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darz5150
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# Posted: 2 Dec 2021 09:09pm
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Just posted something to Paulz about using an old school battery load tester.
How many others hold on to cutting edge tools/equipment of yester year?
Altho I do upgrade whenever possible.
I still hang onto all kinds of tools etc. from the past. I love em.
I am so old that my first experience with fuel injection was when my old man had me sitting under the hood of a car, injecting gas out of a dishwashing liquid bottle into a carburator. Lol
Somewhere I still have a timing light.😲
I will post a pic of my first diagnostic machine. I was so proud of that meter. Hell, I could check for spark, set the dwell on your points, and even check your condenser.! 🤯
I had a twenty something year old out in my shop. He needed help with his truck. I pointed out my meter. And told him to use that. He looked at the 50 year old super diagnostic machine, and asked...what the hell is that? I laffed and said "Never Mind" , then loaned him an OBD scanner.
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paulz
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# Posted: 2 Dec 2021 10:16pm - Edited by: paulz
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Pulled out my dwell meter a month ago coincidentally. Hadn't used it in probably 20 years at least. The '56 Chevy I got a year ago still has points, everything else that did I've converted to electronic.
GM (Delco) had it licked for points adjustment compared to everyone else. Their distributor caps had a slide up door that allowed the dwell to be adjusted with an Allen wrench, with the engine running. Everything else you had to check then turn off, pop the cap off and adjust, check again. Or use the starter to spin it over. They must have had a patent on that, I don't think anyone else tried it.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 2 Dec 2021 11:08pm
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I learned several (many?) decades ago to keep tools.
So, yeah, Ive got tools, all kinds of tools. And I should have a bumper sticker that says, I Stop For Tools!
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darz5150
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# Posted: 2 Dec 2021 11:23pm
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I ran across an OLD JC Whitney and Jeggs catalog. Does anybody remember those, looking at black and white drawings of car parts and tools?
Old school Motorhead Porn. LolðŸ‘
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 2 Dec 2021 11:35pm
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Or for 'outdoors/sporting' stuff the old Herters catalogs?
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paulz
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# Posted: 3 Dec 2021 07:07am
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As a young teen, the first thing I ever mail ordered, other than X-ray spy glasses, was an 'Engine Overhaul Kit' from JC Whitney, consisting of a can of thick oil additive and pellets to put down the spark plug holes, supposed to fill the scratches in cylinder walls. All it did was foul the spark plugs in my tired 283.
As I got into hot rodding a little later, Honest Charlie's Speed Shop catalog was the late night wish list source. Jegs, Summit, Speedway etc. came along much later. I still buy from them occasionally.
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Curly
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# Posted: 3 Dec 2021 11:30pm
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Every once in a while I pull out one of my dad's old home handyman encyclopedias. They had tips on how to fix or build anything for your home or car or outdoor activities. These were published in 1961. It's kind of fun to see how they used to do things and what tools and materials they had available back then.
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Curly
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# Posted: 3 Dec 2021 11:31pm - Edited by: Curly
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forgot the picture. . .
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Curly
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# Posted: 3 Dec 2021 11:37pm
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Encyclopedia . . .
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