Quote from: frankp on February 24, 2018, 04:01:58 PM
Horn looks like a correct Klaxon 12C to me.

That one is an 8C, buy off of some random guy at a tractor show. It serves the purpose for now...

Have been short on time this week, if you need any details let me know. The white wire with the speedo cable was (is) my temporary fuel pump power. Ignore. Followed YNZ's setup for the most part. They have power for the clum fed from the horn, that is why there are 2 green wires. (I know its the wrong horn) If anyone has an extra right one they want to part with let me know.

I'll snap a few, just did this last July.

Quote from: chetbrz on January 01, 2018, 05:02:53 PM

Well New Year / Change of Plan

Need Guidance:

• Firewall painted same as body

No. Black. I have spots I can see the primer under it, positive it was never the body color.

• In a two tone car lets say Blue Body with Black trim & Black fenders

Yep

• Dashboard Question ?  What color

Black

• Window Trim Metal ?  What color

Black

• Holding down costs / paint myself / find a cost affective solution

No input from me
[/list] Any words of wisdom ??  The old paint on the 29 is very stable.  The red paint that has been on the car for over 10 years and is in perfect shape.  Maybe an easy repaint.  ?  Maybe Maaco ?

Any comments ?   Chet...

You know your skill set best, seem pretty talented at what ever you take on.

Quote from: 29UJohn on December 16, 2017, 08:26:17 PM
Chet,
I had some reproduced a few years ago. My intent was to make them available at cost to members. When the manufacturer ( a local trophy shop) got the design right, I asked them to make a batch, but they told me they lost the digital file.  Anyway I have a few of them. You can have one if you want, but you have to drill the two holes yourself. The prototypes were approved by the Club as correct.
John

John I'll take one too, if you have an extra. I went to look at mine and there wasn't one....

Here's what happens with a full size direct link. Too big? Drop the cheaters lol

Test thread for cool pictures. Here is my first crack at using Chet's new picture host. - On edit, (again) found the public share setting. Can you guys see the pictures? Size OK?
Wish I had these collectibles at my garage. Snapped with my I phone in the evening hours of the Nowthen Threshing show.

Figured I would test the picture host again. I added new unconverted images.
Visited the John Deere manufacturing plant in Waterloo Iowa Friday, 15 acre plant. Quite an operation. No cameras allowed. I''l post a few from the museum. Check out the size of this piston.




Original Spoker D First models produced under the John Deere name after it bought Waterloo boy. A high end restoration of a similar tractor, the 250th one made, brought $210,000 at an auction a few years back.

Having some strange results. Pictures show on certain browsers but not others.

I just re linked them in this thread.

Should be 2 in the first post and 4 in the 2nd.

Curious as to which ones you see and what browsers you are using.  I tested it in Chrome, Edge and Firefox. As of now 6:40 they appear on all 3.

Check your email 

I'm struggling with the new picture host solution. Its strange, when I post with chrome (logged into) it shows the pictures embedded, but they weren't showing up for others. Figured out it was a sharing setting. Thought I fixed them all, but now they are showing up larger in size on the forum. Even when I re-link one that is showing up. Fixed to on this thread.

Both my rears are the 3" variety. Appears correct. And the other spare Plymouth part was 3"

Quote from: chetbrz on November 05, 2017, 05:47:30 PM
Sorry Dave no pictures came visible.

How many pictures do you keep on the web.  meg-a-bites, gig-a-bites, or tera-bites?

The only pictures I keep on the web are for reasons like this. Sharing on forums. No social media for me. I upload the ones I post. Would guess high megs maybe a few gigs. Tough to keep score the images get larger in size and quality.

Posting with chrome, they embed and look fine from my PC.

Think I figured it out. Was a sharing option buried in a setting. Updated the instructions in the previous post. Think I'm going to use method for a while. Liking it way better than using photobucket.

Interesting things about the JD. Hand start. No battery. Two wires go to a mag. Manually set the choke and throttle, grab the fly wheel and pull through the compression stroke. Note the 2 fuel tanks in the picture below.



This is what is considered an "All Fuel" tractor. The little tank is the starting tank, and is gasoline only. The main tank is for distillate, kerosene, fuel oil etc. You always start it on gasoline, and once warmed up (about 180 degrees water temperature) you can change to the main tank to burn tractor fuel. Shutters on the face of the radiator are used as a means to warm it up or warm it more quickly. See pictures of the 3 way valve and shutter below. I believe those fuels were more readily available and cheaper in the 30's. Of course for the last 50 years it has ran only gasoline. I am in the process of getting the starting tank back in useable shape, and have made new fuel lines out of 5/16''s brake lines.




Also use of a "hot manifold" allowed these tractors to burn those heavy fuels and they used one carburetor for the different fuels. The intake and exhaust manifold are one piece. The intake gets hot, and preheats the incoming fuel charge to help burn it.

This tractor also came on steel wheels. Think about the simplicity and low maintenance. Not fussy about what it drinks, no battery to maintain, no flat tires etc.