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 TERRIFIC VALUES - SURPLUS - SAVINGS Z 85
AN U FACT U RERS AND JOBBERS —
HEAVY DUTY
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.Item 16) 40 ft. heavy
Portable LIGHT PLANT
PUSH BUTTON START
ARC WELDER
Item 38) Use as portable or
duty, made of specially
insulated No. 14 J- con-
500-700 watts 1,10-120 shop welder. 250 amps. ductor wire. So tough that
v. — 60 eye. A.C. Pow- D.C., Senior
model. you can drive over It and
ered by a sturdy depend-
able,
cooled
easy start Ing, air
1 3/4 hp. gas engine.
Made for years of trou-
ble-free,
service.
continuous
Will handle
— 11
yet amazingly flexible and
—- easy to handle. Resists oil,
grease or water. Extends electricity up to 400
ft. without voltage drop. Use Indoors or out.
No wiring necessary, just light or . heavy jobs
plug In and operate. Plen- Weld up to l/a" plate fe°t»>PletS with heavy rubber plug and outlet.
ty of current for any oil using ^4" rods. Built- Wt. 2V2 lbs. Usually $1.50— Special 40ft.51.99
burner, freezer, brooder, in air-cooling system. Arc is easy to strike Comnj 2- 10 ft. and 1-20 ft. (total 100 ft.)S4.95
pump, emergency lights, and hold, because of specially designed arc 100 foot length (one piece) 54.85
etc. which require up to 700 watts. Ideal for stabilizer. Hi-lo switch and dial control gives WIRE ONLY litem 50) «A nn
Civil Defense, Fire Depts: trailers & camps. wide range of welding heats. Run welder at No fittings. 100 ft 44. UU
Complete with Voltmeter and built-in winding 2600 rpm. with tractor, jeep or 10 hp. gas TRENCH-LAV WIRE. .Item 51) Anaconda tt
to charge 6 v. auto batteries. Wt. 85 lbs. Fully engine, or 7 hp. elec. motor. Complete with —2 cond., for buried service to barns, out-
1

guaranteed. Be prepared if war or storm instructions, guar, and double V belt or flat door lights, etc. Absolutely impervious to soil
pulley. Wt. 1 10 lbs. eflfl IK and moisture. Wt. 25 lbs. per 100 ft. Special
nocks out power lines. CI At CA A S4D0 value at surplus price. 100 ft. coils, 19c per ft.; 250
Keg. S275.0O value ->14j.jU WELDING 599.75 ft.. 18c per ft.; 500 ft., 17e per ft
700-800 Watt Plant (Item 44) same as Item KIT. Two 10 ft. leads, weldin-
larger generator. $169.95
helmet, electrode holder, ground
clamp. Sold only with welder at. elf) Cfl
>> 1U.0U
HEATING & VENTILATING FAN
1OO0-12O0 Watt Plant
. . . . . .
Item 10. Easily installed In
(Item 45) same as furnace pipes. Forces even heat
Item 24, but larger
generator & engine
tins, tn
vlaa.jU DUAL TUBE to all rooms. Over range, re-
moves kitchen smoke andodors.
GIANT 2000-2500 LIFE SAVERS Powerful continuous duty mo-
WATT PLANT ;»(Item 54)
PROVED TYPE made by
NEW AP.
tor, 110-120 V. A.C. Quiet, su-
per efficient fan moves huge
110-120 V. 60 eye. A.C. volume of air i4O0 to 60o
Absolutely the best Genl. Tire for Navy. c.f.m.i 8" Fan, wt. 5 lb
made because Its Each has 2 rubber tubes 56.35; 9" Fan. wt. 61bs.S7.45'
heavy windings devel 1
double protection.
,i, for 10" Fan, wt. 7 lb. 58.45: 12"
op up to ftOOO Easily inflated by mouth Fan, wt. 8 lbs. 59.45.
watt overload ?. JJlife Woar °ne around waist as comfort-
able
.

for motor start- saver. Adjustable safety buckles fit

I n g Skid- adults or children. Tie several together for
raft or big luxurious mattress. Invaluable on
G. M. HI-FLO PUMP
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mounted port* l»ats or beach. Wt. 2 lbs. each. Our ce

litem 56i 210 gal. per
Centrifugal turbine type. Vn
mm
able. Powered .v-cx^ ~^ ~ utemji)
by 5 h. p. easy start- *tts*—
.item 31) spec, a fraction of cost) 99e each. 6 for.
i
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excelled for fire-figh
rigation,
— _
I'n-
hting. ir-/«
sprinkling systems,
—
Ing Brlggs or Wisconsin engine
—complete with all accessories: engine easily
disconnected for other uses. Big outlet box,
HIGH PRESSURE swimming pools, draum.-e, [If
drainage, J]
fuel transfer, etc. Built by CM
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voltmeter, no wiring necessary. Ample cur-

rent for all purposes. Factory warranty and HAND PUMP for the army at cost of more
than $145.. Tremendous vol-
ume, will deliver 210 gpm
Instructions included. Wt. 220
lbs. Heg. $585.00. Special at.
COOO CD Item 53) Pos- with .>..'! hp. down to 40 gpm
GENERATOR ONLY and control box. ->£39.3U itive displace-
. . .

CI CO Cfl . j30 gph. Com- with 1 1/2 hp. 2Va" stand, pipe thr. inlet (can
Drive it with your engine or tractor 91D9.9U pletely
self priming, a/-" pipe be reduced to 2" If deslretf,. Twin 1 V*" out-

RADIO TRANSMITTER thread inlet and outlet. Use for fuel or water
transfer on boats, trailers, air craft, etc. Ideal
!£* .dynamically balanced, a/4 " shaft, hl-speed
a lnBS ^asy fast priming,
,

w," - (instr. incl.)

SCK 578.
(Item 00) Type for insecticides, emerg. sump pump or as Wl. JO
•Jn IDS,
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diAJfe p> n
portable. Only 18 lbs. vacuum pump. Wt. 15 Sensational value $39.50
Ideal for boats. Hams, cost $95. Our Special
lbs. Govt. «IO DC
* 11.0 J
etc. Crank operated gen- litem 30) Fully
ELECTRIC HAND SAW
erator produces ample FIRE charged (at 1 ,00() litem 36) Most perfect-
current to send Morse ly balanced and smooth-
lbs. P. S. I. or
code (built-in hand key), more) with COS est running saw made.
blinker light or contin- EXTINGUISHER (carbon dioxide 1
Advanced design provides
uous automatic SOS. the proven miracle fire fighting chemical
,
max. power and light
500 KC, mck. Can be that smothers oil, gasoline and electrical weight. Easily adjusted
converted to power trans- fires. Play safe: keep one In your car, for all angles, depth and
mitter. Contains hun- garage and home. Heavy ICC approved width of cut. Comes
dreds of valuable parts. steel cylinder, valve and 3000 lb. gauge complete with 6I/4"
Built In antennae and that shows available remaining pres- blade, comb.
ripping
ground. Slightly used sure. HEFILLABLE at nominal cost. Hose guide and 10 ft. hvy.
for training. Complete included for emergency tire inflator or duty cord. Built-in saw.
Instruct, and Morse code Incl. dust blower. Autom. telescoping guard. 110-
Cost govt, over $200. Terrific value $18.95
air blast. Wt. 4 lbs. $ 10.50
value. Special
ec nr 120 V. AC-DC. Depth of cut 2W'. 1 year
<rD.99 written guar. Wt. 12 lbs
Drastically reduced $39.95
GIANT BUNSEN BURNER LARGE FIRE EXTINGUISHER SnSSrSJi
size,
litem 61) Operates equally 5 x 14 in. 1275 cu. in.) heavy ICC ap-
proved steel cylinder charged at 1000 lbs. or
SPRAY OUTFIT
well on gas or ordinary al- more with C02. Equipped with genuine Kidde
(Item 37) Twin cyl.
cohol. Economical. pt. piston type compressor
burns for hours.
1
Valve and Gauge to show available pressure at direct-connected to pow-
Produces
intense blue smukeless flame. all times. Refillable. Hose Incl. Suitable for erful HO-120 v. AC-DC
Ideal for lab. or as emer- fire depts., stores, garages, homes, (|[ OC motor. Built-in air tank
gency cooking unit. Fine for etc. Wt. 18 lbs. $42.50 value. Spec. .915.05 eliminates pulsation and
camping. Heavy brass burn-
er with shut-off and adj.
32 pc. SOCKET
SET ..i^ .i
30 ll»s.
provides steady flow of
sprays lacquers, enamels, in-
valve. Simple and safe. 5 ft. (Item 59) Highest rSSSSHS?' ,etc ' Does beautiful work on autos.
quality guar, non-
flex, hose, 1 qt. tank Incl. Wt.
Its A $15 value. Spec.
e- A OE breakable sockets
T.
->4.UD made by Plomb, tlons and 1 year guar. Wt.
(Item 62) Metal Cooking Stand for *i in Regularly $50. Spec '
1 1 ,bs
above (not illustrated) M.45J Snap On, etc. Com- . . . .\ $22.95
Va" drill
plete range of 22
sockets from Vi"
thru 3/4" in SMs"
ANGLE DRILL
litem 23) Fits into chuck of any electric
iItem 34) Hi-power, long-
life, smooth running.
Alloy steel gears; built-
drive and 7/16"
thru 1-1 /16" in W
drive. 2 speeder handles,
2 extensions, 2 slide heads, double 3/a xi/a in.
or pneumatic drill or flex, shaft. Oper-
ates at any angle in a full 360° arc.
Makes possible drilling, grinding, carv-
in blower. Cutler-Ham-
"L" handle, reversible ratchet, 12" Phillips ing, routing, etc. in close cramped quar-
type screw driver and metal tool box. For ters. Makes impossible Jobs easy. Made
mer switch. Jacobs hand- professional mechanics who want the best. Wt by Kett Tool Co. Complete with built-in
tlte 10-120V. AC-DC 1000-1600 rpm.
chuck. I
14 lbs. Easily worth $32.50, *|P »[ .'huck 1/4" capacity) and adjusting key.
steel. 1 year guar. Wt. 4 lbs.
1
Cap. l/i " In while they last * 10.30 Hardened alloy gears. Precision built for
Terrific value at $12.95.
heavy duty. Lists at
38 Pc. DRILL KIT RUBBER 839.95— while *Q OE
they last *9.95
(Item 35) Includes abov<
lllus.
era.
guar,
polishing lxmncl
drill, buff HOSE
New genuine Neo-
sanding discs, grinding
wheels, wood bits, steel f
irene Hose — out-
asts ordinary rub-
CARRY-
bits,wire wheels, bench
stand, paint mixer, burrs.
Complete in steel
ber 3 to I. Rein-
forced with super AIR
(Item 32) Stainless steel tank —capacity
tough cotton cord 500
case. Wt. 13 lbs. 38 cu. in. at 400 lbs. press, complete with inlet
PC's., all highest qual- plies. Flexible. and shutoff valves, press, gauge, detachable
ity. Complete kit worth Easy Flo brass air hose, tire chuck. Fill at any service station.
S38.50. Our CIQ 0E couplings with Carry air for tire inflation, blowing out lines,
Spec. only... 1 3.0
- TERRIFIC VALUES! standard pipe
threads for quick
spray painting, insecticides, etc. One emer-
FIRE or BURGLAR ALARM connections, in-
gency pays back cost. Wt. 10 lbs. to or
litem 40i Completely auto- cluded. Pump water for irrigation, stock tanks, Worth 820.00. Our price *0.95
matic. Wind and hang any- home, barn, fire fighting, etc. Pump Gas or (Item 55) With big double tank
(lOOO cu. in.) 91 1.95
nr (M
where. Thermostatic element Fuel Oil. Save more than 60%.
sets off loudclanging
heat reaches 140° setting ad- i
bell if (Inside Diam.)
Length
IV4"
25 ft.
i-W
40 ft.
IW
30 ft.
litem 58) Tank only, 500 cu.
ino fittings)
in. er OC
i#d.99
). A fool-proof burglar or
just.
signal alarm when used with
Price 9.25 14.75 14.75
If specified we will send special hose for gas PRESSURE SWITCH
(Item 30) Penn Electric Model 10
trip cord attached to door, or oil at same prices. 1
window, invalid's bed, etc. BP02, best made. For pumps and
sturdy metal constr. assures
lifetime
AID UACt
nWJi duty, 'Hem Hi Vi" Diam. heavy
double braid, suitable
air compressors. Heavy duty. Will
handle up to 250 lbs. press, and
of protection. Ideal for gas stations, spray painting,
for homes, stores, whse.', gar air tools, etc. up to 5 h. p. Autom. unloader
etc. Wt. 3 lbs. Easily *a nr
20 ft.with standard swivel couplings, wt. 4 valve, for easy starting. 110-220
lbs. Reg. S6.50 val.—only $2.95. Five 20 ft v. A.C. or D.C. 2 pole. Wt. 5 lbs.
worth $20. Special $4.95 . .
Igths, (100 f t.). Wt. 20 lbs. Only 513.75. Reg. list SI 7.50. Our Spec. $9.45.
All item, #£b. Chicago^orea 10 day Money back auaran.ee. Send check or M. O
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Wilbur Shaw tells the tricks of the trade that win
auto races for AAA National Champ Henry Banks
(above) and other ace drivers. Page 66

Devon Francis climbs into cab of world's fastest Pulling firepower out of thin air for the infantry
train the Twin Cities Zephyr to report a is the job of the Forward Air Controller, a pilot
"head-end" ride on a rocket on rails. Page 79 who doesn't get off the ground. Page 92
AUGUST 1951 65

Copyrigh'
This looks bad, but the car came down and went on to finish second in this race at Atlanta.

The "fastest" car doesn't always win. who had left out three cents' worth of rivets,
It's skill,stamina —and a bit of luck cost me $30,000.
that really pay off in racing. Now, on the Long Island track, I was
determined to make up for my failure at
By Wilbur Shaw Indianapolis to win some money with my
spanking-new, streamlined car.
T WRECKED a racing car a few years ago
/ "Lost It" on the Turn
A for what— to an average motorist— would
be a downright silly reason. Everything was going fine. I eased into a
I was driving too slow. turn. Suddenly I "lost it." The car went
That automobile was my pride. I'd built straight toward the wall. It hit. It crumpled.
it. Mv wife, Boots, and I referred to it as When the dust settled, I was sitting there
the "Pay Car" and the "Family Jewels." hanging to a steel steering wheel bent
Every cent we owned was in it. And what double.
did I do? I rammed it into the wall at the My speed had been too low, considering
Roosevelt raceway on Long Island. the condition of the track and the radius of
I had just come from the 500-mile Memo- the turn, for me to retain control of my car
rial Day race at Indianapolis. There, I had with my throttle. My rear wheels took
had to make a 17-minute pit stop that lost charge instead of the front. And when that
the race. An oversight by the body builder, happens, brother, you've had it!

66 POPULAR SCIENCE
 Almost all the art of racing on tracks—
and it's really more of an art than a tech-
nique—is wrapped up in making a turn.
Any man with good eyesight and normal re-
action time can drive a racing car down a
straightaway.
It's the turns that separate the men from
the boys.

Skilled Drivers Shun Brakes

Here's why: A driver uses his brakes
very little. Your control is mostly in your
steering wheel and throttle. You pitch Fatalities are surprisingly few, but now and
your car into a turn, easing off on the then they happen. Rex Mays, thrown from car,
was killed in this crash at Del Mar, Calif.
throttle as you leave the straightaway, and
then you skid around the turn with the
throttle. You steer with your throttle. would be left without any power whatso-
Drivers now
use their brakes more than they ever.
used because they are driving deeper
to, So, in effect, the driving axles of racing
into the turns with full throttle. But brakes cars are as solid as those of a railroad
are not necessary if you use good judgment coach.
and ease off in time. In making a fast left turn, the left wheel
As you may know, racing cars have no of the driving axle usually is off the ground
differentials. If it weren't for a differential, or nearly so. But the driver still has power
you couldn't drive your family sedan in any- on that right wheel for traction and control.
thing but a straight line without wearing (All races are run counterclockwise on the
the rear tires out. But in a racing car it's track in this country.)
different. When you close your throttle just before
Fit a racer with a differential, and you a turn, your rear wheels— if you're driving a
could wreck it— but fast. If one of your rear-drive job— want to skid. And you want
rear wheels left the ground at 150 miles an them to skid— it's the only way you can
hour, it would spin— and the other wheel make the turn fast. The skidding results

My "pay car" introduced streamlining to racing. 113.58 m.p.h. in 1937. In those days we had
Itwon me my first "500" at an average of riding mechanics. Mine was Jigger Johnson.
Suspension on Wynn's Friction Proofing Spe- Racers don't have starters and have to be
cial.This view shows upper and lower spindle cranked. Here a Novi is turned over by a com-
control amis, steering arm, spindle support, pressed-air motor. This supercharged job is a
spindle drag link, and shock absorber. "side-winder"— crank is on the side.

from the tremendous compression-braking "How fast will this car take the turns
of your high-compression engine. Your without rolling over?" I asked him.
rear wheels drag their feet. "She'll slide off the track," he replied,
At this moment you indicate to your "before she'll turn over."
front wheels that you want to turn left. So, on the first lap, I drove her right
You don't turn your front wheels. You just through the fence, on two wheels.
nudge them. Your rear wheels, aching to
Driver Can Make $100,000 a Season
slide to the right, take the hint. Then
you're in your turn. To keep your car from You can start an argument anywhere
spinning or going broadside, you bring your about how to win a race. That, in fact, is
front wheels to the right— just a whisker. what makes racing the big-money sport it

That compensates for the skid of the rear is today. For being right, a crack driver
wheels and keeps the car going left just the can collect $100,000 in a single season, if
right amount. Then the throttle comes into he owns his own car.
the act. Ease up on your throttle, and you The car counts. The art of driving
soften the skid. Press on it, and you in- counts. The breaks of the game count. A
crease your skid or left turn. The trick is good driver in a good car will always beat
to keep your car headed around the turn a mediocre driver in a good car or a good
just the right amount. If you don't you lose driver in a mediocre car— given the breaks.
speed. Lose enough speed, and you lose If a man's good, and can qualify, he kicks
the race. off the season with a car tuned to a razor
edge of performance by competing in the
The Throttle Does It
Indianapolis "500." From there on, he makes
It's your throttle that brings you out of the circuit of the championship dirt tracks.
a turn into the straightaway clean and true This year in June and July, he competed
and as fast as the track surface and the at Milwaukee and Darlington, S. C. This
radius of the turn will allow. month he will race at Springfield, 111. By
In my first race, at Lafayette, Ind., I November, he will have driven at Du Quoin,
drove a car that had been qualified by an- 111., Syracuse, N. Y., Detroit, Sacramento,

other driver. and Phoenix.

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 Wheels are either wire or magnesium disks like
these on driver Sam Hanks' racer. In champion-
ship racing, cars are required to have three for-
ward speeds, reverse, and four-wheel brakes.

The Novi's cockpit, strictly functional, is typi-

cal. Most prominent instrument counts engine
r.p.m.'s. Others show oil temperature and pres-
sure, engine heat, and fuel level.

