Difference Engine: End of the electric car?
A COUPLE of dozen electric cars with fuel cells under the bonnet (in place
of the more usual flat-pack of batteries beneath the floor) have been
zipping around your correspondent's neighbourhood for the past few years.
Most are FCX Clarity models
Saw this method for reproducing gears, thinking it might work for odo gears
http://xrobots.co.uk/heli/
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:47 PM, relng...@aol.com wrote:
Wowen, here you claim to be a car guy and you don't know what tire speed
ratings are? Appalling.
In fairness to whomever the OP was, some of us weren't born
omniscient. I knew the speed ratings were for speeds, but I did not
know why
Very interesting article. Thank you for posting it.
On reading the section on Liquid Nitrogen, it brings to mind the Air Car
which has been developed, and I believe is now being manufactured in India
under license. If you google Air Car the details should come up for your
review.
What comes to
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Rich Thomas
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote:
Saw this method for reproducing gears, thinking it might work for odo gears
http://xrobots.co.uk/heli/
Looks like a good idea, I wonder how well the gear would stand up to
the odo rotational speeds?
I
You just have to be careful not to roll any tricycle tractor.
But _nothing_ beats the maneuverability of those tricycle tractors.
Much better with a (small) front-loader in a paddock, or a sickle-bar
mower...
-- Jim
Yep Mine is typical. It will literally turn on a dime. (with the
I guess I'm not much of a car guy either; 'hafta be reminded every several
years or so on those increasingly-rare occasions when I need tires; 'never
been concerned at all about T, U, H and V ratings on a
ground-hugging/rolling vehicle.
Wilton
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Salvage some pads from discarded washer/dryer, dishwasher, refrigerator,
etc.?
Have you checked at large hardware store such as Lowes's, Ace, etc.?
Wilton
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From: Jerry Herrman jer...@san.rr.com
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 6:52 PM
Grew up on Farmall and JD tractors. The neighbors farm had a wide front
M, a tricycle Super M and a Super A. We had a JD A and B with tricycle
front and an AO which was a low, wide A for orchard use. The Farmalls were
thumbusters. Better know enough to keep your thumb outside the steering
On 16/10/2012 6:52 PM, Curt Raymond wrote:
I know we've got some tractor people on here...
We were at camp last week and I was mowing one of the fields with my Farmall
Super M when it occurred to me that being that the tractor was a 1952 this was
its 60th birthday. Who'd have thought 60 years
I have not replaced the relay. I will dig through the parts bin and see if I
find one
clay
On Oct 15, 2012, at 5:03 PM, relng...@aol.com wrote:
..put the hard top back on last night and tried to drive her to the
garage for winter storage. She would not catch. Fuel is not flowing
The 14 tires are going way up in price. Either I pay $300-500 each or go
with the lower S rated rubber. All so I can keep the car original. I am sure
the hoopty wheels with 235 55 17 rubber bands will make the car drive like
feces.
clay
1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green
1972 220D
less rubber and more rim sales for the tire shops. Most of the old cars with
donut tires are headed to the junk yard to be crushed and our classic cars
get expensive tires as an idiot tax for having old cars. New cars are plastic
and disposable. The Al Gore movement to keep the economy
Could you make rubber cookies to put on them? The overshoe type usually have a
hollow underside, so you could fill it with the cookie if it is tall enough.
clay
On Oct 16, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Jerry Herrman wrote:
I am writing to see if one of you might have faced this problem and solved it
Long ago it was a speed rating, but is now used more for structural needs of a
tire to meet usage requirements. Too many people were getting hung up on the
speed part and allow cars to be undershod because buyers were buying a lesser
tire for lower cash, thinking they did not drive all that
A coupla years ago I got a set of tires for the 300SD at Costco, the guy
there was very knowledgeable, made me sign a waiver because the tires he
had did not meet the rating for the car, which he said was due more to
weight than speed -- the Hun had specified that rating to support
vigorous
On 16/10/2012 5:52 PM, Jerry Herrman wrote:
I am writing to see if one of you might have faced this problem and solved it
inexpensively. (My apologies in advance for using this forum as my personal
handyman).
