Jim Bollman

We normally come down Rt 322 and then take I-81 North to Rt 39 to go in to Hershey. There was a Tanker crash on the I-81 - 322 overpass back in May that apparently required major bridge repair/replacement from what I read at the time. Is this area back to normal or should I plan a different route?

My wife doesn't complain to much as long as I don't complain to much when we stop at fabric and quilt shops when we are on trips. She runs the flea market space for us guys as long as everything is marked. She often gets more for parts because she usually doesn't know how much we will take unless we tell her ahead of time so she usually holds out for the marked price.

My 1950 Bonus Built Ford has strange tones that some might find spooky. The sound is similar to the sound you get when you blow across a jug or pop bottle. It varies in tone and loudness depending on speed and wind conditions. Goes from nothing to fairly loud. Apparently the vents and grill holes cause it. I have run across a couple of other people that actually asked if I got the sounds because they remember getting them when they had similar vintage Ford trucks, back when they were just a used truck.

Ford Truck, hard to tell year because they didn't change a lot from 40's through the 90's. The experts know the numbers and the small changes and can narrow it down.

All those extremes can and have happened in the same year. We pack for all 4 seasons.

Doesn't always work that way. I sent a note to a fellow trying to sell a well used early reprint of a manual for $75. I figured he didn't know they were still being reprinted for $19. Got a response back with "???? so"

I think the on field wireless will work with the iPad, you just need to use the browser to set it up and pay. The bad news is unless they have added more antennas or upped their signal I'm not sure it will reach the Red field, you may have to walk over closer to the Giant Center. I bought it for 2 years and it was marginal at my spot, CI 8-10 (lower side of Chocolate field).

I personally don't like umbrellas they drip where you don't want and you have to use a free hand to carry them. I bring a rain coat if I'm staying around my booth, but prefer a poncho for walking the flea market. You can tuck a flea market bag under it on your shoulder and it stays dry, you can carry things under them, just better all around. I always have several with me at the show and usually at least one with me. I carry one of those super thin, use once or twice kind in an inside pocket of my jacket that I usually wear, a bike poncho that packs pretty small in my flea market bag and a GI quality one in the truck if I now in advance that I need it. The GI issue one is my favorite but it is to heavy to carry if you are not wearing it. With no mud you just need low boots or pull over rubbers for your regular shoes (I miss the grass and mud). I bought a new pair of high top mud boots to replace my old 5 buckle boots (that were a veteran of many Hersheys) just a couple of years before they paved everything, they still have some of the last Hershey mud on them in the basement.

Anyone know who bought and where the Crosley FarmOroad went. Would be interested to know the serial number. I keep the FOR registry for the Crosley Auto Club.

Saturday we drove the 50 F1 a little over hundred miles roundtrip to visit a Tin Can Tourist Gathering's open house. Lots of fun looking at vintage campers, several towed by vintage iron.

I don't know anything more about publishing of ideas to keep others from patenting your idea other than that is what the company I use to work for did with a couple of my ideas that they didn't want to spend the money on, but thought they may want to use. Like regular lawyers use para legals to do a lot of the grunt work, patent lawyers also have para legals that went to school on patent law. If you can find one not attached to a lawyer you might get some cheaper help. I'm sure it is a para legal or a law clerk doing the patent searches not the high buck lawyer.

Here is one you don't see often.

I have one I save off a late 70s Ford pickup that looks similar.

Dale, glad you decided to take on this challenging project. I had looked at the pictures of it when it was offered for sale and I could tell the pictures were not showing all the problems, just from a few little details you could see that left big questions. You're right with only something like 2500 made over 4 years we should dry to save as many as possible. You are digging right in and making great progress. Planning on showing at next years Crosley Nationals?

Tuesday to Saturday for us at CI8-10.

A local fellow here in Wayne County NY has a Model T doodlebug with a similar made 2cyl T engine. Sounds just like the one in the video. He bought it that way and doesn't know a lot about it's history.

Was that the Xenia Show? We are visiting Inlaws in the edge of Indiana and was planning on going in my BIL's 38 Ford but the weather looked like it was going to be a wash out so we passed on the whole show.

You search for a few key words not the whole idea. You will probably get a bunch of hits and you will have to sort through them. It may take a few searches.

As several have stated a search for prior art and patents is a good first start. The patent database is open to do searches.

I have a few patents but all through an employer that did all the legal stuff. Even with a big company and a lawyer the process normally took 2 years minimum. I heard numbers of $10,000 dollars to get a patent through the system with a lawyer and that was 10 or more years ago. You can start using your idea as soon as you file but if it is rejected you loose coverage. Depending on the idea your competition may not have to change much to get around your patent anyway. If you decide not to patent but still manufacture, there is a legal patent publication that is fairy obscure, but if you publish your idea it will keep someone else from patenting your idea. The company I worked for used it all the time for ideas that they wanted to use but didn't want to pay the cost of patenting.

I have the newspaper clipping the one photo I posted came from somewhere but I apparently wrote down the wrong date. I checked one of our Crosley historians to see if he had it and he sent me this one from the Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune for Monday, May 6, 1946 instead. That would make the official first one coming off the line as May 9th not the 5th which would have been a Sunday.

I do this often. If your 6v battery isn't completely dead, the safe way is turn on the ignition key to give juice to the points and jump the 12 volt battery directly to the starter terminal (or that side of the solenoid . This way you will not take a chance in blowing up the 6 volt battery (unenergized solenoid is in between them) and you also will not blow anything else out that happens to be on. This is harder on V engines with the solenoid on the starter.

May 5th, 1946: The new Crosley CC models begin rolling from the assembly line, making Crosley the first new postwar production car it also had the slab side design, just days ahead of Kaiser-Frazer.

From page 25 of 2013 Judging Manual 6. Cadmium plated spark plugs. First year - 1956. So looks like you need blued (black) plugs. Since they are not all that easy to find they accept using a permeant black marker to cover Cadmium plating if neatly applied.

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