Tools that younger people would not recognize.

[Mc Tool]

Tools I made

Background are all Ducati tools, long skinny puller in foreground I made to push out end of steering cable seized in tilt tube on my outboard .....rather than bash it out with a hammer .

 

[Mc Tool]

This one is worth it weight in gold
Its a loooong screwdriver with a right angle drive on the end for getting at idle mix screws on the inner carbs on 4 cyl motorbikes. The screws face straight down from the bowl gasket surface . Only other option is to remove carbs and set the screws and hope they are right . Gets tedious real fast .

 

[chrisgt]

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Old meters

that's neat! before my house got destroyed, i had a whole section of my lab dedicated to vacuum tubes. Sadly now it's all in a box waiting for me to find a new space. My current lab just has enough room for modern scopes and stuff.

 

[jlh3rd]

Gee, I was one of the last generation to use a slide rule. I would recognize it, but I doubt I can remember how to use it. Calculators became cheap, and killed it off.

For the younger guys, RPN is Reverse Polish Notation. It was a way of ordering operators and operands to allow calculations by early computers and calculators. It kinda reminds me of roman numerals, where IV is four and VI is six.

The SR-50 was a great calculator. It had more capability than I ever used.

My senior year, high school, 1971, we learned how to use a slide rule.

by 1974 ('75 maybe) the TI- SR50 was carried in it's case on your belt by most college kids, like me. I paid $250.

 

[dingbat]

Cleaning out my desk in the basement. My 30 yro kids had no clue what they are

 

[Pmt133]

Cleaning out my desk in the basement. My 30 yro kids had no clue what they are
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Somewhere deep in the vault is a backup of our system on floppy drives, like a whole case. Coincidentally we still regularly use tape drives.

 

[Jeff J]

I just threw out a bunch of 3.5” discs because I didn’t think I had a way access them. A couple days later I found a drive for them. I also found my first digital camera. It takes 3.5” discs too.

 

[Lou C]

Try explaining the relationship between point gap and dwell to a youngster
or the concept of total timing advance lol.
Old School Tune up
just like we did in the '70s once a year.
the # on the tach dwell is 660 rpm not 66* of dwell lol.
these 4.3s get 39* + or - 2* dwell angle (point gap .018") and 6* BTDC timing

 

[Pmt133]

Try explaining the relationship between point gap and dwell to a youngster
or the concept of total timing advance lol.
Old School Tune up
just like we did in the '70s once a year.
the # on the tach dwell is 660 rpm not 66* of dwell lol.
these 4.3s get 39* + or - 2* dwell angle (point gap .018") and 6* BTDC timing
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Jumper to ground and 10* BTC make engine go brrr.

 

[Lou C]

On these oldies with a points distributor with centrifugal advance no jumpers needed! It's all mechanical.

 

[Pmt133]

I don't really need the jumper either, just plug the ground side of the shift interruption switch to the purple and set timing. Need a wrench and a timing light. Can use a dial back if you want to be fancy.

 

[matt167]

There is a full working SUN machine not far from my house for sale for $50. Hes dropped the price from $300. I want it badly but don’t have the garage space. My Heathkit dwell tach doe’s everything I need. But the scope would be cool

 

[tphoyt]

I see them on Craig’s list around here from time to time.

 

[airshot]

Damn do I feel old.....I recognize or have most of these......

 

[Scott Danforth]

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There is a full working SUN machine not far from my house for sale for $50. Hes dropped the price from $300. I want it badly but don’t have the garage space. My Heathkit dwell tach doe’s everything I need. But the scope would be cool

Sun distributor machine?

 

[matt167]

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Sun distributor machine?

Complete analyzer

 

[Lou C]

Those things were all the rage in 1972 or so!
The first automotive oscilloscopes that I ever saw....

 

[dingbat]

Old School Tune up just like we did in the '70s once a year.

Old school is right..60+% of today’s population were not born yet…lol

In comparison, my daily driver just rolled 250k miles on 12 spark plugs, 5k oil changes, and a fuel filter.

 

[tphoyt]

Nice.
My buddy’s wife’s car that she doesn’t drive much I want to say its a 2019 has 12,000 on clock and a check engine light. His regular mechanic can’t find anything wrong and thinks she needs to take it a ford dealer for a simple soft where update. Something he is not able to do and apparently can only be done by a dealer.

 

[Jeff J]

Old school is right..60+% of today’s population were not born yet…lol

In comparison, my daily driver just rolled 250k miles on 12 spark plugs, 5k oil changes, and a fuel filter.

That sounds about like my F150 but it’s a V8(4.6L) so 16 spark plugs instead of 12 to get 245K miles. Pulling heavy loads long distances this summer so I invested in a way to keep an eye on the transmission temp and will be changing oil a little more frequently until finished.