The automobile-racing championship is

determined by the point system. For every
win, a man gets two points per mile. Fol-
lower positions at the finish line, the points Engine in the Wynn racer is a Meyer & Drake,
are graduated downward. built in Los Angeles. With four unsupercharged
cylinders, it has a bore of 4 5/16 in., a stroke
Championship racing is the only kind in
of 4%, and delivers about 330 hp.
which a man has a chance to win real money.
Many a good driver has started as an
"outlaw" on the half-mile "horse tracks" rear drive to perform well on a dirt track.
and "bull rings" in events not sanctioned by Your racer's pistons will be so loose that
the American Automobile Association. I've they slap the sides of the cylinders when
been an outlaw myself. But for the cham- they're cold. The pistons are solid-walled
pionship, a man must
race in events where for strength, and they expand a lot under
certain rules of safety and sportsmanship heat. Thus they must have extra clearance.
are enforced by the AAA. That big clearance, and the heat, require
For the championship races on the mile a heavy lubricating oil, about S.A.E. No. 50.
tracks— events of 100 to 200 miles dura- The plugs will be of the "cold" type to
tion—you have a car with a compression accommodate the heat of high compression.
ratio as high as 15 to 1. The engine has
Alcohol and Gasoline Do Mix Here
cost, sav, $6,000 to $7,500, and the entire
vehicle from $10,000 to $100,000. Your fuel may be your own secret mix-
If your engine has four cylinders, it prob- ture. There's a lot of hocus-pocus in the
ably will produce 300-odd horsepower at pits over fuel. But most of it is pure methyl
5,500 revolutions a minute. It has twin alcohol or an alcohol-gasoline mixture. The
carburetors and two inlet and two exhaust great advantage of alcohol is that it burns
valves for each cylinder so it will "breathe" without pinging. Its disadvantage is that
easily at high speed. It has domed com- you get only about three miles to the gallon
bustion chambers, like the new Chrysler. out of it.
It can be "blown" or "unblown"— with or Your car frame will be a rectangle, of
without a supercharger. And it must be a tubular steel, or of box-section steel U-chan-
AUGUST 1951 69
 To win, even with the best car money
can buy, you must know the fine points of
racing. You must know, for example, how
to keep your car from "drifting"— skidding
excessively— on a turn. You must know the
rules. You must know that if you "cut in"
on a fellow driver, to the jeopardy of every-
one in the race, you will be yanked off the
track so fast it will make your head swim.

Car and Driver Become One

You're human, keyed up and possibly

irascible before the race starts. You have
to grit your teeth to overcome your eager-
ness. Your car is as much a part of you
as your arms and legs. It's alive. You know
view. Pencil shows the lip molded on the side
that takes the scrubbing in turns. how it's going to act under any given track

condition. You can anticipate its behavior

from one split-second to the next. You
neled from flat stock and boxed by welding almost will it around the track.
a plate on the open side. There willbe four, One of the greatest all-around drivers I've
five, or strengthening cross-members.
six ever seen on dirt tracks or on the Speedway
An X-type frame, commonly used on pas- is Lee Wallard, winner of this year's "500."

senger cars, would consume space needed Lee is a true sportsman. Name me a race
to undersling the transmission and engine. driver who isn't, and I'll name you one who
To save weight, the wheels will be wire- never got anywhere in the game.
spoke or magnesium disks with wide rims. You try hard to win. But even so, some-
The tires will have a special tread for dirt times you're more surprised than anyone
tracks. Firestone makes all of today's rac- else when you get the victor's checkered
ing tires with the exception of midget sizes. flag at the finish line.
Your car will do 150 to 160 miles an
Hare-and-Tortoise Story Re-enacted
hour on the 3, 300-foot "chutes"— the
straightaways— of the 2/2-mile Indianapolis In one race when I thought I had a dirt-
Speedway and average better than 120 for track event in the bag, I deliberately eased
500 miles. On the shorter dirt tracks, you'll off on the throttle. I had had the white
get to 125 and average 90 to 100. flag for the last lap, was in the stretch, and
the field was clear. Suddenly I felt some-
Car Is Changed to Race on Dirt
one behind me.
For dirt-track racing, your car undergoes You hear competition in racing, but you
a lot of changes not required by conditions feel it, too, like a ghostly presence.
on a hard track. You want your right front Another car was streaking down on me.
and rear tires to dig in and limit your skid. I was going too slow to accelerate enough
So you raise your center of gravity by twist- to keep my lead. My foolishness was just
ing your torsion-bar suspension rods a notch about to cost me the race.
or two, or, if the car has springs, by putting The man behind just couldn't do this to
on springs with more arch in them. me. I squirmed around in my cockpit and
Your steering ratio on pavement has been, bared my teeth and shook my head.
say, 14 to 1. You need much faster steer- I'm still wondering why he closed the
ing on dirt, so you use a gearing of 6 to 1. throttle and let me win. end
You want your engine to "peak" by the time
you're halfway down the stretch, so you
change your axle gear ratio. On a hard This Month's Shaw-ism
track you've used perhaps 3.30 to 1 with Drive with your head instead of your
18-inch wheels. To get acceleration on horn.
dirt, you switch to 16-inch wheels and an
axle of better than 4 to 1. You stiffen your
shocks for better ride control because dirt
tracks are rougher.

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New Ideas from the Inventors f T"I

Dock to Beach Seaplanes. When the the dock raised out of the water by hydrau-
water is too rough to allow a seaplane to lie jacks. The plane then would be rolled
be berthed and loaded at the wharf (top ashore to fit between two adjustable loading
inset), this dock could be submerged, the platforms that are wheeled up snugly
seaplane floated into place over a dolly, and against the plane's fuselage.

O Spare-Wheel Rack to Pull Out. Re- O Pill to Fumigate Soil. Soil fumigants
™ moving the spare wheel from a car's that are dangerous to breathe could be
luggage compartment would be no back- used without wearing a gas mask if they
breaking chore with this pull-out rack. The were encased in these capsules. Such fumi-
wheel is held on a telescoping frame that gants are used to rid soil of insects and
slides out beyond the bumper. The section larvae. These capsules would dissolve and
holding the wheel is pivoted so it can then release the fumigant beneath the surface
swing down to bring the wheel upright. after vou had buried them.
Turn the page, please, for three more new ideas. AUGUST 1951 71

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A Canopy to Shield Gas Pump. Here's around the pump— and there's an electric
an invention intended to make life pleas- fan in it to keep gas fumes from collecting
anter for a gas-station operator on bad days. beneath it. Mounted
in the center of the
This canopy would not only protect him pump the canopy is pivoted so it
island,
from the rain but also illuminate the area could be swung to either side as needed.

C Handle Bars to Pump Bike. A cyclist C Brush to Double as Blower. If you

could use his hands as well as his feet to couldn't brush away, you could blow
it

gain speed on a bicycle fitted with this it away with this shop brush. It has a hol-

front-wheel drive. The pivoted handle bars low-rubber bulb molded over the handle
are pumped up and down alternately to for removing chips and other dirt from
operate a ratchet-and-pawl mechanism that hard-to-get-at places. Squeezing the long
drives the chain. The handle bars can be rubber bulb forces a blast of air out of a
locked when drive is not needed. small nozzle in the tip of the handle.
Patents on these inventions have been granted to: I. W. Turnbull, Toirson, Md.; 2. C. Lundgren, Bonaparte, Iowa;
3. W. Kay, Grosse Pointe Park, Mich.; 4. J. Wellen, Pitli burgh; 5. T. Saxer, Rorsehach, Siritzerland ; 6. I
. Polholm,
Hartford, Conn.

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For record flight, Skyrocket takes off from belly of B-29 mother plane flying at 35,000 ft.

Flying "Out of This World"

WHEN test pilot William Bridgeman re-
zoomed his Douglas Skyrocket
cently
by the Air Force when the experimental Beil
X-l exceeded the speed of sound by "hun-
up an altitude of more than 12 miles and
to dreds of miles an hour." (Speed of sound at
then pushed over for a level speed burst at sea level is 760 m.p.h., but at the high alti-
more than 1,000 miles an hour — faster and tudes these craft fly it is about 660 m.p.h.)
higher than anyone had ever flown before — At the altitude Bridgeman pierced, air
he was too busy with his instruments to look pressure is so low that without adequate pro-
around and see what it was like up there. tective covering his blood would have boiled
But he describes his sensation this way: "You and his body exploded. So, although his
feel like you're going right out of the world." cabin was pressurized, he also wore a pres-
sure suit, the details of which are secret, that
B-29 Launches Rocket Plane resembles a deep-sea diver's outfit. The plas-
For his record-breaking flight, the Navy tic facepiece of his helmet had a tiny wind-
D-558-2 Skyrocket was powered by pure shield wiper to clear condensed breath, end
rocket thrust. Originally the experimental
plane had both jet and rocket power (PS,
Skyrocket, shown in jet-assisted flight below,
Jan. '48, p. 135). The present three-ton load now is powered by four rocket engines alone.
of rocket fuel is spent at a rate of a ton a
minute, so the craft cannot waste it taking
off or landing under its own power. That is
why Bridgeman took off from the belly of
a B-29 bomber at 35,000 feet, turned on his
four flame-spewing rocket engines, climbed
to altitude, and made his supersonic speed
run. Then, when his fuel was exhausted, he
had to glide his 15,000-pound craft down
for a landing at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif.
The previous speed record was claimed
AUGUST 1951 73
 What Were the

^ vi— kinds
of °*
f. r
have I

been useu
ii^^^^^— ^ e other
country

Eyewitnesses Believe They

"Flying saucer" below is clearest photo yet Polled in a PS survey, the people who
published. Oregon farmer Paul Trent says he actuallysaw the "saucers" declare
snapped it near McMannville. Photos above illus-
trate four saucer theories. Shown are ( 1. to r. )
overwhelmingly for man-made aircraft.
huge balloon for high-altitude research; Navy's
experimental "flying flapjack"; scene from movie
"The Day the Earth Stood Still"; shooting star THE experts can say
a lot of people who saw
what they like,
"flying saucers"
but
photographed at Yerkes Observatory.
have made up their minds for themselves.
And they don't think they saw balloons.
Most believe they got a quick look at some
secret, radically different airplane.
The eyewitnesses were asked this sum-
mer in an unofficial survey conducted by
Popular Science editors to choose which
of the four explanations illustrated above
seemed most plausible to them.
52% believe they saw "man-made air-
craft."
16% believe they saw "something com-
monplace."
4% believe they saw a "visitor from
afar."
28% are still more than
uncertain, but
half of them think they saw either man-
made aircraft or visitors from afar.

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Flying Saucers?

m *:i

M - .
M are 0

Saw Secret Aircraft

IS one thought that he'd seen a balloon- obtaining, from a nearby Naval air station,
not even as a second choice. the height of two layers of clouds between
The four theories were described in the which it passed, Ryman went on:
questionnaire as shown under the photo- "The winds at this altitude were very
graphs above. The choices were made moderate and from the northwest, directly
broad enough to cover the theories put for- across the course of the object, precluding
ward by all the experts who have explained any possibility of its being a balloon."
the saucers to their own satisfaction. To
Do liirds Hare Optical lllusiims?
find out whether these explanations were
accepted by the only people who have Policeman Kenneth A. McDowell, of
actually seen so-called saucers, the editors Portland, Ore., declared that the things he
wrote to all the eye-witnesses whose ad- saw "were not round, they traveled at too
dresses could he obtained. About 25 per- great a speed, and were more maneuverable
cent responded. than a balloon could be."
Among them were airline pilots, profes- As for optical illusion. McDowell pointed
sional men, businessmen and
scientists, out that his attention was first drawn to the
members of the armed forces. No one read- objects In pigeons in a park, who stopped
ing their replies could fail to be impressed eating and looked up. "Would birds be sub-
by their sincerity. ject to optical illusions?" he asked.
Typical of the arguments put forward On the other hand, a Canadian reported
against the balloon theoiy was the letter of his opinion that it was "an ordinary aero-
Coastguardsman Frank L. Ryman, Jr., now plane at a distance flying toward a setting
stationed in Saint Louis. After explaining sun in our case."
how he fixed the altitude of the "saucer" bv [Continued on page 228]
AUGUST 1951 75

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 I HIM OKCOHDIKO IOIICKJ
TRAVEL ALONG PIER ON
MOTOR-DRIVEN WHEELS

BUCKET HOIST TRAVELS

ON OVERHEAD TROLLEY

handle iron, chromium, and manganese, im-

Iron Ore Flies from Ships ported from Venezuela, Liberia, and other
to Trains at This New Pier faraway lands to supplement dwindling do-
This new $5,000,000 pier at Baltimore, mestic supplies.
Md., unloads the largest ore-carrying ships Giant machines whisk the ore from holds
in less than 24 hours. It was designed to of ocean vessels into strings of waiting rail-

Radar Clocks Rocket's Speed saucers are radar transmitting and receiving
The twin saucers below keep such close antennas that clock the model as it shoots
tabs on the model rocket plane at right out at 900 to 2,400 m.p.h. In use at Wallops
that researchers won't even care when the Island, Va., the apparatus measures speed
model speeds out to sea and is lost. They'll by the change in frequency of the return
have a permanent record of its flight. The wave— the Doppler effect.

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Co j
I
 SCALE HOUSE DELIVERS
AUTOMATICALLY WEIGHED
LOADS OF ORE TO R.R.
HOPPER CARS AS THEY
ARE MOVED ALONG LOAD-
ING TRACKS BENEATH IT

road hopper cars at the rate of 2,000 tons belt conveyor, unload ships as big as 40,000
an hour. tons.The pier's design will permit extending
Operated by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- itanother 600 feet and erecting two more
road, the 650-foot ore-handling pier is the unloading towers on it. to accommodate
first of its kind in the East. Two unloading two ships at a time, if the demand for
buckets on traveling towers, and a rubber- imported ores increases in the future.

Hoist Extends Pruners' Reach Atom Plant Grows "Hot" Fish

A hydraulic hoist from a filling-station Could you get sick by eating
fish from
grease rack has gone to work pruning apple radioactive waters? To find out. the Hanford
trees in a Kinderhook. N. orchard.
Y.. plutonium plant raises salmon in tanks of
Mounted on a harvesting trailer, the hoist water more radioactive than the atomic-pile
has a platform on top with "diving-board" cooling water discharged into the Columbia
extensions to let workers reach way out. River. Tests show you'd have to eat, at one
Hydraulic power from a tractor raises the sitting, 100 pounds of the "hot" fish to take
platform to a height of 13/2 feet. in appreciable radioactivity.

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Ruining Uniforms Is Their Job trial by crawling over sharp stones. Five
Crossing the Army's roughest obstacle courses, includingtwo designed specifically
courses is the everyday job of these GIs— not to try out shoes and gloves, are used. The
for training, but to test new uniforms. In the soldiers may clamber through cement pipes,
photo above they are giving experimental barbed wire, and gullies before the Quarter-
black-and-white fatigues a drastic abrasion master Board okays an item of apparel.

Flasher Checks Spark Plugs New Skyscraper May Top Empire State
Testing a spark plug with The famous Empire State Building, for20
an old screwdriver may be fast, years the world'stallest, may be outstretched
but isn't always accurate—
it 108 feet by a new structure piercing the
and can lead to some nasty
it clouds 1,580 feet above New York's streets.
shocks. This tester at left avoids The new building planned by Webb and
those troubles. It flashes each Knapp, Inc., is to have 44 stories of office
time the plug fires— brightly if space— the rest would be a 1,000-foot open-
everything's okay, weakly if the steelwork observation tower and TV mast.
plug is fouled, unevenly if
something is wrong with coil,
breaker points, or cable con-
nections. It's made by the
Champion Spark Plug Co., To-
ledo.

Plastic Playhouse Hangs from Line

Big enough for a whole troop of kids, this
Vinylite plastic playhouse is set up by simply-
hanging it from a stretched clothesline. The
house is 8 ft. long, ft. high and 4 ft. wide.

Wooden slats inside keep the roof spread,

while loose sides allow plenty of air for
ventilation. Doughboy Industries, Inc., New
Richmond, Wis., makes it.

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Speediest scheduled run hits over 86 "head end" for 299 of its 427 miles to St.
m.p.h. on one stretch, averages 70 Paul. I was on the world's fastest train.
between Chicago and the Twin Cities. Of the 686 fast trains in the United States,
only 32 of them maintain a speed of 75
By Devon Francis miles an hour or more between any two
cities on their routes. Only three do better

WE WERE exactly one hour

utes out of Chicago, doing
and 15 min-
90 miles an
than 80— the Burlington railroad's
bound Zephyrs, departing morning and aft-
north-

hour, when the shower of feathers whipped ernoon, and the Illinois Central's City of
up past the double windshields of the loco- New Orleans.
motive of the Twin Cities Zephyr.
4.000 Hnrses in « Hurry
It was startling. 1 ducked. Bob Glaser,
road foreman of engines, who was standing The Zephyrs cover the 55 miles between
beside me on the swaying floor, grinned. East Dubuque, 111., and Prairie du Chien,
"Hit a pigeon," he explained, raising his Wis., at a speed of about 85 miles an hour.
voice to carry above the low thunder of the They average almost 70 miles an hour, in-
Diesel engines. "Hit 'em often. Turtle cluding stops, on their two round trips a day
doves are the slowest getting out of the between Chicago and St. Paul. No trains in
way. We hit pheasants too, but hardly ever Canada or Europe can compare with their
a crow. Crows are smart." speed.
I had come along to ride the Zephyr's It had been 8:06 by my watch when I

AUGUST 1951 79
walked through the gate of Chicago's Union "Clear," called the fireman.
Station and into the perpetual dusk of the "Clear."
train shed. The Zephyr had seven cars. Engineer Reinhard brought his throttle
Their ribbed, stainless-steel sides were sil- back. The engines whined. The noise was
ver in the twilight. guttural, low-pitched. It filled the cab.
Almost 900 tons of train began inching for-
Cab is Clean and Spacious
ward.
The cab of the Diesel-electric locomotive Slowly we gained speed.
was meticulously clean. It was almost 10 The speedometers read 25 miles an hour,
feet wide and perhaps six feet deep at its then 35. The cab swayed as the trucks took
narrowest point. An upholstered chair was the crossovers in the complex of tracks in the
on either side, the left one for the fireman, yard. In another minute we were doing 55.
the right for the engineer. "High green!" sang Fireman Johnson.
The locomotive actually consisted of two "High green!"
locomotives linked together. Each unit con- A signal bridge ahead carried a green
tained two 1,000-horsepower Diesels driv- light above a red one for our track, indicat-
ing generators to supply DC power to trac- ing track clear ahead.
tion motors that propelled the train.
75 Seemed Like 40
The engineer was W. J. Reinhard, the
fireman P. E. Johnson. Road-foreman Glaser At Cicero, seven miles out, the engineer
occupied the back of the cab with me. waved at a man in an interlocking plant
The engineer hung his watch on his in- tower beside the track. We were doing 75
strument panel. I leaned over and reset mine. now. It seemed like 40. Sitting high in the
"Pretty close," said Engineer Reinhard of cab above the track did that to your judg-
his watch, "10 seconds fast, is all." ment of speed.
Rehind us the engines muttered. At 8:36 we whipped by Donners Grove,
It was 8:15. An air whistle in the cab 21 miles out. We had averaged 60 miles
beeped twice— the proceed signal. an hour.
"Straight up," called the fireman. "Yellow!"
"Straight up," repeated the engineer. "Yellow!"

