12 g blank?

[Geo-TH,In]

A young man told me his grandpa had an old tractor that used a 12g blank to power the starter.
I never heard of such a starter, have you?

 

[jddrawbar]

A young man told me his grandpa had an old tractor that used a 12g blank to power the starter.
I never heard of such a starter, have you?

Field Marshall is the tractor that starts with a 12 ga. shotgun shell

 

[oldsarge]

Field Marshall is the tractor that starts with a 12 ga. shotgun shell

Din't you ever watch Majorman's contributions??????????

 

[Tony in SD]

A young man told me his grandpa had an old tractor that used a 12g blank to power the starter.
I never heard of such a starter, have you?

Yes I have quite common at one time.
The Jimmy Stewart movie "The Flight of th Phoenix" depicted that method to start the engine on the airplane.

 

[Russ from MN]

Tony, thanks for posting that, it's one of the most memorable movies I've ever seen!

 

[1948CaseVAI]

A young man told me his grandpa had an old tractor that used a 12g blank to power the starter.
I never heard of such a starter, have you?

12 g sounds like a networking speed. Why don't you name it correctly - 12 guage (some spell it gage which is not correct).

 

[Geo-TH,In]

Din't you ever watch Majorman's contributions??????????

Don't you think the answer to your question is obvious??

 

[Geo-TH,In]

12 g sounds like a networking speed. Why don't you name it correctly - 12 guage (some spell it gage which is not correct).

Internet speed is in Mbps.
What's the big deal?

12g 12 ga??

 

[DaveBN]

Search Coffman Starter which was the most popular of those types of starters.
Dave.

 

[wore out]

Search Coffman Starter which was the most popular of those types of starters.
Dave.

If you read up on the systems, the Field Marshal was started by the shell actually firing inside the engine combustion chamber, while the Coffman starters were an external device "fired" by a "Cordite cartridge" that used a piston attached to a rack and pinion to spin a shaft that would couple to the engine much like an air or electric starter.

 

[Caryc]

Internet speed is in Mbps.
What's the big deal?

12g 12 ga??

I for one had no idea what 12g was referring to. I have never heard of a shotgun referred to as a 12g. Is it actually such a problem to type "gauge"?

 

[Caryc]

12 g sounds like a networking speed. Why don't you name it correctly - 12 guage (some spell it gage which is not correct).

Then again some spell it gauge which is actually correct. Then I must admit when using that word here on the forum I have sometimes typed it as guage and my spell checker will catch it. So, who really cares?

 

[GChief]

Internet speed is in Mbps.
What's the big deal?

12g 12 ga??

I knew what you meant

 

[oldsarge]

Don't you think the answer to your question is obvious??

Oops,sorry,meant half in jest !!

 

[kencombs]

Internet speed is in Mbps.
What's the big deal?

12g 12 ga??

I thought 12 grams was a little light to start a tractor. But a 12ga would be able to. Just kidding, I added the g without realizing it when I first read it. But only because I’d heard of that type of starting. Saw the phoenix movie.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

I thought 12 grams was a little light to start a tractor. But a 12ga would be able to. Just kidding, I added the g without realizing it when I first read it. But only because I’d heard of that type of starting. Saw the phoenix movie.

A 12 gram Blank???

 

[710ltd2002]

When I went through the academy, an old timer told us 12 g blanks were used in the chow hall at Jackson to get the attention of the convicts when things got a little rowdy. The first shell was blank. The others not.

That’s what I thought of when I saw the post.
Dave

 

[wp6529]

Internet speed is in Mbps.
What's the big deal?

12g 12 ga??

Not these days, 1Gbps is getting common, 10Gbps feeders are common. In data centers 100Gbps is becoming common. Times change. Wonder if there will be luddites protesting when cell networks get to 12G like they are with 5G. 12G is also an SDI HD video link spec.

 

[john in la]

If you read up on the systems, the Field Marshal was started by the shell actually firing inside the engine combustion chamber, while the Coffman starters were an external device "fired" by a "Cordite cartridge" that used a piston attached to a rack and pinion to spin a shaft that would couple to the engine much like an air or electric starter.

Air starter
Now there is something that brings back memories from my younger years.
About like vacuum wipers.

 

[TerryfromSWIowa]

Internet speed is in Mbps.
What's the big deal?

12g 12 ga??

Mbps is so 90's or early 2000.