Is there an argument for a naked bed?

[eternus]

A piston ring grover? That's old school for sure. You guys are speaking my language. As my Dad told me: "buy the best and take care of it". I have many old tools I tune up, use and pamper. I still have my first chainsaw from 1964.

Off subject but, fun stuff....

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[Bama_Swampfox]

Made in Tennessee, Byrd head, a great machine.

 

[Bama_Swampfox]

Here’s another oldie. If you know what this is, there’s not much time left....

 

[ShadowsPapa]

That's the REALLY old Stanley logo - but I'd have to cheat to know exactly.

I'll have to get some pics of some of my oldest woodworking tools.

 

[punk'n]

Still off topic, but I've redone a few old things too...

 

[Bama_Swampfox]

Sand blast spark plugs? Really

 

[punk'n]

Back in the day you serviced ALL the parts of a car. Remember lube and oil? no one knows what to even lube now

 

[Bama_Swampfox]

LOF? I remember there were 14 grease fittings on an MB when I started....

 

[Bama_Swampfox]

I really like my Jeep Gladiator, spray in liner, bed mat, cover and all.....

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Sand blast spark plugs? Really

Yup. I can't recall if the one we used in college used glass beads or sand. They also tested the plug as well.
Back in those days we had a professor who drove a VW bug and had 80,000 miles on his original plugs. He cleaned them, filed the center electrode flat again, set the gap and put them back in.
That looks like the one we used.

I have the Hoppy headlight aiming set - my boss gave me the original we used when he was forced to retire and I bought the rectangular lamp adapters for it later so I could use it on my Eagle.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Boring bar, rod reconditioning hone, valve grinder.........

 

[Empty Pockets]

I haven’t read every post (though I really enjoyed the antique tools). My bed has Line-X spray-in AND a hard trifold cover. I’ve a friend that will deliberately trash his bed right away “so I don’t have to worry about it”. But his floorboard is also always full of fast-food containers. That’s not me. I like keeping my stuff nice.

 

[Sallaman]

I went painted with a mat... I was going to have it lined because its kind of the in thing to do but i couldnt bring myself to have them scuff up that nice paint so the liner i have sprayed on, so it wont scuff as easily, would stick. I figure if in a couple years it starts looking like crap i can always have it lined and have a new looking bed.
I went with the smart liner. Good thick rubber, fit like a glove and it curves up on the sides so if i spill something its less likely to make its way onto the paint.

 

[DreamedofaJeepSomeday]

Sand blast spark plugs? Really

Yes.

Many years ago my uncle flew in to town for a visit. He had many light planes over the years; this time I think it was Piper Tri-pacer. He was meticulous about his pre-flight check.

These Lycoming engines had completely redundant ignition systems. Two magnetios, two spark plugs in each cylinder. There was switch on the dash for either system or both. As he was preparing to return home, in the pre-flight check RPMs would drop slightly on one ignition system. So he removed spark plugs, took them to a garage and had them sand-blasted, replaced them, and everything was fine thereafter.

He flew a lot. Ironically, died in a car crash which was his fault.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Yes.

Many years ago my uncle flew in to town for a visit. He had many light planes over the years; this time I think it was Piper Tri-pacer. He was meticulous about his pre-flight check.

These Lycoming engines had completely redundant ignition systems. Two magnetios, two spark plugs in each cylinder. There was switch on the dash for either system or both. As he was preparing to return home, in the pre-flight check RPMs would drop slightly on one ignition system. So he removed spark plugs, took them to a garage and had them sand-blasted, replaced them, and everything was fine thereafter.

He flew a lot. Ironically, died in a car crash which was his fault.

Now with the cost of labor it's cheaper just to toss in a new set but yeah, we made spark plugs last for tens of thousands of miles. This bit about this plug or that being better or worse, and all the other BS about spark plugs out there is just that - BS.
I have spark plugs from the 1930s still functioning fine in gas engines in my collection LOL
But seriously, unless the insulation cracks or chips or they foul up inside and you can't get the carbon out, as long as the electrodes are flat with sharp edges and they are clean, they do fine.

A friend has an engine from a Ranger training plane he displays at antique engine shows. It's an inverted cylinder engine (crankcase on top) .
Most aircraft years ago had redundant ignition systems. One thing to have a miss in a car, quite another to lose a cylinder in the air........
I have 3 antique magneto magnet chargers - one I bought from a guy who was 100 years old back in the 1980s and it's got the original instruction card and the wood box missing the sliding lid.

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