Spring for a deep cleaning. I know they did it for a Winter or two then one moved to Florida and the other to somewhere in New England and I lost track of them. It was fun seeing the As running around all Winter in the snow.
  14. The pre war Crosley were powered by 2 cylinder opposed air cooled Waukesha engines.
  15. A little over $2.25/lb and it isn't a 1939, probably 1940-42. Hope they tie it down better.
  16. Ran across this museum about 10 years ago when we were passing through on vacation. The door was open so I walked in and someone came out and told me they were closed but feel free to look around. They eventually gave me the whole tour including areas not normally open to the public. Great little museum.
  17. Not going to get into the argument, other than it is not far enough along for me yet. A friend has a hybrid that has enough range his wife seldom needs to get gas, maybe once every couple of months, just plugs it in at home. Since they live in snow country up North where it is possible to be stranded for many hours in the snow, what happens if they needed to stay warm. He said he caries a couple of solar blankets. He claims that wrapped in one of those with the heated seats on will keep them nice and warm and the battery will last for days on the power used by the seats. Sounded so good I made sure we had a couple of solar blankets in our ICE car just in case. Figured it would be better to only start the car every hour or so to charge the battery than depend on the heater if we really needed it, not as likely in Tennessee.
  18. Couple years ago I stopped in the local Auto Zone to pickup a 6v battery for my 8N Ford. Of course they asked for what so I told them and they looked at me dumb founded so I say ok I'll take one for a Crosley, same look. I asked If anyone older was working there. A fellow came over laughing and he said he would bring one out.
  19. I started using a slide rule in high school. I think my Dad showed me how. Got to college and one of the classes had a couple of introductory sessions on how to use a slide rule which I was allowed to skip. We had one math teacher that would pull out his 5" slide rule and put it almost on top of his coke bottle thick glasses and get a couple of digits more accurate than we got on a 10". Took us awhile to realize he was the teacher and knew the answer and was just pulling one on us.
  20. In representing our Crosley Club I have been asked several times, how many times a year our Quarterly Magazine comes out.
  21. Nice addition. I managed to collect through some garage sale purchase and trades 4 of what I have always heard called baby Advents. I re-foamed the garage sale pair and the traded pair had already been re-foamed. I have them facing down in the ceiling of my shop connected to a garage sale stereo with a bluetooth adapter. Is great to have a nice sounding garage system.
  22. I occasionally still have music on, mostly old country, bluegrass or 50-70s R&R but for awhile now I have been mostly listening to assorted pod casts and New Old Time Radio shows. Jim...
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