Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Know your 1960s snowmobile maintenance


 They left out the pull cord check. It doesn't matter, you'll probably get stranded no matter what you do. Why do I want one?

Gee Dee multi-tool




 This is a "Gee Dee" German-made "multi-tool" - in all its glory - the handle is hollow. The head of the hammer unscrews from the handle, and those "bits" are stored inside the handle. Clearly a quality tool set for the professional. 

Thanks, BK!

 

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

The land that time forgot


 Snapped last summer... suddenly it's 1975...

Honda 90, 1967


 This was the most beautiful thing a rural kid travelling by bicycle could have imagined back then.

Monday, April 13, 2026

Starrett micrometer patent


 Patent 433, 311 Datamp notes it was not known to be produced.

100th Bugatti 46 chassis


 Monsieur Bugatti (center, behind steering wheel) with staff and friends posing at Molsheim in 1930. I wonder what the chassis number is. Bugatti register.

Sunday, April 12, 2026

Saturday, April 11, 2026

Seemed like a great idea at the time...


 

Link belts

The Teach Yourself books
 A E Peatfield, Engineering Components and Materials. The English Engineering Press, 1951

 Still around today... 
Lee Valley