Recent content by montanajohn

Mice have caused me a lot of damage by chewing seat upholstery, headliners and wiring, especially in the winter, which I guess is now upon us, as we had our first snowfall last night. Other than stinky mouse balls, does anyone recommend a commercial or home brew repellant? Thanks.

The mystery is that the manufacturer won't tell the customers what the product is made of. The marvel is that people buy it anyway.

The magazine sorely needs the attention of a proof reader to catch the numerous errors in grammar and spelling, and to delete repeated text. Maybe some folks find them charming or homey, but I find them annoying. I also agree that testing and reviewing repro parts is a useful function of the...

I heard a story about a bush pilot in Alaska that was hired to haul a newly-dead body from a small town to a big one, where it would be properly dealt with at a mortuary. He had removed the passenger seat to make room for the corpse. He climbed to cruising altitude and along the way encountered...

Tom -- Can you provide photos, or a sketch, or maybe a more detailed verbal description? I just finished threading the frame holes for 5/16 NF bolts, and am wondering about the tabs and bolts on the engine side. Thinking maybe washers inserted to level-out the tabs to engine indent, but that...

I had that problem on an extra set of '30 bumpers. End bolts would not budge after soaking with penetrating oil, beating with a 3-lb sledge, and invention some new combinations of bad words. I resorted to my 20-ton HF hydraulic press. It worked. They were just rusted in. I could hardly...

Steve - Fastenal carries "square drive" round-head machine screws, sizes #4 to 1/4 inch. Might work for some of your needs. Check out their website. These are in the "screws" section, not bolts, and not listed as "Robertson head," just square drive.

I bought a Backyard Buddy 7000-lb 4-post after doing some research on design. What I like about their construction is that the posts are large square tubing that have rectangular slots cut into them, into which solid steel dogs are automatically inserted as the lift rises. At the chosen...

I looked at several websites describing the setups and electrolytes. Some preferred sodium carbonate, and some TSP. Most said that it didn't matter much, so long as the brew was of sufficient strength to conduct efficiently (there was one mention of using molasses!!). TSP won because I already...

I am de-rusting some running boards in a 50-gal. plastic garbage can with TSP as the electrolyte and 3 4x12-inch graphite plates as the anodes off and on for several hours (8 to 10, maybe) for over a week. Power comes from a battery charger feeding through a 12v battery with the leads going...

Trunk, and it will stay that way. Installing a roll-down back window.

Two comments. First, in wiring the breaker panel in my house, the main feed into the building is a large aluminum cable that connects to a copper bus bar at the panel. Aluminum is very prone to oxidizing and causing resistance and heat. That's why there are few old trailer homes -- they have...

Bill --- If my memory serves me well (not guaranteed), I saw con trails in "A Bend In The River." I got a laugh out of that. Filmed in Oregon where I grew up.

You got my vote for this idea. Also I wonder if there are enough Model A-ers in south-west/central Montana to form a third club. (I live near Whitehall.) Distance and population are always the big issues here in Big Sky country.

Another example of HF's bull-headedness was the location of the distributor mounted low on the front of the block, driven by the camshaft. I had a 1940 sedan, and can verify that the distributor was a bugger to wqrk on, and worse, it would get drenched from splashing through puddles of water...