Recent content by SitkaMachine

In any case, he's a young man traveling for work - absolutely nothing wrong with that. I hope he was made to feel welcome and valued during his time with us. To a person, the folks coming up to work in the summer have been great people as far as I can tell.

You're absolutley right Mike, I have been scoping out how to get an old A engine back to life. I'm a car guy through and through and have a lot of confidence I can get it going again. But every brand and model has its idiosyncrasies. The Model A is completely outside of my general knowledge...

I actually called up this morning and talked to a very sweet lady. I had trouble registering with them, as the didn't list Alaska as a state under the USA country option... I'm pretty sure ol' Vlad hasn't taken us back yet?? She got me straightened out, however, and confirmed they do in fact...

Showing some pretty serious ankle in that pic - forum safe??

Great info Jay, thank you. I'll make it a point to cross-check the document and the red book.

Hi Aaron, If you've flown into Sitka in August, I imagine a few times you've flown a few hundred feet right over me in my troller fishing for chums just south of the runway. My brother is a pilot as well (NetJets), and while he's never flown clients into Sitka he has said it looks "sporty."...

Thanks for the link Bruce. I found that they don't ship via USPS however, and the FedEx quote to ship the book was in excess of $70. We get pretty tattooed on shipping up here, so I have to go with whoever will ship USPS.

Thank you Chuck. I hope he enjoyed his time up here and made some good money. Sitka is going through an identity crisis with the tourism. We're fairly well off the traditional cruise ship route, so the major lines didn't come out here until recently. Most of us are working on trying to...

Thank you Bob. Sadly, no car clubs of any sort on the island. I'll be trying to earn my stripes in the Model A community via the web, and mostly forums like this. I'm not a Facebook or Insta guy.

Thank you for the links - just placed the order. Snyders offers USPS shipping, a pretty important option to have for us up here. What is your estimation of them as a supplier of parts in general?

Thanks for the suggestion Gil - are they available from a vendor on this site? Or do I web search them?

Wanted to introduce myself and get acquainted with the site. I'm a commercial fisherman and machinist in a small island community in Alaska. As a kid in Washington, my grandfather and I collected and restored antique gas engines - we had about 50 total, and took around 20 to the local fair...