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  1. When a car is described as ‘32, it’s supposed to be an abbreviation of 1932. Note the position of the apostrophe. Like a 1932 Packard. On the other hand something described as a 32’ means it’s 32 ft long. Like a 32 ft yacht.
  2. It is simple enough but not as simple as you might wish. The rear cover has to come off, then remove the cam lever arm. The switch assembly at the bottom should be removable with a couple of screws - it needs to be cleaned up anyway. Loosen the nut and square-headed screw and undo the big clamp nut. You may need a very large wrench with long handle to undo the clamp nut with the housing secured in a vise. Then you can pull the shaft and worm out of the box. Replace the two bearing races and the balls - parts for 1940s-50s Jeeps should fit. Replace the two bushings for the cam lever arm and ream to size, also replace the seal. Adjust number of shims on back cover to minimize play with worm and cam in center position. Fill with grade 00 semi-fluid grease. Here were the parts from a Ross box in a 1929 Studebaker President that sat outside in the rain for 40-50 years.
  3. @alsfarms When you get tired of trying to bend the U channel around a corner and it keeps buckling, maybe make corners from cut pieces and TIG weld them together, grind the U to shape.
  4. @alsfarms From the photos you show, the fenders will be about 14" wide and 5 ft long. 16 gauge steel (1/16" thick) weighs 2.5 lb/square ft, so each one will weigh about 15 lbs. The U channels for the edges can be bought as "U edging", available to slip on 16 gauge metal, though they seem to be available only in 1" width and have flat sides. A steel shop could water jet or laser cut them down to the ~1/2-inch width in the photos. The steel shop could also cut the 16 gauge pieces for the fenders and put them in a slip roll to make smooth bends, easy if you give them a template of the curve. Since it's hard to get the slip roll curve in exactly the right position, start with a 6 ft or 7 ft length, and trim after forming. Bending the corners in the U channels will be difficult without kinking them. Maybe you can make a jig from 16 gauge steel with a 2" radius, press the channel on the jig, and heat the channel red hot to bend it around the corner. It's going to want to pucker on the inside of the curve. I think I'd make the four (good) corners, then weld on straight lengths to make the full border. Good luck! From Metals Depot web site
  5. So, Al, what parts are you trying to make? How big? How complicated? How many?
  6. @Dodge Sorry, Herman, I do not have any Rockne parts.
  7. Try Jim Dicenzo at Rhode Island Custom casting. He's done a number of silicon bronze castings for me, web site says he will do brass as well. Tell him I gave you his name. Mornings are best time to call. See https://ricustomcasting.com/
  8. There were a number of "clear channel" AM radio stations that had frequencies not shared by any other station within a thousand or more miles and were authorized up to 50,000 watts. I remember driving at night in the 1960s tuning in WLS in Chicago (Dick Biondi), WABC in New York (Cousin Brucie), WBZ in Boston, WBAL in Baltimore and other far away stations as I drove up the East Coast. My late father-in-law would sit by his transistor radio at home and try to log distant AM stations as well as foreign short wave stations. Those Buick Super Sonomatic radios from 1941-42 with short wave capability were banned by the government when the U.S. entered WWII. Owners were supposed to go to their GM dealer and exchange the shortwave radios for AM-only ones. Not everyone did. Col. Edward Green's 100 watt station in Massachusetts, as mentioned above, was heard in England in Sept. 1923 at night. My current amateur radio setup at home can put out a 1200 watt signal over short wave frequencies, can communicate with other amateurs (hams) almost anywhere in the world. I haven't worked anyone in China or Australia yet, but I have heard Australia stations. Perth, Australia is about the most distant place on the planet from my house, 11,700 miles. Even using 100 watts, I have talked to hams in South Africa, Ukraine, Argentina, all over Europe and the U.S. Radios are much better now than in the 1930s-1950s.
  9. The mansion house is still there, just divided into condo units. Part of the surrounding land was developed into some very nice houses. History of the mansion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Hill_(Dartmouth,_Massachusetts)
  10. In 1922, Col. Edward Green (1868-1936), the son of Hetty Green, "The Witch of Wall Street", installed a radio in his small, custom-built electric car. Green was living at his estate at Round Hill in Dartmouth, MA and used the car to get around because one leg had been amputated when he was 21. Col. Green later built a radio station on the property, eventually raising the power to 2500 watts on 680 KHz. He also added an airport with a blimp mooring mast and hanger, the former whaling ship Charles W. Morgan, and a high voltage experimental lab eventually donated to MIT. The grand house on the estate is now condos and the town owns the beach. It's about 10 miles from my house, so we swim there in the summer. The rest of the story on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Howland_Robinson_Green
  11. There is a very nice Pegaso in the Audrain Museum. https://www.audrainautomuseum.org/technological-marvels-a-story-of-evolution/1952-pegaso-z102-series-ii-touring-coupe
  12. We got together with some family and friends for my birthday. One of the gifts I received was a set of eight bright blue shop towels (new) and eight large ball bearings (oil-free). The shop towels are for table napkins and bearings for napkin rings. What more could a car guy ask for?
  13. The Tractor Supply type 00 grease is $6.19 a quart, the best deal going. I read that 00 grease has the consistency of applesauce- it will flow, but slowly at room temperature.
  14. What I meant was that there are many opinions about which is the best process for reproducing a part, and I found it particularly amusing because none of us knew what the part looked like, what its function was, or how big it was - we were blind. I hope there is always room for a little levity on the forum. It's supposed to be fun.
  15. Yes, Terry, but as you well know, if you can sketch it with paper and pencil, you can learn CAD. Even old dogs can learn new tricks! No one should bitch about paying the price for other folks to do the work if they are not willing to invest time in learning how to do new things. If you can’t sketch it on paper, then the problem is larger.
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