Jim Bollman

I'm not the editor of our regional newsletter but I do one for our local Habitat for Humanity affiliate. I have done their newsletter completely digital for many years and have switched to a digital camera for most of the photos the last 18 months. I use an Olympus 450Z, the equivalent today is the 460Z. It is 1.3Mpixel with 3X zoom. If you want a little room for cropping I would not go any lower in resolution. I have taken over 1400 pictures with mine and have been very happy.<P>A lot of good advice has already been given so I will not rehash it all but here are a few points.<P>Jpeg is not a problem just don't push the compression to hard and you can open and modify many times with out a problem. I usually stay at a quality factor of 8 or 9 on a 10 scale. This gives you a file roughly 10-20% of the original.<P>Novaman don't jump on those floppy based cameras to fast you will get tired of carrying all those disks around. I just bought a new $50 memory card for mine that will hold a 150 images at the best quality mode, that is a lot of floppies and I don't have to juggle changing media when conditions are not the best. My old card holds 75 images so with the two I'm good for most trips without downloading to my laptop and the second card fits in a matchbook size case.<P>I'm a Mac person and use GraphicsConverter for most of my work, an excellent $35 shareware program. I also have PhotoShop and Debablizer. If I could only have one it would be GC. I have worked in digital imaging for many years so I collect software that helps me do my work. <P>Don't be afraid to add a little sharpening to give the image some snap in your newsletter, look for unsharp masking (really a special shapening method) for one of the best. A little to much sharpening on the screen usually looks best in print.<P>The print shops are right your results will not be as good as their 1200X1200 scanner, but most people will not be able to tell the difference. I have printed out on photopaper 480X640 pixel images at 4X6 inches and not 1 in 10 people identify it as even a digital image and that 1 person will still think it is ok. Now I'm not talking inkjet but real photo printing you will need a bit more than that for 4X6 on inkjet or offset if you don't want them to tell it is digital but it will still be pretty good in a newsletter. I usually try for around 600-800 pixels across a normal 1 column picture in the newsletter.<P>I create a print ready file on my Mac and write a PostScript file to use on the printer. Many of the quick print shops can print your PostScript files directly. The fies will tend to be bigger than what will fit on a floppy if you add pictures. I have a zip drive. Check with your printer. CDRs are cheap enough now you could burn a CD for less than 50 cents.<P>Later<P>Jim...

I spent the whole summer of 1990 waiting for my 1958 Willys FC170 pickup to be delivered from Montana to upstate New York. I bought the FC170 over the phone at an auction. I had already talked several times with the owner and had a set of good pictures to go over with a magnifier. Buying the truck turned out to be the easy part. I made the mistake of hiring a local trucking company called World Wide Auto Shippers to pickup the truck and deliver it to my door. They had the low bid and promised two week delivery. Well, the short story is World Wide Auto Shippers is a trucking broker and does not own a single truck. If you don't own a truck you have to wait till a trucker is passing through the area of the country where you need them. In my case Montana is not on the main route and I waited from June till September. Never hire a trucking company that does not own trucks.<P>Highlights from the long version.<P> Seller had to move the truck 40 miles to a bigger town to get it picked up, it sat at another location outside of my control and the selers for 2 weeks.<P> Driver calls from a Oklahoma jail for bail, he thought I still owed on the delivery. His truck loaded of cars were in a police impound area. He wasn't licensed to be in Oklahoma.<P> World Wide Auto Shippers never return calls. Finally found a home number. Told me it was on route several times. I would call the seller and he would assure me it wasn't.<P> Truck was delivered 5 miles away (that was as close as he would come). Cracked side windows and scratched roof. The bright driver put a truck that is over 6 foot tall on the top front of the car carrier where it caught all the low limbs. Filled out papers, took pictures got estimates never collected a dime from "their insurance".<P>I went and got my next FC myself, with a U-Haul trailer reserved to bring it home but that is another story.<P>Jim...<BR>

I have setup on Tuesdays the last 3 years, I don't open till Wednesday and I would say more than half the vendors are open on Wednesday now. So that will give you Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday even if a lot of vendors are closing down late Friday afternoon. I agree it would be nice if vendors hung around. I stay till Sunday morning. I usually start tearing down and packing late Saturday afternoon because we have a potluck supper with our flea market neighbors on Saturday night after everyone is backed.<P>Those of us lucky enough (I hope) to be on the new pavement in the Chocolate field will need to figure ways to setup our canopies without driving stakes. Any great suggestions that don't require carrying several hundred pounds of dead weight along in an already badly overloaded pickup?<P>Figured one side we can tie to the back of the truck with just fat plates on the bottom.<P>Jim...

I was in Hershey on Saturday and walked along the South side of the Chocolate field and it actually is coming along pretty good. All the deep trenches have been filled in and it looks like most of the big work has been finished. I wouldn't be surprised if they have it done in time for Memorial Day crowds at the park. <P>Looks like we will loose some parking around the stadium for the show. <P>Green field will be at least another year and then the building they are putting up is going to take a lot of space.<P>Yellow field was wet. The creek was within a foot of going over the banks.<P>Jim...

