BEFORE ANTIFREEZE COOLANT?????? (Old Timer question)
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Ah, this brings back memories of the Darlings filling their truck up with water from the watering trough on the Andy Griffith show.
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How about some cold weather stories while we're at it? It was harder to get engines running when they had only 6V electrics.
I was in high school in the sixties and used to ride my motorcycle year round. Went out one day for a ride when it was -10*F. Got home after 40 minutes and could only open my hands enough to slide them off the bars. No way I could get my door key out of my pocket, so I had to lean against the door bell button.
A few years ago I had to put a blanket over my engine with a 1500 watt heater on the ground. I pulled both batteries out and brought them indoors. Put them over a 1500 watt heater beside the fork truck. Used a trolley jack for support and pulled the 1100 lb battery most of the way out. Put it on the 36V charger, then measured across the cells to find the right combination for ~13V. Wrapped some 10 gauge wire around the cell links and over to both small batteries in parallel. After an hour I whipped everything back in place and got the pickup started.
Real cold is when your coffee freezes solid while they pass it over at the drive through window.
I was in high school in the sixties and used to ride my motorcycle year round. Went out one day for a ride when it was -10*F. Got home after 40 minutes and could only open my hands enough to slide them off the bars. No way I could get my door key out of my pocket, so I had to lean against the door bell button.
A few years ago I had to put a blanket over my engine with a 1500 watt heater on the ground. I pulled both batteries out and brought them indoors. Put them over a 1500 watt heater beside the fork truck. Used a trolley jack for support and pulled the 1100 lb battery most of the way out. Put it on the 36V charger, then measured across the cells to find the right combination for ~13V. Wrapped some 10 gauge wire around the cell links and over to both small batteries in parallel. After an hour I whipped everything back in place and got the pickup started.
Real cold is when your coffee freezes solid while they pass it over at the drive through window.
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There used to be a rebuild kit for almost everything and they were only a few bucks. I kinda' liked it better in the olden days.
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But, back then people repaired TVs by themselves, taking all the tubes out and heading to a store with a tube tester.
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A "growler"????????? A self-rebuilt water pump?????????
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you must be my age and your talking to a whippersnapper.i know what your saying and they will now learn a little something
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