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In my ongoing quest to find the garage floor, I drug out a box of old magazines. I was reading Gus Wilson’s Model Garage in the May 1954 issue of Popular Science when I noticed this article in the corner of a page. It stirred up vague memories but I can’t place them. A search here shows a couple...

Large Hadron Collider explained Or how science moves. http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6aU-wFSqt0

I’m not familiar with caloric appliances but, just based on the styling, I would guess the add to be 1953 – 1955. Packard débuted it’s Ultramatic transmission middle 1949 and experienced a couple of years of growing pains. It would be interesting to know how Caloric got away without someone...

not waxy I took this excerpt from an article on Tricolator coffee filters I found. "In 1908 A.E. Richheimer, Chicago, introduced his Tricolator to the trade and to the consumer. This is an aluminum device to fit any coffee pot combining French drip and filtration ideas with Japanese paper as...

The fun with yard sales is seeing things I never saw before. This very fiftyish box appeared on a table and, after protracted and intense negotiation, (marked $1 offered 50 cents) it went home with me. I found nothing describing MIRACLE FILT-R-FAT, however, two boxes are on Ebay now. I found...

I’m helping out a friend clean out a very messy house, in which, is a Panasonic microwave of unknown vintage. Anything moved, reveled a cockroach community running for cover. Sometime in the afternoon, hunger pangs took over so I went down the street, bought a couple of hot pockets, and tossed...

Lost washers Back in the 40’s, my dad was devastated when Bothwells barn burned taking their collection of antique cars with it. A personal friend lost a collection of vintage Jags to a fire above Fontana a few years ago. I’ve never lost anything on that scale, but a combination of high...

Update I finely found time to replace the errant pieces, all three were undamaged. The spring was inside on the floor pan. It was surprisingly easy up to stretching the boot over the lip of the drum. Missing a third hand or prehensile toes; I conscripted my wife as anchor to hold the top lip...

About a year ago I collected an early model front load Neptune. After a used water pump and a tip from you guys, it’s been running fine. A couple of days ago my wife asked what that cable she found in the wash was. I didn’t recognize it but lots of things get stuck in my pockets. A little later...

This showed up on the Cadillac & La Salle club forum Last week but I missed the deadline. It would be a major pain in the neck to make it fit my kitchen, but it would be a perfect match to my 1961 pink bathroom. It would also be the inside compliment to its contemporary in my driveway. In 57, GM...

I was never a fan of stacked washer / dryer sets, they looked somewhat low budget, until my son converted a long narrow bedroom closet into a laundry room. I found a first gen Neptune with electric dryer that just fit and changed what’s left of my mind. Flash forward; my bosses’ washer died last...

My son builds TV and movie sets and was on the last few weeks of Mad Men production. I asked him about it and he said they were pretty anal about period accuracy. The producer would not allow any Phillips head screws for fittings such as door hinges in sets that would be in the era of slotted...

Wife says the scrap metal is leaving and it’s going with it. I’d like to see any needed pieces go where their needed. Anyone with muscles and a truck can have the whole thing. Thanks; Tom

Finely Photos They’re worth a thousand words. I’ll send any part to anyone who needs it. I’ll even cover shipping on small stuff. But hurry, wife says its leaving for the scrap yard.

Zeitgeist is real My high school science teacher, Mr Lucus, bought a new VW in 62 or 63, either my junior or senior year. The conspiracy was exactly as you described. The car was accessible both at his home and in the school parking lot. The plot to add a quart or so every couple of days was...

has been trending down. 37 to be exact It was 103Deg F today, would you like to share?

Thanks for the reply; Unfortunately, the amount of smoke, along with unmistakable odor of burning motor indicated a fatal condition. Extracting it from the wall it was plastered into about 40 years ago took about 2 hours. The fan motor was cool but the compressor was still warm. I’m not sure...

A few weeks ago: Post# 693871 , Reply# 44 8/2/2013 at 22:21 (420 days old) by Tomoldcars (Montclair, Ca 91763 USA) I replied to a thread that had an excellent picture of the Chrysler Airtemp Imperial That was built into the wall of my house. I commented on its recalcitrant starting. Four...

I have completed the dirty work in the resurrection of my laundry room. 16’ of Treated 4X4 footing and several studs to relieve the stucco from its duty to hold up the back of the house, two walls of new green drywall and 120 sq’ of new tile floor. I am on to cabinets and shelves. I moved in the...

Neptune has returned to his layer. Thursday the final grout course was laid, Friday the back wall was painted and today the washer and dryer was installed in their rightful laundry room positions. The Neptune has performed flawlessly through a marathon wash event to recover from 6 weeks of...