The Zephyr Takes Off

This was a caution light. We
were to be
governed by the next signal ahead.
Ahead on the ground beside the track, "Yellow crossover!"
vertical white lights gave us clearance to "Yellow crossover!"
move. The fireman's call and the response The engineer closed his throttle. The
were regulation, so that each member of the tower at Aurora gave us a flag stop. We
crew will know that the other has observed coasted in. In less than a minute we were
the signals correctly. on our way again. The air hissed and sighed

Zephyrs feature Vista Domes atop cars for sels have 8&-in. bore, 10-in. stroke, and are
sightseeing. General Motors 12-cylinder Die- capable of driving train 117 m.p.h.

g(]
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101 MILES; 99 MINUTES

wm
Engineer W. J. Reinhard demonstrates arm-
chair ease of piloting Zephyr. His left hand is
on throttle. Engines carry 1,200 gallons of fuel, MINNESOTA
330 gallons of. oil and 400 gallons of water.
WINONA JCT.

as the brakes were released. The engineer

pulled on his throttle.
Now we were on the Aurora-Savanna 29 MILES; 29 MINUTES
subdivision, single-tracked, and under Cen-
tralized Traffic Control. The dispatcher in LA CROSSE

Aurora could shunt us off on to any siding

under his jurisdiction with remote, power-
operated switches.
58 MILES; 44 MINUTES
At 8:58 the speedometer needle stood at
85. Then it touched 90 and clung there.
The locomotive wrenched at the track. IOWA
Reinhard tugged at his horn cord for a
grade crossing— two longs, a short and a
long.
A zone-speed board with a 4 and a 5
painted below the Z told us to reduce speed
to 45 miles an hour. The engineer pulled a 55 MILES; 39 MINUTES Elapsed times on this
lever that set a warning bell ringing. Then map of Zephyrs' route
we were out of the zone and at 90 again. through Upper Missis-
Presently a C sign with 60 below it told sippi Valley include
stops. Burlington's
us to slow to 60 for a curve.
timetable shows only
The engineer pulled his cord for one long departure times be-
EAST DUBUQUE
blast. That was the station signal. ^ frequently
cause length of stop
than
is

At 9:37/2 we braked to a stop at Oregon, less a

111. In a half-minute the engines were whin-
minute, never more
39 MILES; 39 MINUTES than two minutes.
ing again. I timed the acceleration. It took
us nine minutes to reach 90. wereWe SAVANNA
scheduled into Savanna, where we changed
crews, at 10:20. We rolled in at 10:19. We
had averaged better than 70 miles an hour
from Chicago for the 145 miles. 47 MILES; 42 MINUTES
OREGON
/Vetc Crew Takes Over
A big, ruddy-faced man with a booming
voice, Jack Kerrigan, settled himself in the AURORA CHICAGO
cab's righthand seat. The new fireman was 60 MILES; 49 MINUTES
[Continued on page 230]

AUGUST 1951 g|
38 MILES; 34 MINUTES
ILLINOIS
 WHEELS:
Man's Oldest Machine
Learns New Tricks

Handtruck Crawls Up Steps

You can whisk a refrigerator upstairs on
this handtruck without resorting to jujitsu.
Miniature crawler treads of rubber belting
on roller bearings (below) take steps in
their stride— supplementing standard w heels
for flat surfaces. The Fairbanks Co., Rome,
Ga., makes the truck.

Navy Tractor Claws Through Mud

Retractable "toes" help the tractor at
left get a grip on slippery mud. The Navy's
all-purpose tread has hinged sections that
dig into the earth when rollers tilt them in-
termittently (diagram). On highways the
rollers are retracted and rubber springs hold
the track sections flat.
:«—_
'TRACK SECTION
.

£fSmTSAsrrJ|
* J& PASSES ROUE

RETRACTABLE ROLLERS TRACK SECTIONS HELD

IN OPERATING POSITION HAT BY SPRINGS

Ambulance Bus Rides Rails

Army ambulance busses like the one at
left can ride railway tracks instead of roads,
carrying wounded soldiers faster and more
comfortably horn front lines to hospitals.
Auxiliary flanged wheels for rail travel Meft)
are retracted with a hand crank (below)
when bus takes to highway.

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Coc atonal
Rear-mounted engine eliminates
heavy drive shaft and also en-
ables the driver to sit practically
on the ground. It burns methyl-
alcohol fuel and gives 8J2 miles
to the gallon.

Midget Hits 100 M.P.H. in 15 Seconds

Combine two Swedish aeronautical en-
gineers and a British J.A.P. motorcycle en-
gine and the result is a midget road racer rear-mounted engine has a 14-to-l compres-
that could shoot away from stop lights— it sion ratio and a displacement of 500 c.c.
accelerates to 100 m. p. h. in 15 seconds. The (30.5 cubic inches). It delivers 43 brake
Hakansson brothers designed the EFFYH, horsepower at 6,000 r.p.m. Grand Prix
which has a top speed of 125 m.p.h. The Motors, Lynbrook, N. Y., distributes it.

Ship Steered by Remote Control

A plug-in device that can
steer a ship from almost any
place aboard her is being
tested for emergency use by
the Navy. Should enemy
fire knock out the regular
wheelhouse, this electric
helmsman (left) is simply
plugged into one of many
scattered outlets that con-
nect to the main power
Sandblast Cleans
steering unit controlling the
Pipe for Navy
rudder. Turning the knob
Rust and dirt don't last
at the top of the device does
long inside a length of pipe
the actual steering. It was
when it's blasted with
developed by General Elec-
triple jets of sand from
tric.
the compressed-air nozzle
^^^^^^^^^
shown in the inset. The nozzle rides through
the pipe on a three-pronged carriage de-
veloped by the Navy.

Junior Jet Built by Students

The jet power plant at left started as a
surplus supercharger from a wartime P-38
fighter. Rebuilt as a classroom project at
Northrop Aeronautical Institute, Haw-
thorne, Calif., it develops 320 pounds of

thrust, enough to fly a four-place lightplane.

AUGUST 1951 J3

Cor
Dart-Shaped Plane Sweeps
Its Wings Back in Flight
AN AIRPLANE builder finally has suc- Obviously designed for high speeds, the
*V ceeded in designing a type of wing X-5 has a gas-turbine engine instead of the
that fliers have wanted for 10 years— one rocket engine that powered the X-l. And,
that can be swept back in actual flight. unlike the X-l, it doesn't have to be
The wings make roughly a right angle launched by a mother plane. It can take
with the fuselage when the plane is taking off from the ground under its own power.
off, climbing or landing. In flight, the The heart of the X-5 is an electric mech-
wings swing back— the tips much farther anism, highly secret, that moves the wings
than the roots— until it resembles a dart. forward and backward. Bell had to solve a
There's a good reason: in the forward problem there— as the wings were moved,
position, the wings have more lift. The the plane's center of gravity shifted, and
plane can fly more slowly. Moved back- that had to be compensated for.
ward, the wings don't have as much lift,
One More Wing Style Wanted
but they can fly much faster. That's be-
cause a "swept" wing can go much faster Preliminary flight tests of the new plane
than a straight wing before it develops a are being conducted at Edwards Air Force
retarding "shock wave." Base in California by Jean L. "Skip" Zieg-
ler, Bell's chief of flight research.
Gas Turbine Supplies the Power
With the creation of the movable-sweep
The airplane with the movable wing is wing, two-thirds of aviation's ambitions in
the X-5, an experimental plane purchased movable-wing design have been realized.
by the Air Force for research work by the In the XB-51, the Glenn L. Martin Co. pro-
government's National Advisory Committee duced the first variable-incidence wing.
was designed and manu-
for Aeronautics. It Its "angle of attack" can be changed in
factured by the Bell Aircraft Corp., of flight. Now airmen would like to have a
Niagara Falls, the same company that made wing that could be lengthened and short-
the X-l, the first U. S. supersonic plane. ened in flight.
•

Lines under cockpit are slots that guide wing Back of wing root folds into fuselage. Allison
as it is moved forward and backward. Plane engine is under pilot instead of behind him
is 33 ft. 4 in. long, has a maximum span of as in most single-jet planes. Fuselage doors
32 ft. 9 in., weighs about 5 tons. accommodate retractable main landing gear.

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Swept biick, X-5's wings are positioned for high-speed flight. Dive brakes slow its speed.

Moved forward, wings let plane fly slower, climb faster. Needle nose measures the air speed.

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 Armored Carrier
Gives GIs Lift
INFANTRYMEN get an armor-protected
ride smack up to enemy nests in the
Army's new personnel carrier. It takes the
footsloggers right along with the tanks, pro-
tecting them from shrapnel and small-arms
they dismount for action.
fire until
The squad-size (eight-man) T18E2 is
handled by a driver who also serves »as
gunner. Its .50-caliher machine-gun arma-
ment is for antiaircraft use. Fully tracked,
it can go anywhere tanks can go and does
better than 35 m.p.h. on good roads. Ar-
mor extends all around and also overhead,
important for protection from the deadly
proximity-fused shells that burst a few feet
above the ground.

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Troops dismount from carrier's double rear doors, above, to fro into action as on opposite page.

Riflemen within armored vehicle find points of Seating arrangement is shown below in photo
vantage at side ports, which may be fixed partly made through wide-open rifle port. Six-cyUn-
closed, as shown below, or opened wide. der Continental engine powers the carrier.

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Refrigerator Serves as Dining Table Giant Oven Bakes B-47 Gas Tanks
Preparing a quickie breakfast is no prob- Into the cavernous opening above goes
lem on this dining table that includes its own the fuel tank of a B-47 Stratojet to be vul-
built-in refrigerator. Made in Australia, it canized. Recently installed by U. S. Rubber
has an electric fan to circulate chilled air to handle the self-sealing fuel cells of big
through the food storage compartments, Air Force bombers, the vulcanizer is 48 feet
plenty of space for freezing trays, and a long, 15 feet high, and weighs 156,000
power outlet in one corner for a toaster or pounds. The circular door alone, seen in
table-top grill. raised position, weighs 14 tons.

Power Conveyor Unloads Plane Fast load 2/2 tons in eight minutes. Rollers, pow-
It often takes longer to unload cargo ered by a 3 h.p. motor, carry crates at a
from a plane by hand than it took to carry it 25-feet-per-minute clip directly to the ter-
to its destination in the first place. The pow- minal. When not in use the conveyor tele-
ered conveyor above, at Kelly Air Force scopes into its rear section inside the termi-
Base, Texas, licks this problem. It can un- nal building.

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Fighter Fires Rocket Missiles Like Machine-Gun Bullets
Tails aflame, 16 "Mighty Mouse" rockets rockets are carried internally, eliminating
speed through the air in the spectacular air drag. The plane's gunlike rocket launch-
photo above. This is how they'll look to er spits out all24 of them, or as many as
the pilot of an F-86D interceptor when he the pilot chooses, in rapid-fire succession.
looses a salvo against an enemy bomber. A A "Mighty Mouse" rocket can score a kill
movie camera, carried in a special wingtip without making a direct hit, for a proximity
pod, made the picture to record the rockets' fuse explodes its high-explosive warhead
dispersion pattern. when it merely passes near a target. Thus
A "rocket gun" on the F-86D, reportedly an F-86D, staying beyond reach of a
ready to be tried out in combat, hurls these bomber's guns and flying at nearly the
2.75-inch missiles almost like machine-gun speed of sound, can strike at a foe with a
bullets. Instead of being conventionally
. weapon more lethal than machine guns or
mounted beneath the wings, two dozen aircraft cannon.

PlasticTank Shows Model Plane's Fuel Supply

The tiny transparent-plastic tank at right lets you
see how much fuel your model airplane has left.
Since it is flexible, the tank resists damage in a crash.
Unused fuel can be easily removed by squeezing
the tank and forcing it out. It's made by Sullivan

Products, Philadelphia.

Atom Pile's a Cutie

Clementine, only
atomic pile of her kind in
operation, is the belle of
the Los Alamos Scientific
Laboratory in New Mex-
ico. She's a "fast reac-
tor," a type in which the
fission of plutonium
yields fast neutrons to
sustain the chain reac-
tion. Liquid mercury
serves as her coolant, a
departure from water or
air cooling in conven-
tional piles. Steps lead
to control mechanism,
which has been modified
since this portrait of
Clementine was made.
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Can't pronounce it? It's short for the
five cars that make up this super job.

WHEN
son—
the Leroy J. Viersens— father and
started out to build a convertible
that would look none other, they didn't
like
expect to rebuild the car half a dozen times
before they were finished. But they did just
that— to be rewarded when Hollywood col-
umnists selected the car as the "convertible
of the year."
A doorless red sportster, it combines the
Styling features of several standard U. S.
cars of yesteryear. Home-tooled paneling
knits together '48 Buick front fenders, '48
Lincoln Continental rear fenders, a '49
Cadillac grille, and a '50 Cadillac curved
windshield. The body is seamless.
From the ground to the top of the wind-
shield, the car stands only 50 inches high.
Its wheelbase is 100 inches, and the over-
all length is 180 inches.
Hood contours, bare of customary emblem,
Viersen and his son, of Sun Valley, Calif., carry slight suggestion of first postwar Kaiser.
labored for 30 months before they were Car has dual intake manifolds, special ignition,
satisfied with the results. a Zephyr flywheel and clutch.

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Small, louvered engine hatch is hinged at
rear of hood. Built on a 1932 Ford frame, car is
powered by a 1948 Mercury engine with special
heads to provide a 9-to-l compression ratio.

Farm Silo Becomes Modern Home

In case of a housing shortage, try a
silo. That's just what Mr. and Mrs. Lee

Andre did on the Radio Club Farm near

Palatine, 111. The silo at one time was
-used to store cattle fodder on the 85-
acre farm. Then Jack Deynzer con-
verted it into a modern three-level
home. It contains 740 square feet of liv-
Leroy, Jr., occupies one of two foam-rubber, ing space. Rental: $135 a month.
leather- covered seats. Instrument-board center
panel is from '33 Auburn, rebuilt for '41 Buick
instruments. Cockpit coaming is crash-padded.

Ocean Liner Has 5-Story Stacks

This isn't a building about to fall on
the cars parked around it. It's one of
two giant stacks on the new ocean liner
United States. The stack is more than
Zippered hatch in turtleback opens to spare-
60 feet long and 55 feet high. The
tire compartment. A small door in front of
hatch covers cache for jack, lug wrench, other 990-foot superliner is the largest ever
tools. Car has 15-inch Lincoln wheels. turned out in this country.
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Forward Air Controller (FAC) in Korea calls signed to infantry. Corporal at right cranks radio
clown an air strike on an enemy-held ridge in generator. Pfc. in center is team's mortarman.
front of his position. He's a Marine pilot as- FAC is key man in air-ground cooperation.

1 Infantrymen wait, below, as flame bursts 2 Seconds later smoke and fire boil skyward
from napalm bomb (right) dropped by Cor- as flaming gasoline spreads over target.
sairnow zooming np (white circle) through Planes that made raid were directed by Forward
smoke from target hit by plane ahead of it. Air Controller with men in the foreground.
He Runs an Air Force
for Gravel Crunchers
The FAC is an ace-in-the-hole airman snowfall made every moving man as visible
who produces planes when and where as an ink blot on a white shirt.
the ground forces need 'em most. The 7th Marine Regiment decided to at-
tack at dawn in an attempt to break through.
By Michael Amrine But four M-26 tanks and two assault
TT WAS the sort of situation the Marines platoons had barely started to move when
A call "hairy." thousand United
Sixteen the enemy opened up with automatic rifles
Nations' troops—U. S. Army, Marines and and mortars from carefully prepared posi-
British— were completely surrounded by tions that the Marine artillery, blocked be-
Chinese Communists. Their only hope was hind a ridge, couldn't reach.
to fight their way back through the Korean In that 'Tiairy" hot spot, the ground com-
hills to other UN elements 10 miles south. manders did what many a Marine has done
The weather was 10° to 15° below zero. before and will do again— they called on a
Supplies were running out. The Chinese had man known as a Forward Air Controller,
attacked for several nights running. A fresh whose job is, literally, to pull firepower out
of thin air. The pictures across the bottom
of these pages show what happened in the
3 Moving forward, Marine ground force next few minutes.
closes in on Communists burned out of hid-
ing. These three photos show actual Korean FAC Is Seasoned Combat Flier
attack described in article that begins above.
The Forward Air Controller carrying the
point of this spearhead was scrappy young
First Lieutenant Johnny Theros— a full-
fledged combat pilot, although his wings

m got a little muddy during his service with

"my friends, the gravel crunchers."
It's standard policy with the Marines, and
now adopted by the Air Force, that Forward
Air Controllers— who march, sleep, live and
die with the ground troops— must be pilots.
Then they know what planes can do with
napalm— jellied gasoline— rockets, machine-
gun fire, or bombs. The only thing Johnny
Theros had piloted within the past few
weeks was a jeep. He didn't know ground
troops' troubles and tactics by hearsay or
from a training manual— he had gotten it
direct, and had it in his bones.

IV s His Air Force

The planes that he called on for close

support already had been assigned to a strike
to coincide with the attack. When the "Fire-
guard" flight of 18 Corsairs from an airfield
60 miles away showed up (eight Skyraiders
from the carrier Leyte arrived soon after),
Johnny took over their command. For the
time the planes are in the air over him, the
FAC has a private air force.
"Hello, Fireguard Playboy," said Johnny

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Theros into his two-way, VHF line-of-sight PtANES ATTACK
UNDER FACS ORDERS
radio. "Playboy" was the code name for the
and Johnny gave his own code:
flight leader,
"This is Dudley 14 What are you carry- . . .

ing? Wag your wings as you come in

. . . . . .

I'd likeyou to make a dummy pass first, com-

."
pass 270 degrees, 35-degree glide . .

In a war fought according to the book, the

FAC would give grid coordinates for loca-
tion, but in this nonstandard war the maps
weren't always good enough. That morning,
as in 90 percent of other Korean close-sup-
port operations, the pilots zeroed in on their
targets strictly through the naked eye.

Incendiary Chalks Off Target

The flight leader, Major John Skorich,

wagged his wings to indicate agreement with
Johnny Theros's orders and gave his planes'
armament: "All GP loads." By "GF'he in-
dicated they were "general purpose" loads
consisting of 800 rounds of 20-mm. ammuni-
tion, eight high-velocity aerial rockets, and
one or two 250-lb. napalm tanks each.
Skorich made one dummy pass, while
Theros radioed, "Let go just above the rock-
ledge Watch for our troop line per-
. . . If planes are over front, awaiting orders, in-
pendicular to road ... On first pass fire ma- fantry asks Forward Air Controller for quick
help. He radios request ( 1 ) to Battalion Com-
chine guns for marking."
mand Post, which orders planes (2) to report
Eveiy third round of the 20-mm. is an in- to FAC. FAC tells them (3) where to strike.
cendiary, which helps both the FAC and
the planes following the leader to know Later, when Johnny-on-the-ground met
when the target is being hit on the button. Johnny-in-the-air by sheer coincidence, they
"Pull your nose up five degrees that's . . .
naturally became buddies. But that morn-
it . good boy."
. . ing, Skorich says, the flyboys were more
"Roger," said Skorich, and he fired, pulled afraid of Marine mortars than of the Chi-
up hard through Chinese automatic-weapons nese. "I told the mortarmen to aim at the
fire,and circled to come around again. tail of each plane as it zoomed away to make
"This time give them napalm, and we'll sure they didn't hit the next one diving in,"
come in with mortars and rifles." Theros assured Skorich . "but maybe some
. .

