KEEPING CARS CLEAN.
GREASING AND WASHING. MAKE THESE TASKS EASY. Few, if any, motorists like the very necessary work of greasing and washing their cars, but both are essential tasks if the car is to be kept in its best mechanical condition, and its good appearance is to be maintained. A little attention at short, regular intervals very considerably lessens the two tasks. Greasing in the oidfashionned oil-can way was a very lengthy job, and one very few 1!:27 owners would attempt. To-day is the day of grease-gun greasing or lubrication.
Grease-guns of the high-pressure or hook-on type have speeded up what was once a long ond messy operation, but many drivers still use old-fashioned methods for replenishing the gun. Grease can he purchased nowadays in special containers for speedy and clean replenishing, while grease cartons ready for slipping straight into a gun are also obtainable.
One form of grease container is fitted with a circular disc which just fits inside of the tin, and has a hole in its centre over which the open mouth of the gun fits. The barrel of the gun is placed in position, and when pressure is applied in a downward direction the grease is automatically forced into the barrel of the gun.
The use of such a filler tin saves time and makes for cleanliness in a dirty task.
Washing a car in the approved fashion with hose and so on is most essentially a “labour of love,” but if it is desired to do it thoroughly it s a mistake not to remove each of the four running wheels in turn so that access can be gained readily to the under-parts of the wings, springs, and so on. The inner sides of the wheels also can be dealt with in a minimum of time and with the least amount of trouble.
Incidentally, the periodical removal of wheels prevents the tendency of some types to “gum up,” a condition which may lead to long delays on the road when a driver is, perhaps, in a burry and has to change a wheel.
The six-wheeled motor vehicle will only mean the pedestrian will have two more to go over him- . _
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 154, 20 September 1927, Page 7
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