MORE HINTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 788, 8 October 1929, Page 6

MORE HINTS

The Care of the Car Straightening Split Pins This can be done easily if you hammer them on a vice or other flat surface. The hard thing is to bring the ends together. This can be done by holding the pin vertically with a pair of stout pliers, so that the ends are in contact with the vice or whatever you are using and giving the eye a smart blow with the hammer. Soldering Acid Brush Insert a small bunch of bristles, removed from an old paint brush, into a piece of i-inch copper tubing about 4 inches long. Pinch the end of the tubing on to the bristles and you are all set. When the hairs fall off, cut a piece off the tubing and start over again. Rattling Gear Lever A common fault with ball and socket type of gear levers is that when the ball starts to wear, the lever is free to set up a most annoying rattle. This can be stopped by drilling a small hole in the gear lever—one-eightli of an inch diameter is sufficient—about two inches above the floorboards or ball joint. A fairly strong but small coil spring may then be threaded over the lever dropped on to the top of the cover of the joint. When this is held in compression by a split pin pushed through the hole in the lever, rattles from this source will disappear. How About Your Own Wheels? If there’s one thing that’s bound to catch the eye of the driver, no matter how unobserving otherwise, it is a wobbling hind wheel of a car ahead, or a crippled front wheel of a machine approaching. All who witness these premonitions of danger prophesy trouble ahead for the owner. But the *owner seldom learns about the condition of his own wheels, because he is busy speculating about the crooked courses the wheels of passing cars are taking Car owners who feel that the wheels are of some account, make it a rule occasionally to jack up each wheel in turn and spin it.