At the risk of even adding more complexity to this discussion it occurred to me that with all this talk of size and weight that maybe an equation similar to what LeMans or Sebring uses to calculate handicapes for laps needed to win, with a factor for the age thrown in.<P>Having thrown that idea on the table, I agree it does need to be kept simple, but being an engineer I do like elegant solutions to problems.<P>Maybe a rought formula is all you need for most meets and when it looks like a close call pull out the laptop and plug in the numbers. :-)<P>Jim...

Reprints of the Crosley Service Manual is available from for $17 from:<BR> Service Motors<BR> PO Box 116<BR> Twelve Mile, IN 46988<P>Besides the Crosley Club Web page that was already mentioned we have a message board and chat room setup on Yahoo.<BR> <A HREF="http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/crosley" TARGET=_blank>http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/crosley</A> <P>A group chat is held every Thursday night at 10PM EST. There is usually a few veteran Crosley people on to answer questions.<P>Jim...

I spent the whole summer of 1990 waiting for my 1958 Willys FC170 pickup to be delivered from Montana to upstate New York. I bought it in June and hired World Wide Auto Shippers a local but supposedly large trucking company to pick it up. They wanted cash in advance and said they would pick it up in less than 2 weeks (they had a truck coming back from Washington state). I finally got it in late August. World Wide did not own a single truck. They were a middle man that promised you anything to get you to sign up and then hired wildcat truckers to do the hauling. Lucky for me the person I bought from was willing to store the truck for free inside. He was so far back in the sticks of Montana that evidently they could not get a trucker to pick it up. In early August they asked that the truck be moved about 25 miles to a less remote area. Again the seller was very good moving the truck and getting a friend to store it for several more weeks. After it was picked up the truck driver was arrested in Oklahoma (not on the way to NY) and called me for bail. He thought there was still money due on the delivery. What he told me he was paid was about 2/3 of what I paid. All this time I was making a couple calls a week to World Wide and they usually didn't return my calls.<P>Well the truck finally showed up with several cracked windows and scratches on the roof because it was on top front of the carrier and had hit a few low limbs along the way. I filed an insurance form with estimates and photos and they never answered the letter or phone calls.<P>Moral: Whoever you hire be sure they own a truck.<P>Jim...

Lots of good ideas on jumping a 6 volt car. One I didn't see but is a variation of the disconnecting a cable tip. I have jumped 6 volt batteries directly but have always been afraid that one would blow up on me sometime. Finally dawned on me a few years ago, hook up the ground side then jump directly to the starter or starter side of the solenoid, the 6 volt battery is out of the circuit as far as the 12 volt battery and nothing to connect and reconnect. Just put the car in neutral or park, turn on the ignition and start the engine from under the hood. You are only connected long enough to start and no overloads on any of the cars system (except the starter). <P>Been jumping my 8N Ford and Crosleys like this for a while now, with no problems.<P>Jim...

I can't answer questions about space assignments but I pased through Hershey today on my way to Maryland for turkey day.<P>Green field is definitely being worked on now. Signs up saying future home of Giant Sports Center. I didn't look a lot at Green since I'm in Chocolate and wanted to see what was going on there. It looks like a major engineering job, huge drenches for drainage most of the hills flattened out. About 10 foot inside what is the main gate for Hershey week is about a 20 foot deep trench that runs along the main roadway on the South side and back around the West end. Some areas look like they are already close to finished on the North side. <P>Should be interesting next October.<P>Jim...

The owner of Caswell Plating demonstrated several of his plating kits at one of our local region meetings a few years ago. He made it look easy and the quality looked pretty good. He only did small pieces but said different size tanks could be used and larger items could be plated.<P>I was tempted, after the demo, to get a couple of kits but have resisted so far.<P>Jim...

The owner of Caswell Plating demonstrated several of his plating kits at one of our local region meetings a few years ago. He made it look easy and the quality looked pretty good. He only did small pieces but said different size tanks could be used and larger items could be plated.<P>I was tempted, after the demo, to get a couple of kits but have resisted so far.<P>Jim...

Jim & Pat Bollman - 091218

Thanks Ron, <P>I assumed that the special awards were sponsored in some way.<P> So if any person/group wants a type of car honored, they need to find a group/person to sponsor the award by the rules. <P>Sounds like a plan.<P>Jim...<P>

Ron,<P>Two approaches come to mind. <P>Intercept before printing. These days the magazine must be done on computers so the files could be sent through a text to voice package. This is part of the standard Apple Mac and I assume is available for PCs also. You would probably want some extra descriptions of pictures and such added.<P>Second approach, forget Hi Tech. We have a lot of members in AACA there must be a few with some extra time, setup a volunteer group to read the magazine into tape machine. Total cost a few tape recorders and some one to make masters to distribute.<P>Jim...