We have a number of indoor and outdoor wrought iron furnture pieces that came with
It depends
Near me the local street crews are putting in traffic calming islands instead
of fixing up the pot holes that will become much larger in coming months. I
guess pretty obstacles are better than safe roads. Added to this, main streets
are being torn up two years after being repaved,
Folks
last nite i drove the reassembled 300td from athens to tybee island,
about 240 miles.
The trip was uneventful till about 1/2 mile out of downtown savannah,
on I-16 my RR tire let me down. It had about 80% tread, but was
probably an older one. The tire had two punctures a couple of
clay monroe redgh...@comcast.net writes:
Near me the local street crews are putting in traffic calming islands
Happening here too, it is almost impossible to get from point A to
point B without negotiating a variety of obstacles and
impediments... you'd amost think the city council didn't like
The river is about 25 yards beyond my dad and 10 feet or so lower down. The
house was originally 50 yards or so from the river but 20 yards beyond where my
Dad is. Over the years the river moved and got very close to the house. Great
grandmother stopped living in the house in the '60s when it
On Oct 17, 2012, at 4:19 PM, Rick Hawkins Java macj...@aol.com wrote:
Other than that, the trip was uneventful and my repaired oil cooler lines
didn't leak a drop
Good.
Rick
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Northern Maine is potato country, potatoes are largely farmed with wide front
tractors. Thus most of the tractors I ever saw growing up were wide front
although my '28 Farmall Regular is narrow front.
A wide front on an old tractor like my Super M isn't any more stable than a
tricycle front
If I lived closer goats I'd definitely run goats on the land. Apparently you
can run around 6 goats per-acre. We're replanting most of the farm in trees but
still have a good 15 acres open that we could put goats on. Some forested land
they could cleanup the undergrowth on too.
A little
I would surely love to have a little tractor like a C or Super C with a sickle
bar mower. We have one section of road where the raspberry bushes lean in and
scrape the truck. I've gone through with the weed whacker every couple years to
cut them back but its a bugger of a job. Its too steep to
Why not just look for a semi-mounted or 3 point sicklebar mower to
use on your M? Most have been scrapped, but some are still around.
In the day, MANY M's were used with a semi-mounted sicklebar.
Tractorhouse.com is your friend. I think you can buy one for scrap
price. If scrap goes up (I
Does your M have the quick hitch? No 3 point on a Farmall. Be darned
lucky to find a sickle bar setup for that but a trailer type might do the
job for cheap.
Mike
On Oct 17, 2012 8:14 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
Why not just look for a semi-mounted or 3 point sicklebar mower to
Curt Raymond wrote:
If/when I build a house it'll be 40 yards from the river and we'll bring in
fill to raise up another 10-15 feet
I always wanted to grade a spot level, build my basement on it, and then bring
in fill dirt to backfill the foundation or dig a pond and bury the basement with
Michael Canfield wrote:
Does your M have the quick hitch? No 3 point on a Farmall. Be darned
lucky to find a sickle bar setup for that but a trailer type might do the
job for cheap.
My dad has or had a sickle for his H, but it would be long trip to move it to
Maine and it's rather bulky.
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/3315857931.html
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There were a lot of 3 point kits sold by third party vendors. A
semi-mounted would be good, but it may be possible to pick up a three
point attachment from one of many tractor salvage yards. There are
several at Sikeston, Mo. and lots of others around the country.
There is a big one here
The hand clutch and flat platform makes them perfect for
standing up to stay well above the 6 foot tall weeds when brush
hogging.
Our Moline was a stand-up w/hand clutch. Always liked that tractor.
In fact the seat sucked, we never used it. (Pad was long-gone, the
metal rim would gouge into
I think about putting a 3 point on my H,
I love the IH 2-point fast hitch. With the 200's full
hydraulics setup the 2-bottom plow had pitch and roll
adjustments right from the seat, as well as height.
You didn't even have to leave the seat to mount or
dismount the plow.
-- Jim
A real moron.
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