Napalm bombs aren't barreled in from a of our men were too fast for you characters."
fast dive-bombing run— they're just plopped
down from a plane flying about as low and FAC Serves as Pilot's "Eyes"

as slowly as possible. The forward motion The Marine Corps believes close-support
from the plane runs the containers of "hot planes are hand-to-hand weapons, the plane
jelly" up to the target. giving a hand to the man on the ground and
the FAC being the pilot's "eyes." But as one
Chinese Come Out of Hiding
veteran Marine pilot told me, "Personally, I
Napalm may be ignited from a self-con- like to see our own men and the enemy at
tained fuse, or in some cases by small arms the time I let go." And that was the case in
or other fire from the ground. When it splat- the combat incident just described— when
ters a tank, the slightest spark from the the hedgehopping Corsairs raked the Chi-
treads or its own guns will touch off certain, nese positions.
broiling death for the crew. And that's how close the close air support
Three napalm bombs from Skorich's was as the Marines broke out of the pocket
planes hit the button, and from all over and joined up with other UN
outfits to re-
the ridge Chinese took off. Marine ground group for a counterattack.
troops and planes raked them mercilessly. Because the strategic bombers could not
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If planes aren't immediately available, FAC's brass may decide job is one for artillery. If
request ( 1 ) goes through Battalion ( 2) and request is okayed, JCC assigns planes alreadv
Regiment (3) Division, where Joint Com-
to in air or orders a new flight ( 4 ) to take off.
mand Center allocates air strength. These points Even then, planes may be over target in 10
may veto request: all planes may be busy, or minutes. There, again, FAC takes over (5).

operate to great effect at this stage of the around precision timing made possible
campaign, and because our side had com- through a new communications system-
plete air superiority, close support became much of which is still secret. But what
the No. 1 job of air power in the Korean makes the equipment work is the closest
war. In the first six months alone, the Air possible teamwork between FACs, whose
Force flew 27,000 close-support sorties and life expectancy is about as good as the tradi-
the Marines 12,000. The Navy also flew tional artillery observer's, and their flying
thousands. brothers whose iron nerves guide their planes
With all the services, close support is built to drop bombs in the enemy's lap. end

Air Force jets fly close support for an Army recting planes is similar to Marines' but geared
tank-infantry team in maneuvers. System for di- to handle larger units over bigger combat area.

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Rambler Adds Hardtop Convertible The all-steel hardtop model has an 82-hp.,
Latest addition to the Nash Rambler line six-cylinder engine with a 7.25-to-l com-
is this Country Club make-believe conver- pression ratio. The luggage compartment
tible.Omission of the door centerposts, the has 1432 cubic feet of space. Other Ram-
one-piece curved windshield, and the three- blers are a conventional convertible, station
section rear window make for good visibility. wagon, and suburban model.

Navy Blimp Refuels from Carrier Mirror Unscrambles Reverse TV

The Navy blimp above is taking on a You'd expect the words on the TV screen
supply of fuel without actually landing on seen in the mirror above to be in reverse.
the aircraft-carrier deck. Flying low and But a simple change in the horizontal sweep
maintaining the same speed and course as circuit results in a reverse image on the
the carrier, the blimp first picks up the fuel picture tube. This is then reversed again by
line and raises it into position by winch and the mirror, allowing Bob McKenna, a Navy
cable. Gas is then forced up through the vet confined to an iron lung, to enjoy his TV
hose by electric pumps. shows without becoming confused.
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Engine Carried Like Bomb nestled inside the bomb bay, then lowering
To try out the Air Force's most powerful itinto the open air for trials in flight. Under
turbojet engine, it's being carried like a development by Pratt & Whitney, the J-57
bomb by the specially rigged B-50 Super- Turbo-Wasp will power important new
fortress above. The big plane serves as a planes still secret. Its thrust far exceeds the
flying test bed, taking off with the turbojet 6,250-pound J -48, present titleholder.

Swimmers Get a "Snorkel"

Breathe through the mouthpiece of a
midget "snorkel" like a submarine's, and you
can stay under water by the hour. For lo-
cating fish, or just for fun, it's sold at $7.50
by Abercrombie and Fitch, New York. At
right, a well equipped swimmer uses snor-
kel, underwater-vision mask and foot fins.

Cave Yields U. S. Mummies hair, nails and teeth. In an ancient

skin,
What prehistoric Indians of New
Mexico burial one of the desiccated bodies had
rite,
looked like may be revealed by study of two been left wrapped in a fur robe and lying
1, 400-year-old mummies discovered in a dry on a rush mat with a deer hide as a headrest.
cave high on a mountainside by Chicago A cave explorer, masked for protection
Natural History Museum scientists. Not only against surrounding dust of ages, is shown
have their bones been preserved, but also above examining his find.
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Natural View Decorates Glass Church
The giant "showcase" above is actually a Its architect, Lloyd Wright, has made the
church built of glass. Overlooking the Pa- necessary structural parts simple and un-
cific Ocean from a knoll in the Palos Verdes obtrusive. Rising from foundations of native
hills of southern California, the Wayfarers' stone, treelike columns of laminated red-
Chapel offers worshippers a natural pano- wood support the plate-glass walls and roof.
rama of mountains, sea and sky in place of These are washed at the turn of a wheel by
the man-made ornamentation of conventional rotary sprinklers that have been installed
church design. along the crest of the roof.

Sliding Partitions Keep Freight argo from Jouncing

Loads won't get jolted around and dam-
aged in a freight car divided into sections
with the steel gates shown at left. The gates
slide along a trolley and lock against cargo
that fills only part of a car— much as the
adjustable "follower" in a filing-cabinet
drawer holds loose cards or papers in place.
Thieves will find their way barred, too.
For loading and unloading, the gates fold
back against the car's sides. The Compart-
mentizer, made by Pullman-Standard, Chi-
cago, can be used on any boxcar or reefer.

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 different so they'll stand out from the crowd.
The depression and war put most custom-

They Make body builders out of business. But one

time firm that has survived to become a
leader in today's fast-booming market is the
old-

Dream Cars Derham Custom Body Co., of Rosemont,

Pa.Run by brothers James and Enos Der-
ham, the shop gives beauty treatments to

Come True autos for folks who can afford to be different.

The Derhams have had to speed up pro-
duction to make room on their factory floors
The Derhams will restyle your stock for two dozen conversions already on order.
car, turn a Model T into a limousine, But there's no danger that they'll try to
or build a custom job to your design. compete with Detroit even if there are 40
people on their payroll. They do car-body
By David A. Katcher jobs the car manufacturers cannot do as
economically or as easily.
STRANGE it seems, mass production of
as Each year about a dozen top men in auto
automobiles is making a market for concerns send their own cars to the Derhams
custom-built cars. When six custom specials for glamorizing. The big firms also send
were recently displayed in a New York down to Rosemont to have sample cars
showroom, five were sold in the first hour made.
and a half.
The reason? The more cars look alike, Cars for Celebrities
the more some people want theirs to look This famous little firm began catering
to the carriage trade on Philadelphia's Main
Line in 1887. It has been custom-building
autos since the days when the boys in the
shop argued about where the whip holder
should be put on the new gas buggies.
Lily Pons, who had the firm build a panel
brougham on a Packard chassis, once or-
dered a pair of carriage lanterns mounted on
the side posts— and it was done.
The firm has the flexibility to put out what

A sedan outside, limousine inside, the Derham

customized Buick below has hand-finished
leather top and custom-built glass partition be-
tween front and rear seats. Worker at left
smooths joints on blocked rear window.

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'Customized" stork model. from Monarrh Buiek. IN.Y.C. sports cloth lop, rime panels— .$800.

Hemline drip mold into place. U-shaped chan-

people dream up because it does not have to nel screwed to metal top secures cloth. Upper
retool between jobs. A Derham car may cost side of U, folded down, covers screwheads and
$40,000, as did an experimental model on a forms drip mold to carry off rain.
Mercury chassis for the American Sportscar
Corporation. Or $20,000 for a complete cus-
tom-built body to owner specifications. Or a
fraction of that for putting on a cloth top,
or installing a chauffeur partition, or formal-
izing a limousine.

Hearse Becomes Land Yacht

Spectacular cars, for people all over the

world, have come from the shop. His High-
ness, the Sheik of Kuwait. Sir Ahmad Ibn
Jabir, couldn't live like a 20th Century sheik
without a desert land yacht. What's more,
he wanted one longer than any other in the
Middle East. So the Derhams mounted a
complete handmade, luxurious, peach-col-
ored car body on a standard 163-inch Cadil-
lac hearse chassis. They "desertized" the car
and built in two radios and a siren. The
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One of longest cars ever made, this convertible for the Sheik of Kuwait was built on 163-inch

Sheik really needed a desert in which to wanted the driver to be the same old family
maneuver the result. retainer who had driven her to hers. But the
And there was a president of a big rail- old fellow could only drive a Model T. The
road who wanted his daughter driven to her Derhams fitted a $5,000 Rolls-Royce body to
debut in the style to which she was accus- a Model T chassis that cost less than $400,
tomed. Her mother, for sentimental reasons, and everybody was happy.

This disemboweled car is being annored with sliced top to bottom like so much cheese, then
laminated Fiberglas. Note strips welded to thickened to take heavier regulator mecha-
door frames to thicken them. The doors are nisms and thick bulletproof glass.

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Cadillac hearse chassis. When car is closed, tight-fitting top and windows seal out desert sand.

But the bizarre and unusual are only part money to have car bodies made to order,
of the story. The Derhams build the luxuri- maybe they'd pay for dressing up existing
ous, the just plain different, and special models. James lit out of the office to look
models for handicapped people or for ex- for customers.
perimental purposes. Cadillacs, Chryslers, Today the bulk of the Derham business is
Packards, Lincolns, Buicks and Dodges have modifying stock production pars. The three
been among the chassis that they have often types of standard conversion ordered most
converted. often are: to cover hardtops with cloth that
gives a car a neat, tweedy look; to make an
From Hopalong to Uncle Joe ordinary limousine or sedan into a formal
Customized or modified cars by Derham limousine; and to install glass partitions to
have gone to join the presidential fleet at seal off the front seat.
the White House, to the Pope, to an Indian In covering an auto top with cloth, the
Maharani, to Hopalong Cassidy, to the Duke Derhams most often apply Haartz cloth, the
and Duchess of Windsor, to kings and material used on convertibles. The cloth top
queens, presidents of Finland, Lebanon, is fitted over a flannel pad cemented to the

Haiti, the Philippines, Brazil and Venezuela, metal and secured around the edge with an
and to artists, movie stars, government offi- aluminum U-shaped channel, screwed down
cials, millionaires, and all manner of poten- all around. The top side of the U is tapped

tates including one named Joseph Stalin. down flat, which covers the screw heads and
The late Amtorg Trading Corp. had a seven- leaves a slightly curved L that serves as a
passenger limousine converted to an open drip mold. Then it's painted. The result?
touring car for him before the war. Something that looks different and classy.
In 1929, between 30 and 40 Duesenberg
chassis were topped with custom-built bodies Why Limousines Are Costly
for the elite the world over. In 1931 only one Converting a seven-passenger limousine
was built. The depression canceled the cus- to a formallimousine— or even a sedan to a
tomers. It took some ingenuity to keep it formal limousine— means ripping out the
from canceling the firm. whole back interior of the car— seats, up-
holstery, windows and window frames.
Birth of a Big Idea Metal panels are fittedand brazed in place
Enos, who is the designer member of the where the side windows were. The big rear
team, was sketching idly one day on an illus- window is blocked down to a neat oval with
tration of a stock car— like drawing mus- a wooden form. The joints are ground
taches on a billboard picture. He smoothed smooth and soft solder wiped on to fill the
a line here, added one there. James, presi- cracks. Leather, with hand-stitched seams, is
dent of the firm and customer contact man, laid on the top over a felt pad.
looked at the sketch. Then he and his The drip mold is bolted on, and chromium
brother looked at each other, and out fittings, if any, are put in place. The uphol-
popped an idea. If people didn't have the stery is refinished to cover the newly blinded

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Raymond l.oewy, industrial designer, had two of these built to his specifications by Derliam.

portions in the rear, and the insides are put like them, too. They can keep their side
back in. The car has the Derham look and windows open without sending drafts into
the Derham name plate on its hood. Milady the back, and they can smoke while waiting
can now sink back in her seat and be hidden for passengers to return from shopping or
from view even if the car is parked. the theater without smelling up the place.
The bargain-basement job is to install
When 'James* Is Home sliding glass panels, but most calls are for
Seven-passenger limousines carry glass more elaborate rigs in which the glass dis-
partitions to separate front and rear seats appears into the back of the front seat. The
as standard equipment. But some people Derhams install a wooden frame, a regulator
want a limousine inside and a sedan outside. mechanism to move the glass up and down,
Then the car can be driven by the chauffeur and channels to hold the glass snugly.
formally, or when the chauffeur is helping
the gardener trim the begonias it can be Bullet-P roofing Concealed
driven informally by the owner. While standard conversions may be the
People like these partitions because they bread-and-butter work of the firm, the
give the passengers in the rear seat some tougher special jobs are also compounded of
privacy. The Derhams report that chauffeurs tasteful design and craftsmanship— like ar-

Not all custom jobs are for looks. Modifica- built a hinged trap door into the roof of this
tions to aid the physically handicapped also are big Chrysler to let an arthritis victim get in
a large part of the Derhams' work. Here they and out without having to stoop.

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Custom-built body on a Duesenberg chassis was built for Gary Cooper by Derhams in 1931.

mor plating. Several Latin American officials step that works hydraulically at the touch
are driving around in cars made "bullet- of a button. A spring-operated safety check
resistant" in Rosemont, Pa. rises when the step is out so the dpor can't
The Derhams use laminated Fiberglas, be closed until the step is tucked back in.
which is light and strong and won't call for

extraordinary strengthening of springs, Money No Obstacle

brakes, and even engine. But the material Each car turned out by the Derhams is

will no longer "resist" bullets if it is bent, so distinctfrom the run of the mill. What is
it is patched into place like mosaic. Heavy ordered has never surprised the Derhams,
wire mesh protects the radiator and the en- but they can't help being a little surprised
gine. The most difficult part of the job is to now and then at the easy manner in which
make room for the Ds-inch-thick bulletproof many orders are given. They tell of the pres-
glass. Doors, door frames and all window ident of a distillery who wanted a Chrysler
frames must be thickened to take the wider chassis fitted with a body that had Lincoln
channels for the thicker glass. When finished, Continental lines. He was considering gray
the car looks no different inside or out. or maroon as a body color when he was *told
For people who miss the running boards the car would cost $19,000. "Oh," he said,
on new cars, the Derhams build a retractable "I'll take one of each color." end

In this special conversion for a wheel-chair The de luxe wheel chair rolls up on a collapsible
invalid, the centerpost was removed and front ramp, shown at left above. Chair is then locked
seats hinged to allow room for maneuvering. in place to form part of rear seat.

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 & DEVELOP/AENT OP TME NEAR. PUTVlfcE. 1

A RADAR. SIGHT THAT CONTROLS THE FIGHTf.R.'S

AuTCWiATIC PILOT ANO 'HOLDS" THE TAR.GET
EVEN IF THE LATTER. TAKES EVASIVE ACTION. TURBO -JET '
NSOTOR..^

(4) PILOT PP-ESSES THE ClRJNG

BUTTON WHEN WARDED TO DO

(3) COMPUTER. UNIT FINOS

RANGE ANGLE, RATE OP
,

CHANGE AND PREDICTS

POSITION WHERE SHELLS
WILL INTERCEPT TARGET.
K) WHEN SIGNALS
Of CEJJ.ra.iN
intensity r.eacm
the antennae
the gear, is
Switched prjom (fe) AUTOV«ATIC PILOT
"StARjCM" TO HOLDS TARGET
"OM TARGET" IN THE SIGHTS
UNTIL GUNS
CEASE TO
FIRE.
(5) HIGHVELOCITY
LARGE CALIBRE
U) RADAR. RECEIVER GUNS <XW\E
SENDS SIGNALS TO INTO ACTION .

COMPUTER. UNIT.

British Dream Fighter Flies and Fires by Radar

AT seconds
i.
500 m.p.h., a fighter pilot has only
to sight his guns, fire— and fly
Radar would direct the plane
get, as it
to the tar-
already does in present fighters,
the plane at the same time. In this British but then it would go farther. It would au-
interceptor of the future, radar would do tomatically sight the guns, hold the plane
it all for him— even fly the plane— he'd only on the target by interlocking with the auto-
have to press the trigger. matic pilot, and then warn the pilot when

Ocean Tides Put the Bite on Pile-Eating Borers

Tides do the work in the pile-creosoting
device at left. The floating collar is filled
with the protective liquid and coats the
pile as the collar falls and rises with the
tide. A film of creosote is wiped on and
kills the pest where it does its damage be-
tween high and low water marks. It takes
five minutes to put the collar on, and one
24-hour treatment lasts a year. It saves
thousands of dollars a year in Sydney, Aus-
tralia, where it was invented.

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 Tiny Detector Spots Hot Atoms
The Navy's newest detector for atomic
rays is the tiny two-pound Radiac, which
measures the amount of radioactivity and
buzzes an alarm. Teams going into con-
taminated areas sling it around their necks.

to fire. It would keep the plane on the tar- Chemical Copies Colored Pictures
get as long as the guns kept firing, then cut Wipe Copy-It on a colored or black-and-
out and let the pilot take over. At 40,000 white illustration in a pulp magazine or
feet, where the skies above are dark even by newspaper. Press an ash tray, greeting
day and planes are hard to see, these added card, towel, or paper against the moist sur-
radar eyes and hands would turn near- face. The picture transfers in a few min-
misses into sure hits. utes. Kit Kraft, Los Angeles, sells it.

New Survival Gun Combines Rifle, Shotgun

Downed airmen can now choose the best
type of gun to hunt their food with. This
folding over-under M6, just added to Air
Force survival kits, combines a .22-cal.
rifle barrel with a .410-gauge shotgun bar-
rel on one stock. The stock holds ammo.

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Can You Name
Fishing Boats?
HOW
An
well do you know fishing boats?
expert can tell, practically at a
glance, where a vessel hails from and just
what it's fishing for. Some of the boats op-
erate in shallow sheltered waters, some on
the rough open seas. Some go out for half
a day, some for weeks at a time. And each
boat is built accordingly.
The best known fishing grounds are the
Grand Banks off Newfoundland, but the 10
commercial boats on these pages include
types that operate in many other coastal
and inland waters. You'll find guessing
their names no easy job. Try it before
Two-masted sailing vessel, cut-down version of
famous Grand Banks schooners, still serves as
you read the captions. dorv fisher in Nova Scotia.

it

Commonest type has broad open space between Low freeboard indicates this vessel operates 111
foremast and deckhouse for dumping catch be- quiet, sheltered waters. Heaped in the center are
fore storing it in hold. It's a trawler and can be oysters scooped from Peconic Bay by a typical
spotted anywhere along our coastline. Long Island oyster dredge.

Completely enclosed deck protects fishermen This giant of the fishing industry is only likely
while they set and haul in gill nets on this boat's to be seen far out at sea. It's a 2,600-ton French
fishing grounds, where weather is notoriously trawler that makes two trips a year to Grand
bad. It's a Great Lakes fish tug. Banks to catch, clean and salt cod.

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Streamlining, radar and the triple-level deck make 3,000-mile trips to catch tuna. Three men
of this handsome vessel help identify it as one man a huge triple rod and reel. Less often, a
of modern Pacific Coast tuna clippers. The boats purse seine is used.

Seat for a spotter high up on mast, harpooner's Raised net and forward deckhouse tag this one
pulpit on the end of the bowsprit, and outriggers as a typical Gulf shrimper.The powerful winch
are easy clues to this one. It's a swordfisherman mounted on the afterdeck is used for hauling up
and hails from Nova Scotia. the heavily loaded nets.

The horse mackerel getting an over the

assist A very large deckhouse, tall mast with derrick,
bow into the broad cockpit givesthis one away. and location of all machinery aft are marks of a
It's a Cape Breton Island tuna launch used to steel menhaden purse-seiner operating off the
catch giant bluefish tuna. Virginia coast.

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 Prize Lamps
Crouch. Crane
and Straddle
Neither flying saucers nor wire
sculpture, these are the latest
thing in lamps. Winners in a con-
test run by New York's Muse-
um of Modern Art for lamps to
match modern interiors, they are
now being made commercially
by the Heifetz Co. Here Hubert
Luckett has photographed each
with its light pattern. Small draw-
ings show how they work.

