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You probably have seen the Youtube video of a Honda Pilot "running away"from a teenage driver-apparently car would not let driver switch off ignition or shift to neutral...I do not know if a Honda Pilot has vacume brake boost,but i suppose brake assist could be reduced if engine at full throttle...

Still running my Stihl RMA 370 and bought a 2nd one on Ebay recently-the little aluminum cog pulley on my first mower wore out and belt started skipping over-2nd mower is far lower usage and going strong. I tightened belt tight on original mower and mostly stopped the belt skipping problem. I am...

Those very early Mustangs still used a generator instead of alternator of '65 models :)

Watched the video on Youtube-that e-Mustang clobbered that other car real bad once the Mustag got past the concrete divider that was guiding it. I looked at an electric converted 1990 Geo Metro about 20 yrs ago and the emergency cutoff was an Anderson connector hooked to the E-brake pedal...

white and blue fastback,289 2v 4 spd. Teenager evaluating first car choices :) Car ran pretty decent with that distinctive small block Ford sound with the little skip in the exhaust note.Base v8 with 2 barrel and power robbing rigid fan, no ball of fire but stickshift and only about 3000 lbs...

I think my Neptune 3000 is like that-mechanical timer controlled by a PC board.

Welcome in Brad-there are a few other graybeards on here :) .I started shortwave listening about 1981 with a ~1938 Sears silvertone 3 band radio(I still have it,needs repair) Filter flo washers are very easy to work on,but seems some important service parts have become scarce lately... I would...

24" DDs really rock,much more capacity than a 24"BD-i have 3 : '84 black panel,a '95 Capri one knob,and a portable i just got and don't know anything about. The '84 needs centerpost bearing repair,but that '95 Capri is in good order.

Nice-probably got hot with those C7s,so LED a nice conversion.I had a company logo wall clock With a 15w florescent tube that kept burning out-must have had wrong ballast-and fixed that one with LED conversion.

Oh yeah,that is one cool clock-especially since it is lighted-nice save too! I was in a USAF air traffic control center in '82 and there were 24hr school size clocks that had EL panel lit faces in that blue-green color-Ihave tried to identify, find and buy these clocks with no luck...The...

Was given a Sears combo yesterday-1985,so a little out of thread timeframe and mid-80s style: cube shape,dual cassette,equalizer,slide controls for everything.Interesting part is it said "BSR" on the turntable-on top and on red sticker under-Taiwan made after "real" BSR went belly-up,Total BPC...

AC current motor driven mechanical clocks. I have gathered a decent collection of these over the years,a few are from the '30s and need a spin to start the synchronous motor. Lots of different motor designs and brands before the '90s. Telechron started in the '30s and went to about 1993. I...

Found on a forum where it was said Russia quit exporting tubes to countries that have export restrictions to them...

Found this old post and bumped it up :)

I have a '59 Zenith Stereo,not sure model-has 12" woofer in console and two satellite speakers with 6x9s

Anybody know which countries/companies still make tubes? 30 years ago(when I had a lot of active tube gear) I had sources selling new tubes from Russia,Yugoslavia,czech republic,China and NOS '80s military production GE,Tung-sol,Sylvania. Radio Shack could get tubes also-seemed a mix of...

Don;t forget about those DAK "BSR" thundering colossus 15" woofer speakers of the mid-'80s... :)

might be GE Hydrowave design: no transmission,inverter driven motor drives agitator through slower but long stroke agitation.The other variation of GE washers of this era has geared transmission, across the line motor and brisk,short stroke agitation.There is a belt and clutch that could be...

I need to do Mechanical service on the Califone school phono doing record playing duty in the moon shack-starts right up,but runs a whiff slow for a couple min. then it is good. This will be a fast fix. This one,1983,has traditional GI shaded pole motor-Last of these Califones had little DC...

Cool old RadioShack combo in reply 36-i have a couple slightly newer Clarinets-both have lost their original speakers.For 8-track tapes,i have loads of those-these tapes usually need repair after 4-5 decades: Foam pressure pads crumble,felt ones come off,Tape splice/track switch foil falls...