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1/3 on topic, 2/3 Wood--- Motor Carts, 1949
I went googling for simple motor cart designs and couldn't find any as basic
as the ones we built 'way back when. So I put up a page about our kind of first motor vehicle. It is he http://www.spaco.org/MotorCart/MotorCart.htm Pete Stanaitis --------------- |
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1/3 on topic, 2/3 Wood--- Motor Carts, 1949
"Pete S" wrote in message .. . I went googling for simple motor cart designs and couldn't find any as basic as the ones we built 'way back when. So I put up a page about our kind of first motor vehicle. It is he http://www.spaco.org/MotorCart/MotorCart.htm Pete Stanaitis --------------- Did you ever see the Briggs & Stratton Flyer buckboard? (ca. 1920) There was one in the Harrah collection, which has been broken up. I don't know where it is now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacksnell707/3097927611/ -- Ed Huntress |
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1/3 on topic, 2/3 Wood--- Motor Carts, 1949
On May 3, 11:11*pm, "Pete S" wrote:
I went googling for simple motor cart designs and couldn't find any as basic as the ones we built 'way back when. *So I put up a page about our kind of first motor vehicle. *It is he http://www.spaco.org/MotorCart/MotorCart.htm Pete Stanaitis --------------- * Here's the same type of clutch on my sawmill: https://picasaweb.google.com/KB1DAL/...07508265721842 The belt wouldn't slip properly until I removed the paint from the groove of the smaller drive pulley. The sleeve that holds the tensioning eyebolt pivots on the threads that fasten it to the operating crank. I want to see how well that simple shortcut holds up. jsw |
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1/3 on topic, 2/3 Wood--- Motor Carts, 1949
On 5/3/2011 8:34 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:
"Pete S" wrote in message .. . I went googling for simple motor cart designs and couldn't find any as basic as the ones we built 'way back when. So I put up a page about our kind of first motor vehicle. It is he http://www.spaco.org/MotorCart/MotorCart.htm Pete Stanaitis --------------- Did you ever see the Briggs & Stratton Flyer buckboard? (ca. 1920) There was one in the Harrah collection, which has been broken up. I don't know where it is now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacksnell707/3097927611/ It's at the National Automobile Museum (Harrah Collection) in Reno, NV. A fun visit, especially if you have a docent along telling you the whole story. A shadow of the pre-selloff Harrah Collection that knocked me out as a kid, but it is still great. Peterson Museum in LA is fun too. They fired up a racecar inside the 3rd or 4th floor when I was there and drove it out of the building. Brain splitting sound and the smell of partially burned hydrocarbons added to the museum experience. -C |
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1/3 on topic, 2/3 Wood--- Motor Carts, 1949
"C Clark remove nospam" wrote in message m... On 5/3/2011 8:34 PM, Ed Huntress wrote: "Pete S" wrote in message .. . I went googling for simple motor cart designs and couldn't find any as basic as the ones we built 'way back when. So I put up a page about our kind of first motor vehicle. It is he http://www.spaco.org/MotorCart/MotorCart.htm Pete Stanaitis --------------- Did you ever see the Briggs & Stratton Flyer buckboard? (ca. 1920) There was one in the Harrah collection, which has been broken up. I don't know where it is now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacksnell707/3097927611/ It's at the National Automobile Museum (Harrah Collection) in Reno, NV. A fun visit, especially if you have a docent along telling you the whole story. A shadow of the pre-selloff Harrah Collection that knocked me out as a kid, but it is still great. Peterson Museum in LA is fun too. They fired up a racecar inside the 3rd or 4th floor when I was there and drove it out of the building. Brain splitting sound and the smell of partially burned hydrocarbons added to the museum experience. -C I'm always sorry I didn't see the Harrah collection in its heyday. There were a lot of cars in it that I would like to have seen. I have Ken Purdy's coffee-table book of photos and narratives taken from the collection, and it's magnificent. A metalworking aside: The Bugatti Royale in Harrah's collection, at the time considered to be the most valuable historic automobile in the world, had a cracked block. So they brought in a guy from Italy who supposedly was the world's premier welder of cast iron. He welded it back up with O/A and a cast-iron filler rod. The engine was fired up and run after that, to prove that it could, and then it was shut down, never to be run again. Still, back in the late '60s or early '70s, the estimated value of the car was $6 million. Harrah was offered more for it but he wouldn't sell. -- Ed Huntress |
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1/3 on topic, 2/3 Wood--- Motor Carts, 1949
Jim Wilkins wrote:
On May 3, 11:11 pm, "Pete S" wrote: I went googling for simple motor cart designs and couldn't find any as basic as the ones we built 'way back when. So I put up a page about our kind of first motor vehicle. It is he http://www.spaco.org/MotorCart/MotorCart.htm Pete Stanaitis --------------- Here's the same type of clutch on my sawmill: https://picasaweb.google.com/KB1DAL/...07508265721842 The belt wouldn't slip properly until I removed the paint from the groove of the smaller drive pulley. The sleeve that holds the tensioning eyebolt pivots on the threads that fasten it to the operating crank. I want to see how well that simple shortcut holds up. jsw Great page Jim! There aren't too many of us left who remember the Maytag gasoline engine powered washing machines. All I have left now is a spark plug from one of those Maytag engines: http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/jeff/plug.html Jeff -- Jeffry Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE) The speed of light is 1.8*10e12 furlongs per fortnight. |
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1/3 on topic, 2/3 Wood--- Motor Carts, 1949
"jeff_wisnia" wrote in message ... Jim Wilkins wrote: On May 3, 11:11 pm, "Pete S" wrote: I went googling for simple motor cart designs and couldn't find any as basic as the ones we built 'way back when. So I put up a page about our kind of first motor vehicle. It is he http://www.spaco.org/MotorCart/MotorCart.htm Pete Stanaitis --------------- Here's the same type of clutch on my sawmill: https://picasaweb.google.com/KB1DAL/...07508265721842 The belt wouldn't slip properly until I removed the paint from the groove of the smaller drive pulley. The sleeve that holds the tensioning eyebolt pivots on the threads that fasten it to the operating crank. I want to see how well that simple shortcut holds up. jsw Great page Jim! There aren't too many of us left who remember the Maytag gasoline engine powered washing machines. I have a plan for a little boat powered by one, which was published in one of those Popular Mechanics books for kids. It's just a little flat-bottomed, square-bowed skiff, but the motor installation is interesting. It's a conventional inboard with a shaft log, but it's so small that you can carve it out with hand tools. A piece of garden hose is used for the flexible coupling. All I have left now is a spark plug from one of those Maytag engines: http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/jeff/plug.html Jeff -- Jeffry Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE) The speed of light is 1.8*10e12 furlongs per fortnight. |
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