No visitor from Mars, this table lamp Giraffe-like floor lamp won special
stands on cork feet of three steel rods. $500 Ball on counterweighted
prize.
Reflector hangs on rod tips. Pulling a arm held to socket on tripod base by
is
rod through body, which holds bulb, magnet. Arm can be set in any position,
tilts lamp. J. HLCrate, young GM de- and head swivels. Designed by Cali-
signer, won $250 third prize with lamp. fornian G. A. Watrous, lamp sells for
Price: $31.50.
Crouching like alert Scottie, this table lamp
won $500 second prize for A. Ingolia, Chicago
student. Legs grip stem with spring, can be
moved along it to alter tilt. Baffles behind shade
ventilate it without glare. Lamp can be hung
from shelf, pinned to wall. It sells for $23.50.

Winner of first prize— $1,000— was this strad-

dle-shade design by J. Burnett, Chicago student.
Two parts don't even touch. Bulb unit sits on
table, throws light up against underside of shal-
low paper cone silvered on bottom and black on
top. Moving bulb unit to one side or other of cone
tip throws light in that direction; placing bulb
right under tip scatters light evenly. Small holes
in cone diffuse some light upward. Lamp sells for
$37.50.

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 RUSSIANS Eastern Europe are flying
in
'
a fleetbrand-new, hot bombers.
of
They were made for the express purpose of
Russia's New running interference for the Red infantry.
Powered by twin jet engines, the new
plane is bigger, far faster and harder hitting
than the propeller-driven Stormoviks with
2-Jet Bomber which the Red Air Force helped turn back
Hitler's Panzer divisions. The Russians
call the TU-10.
it
By Chalmers ("Slick") Goodlin Two items of the TU-10's equipment
Noted Test Pilot make stand out. One is apparently the
it

first Russian production version of a com-

pact navigational-search radar installation.

Details in this cutaway view of Rus-

sia'sTU-10 are based on pictures
and information smuggled over the
iron curtain by observers in East
Germany. Wing span is about 70 ft.,
length about 60. Take-off weight is
23 tons. Engine nacelles, housing
main landing wheels when retracted,
are 24 ft. long. Nose cannon are re-
ported to be anti-tank weapons.
 The other is a new jet engine, the M-018.
It develops 7,700 pounds of thrust and has
an afterburner for extra bursts of power.
By way of comparison, the U. S. B-45 has
jet engines of only 5,200 pounds of thrust
but uses four compared with the Red Air
Force bomber's two.
The TU-10 is manned by a crew of three
—a pilot, a bombardier-radar operator and
a crew chief who doubles as tail gunner. It
compares closely in size and performance
with the British-developed Canberra, which
is being adopted by the U. S. Air Force but

is not yet in production. end New Red attack plane hits 580

BOMBARDIER-RADAR
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This Bus Rolls
Through the Sky
Mount Hood in Oregon gets longest tact with asphalt or any other road surface.
passenger-carrying aerial tramway. It came in at treetop level like a hedge-hop-
ping airplane and deposited 36 enthusiastic
By Richard L. Neuberger passengers on a wooden platform far above
WAS a great day when the first bus
ITarrived the snow.
at Timberline Lodge, halfway up This most extraordinary of busses now
Mount Hood's icy slopes, in the autumn of leaves every hour on the hour for the par-
1937. This bus arrived as busses generally tial ascent of the highest mountain in rugged

do— on the ground. It was an even greater Oregon. It climbs from the 3,800-foot
day in the late spring of this year when a notch on the south side of Mount Hood to
bus reached Timberline as busses only rare- the 6,000-foot elevation of famous Timber-
ly do— through the air. line Lodge. The terminal is 53 miles east
The vehicle was a twin-motor coach of of Portland, on State Highway No. 50.
370 horsepower, like the ones that rumble Riding cables suspended from 40 deeply
over the asphalt of hundreds of American anchored steel towers, the cloud-scraping
cities and towns. But this one had no con- sky coach swings up the mountain for 3.1

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Aerial bus, seen in mid-air on opposite page, starts ascent from roadside terminal above.

Driver uses tbese controls to maneuver the Passengers have magnificent aerial view of
sky-riding bus. Part of driving that calls for scenery as 36-passenger bus rides up and down
most skill is getting car over cables' supporting the slopes of Mt. Hood on cables stretched
"jacks" without excessive jolting. between A-shaped towers 50 to 600 feet apart.
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miles. This makes it the longest passenger- You glance out the window expecting a bus
carrying aerial tramway ever built. The car rider'scustomary view of store fronts. In-
gains more than 700 feet in altitude for each stead, you look at treetops or thin air. In
mile traveled. It takes 24 minutes to make many places the coach sways 70 feet above
the uphill journey with a full load. Run- the ground. There are no truly dizzy gaps
ning time on the descent is 16 minutes. below, such as at Sugar Loaf Mountain in
Unlike nearly all other aerial tramways, Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, for the Mount
the one on Mount Hood has stationary Hood "cloud liner" parallels the general
cables. They never move. Nor is there any contour of the earth. But the panorama
power equipment at the terminals. All the from its leather seats makes the pulse throb
tractive effort is contained in the bus, which faster. And that is the main reason why
literally hoists itself along the heavy lines $750,000 has been invested in building the
by means of traction cables below and project. It is essentially a scenic venture.
parallel to the weight-supporting cables.
Tourist Gets 150-Mile Aerial View
On each side of the bus, a traction cable
passes in turn over an idler pulley; around On the twisting gravel automobile road
the front "wheel," which is actually a pow- to Timberline, the majestic view was ob-
er-driven pulley; around a similar rear scured by foliage and switchbacks. Now
"wheel": and over another idler pulley, the tourist who has paid $1.50 for his
which unreels the traction cable at the rear round trip on the tramway can gaze out
as fast as it is reeled in at the front. When across the picturesque face of Oregon for
flat pancake-type motors at the bottom of nearly 150 miles. Not a wisp of vegetation
the bus get busy, the car rumbles up the interferes with his vision.
cables to Timberline. Out of the green sea of fir and pine tim-
Because these coaches are so much like ber, the extinct volcanoes of the Cascade
the bus that hauls you through town and Range loom like white frigates. Mount Jef-
city streets, a ride on the Mount Hood ferson is a snowy mainsail that seems close
tramway is all the more a novel experience. enough to touch with an alpenstock. And

Aerial bus swoops on fixed cables, supported top of the picture below. In many places, ve-
at each of the steel towers by "jack" seen at hicle soars 70 feet above the ground.

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Upper terminal of 3.1-mile sky ride is at the up Mt. Hood, Oregon's highest peak. In making
6,000-foot level of Timberline Lodge, halfway climb, the car gains 2,200 feet of altitude.

there, far off to the west, is the blue streak

of the Columbia River. On the eastern
horizon a desert of sagebrush chokes off the
lush forests. This line of demarcation is as
sharp as a moat. For camera fans, each
passing foot of elevation on Mount Hood's
steep ramparts unfolds a new vista.

Winter Interrupted Work

It took almost two years to root the 40
towers to the windswept apron of the
11,245-foot mountain. Men could work
only from May until October because ice
and snow reign on Hood the rest of the
year. No road or trail offered access along
the 3.1-mile route of the tramway. A series
of steep ruts for trucks and "cats" had to
be bulldozed before sacks of cement and
sand could be dragged up the mountain-
side for the massive foundations on which
the A-shaped towers would rest.
Terrain decided both the height and
number of towers. Some are 40 feet high,
others 72 feet. A few towers are only 50
feet apart, but many are separated by 600
feet of swinging cable. The concrete abut-
ments, in which the uprights have been
rooted, are 16 feet deep. The towers stretch
up the slope like a centipede of steel.
Two Busses Needed in Busy Season Skiers alight after ascent. Bus climbs under
own power by reeling in traction cables at front
Two motor busses provide the mobile and unreeling them in rear. Idler pulley, top,
equipment. Usually the second coach is op- guides cable to power pulley below.
erated only on week ends or at the peak of
the ski season. Both must head in the same down and wonder what would happen if

direction, for there is only one sky "track." the law of gravity suddenly went into un-
They can't pass each other. The two busses restricted operation. But each bus is fitted
must be at least 10 towers apart to avoid un- with a complete set of air brakes. These
desirable tension on the cable. clamp tightly on the wheels with brake
Is the route dangerous? The maximum bands almost an inch thick. If a leak or
incline slants at 28 percent. A few passen- line break should cause the pressure in the
gers have uneasy moments when they look [Continued on page 212]
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 VI":

Twenty-eight flagpoles — ordinary three-inch in with wood strips and calking. Only other
iron pipe— support this house at Glendale, Calif. wood in house is in doors, shelves, cabinets.
The walls are 4- by 8-foot Cemesto-board pan- Roof decking in such houses can be either
els clipped to light-steel Ls and Ts and sealed ribbed-steel panels or Cemesto board.

Easy-to-Alter
House Sits
on Flagpoles
NOabove
PIPE DREAM, the ultramodern house
nevertheless hung on pipes—
is

the ordinary three-inch black kind used for

flagpoles. It's said to be strong enough to last
250 years and stand a 150-m.p.h. gale. And
it can be easily expanded or altered, inside

or out.
The pipes, fixed in the concrete founda-
tion, are the columns that carry the whole
weight of the house. The eight-foot-square
opening between each pair is filled with two
four-by-eight panels. These are clipped to
stud bolts in a frame of steel Ls and Ts.
Panels can be solid, or doors or windows.
The roof frame is a welded grid of steel
beams and bridging.
Neither walls nor partitions are load-bear-
ing, so the room arrangement and the wall
openings can be easily changed. The house
can be expanded in eight-foot multiples by
setting new posts and welding on another
section of roof frame.
Eugene Memmler, Pasadena graphic-arts
Pipe columns every eight feet support open-
instructor, conceived the new
building meth-
web steel joists of roof. Angle iron will be
od. He and Frederick Rarienbrock, West welded to sides of pipes and across top and
Coast architect, developed the house. bottom of openings to hold wall panels.

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Model, shown with Eugene Memmler, who
originated house, demonstrates how angle clips
and stud holts hold window and wall panels in
place. Ratchet wrench is used to erect walls.

'Scope Camera Shoots Tiny Meteors

Astronomers can now photograph a
meteor no bigger than a buckshot as it
shoots across the night sky 50 times as
fast as a rifle bullet. This new Super-
Schmidt telescope-camera does the job.
It is expected to catch 40 times as many
meteors as present sky cameras, covering
a tenth of the visible sky in one exposure.
Acquired by Harvard, it uses two 18-inch
lenses and a 23-inch concave mirror.

Glass-fiber ceiling panels, 2 feet by 4 feet,

rest on flanges of I beams and Ts. They can
be conveniently lifted out for painting or clean-
ing, or to reach pipes and wiring.

Tiny Picture Tube Tests TV Coils

This one-inch TV picture tube— said
to be the world's smallest— is used by a
television manufacturer to test coils that
control picture size, focus and brightness.
Ordinarily put around the necks of reg-
ular tubes, they now can be tested quick-
ly by slipping them over the face of the
Electric outlets are wired through wall chan-
miniature tube, avoiding disturbance to
Main wiring and
nels alongside pipe columns.
water pipes run through open-web roof joists connections at the base. Du Mont, the de-
between the ceiling panels and the outer roof. signer, does not sell the tiny tubes.

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 First color receiver, CBS-Columbia console,
left, will also catch black-and-white telecasts.

Here Is What
You'll Find

Inside the New Color TV Sets

By Robert Gorman build onto a present black-and-white set.
CBS colorcasts can be received in black-
COLOR receivers are simple and should and-white on any set if an adapter is added
be within the economic reach of the to it. Colors can be seen by adding a con-
great mass of the purchasing public," de- verter with color wheel to an adapted set.
clared the Federal Communications Com- Or a slave unit consisting of a separate pic-
mission when it okayed the Columbia ture tube and color wheel can be connected
Broadcasting System's proposals for color up to an ordinary TVset to bring in color
television. pictures.
One way to make a color receiver is to But manufacturers are rushing now to

Pilot model of the works inside the console at present receivers, but has added circuit to keep
top of page. Chassis is littledifferent from color wheel synchronized with transmitter.
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produce combination sets that will receive
either colorcasts or black-and-white on the
same screen. One of the first of these to be
disclosed is the CBS-Columbia console (in
some places also trade-named "Air King"),
shown on this and the facing page. It is
made by a subsidiary of* the color-cham-
pioning Columbia Broadcasting System.
How it works. When a color picture is
televised in the studio, filters at the camera
separate the picture's red, blue and green
components. These individual color "fields"
are transmitted as a rapid succession of
black-and-white images. They are sent out
at a rate of 144 a second.
To put this picture together in the re-
ceiver, a spinning color wheel passes over
Clear segments of wheels line up before panel
these black-and-white pictures at exactly
window when motor is off ( top above ) . When
the same rate. In Air King receivers, the wheels spin for colorcasts, one lags half a turn
wheel is driven by a motor that's linked to behind other, giving full color wheel (bottom).
the wheel shaft with a toothed belt.
This specially designed induction motor
can hold to a fairly constant speed. By it-
self, though, it probably wouldn't stay for
long in exact step with the transmitter. To
keep it locked in, the receiver uses an in-
genious comparison circuit that gets its
timing orders from the incoming pictures.
Wheel-speed control. A small seg-
mented disk called an alternator is attached
to the color-wheel shaft. As it turns, it cuts
through the magnetic field of a tone gener-
ator. It interrupts the field at about 144
times a second.
This, together with the incoming picture
pulses, gives two sets of 144-cycle tones.
Both are fed to a control circuit and elec- Twin wheels make it possible to see black-and-
white shows without moving them aside
tronically compared. So long as they are
(above). The 10-in. screen magnified to 1232-in.
the same, nothing happens. But any differ- is as big as can be used easily with disks.
ence between them results in a voltage that
is fed to a special transformer called a
saturable reactor. The reactor immediately
responds by modifying the power that
drives the motor, speeding or slowing the
wheel until it keeps exact pace with the
incoming picture.
Wheel- phase control. Like a rookie
who marches at the same pace as his squad
but out of step, the color disk in a receiver
can still be wrong. It can spot the green
segment in front of the picture tube when
the red one should be there. When you
turn the set on, the wheel may join the pa-
rade at the right speed— but out of phase.
The answer to this is comparatively
simple. When a green-haired singer shows Wheel motor, its speed precisely governed by
transmitter pulses, turns color-wheel shaft by a
up, you just touch the phasing switch on toothed belt. This gives a positive, nonslip
the control panel. This causes the color drive, like a car's timing chain.

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drive to skip a beat, bringing the right The other half is divided into color seg-
color segment into place at the right mo- ments. Each wheel turns on the same shaft,
ment. (Since there are three colors in- secured to it by hubs that use a clever
volved, the singer may look even queerer centrifugal locking device. When the
the first time you touch the switch. But wheels spin, they are locked 180 degrees
just keep at it and she'll turn the right apart so the coloted part of one masks the
color). clear part of the other. In this state they
Two wheels used. Having succeeded in amount to a single, complete color wheel.
coloring the picture, the designers of the But when they stop, the centrifugal hubs
combination receiver were faced with a and a brake bring the wheels to rest with
poser: what do you do with the color the clear sections lined up in front of the
wheel when you want to watch a regular tube face for black-and-white viewing.
black-and-white program? Pivoting mounts This combination receiver uses a 10-
to swing the whole rig out of the way would inch tube, magnified by a built-in lens to
be bulky and cumbersome. 12M inches. It'll retail for about $500, with
They licked this problem by using two a companion model in a plainer cabinet go-
wheels. Half of each one is clear plastic. ing for around $400.

World's Fastest Jet Bomber Drinks Fuel in Mid-Air

The 600-m.p.h., swept-wing B-47 Strato- from under the tail of the Boeing double-
jet Air Force bomber now can refuel its six decked KC-97A tanker plane (top) makes
engines in flight, as shown in the demon- contact with a coupling in the bomber's
stration below. The boom, seen sticking out nose, and fuel is pumped in at high speed.

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 Old-Parts Jalopy Does 110 M.P.H.
HUSKY John Cunningham, California rails. It has a Chevrolet steering gear—
truck driver, spent $2,000 and several with the wheel set square in the center-
hundred hours building a jalopy that looks Ford springs, '34 Ford brakes converted to
vaguely like a '32 Ford V-8 with Model T hydraulics with Chevrolet wheel cylinders
fenders. And the effort paid off. It has been and rear shocks, and a Ford front axle, grille
clocked at 110 m.p.h. and radiator.
The car has a Mercury engine. Its Model The car's 230-pound owner drives a 40-
T body rides on 1930 Chevrolet frame ton oil tanker during his working hours, end

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Merry-Go-Round
Launches Planes
A pilot would never "run out of runway"
with this "merry-go-round" take-off device.
Tethered to the ground by a cable, he would
simply fly in circles until he had gained suf-
ficient altitude, then cast off and soar away.
If his engine should fail during the critical
take-off period, he could circle back down
and land safely on the field— instead of in a
tree or on somebody's house.
Intended to provide small fields with the
equivalent of infinitely long runways, the
idea dates back nearly half a century. It was
first tried successfully by Jean A. Roche in

an Aeronca plane at Wright Field, Ohio, in

1938. Now it has been put through tests at
a Riverdale, Md., field by Sanders Aviation,
Inc., using an Ercoupe. The scheme is also
said to aid in test-flying new planes, keeping
them within a few safe feet of the field.

Veteran Racer Is Record Challenger driver-owner, Lt. Col. Goldie Gardner,

The streamlined M.G. Special above was holder of 81 records, and the first man to
shipped from England recently to try for exceed 200 m.p.h. in a light car. At present
new records at the Bonneville Salt Flats, in the car has a four-cylinder, 1,250-c.c. (76.5-
Utah, after a racing history dating back to cu. in) standard production engine fitted
1938. Behind the wheel is its 60-vear-old with a supercharger.

Model Ship Teaches Loading

A 19-foot, transparent-plastic scale mod-
el of a cargo ship ( left ) helps Army officers
at Fort Eustis, Va., learn how to load a ves-
sel efficiently. Removable decks let them ar-
range and rearrange models of tanks, trucks,
self-propelled guns, and other cargo in the
holds. And when they're finished experi-
menting, the instructor can just look through
the clear-plastic hull to see how well they've
done.

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 AT SUFFICIENT ALTITUDE,
PILOT CASTS OFF CABLE
AND PLANE IS FREE

Bike Hitch Tows Child's Wagon

The kids can make like truckers now,
with aluminum attachments that tow wagons
behind their bicycles or tricycles. Trike-
Hitch (right) clamps to the frame of a tri-
cycle, while Bike-Hitch (inset), which in-
cludes a red safety reflector, bolts to the rear
fender and axle of a two-wheeler. The hitch
lugs hold the wagon handle securely, yet al-
low full swivel action. The Kar-Lin Co.,
Minneapolis, makes them.

Machine Dispenses Folding Money

You'll have to wait only half as long in
line to cash a check if banks adopt a new
paper-money dispensing machine. Instead of
counting out bills, a cashier punches a few-
keys— and out comes the right amount, up to
$299. A Burroughs Adding Machine Co. ex-
perimental model (left) works like a change
dispenser, handling rolled bills instead of
coins. An accessory desk-top machine rolls
and wraps bills for its use.

