for a while now don't you? 
I'm going to get some day 1 photos on here and get back to the root of the thread.
All compete with good sheet metal...........
Here are a few more pictures my daughter took at the property from day 1 or week 1 as the case may be.
Thomas
Slight spelling error there...
It is Spelled PAHTY, similar to Pahk the Cah in Hahvahd Yahd and go to the Bah foh a Beeh....
If you are in some parts of Maine you need to look out for hungry Beahs...
Dug wants to know where the old tools are hiding.............
"DD" my Darling Daughter was almost crying from laughing so hard when she first saw that car back in 2005. I'll forward your reply and I'm sure she'll enjoy your whit, thanks.
The tools are just a few feet away along with.......
Those are mostly carburetors on the shelves
Bendix Aviation Corp.
That's an aftermarket dual carb intake for a flat head V8 if I'm not mistaken. Made from an alloy, maybe Aluminum?
Here's a better look. AL JERAULD on the side. There is also some writing cast into the "V" I can get if someone would like that information. Look familiar to anyone?
Thomas
Mike, by now you must know this is THE place for lurkers! All are welcome.
The thing about that manifold is that most of the fasteners on it are safety wired just as we do on aircraft and race cars. That I think would eliminate a forge. I'm also trained and certified as an aircraft power plant mechanic and it looks like nothing from any old aircraft that I'm familiar with would use so I don't think it's for an aircraft engine. It may never be resolved.
I promise to keep adding information here as time allows. I'm out there every day I'm home but right now with the weather breaking I'm doing much yard work out there. Rainy days and nights I'm doing inside work. Got all the stumps ground up from the storm last week, spent a day turning a large pile of brush into mulch, grade work around the barn footings and have started to prepare for the planting of 35 trees out there so not real interesting for you guys I'm afraid. I enjoy the work and it's all part of the shop project but not real dynamic.
Thomas
No doubt.........
BTW there's a Chrysler small block V8 in the tool shed ( all I've done to date is note it's there, complete and waiting) I expect the Bendix came from it don't you?
Thomas
Adam that is a condenser tester......
Used for testing early "can" style electrolytic capacitors (formerly known as condensers) as used in radio and TV circuits. Actually, if working, it could be used for testing just about any capacitor. Knowing the background, it was probably used in the auto radio repair shop. It could also be used for testing automotive ignition condensers or noise suppressors but not designed for that.
"Alter Ego" Lou
(aka Amateur Radio Operator NY4F)
Adam that is a condenser tester......
Used for testing early "can" style electrolytic capacitors (formerly known as condensers) as used in radio and TV circuits. Actually, if working, it could be used for testing just about any capacitor. Knowing the background, it was probably used in the auto radio repair shop. It could also be used for testing automotive ignition condensers or noise suppressors but not designed for that.
"Alter Ego" Lou
(aka Amateur Radio Operator NY4F)
Lou, thank you for that information. Note it is a "Heathkit" unit (which I have not cleaned up yet, it's shown "as found") which used to be electronic equipment built at home from a kit with all parts supplied by Heathkit. I always assumed it was used only to check automotive type condensers but from your reply I now believe it was used by the one son who did radio repair.
I'll bet he built the unit for use in that business.
Those repairs were performed in this trailer which had several car radios stacked on shelves when I cleaned it out and removed the structure.
There was a dedicated automotive condenser tester that looks from the 50's which was in the shop. I'll post pictures of that unit. As I recall it's about 8" W X 12" T and 4" Deep. I don't remember the manufacture, maybe Sun?
Thomas
Here's a home made garden tractor. Study it and you'll a single cylinder engine, driving 2 three speed transmissions hooked together and chain drive for the final drive. Wire spooked wheel on one side and a solid steel wheel on the other. He just used whatever he had! This was a hard one to give up it was so unusual but I had enough unusual stuff I had to draw the line some where. It got scraped sad to say. Totally rusted up and I had no time. Didn't really know what to do with it frankly.
Thomas
. The guy that replaced him filled 2 30 cubic yard dumpsters with my grandpa's parts stash and metal stash alone I have 3 words for you Tom: You lucky *******
Man does this thread bring back some good memories:
From the early 1950's to about 1983ish my grandfather was the head mechanic for the Fairfield Lumber and Supply company in Fairfield, CT. He was EXACTLY like Mr. Johnson was, very old school, did awesome work, and fixed anything and everything from small engines to Mack semi tractors and heavy equipment and also all of the lumber shop tools. At one point he even did a full restoration on a mobile crane truck. He got such a reputation that Mack truck found out about it and he won several awards for excellence from Mack.
Also like Mr. Johnson he saved every scrap part and every piece of metal you could find. He had drawers in his office that were FULL of screws, bolts, nuts, fittings, gears, and anything and everything else you can possibly imagine. He was HUGE on PM on ALL the equipment. So much so that the word got around again and when FL&S would go to sell a truck or piece of equipment people would come to buy it from hours away when there were much closer sources of used equipment because they knew full well that FL&S used equipment was in TOP condition. I got to see the shop and office a few times when I was little. He left there in 1983 and sadly 95% of the tools and equipment that he used has been lost for good
The cabinet housing the lift controls and fluid reservoir was pretty banged up to say the least. Everything "worked" but not as well as it could have. Also visually it needed help.
The access door is hinged with a piano hinge on the right side and is held shut on the left side with fasteners. You can see the tabs (3) on the open door that these fasteners went through. Also the control lever inserts through a hole in the door. That hole was torn open as you can see, which allowed the door to be opened without removing the control lever. It's easy to see how the electric motor was positioned over the hydraulic pump. There is no pneumatic air involved in it's operation.
The control has now been rewired and a new switch installed. New wiring was run all the way to the circuit panel. The control lever was repaired as the end inserting into the housing was damaged and had been jury rigged to work after a fashion. It was a press fit to a roll pin originally and it is that way once more as seen .
Electrically all the control lever does is energize the switch which turns on the pump motor. To lower the lift when the lever is reversed it mechanically opens a valve in the pump which allows the fluid to return back into the reservoir. Also note the access door has been removed. To do the necessary repair work on it using a bench was quite helpful. The only way to remove it meant the welds holding it on had to be ground off and then re welded back on.
Here we were trying the floor tile. 1 Foot square or 2? Straight or diagonal?
I've looked and I don't have any pictures of the repaired door prior to its installation. This is the best I could find with it in primer.
The reservoir filler cap has the Rotary logo on it. Hard to photograph chrome, it just reflects back at the camera! The seam down the middle shows where the reservoir is, taking up the back haft of the cabinet. You can also see the piano hinge and the welds which were ground off to remove the door.
This is how the door was originally attached. The piano hinge was just spot welded down the side of the cabinet. They were installed back just where the originals had been. Same number, same place, same length.
This is the left side. The fasteners I used were ones I fabricated. I used stainless steel bolts, the heads cut off, the shanks then threaded and capped on both ends with stainless washers and acorn nuts. All the stainless was polished to near chrome finish.
Another look at the cap.
The latest patent date on the data plate is July 8,1928. The brass plate and screws were polished and gloss clear coated.
As mentioned earlier Rotary just knows it was manufactured before 1935.......... sometime.
Thomas
