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Recent content by Nickodell

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    Duck!

    It would probably have missed him by a few feet, but ........ (I'm not sure what he says, but I know what it sounds like.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOoiEbtf2w
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    Amazing eagle flight

    Reminds me of my sailplane [glider] days. http://www.flixxy.com/world-record-eagle-flight-from-worlds-tallest-building.htm?utm_source=nl
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    'And the Fun Begins!'

    Mike: The guy suggesting that a blown head gasket could melt brazing metal is full of [rhymes with "kit."] The melting temperature of brazing filler metal is above 840° F (450° C),
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    Happy Birthday

    Thanks, guys. 78 years ..... gawd; when I was younger I never thought there was such an age. But my pa lived t0 87 and ma to 88, so maybe I've another ten-spot left.
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    1729 cu. in. Fiat

    OMG. Needs a ring job I think.
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    LED headlights

    Bill: Your experience with the LEDs reminds me of when I still owned my Jaguar XJ6 12 years ago, and installed a plasma headlight kit. This was a lot more complicated than "drop in" fitting, involving connecting the headlight low beam wiring into a central unit that converted the 12v into, as I...
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    China to phase out coal

    Last I heard, China passed the USA as the world's #1 emitter of so-called "greenhouse gases" three years ago, and currently emits 27% of the world's atmospheric pollution. At the present rate of increase, China will ADD as much pollution each year as the total emitted by Japan, and every three...
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    How long to warm up a 1725?

    I'd also check for air leaks at the inlet manifold/head or carb/manifold joints.
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    Speaking of cams

    Speaking of revese-engineering: By the end of WWII, Rolls-Royce were producing the best turboject engines in the world, the Nene (5,000lb thrust) and the Derwent (the engine that powered the Gloster Meteor, the Allies' first operational jet aircraft.) . In 1945 Britain's new socialist government...
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    Ride Stiffness

    Sports cars of the era were generally harder riding than sedans/saloons; it was something one accepted, the same way as - in some makes - plastic slot-in windows instead of wind-up ones, and more noise. I had a Mk. IIIA Rapier in England, the last car we owned over there (sold it the day before...
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    Speaking of cams

    If this doesn't blow your mind, it's not blowable http://www.chonday.com/Videos/the-writer-automaton
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    When the livin' was easy

    Back in more leisurely times: http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=47217
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    Altitude Adjustment

    Many possible causes of roughness, of course, but if you suspect "altitude sickness" it would manifest itself as over-rich mixture, which would probably show up on the plugs as soot. It couldn't hurt to try smaller jets.
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    lockheed booster bracket??

    Were the pics any help?
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    lockheed booster bracket??

    Here you are, taken when poor little Matilda was still running. http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab328/Nickodell5/100_0231_zps51912306.jpg http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab328/Nickodell5/100_0229_zps1553fd74.jpg http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab328/Nickodell5/100_0227_zpsa6931b07.jpg...
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