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Cat and Rat
Make Friends

WHO
work
says old enemies can't
out their differences
and get along? The cats and rats
shown on this page prove they
can— especially where something
as important as chow is con-
cerned. They're subjects in ex-
periments conducted by Dr. Loh When do we eat? Rat and cat are ready— they see food
Seng Tsai, Tulane psychology through glass barrier, smell it over open top.
professor, to prove that these
'"natural enemies" can be friend-
ly and work together.
Whenplaced in a cage togeth-
er, cats and rats quickly learned
that both had to step on foot
buttons at the same time to get
past the glass barrier to the food.
Having the animals good and
hungry helped.

Come anil gel it! Cooperation

pays off when buttons pressed si-
multaneously drop door, allowing
animals to reach food.

One big happy family settles down to a tasty meal as food wins out over fend.
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 Keeping the
Home Shipshape

A wire coat hook screwed to joist or ceiling

will hold a cellarwindow open. Bend down
the end of the hook to form a right angle.
Turning it will release the window.

Salt-box lids with pouring spouts can be fit- You won't have to be Hercules to plant a
ted into the sealing rings of Mason jars to beach umbrella firmly in the sand if you
make handy canisters. Contents are visible and cut or file a coarse screw thread on the end.
spout makes it easy to pour and measure. It will turn into the sand easily.

Pop's shaving soap and brush will find For a neater paint job on clapboards, do the
leaks in plastic blow-up toys. Bubbles show underneath edges first. Brush several edges
tiny ones hard to locate any other way. Patch- at a time for a few yards. Then coat the
ing kits are on the market. faces of the boards.
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 Keeping the Home Shipshape

Keep leftover strands of embroidery floss Venetian blinds sometimes bang against the
between the pages of a book. The ends of woodwork when windows are open. Rubber
the strands peeking out at the top make it bumpers made for toilet seats will silence them
easy to pick out colors. and protect woodwork. Attach as shown.

Buttering corn on the cob with a knife is a A large aluminum cookie sheet will hold
job. Try using a plastic spoon drilled with your toaster and several small dishes for sand-
holes. Rub the butter-filled spoon over the wich spreads. Black plastic or chromium han-
com and the heated butter will seep through. dles at the ends make the tray easier to carry.

An outdoor clothes dryer can be used as a canvas cover for it. Fasten the cover on with
handy garden umbrella if you make a simple drawstrings or tabs and snaps.

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At drawing board, Piasecki dreams up new 'copters like huge XH-16 transport (large model).

The Boy Who Grew

Flying Bananas
He is only 31, rich already, and still going up like his 'copters.

By L. B. White tandem principle of rotary flight. He is

now the builder of the world's fastest "egg
THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD Frank Piasec- beater"— and also its largest.
(pronounced pie-uh-seck-y) is Chair-
ki Or take the military, which a decade ago
man of the Board of the Piasecki Helicopter had never used a rotary-wing craft, and a
Corporation, but don't let that fool you: year ago had never employed one in com-
his chief business is making liars out of bat: now the Navy, Army, and Air Force
defeatists. can't get 'em off the hand-assembly lines
Take the skeptics who assured him, when fast enough— and enthusiasts are babbling
he was 15, that his dream dragonfly had no about "helitactics" that may completely alter
future: eight years later, with only 14 hours the logistics of warfare (PS, July '51, p. 89).
in a Piper Cub behind him, Frank took his At 20, sun-bronzed, dark-eyed "Pi" ( as he
junk-yard-assembled PV-2 up for a trial is known to most of PHC's 2,000 employees)

spin— and went on to develop the two-rotor had successfully disproved the theory that
AUGUST 1951 |29
When Piasecki took his first "junk-yard" helicopter up in 1943, his plant was an old garage.

young men cannot get their dreams off the settled in Philadelphia. There Piasecki's
ground in a ceiling zero of hard times, tight dad set up a tailor shop that brought him
credit, and widespread unemployment such neither poverty nor riches. When Frank
as the mid-1980s offered. At 23, both he was five, his father gave him a violin, hoping
and his dream were airborne. to make him a concert artist. After eight
At 31, he has thrust his familiar black years' diligent practice, the young high-
Homburg, jaunty mustache, and bow tie school junior was rewarded with a model
into an income bracket pierced by only a plane. It flew— and that took the pressure
fraction of one percent of the human race. off Kreisler and Heifetz.
Given his known rate of forward speed, it
Bike Shop Made 'Giros—and Exercycles
seems probable that, before he is 40, this
gee-whiz kid of big-time aviation will have He dreamed, as Leonardo da Vinci had
zipped past the last of the artificially con- four centuries before, of a machine that
tracted horizons of the Jeremiahs who argue would rise vertically, move in any direction,
that the age of opportunity has vanished. and hover like the dragonflies that criss-
crossed the sluggish Schuylkill on a hot
It's a Young Man's Game
summer day. At that time, the first success-
Come to think of it, the Jeremiahs never ful helicopter flight in this country, by
have squelched the boy geniuses of the Sikorsky, was four years away. Rut over
helicopter business. Sikorsky, granddaddy in Camden, N. J.,
Wallace Kellett was fool-
of the egg beaters, now 62, built his first ing around with Autogiros in his bicycle
helicopter (it didn't fly) in his father's back shop. The day he got his high-school
yard in Russia when he was 20. Stanley diploma, Frank signed on with Kellett.
Hiller, Jr., boy-wonder of the windmills, Foreman Bill Swann put the fledgling
had a $100,000 business at 14. aerodynamicist to work, not on the whirli-
Frank. Piasecki's parents were Poles who gigs, but on Exercycles for plump matrons.
fled Russian rule during World War I and First day, he turned out more than his

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By the end of this year, Piasecki's main plant, located at Morton, Pa., will look like this.

quota; Swann raised it. Second day, same quite good enough. In 1940 Frank and five
thing. Also third and fourth days. Frank working pals who also wanted to make avi-
kept thinking that if he made enough ation-engineering history met in a coal-
Exercycles, they might set him on 'giros. stove-heated empty store and organized the
"Son," said Swann, as the fifth day P-V Engineering Forum. The "V" stands
dawned, "you aimin' to get rich?" for one of the partners, Harold Venzie. Of
The young eager beaver, who stood to the others, F. J. Kosloski, Donald N. Meyers,
earn pretty close to $15 for the week's Elliott Daland, and Walter Swartz, the lat-
superhuman effort, grinned hopefully. ter three are with Piasecki today.
"Well," said Swann, "fact is, you've Some business came, but nobody asked
worked yourself out of a job altogether." them to make a helicopter. Then Pearl Har-
bor put the U. S. Armed Services in a mood
Positions Reversed Now to underwrite development in all directions.
Piasecki likes to twit Bill Swann about Piasecki realized that, to get a hearing, he
that every time he bumps into him at the would have to get a ship up. He bullied
Piasecki plant in Morton, Pa. (Oh, yes: his partners into pooling their small salary
Bill'sa foreman at PHC now. "I made up margins and badgering their relatives for
my mind," his present boss says, "that any loans. The Forum moved to a garage.
man who could fire people so painlessly With bits and pieces frdm a near-by
belonged on my team.") Pennsylvania Railroad junk yard, buying
Other jobs followed that summer of 1935. nothing but their engine, the six men la-
Frank began working his way through a bored before and after regular work to put
three-year course at the University of Penn- together the PV-2.
sylvania. Then he switched to New York Meanwhile the Navy was looking for a
University, to study rotary-wing design. rescue craft that could pull ditched fliers
The young zealot was earning while he from sea to deck in the roughest weather.
learned. But working for others wasn't For helicopters to do that job demanded
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greater stability with a greater pay load. The corporation has shown a profit every
Helicopters flying then gained "stability" year. Frank's stock in it now is said to be
by a side-spinning rotor at the tail that worth over a million. Already on two full
counteracted torque— but did nothing else. shifts, PHC expects to have a $10,000,000
Piasecki long had reasoned that two coequal pay roll this vear. What is more significant,
rotors in tandem would not only overcome it has a hog's third of $300,000,000 in
torque, but would give an egg beater added helicopter orders from the armed forces.
lift and thrust. This stability solution, he And the reason is not hard to find: PHC's
reasoned further, also would give the 'cop- brisk young chairman has got some neat
ter added carrying capacity— making the jobs coming off the line.
will-o'-the-wisp windmill a helicopter hauler. One of these is the H-21, an improved
version of the Flying Banana. The Air
So It Won't Work, Eh?
Force has settled on this as its all-purpose •

A distinguished fellow-aerodynamicist rescue craft and the Army and Marines will
gloomily predicted that the downwash of use it for transport. Carrying a crew of two
the front rotor would so upset the rear rotor and ranging up to 300 miles, it was origi-
that the machine would suffer terrific vibra- nally designed to pick up 7 to 10 men from
tion and loss of efficiency. ("Experts," the sea; now it is to be used over ice ledge,
Charles F. Kettering once remarked, "are rice paddy, and jungle.
the fellows who can find why an idea won't The second Piasecki model in production
work.") Frank ran a wind-tunnel Schlieren is the HUP, which the Navy regards as its

test that proved these fears were ground- all-purposework horse for shipboard serv-
less. And on Feb. 1, 1944, the Navy told ice.Tandem rotor clearance is achieved by
the boys to go ahead and see what they mounting the rear rotor on a pylon, instead
could do with the PV-3 (XHRP-1). of by the sway-back Banana configuration.
The six partners worked 14 to 16 hours With blades folded, it will descend in the
a day. Thirteen months after getting the smallest carrier elevator.
green light, Frank Piasecki took up the
Next the Trailer-Truck 'Copter
world's first transport helicopter, the first
tandem model to fly successfully. But by far the biggest (and hottest) news
Thus was born the famous Flying Ba- from PHC is the recent go-ahead on the
nana. The admirals quickly ordered 10 XH-16.
more, then another 10. Today these are The XH-16 is still an experimental proj-

mostly being used to train Marines. ect. It has been called "the trailer-truck of
From March 1945 Frank Piasecki was
on, the future."It will carry at least 40 men
in the helicopter business. But he still and/or an attachable-detachable prepacked
needed capital. Laurance S. Rockefeller pod the size of a Greyhound bus. The
solved that problem. With a few other fuselage has the general shape and dimen-
financiers, he took over a controlling inter- sions of the Convair Liner. Equipped with
est in what became, in 1946, the Piasecki twin engines (with all sorts of primary and
Helicopter Corporation. [Continued on page 222~\

Sign of the times. Motorists using the road helicopters, like this Flying Banana coming in
below are warned to watch out for low-flying to settle down at the Piasecki heliport.
I'd like
to see them
make . .

Everyone has his own pet idea of some gadget he A clip-on generator for use on outboard mo-
would like to see in general use. What is YOURS? tors. It could be a low-voltage, permanent-
Popular Science will pay $5.00 for each one pub-
lished. Use government postcards only. Contributions magnet type, delivering enough juice tor run-
cannot be acknowledged or returned. ning lights or for a spotlight to help you pick
up a dock.—/. Z. Reeves, Vanderbilt, Tex.

An electric drill with a built-in oil squirter A sliding, or hinged, shoe-shine footrest on the
similar to the water feed on dentists' drills. Then middle step of kitchen stepstools, with a drawer
you wouldn't have to stop to add cutting oil to hold shoe-shining equipment inserted under
when drilling metal.— Ralph Jacobsen, Staten a step or under the top of the stool.— Dean
Island, N. Y. Riggins, Huntington Park, Calif.

Transparent plastic distributor caps and rotor Hinges with an oil hole near the top of the
arms for cars. They'd make it easy for me- hinge pin, leading to a spiral groove down the
chanics to locate, under running conditions, length of the pin. Then squeaking doors could
such distributor troubles as high-voltage leaks be quieted without removing the pin.— Edward
and shorts.—/. N. Ellis, St. John, N. B. Wujcik, Detroit.
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Cop later ial

Diunci HUUO tip

to the Family Car

A supercharger will give you plenty off

—
horses under the hood and keep you on
your toes learning to handle them.

By Hartley E. Howe
"T STEPPED on the gas, lightly I thought,
A to pull around a car, and before I knew
it I was going so fast I was past my street

and a block beyond it."

That was the report of a driver after tak-
ing his car out for the first time with a new
gadget on it— a supercharger. It could be
the report of anyone who comes unprepared
to a supercharged engine. Putting this me-
chanical bellows under the hood has the
same effect on a sedate family sedan that Italmeccnnica supercharger kit is unpacked
the Painkiller had on Tom Sawyer's cat— by Jim Pauley of Sportscar Enterprises, Banks-
ville, N. Y. He estimates average installation
they both light out and they don't much cost at around $50. Kit itself costs $387.50.
care where. The performance change can
be striking— but a motorist must change his
driving habits to go with it. TWO STEEl-CORE
V BELTS
Kits Replace Custom Jobs NEW
' MANIFOLD
Until recently, superchargers interested
only hot-rod enthusiasts. Blowers had been
SPECIAL
around since the 1889 Daimler, but you GENERATOR
could have a supercharged American car in BRACKET

recent years only by ordering a custom

blower for your model. Now kits are be-
ing made for a number of stock cars. Any
good mechanic can put one on in a day.
What is a supercharger? Essentially it's
just an air blower. It takes the fuel-air mix-
ture from the carburetor and blows it into
the cylinder under pressure, instead of leav-
ing it to be sucked in by the intake stroke of
the piston. Thus you obtain a greater
weight of fuel mixture in the cylinder. To
put it differently, the pressure of the mix-
IHere are pieces of Italmeccanica supercharg-
ture inside the cylinder has been increased
er kit ready to go on 1950 Mercury. Note use
by two-stage compression— once by the su- of two stock Ford carburetors. Kits come for
percharger, once by the compression stroke Fords, Mercurys, Chevrolets, Crosleys, Studies.

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 Mercury, left, zooms up grade
with supercharger giving extra
boost. One driver reported that
on lulls of New York's Bear Mt.
Park, where he formerly had to
shift, he went over top in super-
charged car so fast he had to
case up on accelerator.

of the piston. In effect, the supercharger in- supercharger, will cut down efficiency. Be-
creases compression ratio. But how much? sides, the supercharger itself eats up sev-
Well, the theoretical boost can he figured eral horsepower.
by multiplying the compression of the su- The power gain primarily results from the
percharger by the original compression ra- higher pressure w ithin the cylinder. But the
tio. If the supercharger compresses the fuel better mixture of fuel and air that a super-
mixture 1.5 and the original ratio is 7 to 1, charger gives helps, too. So does the even
then the result is equivalent to increasing charge blow n into each cylinder regardless
the compression ratio to 10.5 to I. ot minor variations in piston speed or timing.
i
Kitsnow on the market represent the two
Bttosts Power Up to US Percent
principal types of blowers. The Frenzel,
The boost in horsepower should be- made inDenver, is a centrifugal type, which
theoretically— in the same ratio as the boost hurls the air around and lets it Hy. like a
the supercharger gives the manifold pres- slingshot. It is said to give approximately
sure. If the increase is S pounds over the a 40-percent horsepower increase at about
original atmospheric pressure of 14.5, then 3,750 r.p.m.
the horsepower increase should be on a ra- The [talmeccanica blower, imported from
tio of 22.5 to 14.5, or roughly 3 to 2. Ac- Italy, is a positive-displacement blower of
tually, it will be considerably less. Igni- the Rootes type. It traps the air-fuel mixture
tion lag, and heating of the charge by the between intermeshing rotors in a housing

2IVew crankshaft pulley is first step. Radia- 3 New manifold is now on, and fuel pump is
tor, hatter>, air filter, carburetor, manifold, bolted to it. Just below mech's right wrist
fan assembly, fuel pump, and old crankshaft is blow-off valve that relieves pressure in case
pulley have all been taken oil at the outset. of J^acklire, preventing damage to blower.

AUGUST 1951 |35

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and pushes it out. The power increase is a safe and deserted stretch of four-lane high-
reported to run between 48 and 85 percent. way reported doing 95 before having to
I talked to a number of drivers who had slow up for a curve. "You don't have to
recently handled cars with an Italmeccanica nurse your engine up to 85 or better," he
installed. A big boost in power was the declared, "it walks right up there by itself
first thing mentioned by all of them. There in a hurry and there is a lot of accelerator
was general agreement that whatever gear travel left. She had at least 30 m.p.h. left
you were in, you got at least the power of at that speed."
the next lower gear— without, of course, a All drivers agreed that a new sense of
lower gear's speed ceiling. All the driv- space-time relationships— how far you can
ers reported pulling away from such hot jobs go, how fast— is essential if a driver is to
as the Olds 88 and 98 and fishtail Caddies. keep out of trouble. All braked more than
usual at first, tending to ride up the back of
"Really Kicks Its Heels"
the car ahead.
As one driver put it: "Beginning at Outside of power performance, all the
35 to 40 m.p.h., it really kicks its heels and drivers found things to criticize about the
lets go. The faster you go, the more the supercharged car— the extent of their criti-
supercharger seems to boost the engine. cism varying with the relative importance
You can accelerate from 50 to 60, for in- they placed on pep and smoothness. For
stance, with the same zip that most cars one thing, the supercharger was noisy, not
give you between 35 and 45." overwhelmingly loud but insistent, par-
As for top speed, a driver who had found ticularly at low speeds. Passengers some-

4 Blower has been installed, and new genera- 5 Belt for generator and left water pump is
tor support is added on left of engine, where adjusted to pulley. Twin belts in foreground
generator is moved to make room tor charger. drive blower from crankshaft at 1.14-to-l ratio.

6 Twin carburetors are now bolted atop man- 7 Completed installation. Gas line has two-
ifold.Hole between them in base is for vac- way fitting so it can feed both carburetors.
uum line from blower intake to control auto- Carburetor throttle valves have been linked by
matic spark advance. Manifold now has pressure a rod so they respond to throttle simultaneously.
instead of vacuum so it can no longer be used. Note that battery has been shifted.

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times found the sharp pick-up uncomfort-
able, but this was partly because the driv-
ers were not used to it.
As for gasoline consumption, these driv-
ers reported a small but definite increase.
Whether this was due to the supercharger
itself, or to the different kind of driving it
encouraged— fast starts, bursts of speed-
was not clear. Experts themselves differ as
to whether the supercharger itself increases
'
gasoline consumption.

You Pay a Price for Power Rootes type of positive-displacement blower is

shown schematically above. Rotors revolve in
When you come to consider the long-term opposite directions each carrying fuel mixture.
effects on a car, there is probably increased At exit, intermeshing action of rotors forces out

wear. And there can be no question but mixture. Since each rotor revolution pumps
nearly same volume regardless of r.p.m., blower
that a supercharger increases the load on loses little efficiency at low speeds, is well
engine blocks, main bearings, gaskets, and suited to variable speeds of ordinary driving.
spark plugs. For this reason, Italmeccanica
makes no kits for some stock cars that do
not have enough margin of extra strength supercharger would seem to depend on
to take the stresses. what you like best in a car— flashing power
All in all, whether or not you want a or conservative performance with maximum
economy. If the former, youH like it.
How centrifugal supercharger whirls air and There's a possibility that superchargers
shown in schematic drawing at right
lets it fly is may loom larger on the American automo-
below. In general, centrifugal blowers move seem
bile scene, for they to offer some as-
less air per revolution at low r.p.m.s than at
high, thus are less efficient at low speeds sets of high compression without its liabili-
and best suited to steady fast driving. Photo- ties. The catchin high compression ratios
graph below left shows Frenzel centrifugal is that in most engines they heat up the
blower. Air is pulled from carburetors, rear, mixture in a cylinder so that it tends to
and blown into manifold, below. Cast-aluminum
ignite prematurely, producing a ping that
impeller turns about six
times as fast as crank-
shaft. Manifold pressure
is boosted six pounds
at 4,200 r.p.m. Frenzel m
^^^^^^

\
/
^
i^V
w \
V\
is at best annoying .and at worst can wreck

the engine. To avoid this ping, higher-oc-

tane gasoline must be used. As compres-
sion ratios climb, oil-company engineers
makes kits for Ford and f / I
Mercury models from
1939 through 1948. Kits
I f
|

1^
—7
L tFr'xv,*/ are definitely unhappy about the tremen-
dous investment in high-octane refining
I I ?*V
cost $183.75
Denver.
F. O. B. J [N^ plants that higher ratios will necessitate.
I

Hi 'Ah Performance Without High Octanes

So some of them are looking at the super-

charger for an out. Since it compresses the
gas-vapor mixture partially outside the cyl-
inder, the mixture loses some of its heat
before it reaches the cylinder. What's more,
a cooler can be installed between the blow-
er and the manifold to reduce the tempera-
ture of the supercharged mixture reaching
the cylinder. This has already been done
experimentally, lowering the temperature,
as much as 60 degrees. That would give
you really high performance without high
octanes.
So someday you may be driving a car
with a supercharger, even if you don't know
the difference between a hot rod and a hot
foot. END
AUGUST 1951 |37
 Aids to Modern Living

Periscope Glasses. You can relax in that

and these
horizontal position glasses will
right-angle your vision for reading or tele-
viewing. Made of prismatic glass. Lazy
Lenses need no professional fitting and can
be slipped right over corrective glasses if you
wear them. Side pieces can be adjusted for
width. Mark Cross, New York City. $19.75.