I agree that all trim levels and makes should be included on an equal bases. Even though some of the high end models are still restored by the owner, I would bet more are done with a check book. The cheaper models and makes give less deep pockets an equal chance in the shows. It is the level playing field that I like about AACA Judging.<P>I judged a non-AACA meet only once and had to argue with my co-judge that an almost perfect Rambler station wagon deserved to be the winter over an Avanti that was nice but had many things wrong with it. His reasoning was it would cost more to restore the Avanti (it wasn't restored just fixed up).<P>Jim...<P>

<BR>I'm sure anyone that has been to Hershey will have ideas on how the meet can be improved.<P>First I had a great time at Hershey again this year. I have been going every year since 71 and a vendor since 72. Was one of the lucky ones in the Chocolate field.<P>Here is my suggestion after this years meet.<P>One of the things I have always enjoyed is siting out around a lantern in the evening with friends to talk, inviting anyone that comes by to join in. The large number of big campers has reduced the number of night walkers and generators have made it very noisy and smelly to sit outside. It also seems dangerous to have so many generators running with campers, tents and such so tightly packed in, someone is going to get gassed. Several years we have had to ask neighbors to shutoff generators because they were dumping exhaust right in to the area we were sitting. Sometimes they do, sometimes they tell me where to go.<P>Since generators already are suppose to be off from around 10PM till 7AM why not make it from dusk till dawn. If those big fancy campers can't run 1 night without charging their batteries then they need a new battery or a smaller color TV. Of course they will have to make their coffee and popcorn on the stove instead of in the microwave, but it is a rough world.<P>What do you think, lets bring peace and quiet to the night, they have all day to charge their battery if they need to.<P>Jim...

I missed your initial request so you may have the car home already. You asked how to get it running and got lots of good advise. I would be worried about stopping a car that has set for 5 years and probably had a lot of moisture in the brake system before it was stored. You may have stuck/leaking wheel cylinders/calipers, bad master cylinder, rusty lines that are ready to burst.<P>You want to do a good visual inspection at the least and possibly a trip to the brake shop for a once over if your not up to the task. Make sure you have enough brakes for the trip.<P>Good luck<P>Jim...

If your UserName is an indication of the truck you have, that needs parts, you don't have an FC170 or FC150 They started making them in 1957. They are a cab over design (FC stands for Forward Control) with the 170 being the heavier duty with a 6cyl flat head engine and the 150 had a 4cyl F head.<P>I buy most of my Willys truck parts from:<P> Walck's 4 Wheel Drive<BR> 700 Cedar St<BR> Bowmanstown, PA 18030<BR> 215-852-3110 evenings and weekends<P>I find him to have fair prices and he ships fast.<P>For other items and manuals I go to the company that bought the Willys Overland name:<P> Willys Overland Motors<BR> 11535 S. McCord Rd<BR> PO Box 556<BR> Holland, OH 43528<BR> 888-265-5328 Days<BR> <A HREF="http://www.WillysOverland.com/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.WillysOverland.com/</A> <P>They are not as cheap as Walck's, but they have items that are hard to find and good prices on manual reprints.<P>Jim...

Being from apple country I always thought the 25 cent apples (and more) were a rip off. I sold mine for 10 cents for over 20 years. When they said we couldn't sell food including apples, I started giving apples away, didn't bring them to make money anyway. <P>I have to ration because they don't last long otherwise. Stop by and say Hi and have a free apple from UpState NY at CI 8-10.<P>Jim...

Unfortunately not all members have the work flexabilty and time to go all over the country to National meets. I make Hershey every year and any other meets I can that are within 100-200 miles. That means a lot of years it is just Hershey. <P>If school was available at Hershey I would try to attend. I actually think CJE is more useful than school but that is not available at Hershey either. Maybe some kind of home study or web based school for those that can't make regular schools.<BR> <BR>If I understand the recommendation correctly and it is accepted by the board I will step down as a judge. Maybe when I retire I can travel to all the shows and start judging again. <P>Most years they are begging for judges at Hershey, this new rule should help a lot. <P>Jim...

Got the latest Juding Newsletter today. I was looking for clarification on the Class Judging Committee Meeting notes. Item two said:<P> "beginning in 2001 it will be mandatory that all judges must complete a school to be eligible to judge for any given year"<P>If this means every judge must attend a school every year we will loose a lot of judges. Most years I only get to one National show, Hershey. No Schools at Hershey. I go to the schools and take CJE when I can, but it isn't every year.<P>Is this the plan?<P>Jim...<BR>

Thanks for the reassurance. <P>Your not far from me. Im on CI 8-10. My spot is the one with the Crosley banners on the canopy. I like the Chocolate field too, level spot and great neighbors, what more could you ask for. Hope they don't ruin it when they pave it.<P>Jim...

Seems like I get the Hershey flea market packet and stickers by now. Is it bad memory, late mailings or did the Post Office loose it? Anyone else get theirs?<P>I'm in the Chocolate field so I will miss the excitement of moving to the new fields for now.<P>Jim...