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ponchonlefty said:
agreed. i still kick myself on stuff i passed on. go back later and its gone.
most times when i find something funds are low.
hows the heat your way? man its humid here.
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had 3 days in the mid to high 90's, but it's leveled off to the lo 90's for the next few days. Humidity 40-60. šŸ˜
 
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semioldfart said:
I once tried carrying a zippo even though I don't smoke. After all fire is a tool. They leak/evaporated badly compared to disposables
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Well, they are 1930s technology. (Invented in 1932 according to a quick search.)

Classic, but not necessarily as efficient as later designs. Of course, the same can be said about the power generation of 1960s muscle cars compared to today's smaller engines that make equal or greater power with greater fuel efficiency.
 
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Pilgrim said:
Well, they are 1930s technology. (Invented in 1932 according to a quick search.)

Classic, but not necessarily as efficient as later designs. Of course, the same can be said about the power generation of 1960s muscle cars compared to today's smaller engines that make equal or greater power with greater fuel efficiency.
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cable drive vacuum wipers. simple design but crazy looking.
 
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ponchonlefty said:
cable drive vacuum wipers. simple design but crazy looking.
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My sister had an AMC Gremlin while earning her second B.S. at University of Washington around 1980. She drove it back and forth to Pullman across the Cascade mountains a number of times during that period, often in the winter when it was raining west of the mountains and snowing east of them. That thing still had vacuum wipers, and I think it was the last US production car (1970-78) to do so.

Anyway, those of us who have reached a certain age remember that vacuum wipers SUCKED. Every time you accelerated, vacuum dropped and the wipers tried to stall. The Gremlin wipers were especially bad about stalling out. They were designed to meet in the center and move up and out on both sides.

My dad put three different wiper motors on that Gremlin, and he never could get the wipers to work decently. He finally tied a string to the driver side wiper and ran it into the driving compartment, so my sister could pull on it and bring the wipers up when they stalled at the bottom of the windshield, as they often did. I think she drove that car for three years before getting into something better.
 
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Pilgrim said:
My sister had an AMC Gremlin while earning her second B.S. at University of Washington around 1980. She drove it back and forth to Pullman across the Cascade mountains a number of times during that period, often in the winter when it was raining west of the mountains and snowing east of them. That thing still had vacuum wipers, and I think it was the last US production car (1970-78) to do so.

Anyway, those of us who have reached a certain age remember that vacuum wipers SUCKED. Every time you accelerated, vacuum dropped and the wipers tried to stall. The Gremlin wipers were especially bad about stalling out. They were designed to meet in the center and move up and out on both sides.

My dad put three different wiper motors on that Gremlin, and he never could get the wipers to work decently. He finally tied a string to the driver side wiper and ran it into the driving compartment, so my sister could pull on it and bring the wipers up when they stalled at the bottom of the windshield, as they often did. I think she drove that car for three years before getting into something better.
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i did not know gremlins had those. we never stop learning. lots of big rig had them.
i like the idea and mechanics but idk how to really improve them other than electric conversion.
 
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