Magnetic Tray. Juggling a tray through a

roomful of people, or over bumpy ground
outdoors, is less of a hazard if you serve
liquid refreshments this way. Magnets con-
cealed in the plastic coasters anchor them to
the metal tray. Because jostling and tipping
won't dislodge them, they're fine for chil-
dren's parties, too. Kelcey Products, Brook-
lyn, N. Y. $5.98.

Quick-Clip Hanger. A built-in spring keeps Medicine-Cabinet Organizer. This shelf,

tension on the telescoping arm of this hang- attached with suction cups on adjustable
er, re-setting the crease while your trousers arms, fits any cabinet. Slots hold razor, brush,
hang in the closet. Hanger contracts to re- shaving cream, or toothpaste. Modernwise
•
lease trousers. Holdapres Co., Detroit. $1. Cabinet Co., Washington, D. C. Under $3.
Two-in-One Oven. Some
new electric stoves can do
everything for the cook
but buy the groceries. Two
Frigidaire models have ov-
ens that cook a roast and
bake a cake at different
temperatures at the same
time in the same oven. A
movable heating unit con-
verts the large singleoven
into two separate ovens,
with separate controls for
each. The upper oven also
serves as a broiler. Move
the center section into the
bottom and the two ovens
again become a single
giant oven.

Egg-Nipper. Slip the Egg- Easy-to- C lean Shade. Pipe-Cleaner Pouch. Pipe
Topper over the egg, press Vinylite plastic lamp shades cleaners as well as tobacco
the handles, and a stainless- look and feel like silk. But are always handy in this
steel blade nips through shell they'll wipe clean with a little plasticpouch. It has pockets
and membrane, lifting off the soap and a damp sponge. in the flap to hold five of
top. Jepson Mfg. Co., Oak- Michael Lamp Shade Corp., them. Korey Products, New
land, Calif. $1. New York City.' York City. $1.

Hand-Savers. Big, comfort- Rubber Keg. Ice cubes last Shred-Catcher. Inter-
able handles on these garden longer in this keg, which changeable shredders lock
shears give you more leverage won't dent, break, sweat, or into the cover of this plastic
with less pressure. Calhawaii corrode. Village Store, Lake catch pan. Evernu Products,
Co., Pasadena. $2.95. Placid, N. Y. $7.75. San Francisco. $2.50.

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EFFICIENTLY IN ANY POSITION DIRECTLY TO BLADE TRACK

How a Chainsaw Works

YOU'VE ever tried to cut a tree— even a
IFsmall A typical model has a single-cylinder, air-
one— you understand why woods- cooled, two-cycle engine of three hp. A
men count the modem chainsaw their great- gasoline-oil mixture serves both as fuel and
est blessing sinceBabe, Paul Bunyan's blue lubricant. Floatless carburetion permits use
ox. You just hold on and let this motorized in any position. Since the saw cuts at full
beaver chew its way through the tree. Al- throttle, the engine warms up until, at 1,800
ready more than 200,000 chainsaws, rang- r.p.m., an automatic clutch engages an end-
ing from small units that cut limbs to 12-hp. less chain, whose 26 cutting teeth chew
giants that fell the tall timber, are in use. their way through the wood.

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 BLADE OF CHROME PLATED
SPRING STEEL WITH
CASE-HARDENED TRACK

Typical chainsaw diagramed at left above,

McCulloch 3-25 model, has single-cylinder en-
gine developing three hp. It weighs 25 pounds.
Here it chews through Minnesota maple.

Styles of teeth, at right, vary in three stand-

ard types of chain. Cutting teeth, flat or
curved, act like chisels. Depth gauges govern
amount of bite. Rake teeth sweep put shavings.
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Pilot Steers by Periscope
A jet plane is about as far away from a
submarine as you can get. But the com-
manders of both may soon be looking out at
the world the same way— through peri-
scopes. The jet pilot may need a 'scope be-
cause his streamlined supersonic craft is
likely to have no room for a windshield.
The University of Illinois is already test-
ing flights with a periscope. That's what
pokes out of the blindfolded Cessna T-50
above. It creates an image above the instru-
ment panel inside the plane (at right). The
first trials indicate that a pilot can fly as

well with a wide-angle periscope view on an

eight-inch-square screen as he can with
direct vision. Television is also being con-
sidered for this purpose.

Six-Wheel-Drive Grader Helps Seabees Build Navy Outposts

It takes more than deep mud or a 50- drives all its six wheels, and propels it at six
percent grade to stop the new Navy grader forward speeds, permitting more than 15
below, used by Seabees to build roads and m.p.h. on level ground. The 17,000-pound
airstrips at advanced bases. A 76-hp. engine machine can fit into a big cargo plane.

<*> ft*

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.1
Gun Cartridges Drive Steel Studs plastic-capped cartridge, and the unit is in-
With this new stud driver, the operator serted in the firing chamber, as shown in
carries the source of power in his pocket— photo at right above. To prevent firing by
32-cal. blank cartridges. Weighing less than accident, a steel nose guard must first be
six pounds and about the size of an electric pressed hard against the work surface and
drill,the tool drives heat-treated steel studs a separate safety button must be depressed.
into steel, wood, concrete, or brick at a five- Studs come in 20 sizes. The stud gun is the
a-minute clip. That is about 50 times faster first of a series of power-package tools being

than the job can be done with hand tools. developed by the Remington Arms Co., of
To operate the tool, a stud is placed in a Bridgeport, Conn.

Slots Hold Checker Pieces Bike Takes Baby for Buggy Ride
Blind or bed patients can hold this This baby buggy becomes a sidecar by
checkerboard in any position—even vertically means of two retractable tubes attached to
—and the pieces won't slide off. They're a plate that fits any bicycle. Pulling a han-
held on screwheads that fit into 32 keyhole dle forward over the hood of the carriage
slots in the playing squares on the board. then raises all but one rear wheel off the
The inventor, John H. Wheat, of Pueblo, ground so Mom can pedal merrily along
Colo., also has a similar board, with slot posi- while she takes Junior for an airing. The
tions in all 64 squares, for playing both chess 2-fp. (footpower) Pramcar was exhibited at
and checkers. the British Industries Fair in London.
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Cop
 Last minute news & notes.

LOOK FOR POSTPONEMENT of announce- was 99.2 percent, although only

ments of 1952 automobiles until late weapon was shutting off service.
in the year or even next January.
Manufacturers are postponing produc- RADIOACTIVE COBALT, an isotope from
tion decision until they know how atomic piles, will be used in cancer
much raw materials the Government treatment. Four wafers, each less
will allow them WE'VE HAD A
. . . than an inch square and % inch
PEEK at plans for the '52 Ford, and thick, give, at a tiny fraction of
you're in for some surprises. The the cost, the same radiation as
design is completely revised . . . 826,000,000 worth of radium . . .

MOST OF THE GM LINE will undergo AN ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE that can actu-
only modifications, but Olds and ally lift 100 times its own weight
Cadillac will have a much- improved has been made by Columbia biologist
automatic transmission THAT . . . Teru Hayashi. Composed of acto-
HEMISPHERICAL-HEAD Chrysler engine myosin, a chemical found in all
probably will drift down into at muscle, it works when reacting to
least one of the lower-priced ATP, another muscle chemical . . .

Chrysler Corp. cars LINCOLN

. . . LATEST ACTH RESEARCH, at University
plans a major power improvement, but of Utah, gives 40 times as much of
don't expect Buick to abandon its the hormone from hog glands as be-
straight-eight--yet fore . WIRE MESH forms "lath"
. .

backing for skin patches in new

SWEDISH ENGINEERS go for a rowboat technique developed by Dr. D. L.
ride 90 feet underground when they Paulson, of Dallas. Used in wind-
inspect their latest oil-storage pipes and bronchial tubes, patches
center. It's in a worked-out feld- have saved lungs and lives.
spar mine. Bottom of mine is kept
filled with salt water to keep the A NEW AUTO WAX is said to wash and
floating oil at the desired level. wax your car in the same operation--
Thrifty Swedes say it's cheap- -and and polish it to boot. Made in St.
safe from bombing. Louis, it's called Wash n' Wax . . .

"COCKTAILS" FOR AUTO ENGINES cut

ICEBERGS should have colors like ice down cylinder wear as much as 40
cream, says Oceanographer I. I. percent, report U.S. Agriculture De-
Schell. He'd spray them with bright partment researchers. They fed a
dust to make it easier to spot, standard engine a 3-to-l mixture of
track, and count them as they move gasoline and alcohol and compared
south. Practical difficulties would wear with an engine run on standard
be great . SNOWSTORMS IN THE
. . fuel.
COCKPIT are hazard now faced by jet
pilots. The snow falls when the MOLYBDENUM is latest auto lubricant.
air-cooling system is turned on Liquid base carries fine metal
after the outer skin of the plane particles to bearing surfaces, which
has been heated by air friction. are plated by molecular attraction.
. . THE OLD PARTY LINE may go on
. It's said they can't be squeezed off
the air. The Rural Electrification by any amount of heat or pressure.
Administration is testing radio Advantages claimed include 10-per-
transmission for telephone lines cent r.p.m. increase at same throt-
that are more than 10 miles from the tle setting, better pickup, longer
exchange. Lower installation and bearing life. Half pint lasts one
maintenance costs are hoped for. oil change. Called Auto-Liqui-Moly,
PEOPLE WILL PAY for television piped it's made in Great Neck, N.Y.
into their home, claims Zenith on
the basis of a 90-day test of its
Phonevision. Collection of charges
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HANDICRAFT REG. U. S. PAT Off.

How to Build

a Concrete-Block Garage PART 1

New masonry units are modern, firesafe, TF YOU are one of the thousands who
and widely available. You don't need A bought a garage-less home to hold the
special tools or skills to build with them. cost down, here's just what you're looking
for— a good-looking, fireproof garage that
By Denis Sneigr you can build yourself. And the price tag is
attractive, too. All the materials that went
into this 14'8" by 21 '4" building cost about
$650. If it had been built by a contractor,
Completed garage the price would have been about $400 more.
houses car with plenty There's plenty of room for garden tools
of spare room for work-
shop along side. Note
how lines of slope-faced
shadow blocks give clap-
board effect. Building
time is six weekends.

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 and a workbench. With the side door, it's
easy to cany tools out without opening the
big door. For good lighting, the window is
in a side wall right over the best spot for a
workbench.
Even if you already have a garage, this
building would make a dream workshop. A
shop housed in such a building would be
quiet, clean, spacious, and it would get you
out of the cellar.
Setting up butler hoards is first step. Three
stakes are driven into ground and batter boards Building with concrete blocks is no
nailed to them. Use level to make sure boards more difficult than building with lumber. In
are level. Use square to set boards at right some respects it's easier. You can put up a
angles to each other. Build batter boards in one garage like this yourself, provided you can
corner; locate others by measuring from it.
do the following:
• Bring to the job ordinary— not special-
handyman skills. If you can lay a concrete
walk, build an outdoor fireplace, or reroof a
henhouse, you can build this garage.
• Get— if you don't already own them— such
standard tools as shovel, trowel, wheelbar-
row, hoe, level, handsaw, chisel, hammer,
hacksaw.
• Spend six full week ends at work, and find
a helper to do the same.
AH batter boards must be at same level. One • Allot about $650 for the job, of which $73
end of chalk line is tied to first batter board. is for cement and mortar, $85 for sand and
While one man checks with level (above) helper gravel, and $145 for concrete blocks. That
moves free end of line up and down on stake
until line is level. Stake is marked and batter leaves about $345 for other materials.
boards are nailed to stakes at that level. Batter Prices for materials will vary locally,
boards then are set up in other two corners by of course. The amount of concrete you need
measuring and checking level of lines between also depends on where you live. In warm
them and boards in first two corners.
southern Florida, footings aren't needed; you
just pour the slab on the ground. So you
Lines that connect bat-
ter boards must be wouldn't need as much concrete as went into
square with each other. this garage built in Bellmore, N. Y. But in
Corner is being checked northern Minnesota, you'd need footings 4'
(left) with framing
square. These lines des-
deep, calling for more concrete.
ignate outside of foot- The price can be cut a bit lower if you use
ings. Other two lines plain concrete or cinder block instead of
will be added. Center shadow block. Picone Brothers, of Brooklyn,
line will show outside
of wall. Inside line will
N. Y., makers of concrete block who built
show inside of footing. this garage for Popular Science, used sha-

After lines are set, final check is made (above)

with steel tape. Measure diagonally between
corners of lines, not between boards. Distance
between each pair of diagonal corners must be COMPLETED BATTER BOARD LAYOUT
the same. Then layout is square.

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Dig footings to depth re- Forms for slab floor are built after Underground electrical con-
quired by your local build- trenches for footings have been dug. nections are best. Dig trench
ing code. Footings always Outside of slab will be 4" inside that meets footing trench.
should be dug below frost footings. Two-by-sixes, well-braced Lay 10' of %" galvanized
line. Otherwise, frost action as shown above, make good forms pipe in trench, locating ver-
will heave and crack them, for slab. Top of slab will be flush tical arm of pipe just inside
causing walls to settle and with top of forms. For drainage, garage wall. Pipe was curved
crack and doors and win- slab should slope slightly— about by bending it around a near-
dows to stick. If trench walls ''"—from back to front. Slope is be- by tree. Later, cable will 'be
are compact, no footing ing checked with level in photo pushed through pipe and un-
forms will be needed. above. der ground to basement.

After pouring footings, place gravel or cinder Strike board is used to screed (level) freshly
fill and tamp it down solidly. Put fill only where placed concrete (above). Use two-by-six that
slab will be, not over footings. To level fill be- reaches across form. Push and pull board back
fore tamping, nail edge of two-by-four to edge and forth between you and your helper as you
of two-by-six. Longer two-by-six rides on form, also pull it from one end of form to other end.
and two-by-four levels fill. Screed concrete as it is poured.

Good-luck penny is buried in center of fresh After all of slab and apron has been poured
slab during break in pouring operation. Con- and screeded, go over surface with wooden float
crete worker's custom of placing coin in center followed by trowel. Work both float and trowel
of slab is similar to carpenters nailing branch of over surface with sweeping, circular motion.
tree to roof ridge of newly built house— it's said Floating and troweling concrete give it a smooth
to bring good luck. surface. Work from first part of pour to last.

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 dow block to match the siding of the
nearby house. One side of a shadow block
slopes outward so it is A" wider at the base
l

than at the top. After a building of these

blocks is painted, the vertical and horizontal
joints are invisible and the walls look like
clapboard. All three types of block— plain
concrete, cinder, and shadow— are laid in
the same way.
How many blocks? Half the fun of
building anything for yourself is sitting
Job begins to look like down with a pencil and paper and making
start of a building now. plans and figuring costs.
When slab has hard-
ened (having been kept Estimating the number of blocks you'll
wet for three or four need is easy. Take the number of blocks
days), plaee all bloeks needed for one course around the building.
of first course in their Multiply that number by the number of
positions. This correctly
courses. The result is the total number of
spaees bloeks before
setting them in mortar. blocks in the walls without deducting for
openings. Count the number of blocks re-
Laying first block. Be- placed by door and window openings and
gin at corner and put subtract that number.
down full bed of mortar
(left). All blocks in
Don't forget that you'll need corner
first course are laid in blocks. Multiply the number of courses by
full mortar bed. the number of corners to get the number of
corner blocks you'll need. Then subtract the
Willi first block set in
corner blocks from the plain units.
mortar, level it in both
directions. Put level on You'll need half blocks at all window and
block ( left ) and tap door openings. Instead of cutting blocks to
ends of bloek until it s make half blocks, it's better to buy half
level. Turn level cross-
units. The number of these you'll need can
wise on block and tap
on edges, ifnecessary, be counted quickly. Every other course on
to level block in that each side of an opening takes a half block.
direction. To play safe, order a few extra ones of
each kind so possible breakage won't hold
Lay first-course blocks
you up.
ateach corner. Then put
one block— not set in Laying out your garage. In planning
mortar— on top of each your building, lay it out to fit the dimensions
corner block. Run chalk of the blocks. Standard blocks are 7%" by
line (below) between Tlk" by 15X". With %" mortar joints, a block
these blocks. Pull line
straight and tight. occupies 8" by 8" by 16" of space. When
Bloeks between corner you've decided on the dimensions for your
blocks will be laid with garage, figure how many 8" by 8" by 16"
their tops just level with
blocks wide and long the building will be.
the chalk line.
If it's a few inches more or less, plan to use
those dimensions rather than cut down the
blocks. That's whv this garage— planned for
14' by 21'-was built 14' 8" by 21' 4".
If you're going to build near a property
line, locate the line first. Then check your
local building code to see how far from the
line your garage must be.
With that line established, you can set
up the batter boards and run the chalk lines
as shown in the -drawing and photos. The
distance between the batter boards and chalk
lines is not important. But be sure to set
the boards back far enough to give yourself
 Lay down thick bed of
mortar for first course.
Butter one end of a
block with mortar (left).
Take a full trowel of
mortar and tap half of
it off on one flange and Grasp block by ends ( above ) and set it in
the rest on the other place, pushing it down
until the top edge is even
flange. Put mortar on with the chalk Push mortared end against
line.
flanges at only one end previously set block until only a %" mortar joint
of the block. remains between the two blocks.

Mortar will ooze out between blocks. Smooth Face-shell bedding (above) is used on all
this excess mortar with your trowel; don't just courses after first one. Put mortar in two rows
scrape it off. Pack it into the joints. Use edge on outside edges of blocks. Photo above shows
of your trowel to smooth excess mortar that first step in building up a corner. All corners
oozes out along bottom of blocks. are built up and then blocks laid between.

