Recent content by slinMI

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    Vapor lock?!

    You seam to be refering to carburetor icing, not vapor lock. Vapor lock only occoures within a fuel pump. On a gravity feed fuel system it can not happen. Carburetor icing is caused by the air passing through the venturi and the resulting low pressure causing a temperature drop. I basic form...
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    TO-30 Charging rates

    Yes generator controlers can be adjusted, but from your discription it is not clear if your regulator is even connected into the circuit so that it would have any effect on your aprerage readings. What are the voltage readings at the battery at low and high engine speed. The voltage and...
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    Carbon Arc gouging rod?

    Those sound like the old 35MM movie projector lamp carbons. I ran one of those projectors back in the 1940's. They were also used in serchlights during WW11 and as Navy signal light lamps.
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    24 volt DC motor

    If it is a shunt wound motor it will cause it to overheat to run it on low voltage. The slower it runs, the hotter it will get. The speed of DC motor is controled by controling the current flow in it's shunt fields. Adding or removing resistance from the field circuit. You will need 24 volts...
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    smoking wiring

    It is most likely that this was caused by a poor connection at the connection of this wire to the switch. A short would cause heat all the way from the switch to the point of the short. Poor connections get hot and the heat travels down the wire from the poor connection. That is why homes...
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    Re. Odd tap size

    Sonny2 was asking about an odd tap size of I/2 inch by 14 TPI. I think what you have is a Heli-coil tap for a 7/16" 14 thread repair insert. For every size of thread there is a drill and tap set that is used to tap an oversized threaded hole into which the thread repair insurt is placed. The...
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    propane weed eater

    Propane is made from petroleum and as such is a pollutant to burn just like gasoline
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    Advice for replacing steering box bushings

    You will need to remove the pitman arms from both sides first thing. I would leave the steering links attached to yhe pitman arms and front wheels. This is the way I remove the pitmam arms from the gear box output shafte. First back off the nuts 3 or 4 turns but don't remove them. Use two very...
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    Advice for replacing steering box bushings

    You will need to remove the pitman arms from both sides first thing. I would leave the steering links attached to yhe pitman arms and front wheels. This is the way I remove the pitmam arms from the gear box output shafte. First back off the nuts 3 or 4 turns but don't remove them. Use two very...
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