Recent content by mothy

Mine would not start today at a marriage registry office while I was using it for my nephew's wedding. I persuaded myself it was due to the crazy angle the car was parked due to a hill. After 2 minutes of attempts to start, it occurred to me I had not turned the fuel on.:mad: And to have messed...

Yes that's correct :- East Windsor (Walkerville), Ontario I think I read somewhere that the F indicated Foreign (as in foreign build relative to USA) Roly

Here is my Canadian body number from around September/October 1928 Tudor. Roly

Kurt is right on the mark! I replaced the brushes with new ones from O'Neil Ford (in the UK), they are labelled as from Snyder. These brushes do have a copperish hue to them. I also replaced the brush holders while I was at it. Horn worked resoundedly well! I completed the rebuild by...

I have experienced this on other forums. Trying to second guess how another person reads posts is an art in itself, we are all different in the way we do things. Also it is not really helpful when a responder loftily responds with "the answer is there is one searches the forum". It would be...

Thank you very much. Roly

Did you do the rewind yourself? If so, any tips? Roly

I have ordered replacement brushes and brush holders, and will report back when they are fitted. Thanks everyone Roly

I have the adjustment screw backed right off. I am testing directly off a battery not through the horn button. It spins freely. Commutator is clean. level and the segments are nicely undercut using a wooden cocktail stick. I have rewound the field coils as per Les Andrews and the behaviour is...

My EA Labs horn only seems to want to run at 12 volts. Applying 6 volts merely makes it warm. Having read in another post about starter motors being converted from 6v to 12v operation by changing the field coils from parallel to series made me wonder if my klaxon motor is wired correctly. At...

Back in 2004 I took this first picture using a telescope projecting onto white card. The weather was set fair and I was prepared at 06:00 with equipment already setup and was pleased with the result. The second picture is todays transit. I did not think the weather would show the sun, and that I...

I do not know so much about USA cars, but in the UK the design life from the 30s to the late 60s for a car was about 5 years. There is money to be made in making people buy another new car.... So, seeing old (60 years plus) cars running now reliably is a marvel to me. Although I always thought...

Topic is good for me. Yes I understand what is going on and maybe how to use it. But I wonder if I have sufficient advance in the first instance. The static timing setup works out well. But the running on the road shows no real difference in moving the advance until the half way point. So am I...

While she is out..... Dish washers are also indispensible. Roly

#1 on my Canadian built late 28 / early 29 Tudor. Roly