Corners are important and must be level since Make sure corner blocks are level in both
chalk lines between them control straightness directions and flush outside and inside the wall,
and levelness of blocks in between corners. as shown left to right in photos above.

ample space in which to work— about 4'. is compact, you won't need forms for the
Digging for footings. For small build- footings. ,

ings—garages and one-story homes— footings Mixing concrete. On a job of this

usually are made
twice the width of the wall size,your best bet is to rent a small concrete
and one half the width of the footing in mixer for the foundation and slab. It will
depth. For instance, an 8" wall would take save you time and labor. The recommended
a footing 16" wide and 8" deep. However, mixture for footings and slabs is 1 sack of
footings should be dug below the frost line. Portland cement, 2% cu. ft. of sand, and 4
cu. ft. of gravel. To this, add 5 A gal. of
l
It's best to follow the requirements of the

building code in your community. If the soil water. Don't use more than the recom-

Build up each corner three or four courses When yon have laid courses between built-up
high before laying blocks in between. Use a corners, build up corners again and continue
mason's level to lay blocks plumb and straight. laying blocks, using chalk line on each course.
 mended amount of water; too much water
weakens concrete. If the sand is wet, use less
water in your mixture.
Aneasy way to measure the cubic feet of
sand and gravel is to build a box with inside
dimensions of 1' by 1' by 1'. Filled with sand
or gravel, the box will give you 1 cu. ft. For
convenience, you can mark a line around the
inside of the box 9" from the bottom. Filled
to that line, you'll have & cu. ft. for the sand
Split lintels (cast intwo pieces) are easier to measurement.
handle than those cast in one piece. String line
Mixing mortar. When you're ready to
and spread mortar as you would for a block.
Place outside halt of lintel first ( above ) .Set lay blocks, mix one volume of prepared
other half behind the first half and fill the joint mortar cement with between two and three
between them with mortar. volumes of sand, or as directed on the bag.

Anchor bolts are set

4' apart in last course
(right). Two-by-six
plates to which rafters
will be nailed are held
to blocks by anchor
bolts. Use or X"
bolts 12" long. Push
tightly wadded news-
paper in core of next to
last course to stop mor-
Bricks for window sill are laid in a bed of tar from dropping down
mortar. Put mortar on one side of each brick through wall. Put bolt
as you lay the bricks. Set bricks so outside ends in core over paper and
are flush with outside of wall. fill core with mortar.

All masonry work has been completed ( below a brick. Joints must be flush before painting.
and anchor bolts are being set. Man on ground If some joints are not completely filled, add
is smoothing mortar joints oy rubbing them with mortar to bring them flush with wall surface.

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Add enough water to make a sort, workable
mixture. Don't use a concrete mixer for mak- LIST OF MATERIALS
ing mortar, because the machine will turn 24 cubic yards of sand and gravel.
it out faster than you can use it. A metal 50 bags of Portland cement.
15 bags of mortar cement.
wheelbarrow makes a good mixing tray. Use
516 concrete blocks for garage walls.
a hoe to mix the mortar cement and sand. 8 bricks for the window sill.
Before you set any blocks in mortar, it's 4' precast lintel for the window.
a good idea to lay out all the blocks for the 4' 8" lintel for the side door.
9' 4" lintel for the main door.
first course, as shown in a photo. That will
343' of two-by-six.
help you locate openings and space the 52' of two-by-four.
blocks for the %" mortar joints. end 120' of 10" beveled siding for gable ends.
525 square feet of sheathing for the roof.
500 square feet of roofing paper.
Putting on the roof, installing doors and 500 square feet of composition shingles.
windows, and painting the garage will be Doors, window, hardware, paint.
described in next month's issue.

I
BLOCKS

J MIXING CONCRETE I
Thorough mixing of the cement, sand, and aggregate u necessary for concrete. If the job is large,
it isbest to borrow or hire a mixing machine, but the mixing can be done, if necessary, on a platform
about 8' by 14'. Make the platform of 1% to 2" stock, preferably tongued and grooved, and nail
stripson three sides so no cement will be washed away and lost. The platform should be near the site
so the concrete can be shoveled directly into the forms.

An average wheelbarrow will hold about 2 cu. ft. of sand or crushed stone and can be used for
measuring. Or the materials may be shoveled into a bottomless box placed on the platform and then
lifted away. One 12" high by 24" by 24" inside will hold 4 cu. ft. Lines marked inside at 3", 6", and
9" heights will measure 1, 2, and 3 cu. ft. One bag of cement measures 1 cu. ft.

Put the sand on the platform first and spread the cement on it evenly. Mix thoroughly with a shovel,
first dry and then wet. Spread out the mortar, put the crushed stone or other aggregate on top, and
mix thoroughly, adding more water as required. Light aggregate may also be mixed dry with the
cement and sand before water is added.

A minimum of water produces the greatest strength in the finished concrete, but be careful not to
use too little, as that would prevent proper mixing. Generally, when the sand and aggregate are dry,
a minimum of about 5% gal. to each bag of cement will be found about right. Less water will be
needed, of course, when the materials are wet. The water used must be free of all impurities. To
be suitable, it should be fit to drink.

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Wall-Mounted Memo Pad Is Endless Mooring Boats in a Small Area

These four outboard hulls are snugly

berthed in a space that might otherwise be
taken up by one boat if it were swinging
free. Each boat has a bow line tied to its

A roll of adding-machine paper, threaded own stake. Stern lines connect to a com-
through a holder screwed to a wall or cab- mon line running behind the boats.— Elon
inet, a handy pad for jotting notes.
makes Jessup, Woods Hole, Mass.
Make the holder of .125" aluminum. Saw
out the blind slot for the paper. Rivet or Pocket Flash Lights Up Lock
screw a piece of clock spring at one end to If you have trouble
hold the paper tight and make it easy to finding the keyhole in
tear off notes. Drill and file keyhole screw your garage or house
slots at the other end, and then form the lock in me dark, you
bend. Rivet a U-shaped bracket to the hold- can illuminate it by
er.— Walter M. Hine, Lynbrook, N. Y. fastening a pocket
flashlight near the lock STRAP
shown. ALUMINUM
Chemical Balks Mildew on Sails as
SCREWtO
On padlocked ga- TO DOOR
rages, fasten the flash-
light about a foot
away from the lock to
get a wider distribu-
tion of light.— George
Kapitan, The Bronx,
N. Y.

Bolt Reinforces Sagging Door Joint

If a corner joint on your garage door
has started to spread, you may be able to
pull it together by drilling holes through
the stile and rail as shown, inserting a long
bolt, and drawing up tightly on the nut. Fill
and paint the large hole in the rail to keep
water out.— T. H. Kerr, Columbus, Ohio.

'TN DRILL
'STILE.
V HOLE THROUGH
AND INTO RAIL

Canvas treated with a new solution is

said to remain mildewproof for at least a

year under extreme tropical conditions, and
for two or three years under normal condi-
tions. Sails are treated by dipping them in
a mixture of nine parts water to one part oNBORE li"
C/OPENING
of Rarfair 77. The solution can be swabbed
or sprayed on large sails. It is made by Rar- INSERT LONG BOLT.
v COUNTERSINK TIGHTEN NUT
fair Laboratories, Haddonfield, N.J. BOLT HEAD

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 |ot m ° re * han j"** how up
loo OiiFioin Dnrlc Thc y ,N d ° a
UOU UUI IdBll HUllO curtains " Here are eight suggestions.

Need a sliding towel rack? Mount the inner Knife racks can be made of short rod sections
part of a rod, cut to length, at right angles on on blocks. Spread the flanges, or
set off a wall
a wall or cabinet back. Brace with a plywood cut them apart and mount separately, so knives
bracket fitting into the slot. Bend the end of are not gripped by edges but rest on handles,
the sliding section around as a handle. Grooves can be lined with oiled felt.

Metal stripping for edging benches, toys, or Label holders for shop drawers are a cinch to
linoleum can be made by snipping off the two make. Drill or punch holes through the back of
ends at the bends with tin shears and pounding each holder to take screws or brads for fasten-
the straight piece flat with a hammer. The ing. Tap the curved edges down tightly after
metal is soft enough to take tacks and brads. inserting the labels.

For a safe holder for scissors, use a bit of rod A plate rail for pantry shelves can be impro-
tacked at an angle in a drawer. For large shears, vised from a curtain rod with the bent ends
btnd out the curved sides of the rod to take cut off. This same trick makes a guide rail to
the thickness of the blades, or split the rods and hold a large tray on end in a kitchen or dining-
separate, as for the knife rack. room cupboard.

When appliance cords must be temporarily Sliding glass doors on small cabinets can use
strung across doorways, encase them in tubes lengths of curtain rod as top and bottom guide
formed by sliding one piece of rod into the other rails. A wood strip acts as a separator. Small
in reversed position. Tape cut ends, and also brads or screws through strip and curtain rod
tape wires at these ends for protection. fasten them both down.

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 Peeling is what
happens most •
often.
Sometimes the entire
paint film lifts off,
right down bare
to the
metal, and you can
see rust that wasn't
removed. Or the seal-
er (if used) hasn't stuck to the primer coat,
or finish coat to sealer.
Wrinkling crops up frequently, too.
This is a condition you can practically al-
ways blame on the man who did the job.
Perhaps too heavy
a coat was applied.
Or the painter may
have used a thinner
that dries too fast.
In warm weather this
will produce a very
heavy coat that will
surface-dry too rapid-
ly. Insufficient thinner is another cause of
What you should know about wrinkling.
Cracking and checking may come
from too much haste in turning out the job

Buying an —applying finish coats

underneath are thor-
before the coats

oughly dry. Sudden

temperature changes
or the movement of

Auto Paint Job body panels may

cause fine cracks.
also

Should you take

Look sharp in cut-rate shops or you may
back a defective job
lose more than you gain. A good job
like this, the painter
takes time, skill, and equipment.
might tell you "spotting in" would fix it up.
It won't. The entire panel must be corn-
WHY should you pay $150 to have your
car repaintedwhen you can get it done
pletely refinished.
Blistering of car paint can be caused by
for $40? Stand the two completed jobs a variety of conditions, but if it happens
side by side, and they both look good. soon after the car
In fact, one may actually he as gooc/ as comes from the shop,
the other— and you'll he in the chips with you can usually blame
a $40 joh. A low overhead, a low margin the painter.
of profit, and a volume business can make Poor preparation of
it possible for one shop to charge bargain- the metal nearly al-
basement prices and turn out a job that ways causes blisters
will stand up well for years. and bubbles. Perhaps
lint cutting prices may also mean cut- rust inhibitor wasn't
ting corners. If you ever have painted a used. Grease, oil, or dirt may have been
car, you know the job takes time, patience, left on the surface before painting. Mois-
and a fair degree of skill. There are many ture or oil in the air line of the spray gun
chances for cutting corners. Failing to sand can cause blisters, too.
off rust, for instance. Or skipping the sealer But if the job is done at a time of high
coat. temperature and humidity, be cautious
Here are defects that might show up in about blaming the shop. These conditions
a corner-cutting paint job: may blister the best paint job. So also can
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near-by chemical plants and locomotives. quickly sprayed over the bare metal. This
How can you avoid such defects? primer, you are told, fills in depressions -in
Even in a high-priced job, some of them the metal and gives a smooth surface for
may show up. But your chances of miss- the coats to follow.
ing them are far better. Next you watch the sealer coat being
Above all. know the shop and its repu- applied. The painter tells you this coat is
tation. If you are doubtful, stand around mighty important. It seals the primer away
awhile and watch the work. from the color coats and keeps the primer
It will also help to know what you could from bleeding into the. color.
expect to see in a top-notch shop. Suppose After the sealer coat has dried, the color
you wander in just as one of the boys starts coats are added— several of them, with
work on a fender. You see the fender has proper drying intervals between. In a big
been neatly bumped out and filled. All of shop, the paint may be baked on.
the old paint has been sanded off. A chem- If you see skimping or skipping anywhere
ical rust inhibitor is applied to the metal. along the line, better be wary of that $40
You find the paint booth dustproof and price tag. In the long run, the cheap job
well ventilated. In there, a primer coat is may actually cost you more. end

Tips on Keeping Body Paint in Good Shape

Spotting. A summer shower can spot paint. Bruising and chipping. Road stones often
sun comes out, drops of water on car act
If chip paint from bottom edges of fenders.
tiny magnifying glasses, concentrating
like If not attended to quickly, these spots will
heat and burning paint. A cleaner-polish soon begin to rust. You can buy small cans
will usually remove such spots. If tree sap of touch-up paint for this. If rust has ap-
spots paint, use wax remover. peared, sand off before applying paint.

Chalking, a normal chemical reaction, causes Burning the paint may result if you bear
paint film to powder. Regular washing and down loo much with power buffer while pol-
use of a cleaner will remove this chalk and ishing. Such a burned spot is a flaw in car's
restore the original lustre. protective armor. Repaint it at once.

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 Rusty Gets a
New Coat
*

Ever hear off the paint you can apply with-

out sanding off rust? Look what it did for
this old truck.

By Mark West

THIS Model- A pickup was once so red

with rust that everybody called it Rusty.
The fenders were dented, the top torn, and
the truck box worn to a sieve.
The engine still ran with vigor, but the
truck was a dubious asset to the young busi-
nessmen who had bought it. They could
beat out the dents, weld sheet metal in the
bed, and put on a new top. But the rust
would still leave it looking like a wrecking-
yard refugee. To do a conventional repaint
job, they'd have to take off everything down
to bare metal. As one owner said, "If we
sand Rusty down to shiny metal, we're not
sure there'll be enough left to hang to-
gethei
What the truck needed was something
that could be applied right over the rust.
Talking over the problem with a paint man,
Loose rust scales were wire-brushed off. These Rusty 's owners learned that a primer to do
would cause paint to neel. But it isn't neces-
sary to get down to bare metal. Dents were what they wanted was on the market.
pounded out with hammer and wood block. This primer uses a fish-oil base. Fish oil

Red primer brushed on easily— right over the Single coat of enamel was applied with full
rust.Only one coat is required. Brand was brush, runs being smoothed out as work pro-
Damp-Proof Red primer made by Rust-Oleum. gressed. Results are perfectly satisfactory for
When dry, it was smoothed with emery cloth. a vehicle as badly rusted as this one.

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 Auto Hanger Supports Handbag
has such a low surface tension that it seeps A chrome hook that clamps under the
into every pore of a hard crust of rust. It
molding below a car window can be used
drives out air and moisture so thoroughly
to hold a woman's purse or a package of
that it can be used on damp metal surfaces.
Cigarettes. Allen Products Corp., Detroit,
Wrapping up the particles of rust, the fish
sells it for about 65 cents.
oil makes them a part of the primer coat,
stopping further rusting. This property of Dressing Distributor Points
was discovered, incidentally, when
fish oil
When you clean or dress down dis-
the captain of a whaler noticed how it tributor points, be sure to use a point file
worked on the rust of his ship. or fine sandpaper, not emery cloth. Em-
For the homeowner, the paint offers a ery particles conduct electricity. If any
way of slicking up rusty garden tools, out- remain on the points, they may bridge
door metal furniture, and other objects sub- the gap and cause faulty ignition.— Elmer
ject to rust. It won't make them gleam like
Pereyma, Dauphin, Manitoba.
new auto fenders, but it doesn't call for
hours of preliminary chipping. Flap Keeps Rain from Exhaust Stack
The owners of Rusty spent less than four This homemade flap keeps rain out of
hours in sprucing up their truck. Three pints tractor engines and stationary engines
of primer and a quart of green implement
used outdoors. Properly balanced, the
enamel were used at the cost of a little over hinge will remain open while the engine
$7. The name is still Rusty, but the owners is running, then fall shut as soon as the
now have to explain why. engine is stopped. The balance arm is
curved to keep the flap from blowing
open past center. J. L. and E. P. Graef,
Urich, Mo., use it on their engines.

New top fabric was fitted, too, with a %" edge

turned under. Tacks were first driven at mid-
dle of sides and front and back. After fabric
was tight, tape was tacked around edge.
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It was more, than mechanical troubles
that brought Gus out to a dark,
deserted street at two in the morning.

By Martin Bunn
f^US WILSON wheeled the big wrecker
dimly lighted streets as fast
as a minimum of safety would permit.
It was two o'clock in the morning, and
the veteran mechanic-owner of the Model
Garage was worried. Stan's frantic call for
help hadn't been too coherent, and in his
hurry to get started, Gus suddenly realized
he had slammed down the receiver without
giving his young assistant a chance to ex-
plain what the trouble was.
As Gus turned onto Maple Avenue,
where Stan Hicks had said he would be
waiting, he was surprised to find the houses
dark and the street deserted. Then, half a
block down, he spotted a familiar sight.
Stan's beloved old jalopy stood by the curb,
one wheel nearly hubcap-deep in a hole.
As Gus cut the wrecker's engine, he heard
a strange noise.
'

"Psst, Gus," whispered a voice from the

bushes, "over here."
Gus tried to rub the sleep out of his
eyes. "Stan, is that you?"
The voice from the bushes didn't answer.
Gus Flushes First "Birdie"

Puzzled, Gus snapped on the wrecker's

searchlight and swept the bushes with its
beam. Suddenly the bushes parted and out
burst Stan, waving wildly.
"The light," croaked Stan, "cut the light!
Gus complied.
Stan's new white flannels were streaked
with grease, and there was a jagged tear in
the pocket of his sport coat.
"You look like something the cat. left be-
hind;" Gus commented sarcastically.
"Gee, Boss, I didn't mean to get you out
here, but got a birdie in my car and Jane's
I

father got mad and then I got stuck.

Gus tried to control himself. "Now what's
a birdie got to do with—"
"Shhh." broke in Stan. "This is Jane's
house, and if her father hears me again to-
night I'll really get it."

"All right," said Gus, lowering his voice,

"what's wrong with your engine?"
"Nothing," explained Stan, "I just don't

Gus snapped on the wrecker's searchlight

and swept the bushes with its beam.
"Stan, is that you?" he called.
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 we'd better clip that birdie's wings before
you lose Jane and I lose any more sleep.
Why didn't you tell about it sooner?"
Stan looked sheepish. "Well, Jane's been
kidding me about a mechanic who can't
even fix his own car, so I've been deter-
mined to find it myself."
"Well, two heads never hurt anybody,"
quipped Gus, "unless they're on the same
want to start it up because it'll make too shoulders. How long have you had it?"
much noise."
Birdie Sings in Reverse
Gus glared.
"That's how I got into the hole," Stan "Several days now," replied Stan, "and
continued. ."Last night we got in a little it keeps getting worse all the time. Funny
late, and that noise in my car woke up Jane's thing, though, instead of getting louder the
father. He hit the roof. So tonight I fig- faster you go, it quiets down. It's loudest
ured I'd just cut the engine, coast up here, when the engine's idling."
then roll her back down the hill when I left. "Well, let's take a listen," said Gus, as he
Only I didn't see this hole and backed right walked over to Stan's roadster and opened
into it." the hood. "Start her up."
Just as Stan had said, the engine took hold
Gus Helps the Hard Way
to a shrill, high-pitched screech, then as
Gus looked down at his feet that were Stan gunned the engine, the noise seemed
still wearing bedroom slippers. "Okay," he to diminish rather than increase.
said resignedly, "hook on the chain and I'll Gus motioned Stan to cut the engine.
tow you out." "What have you done so far?"
"No, no," yelped Stan, "that's worse. It'd "Everything I could think of. I checked
be sure to wake up the old man. I was al- the fan belt, water-pump bearings, and
most able to rock her out. Maybe the two generator bearings. All okay."
of us—" "How about the distributor?" asked Gus,
Gus started to say something, then remembering the squeaky cam they had
thought better of it and silently eased his found on Doc Rhodes' car a few years ago.
big shoulder against the trapped jalopy. "Yup, checked that, too," said Stan wear-
Together the two pushed and heaved un- ily. "I just don't see what could—"

til finally the car rolled out. Stan was interrupted by the blast of a
"Now back down easily," directed Gus, car horn outside.
"and try not to hit any more holes. I'll coast "I'll get it," offered Gus. "You better
down behind you." look at the generator again and this time
At the bottom of the hill, Gus pulled up check the brushes."
beside the roadster as Stan started the en-
Bird Population Increases
gine. Stan had a birdie all right. It was a
high-pitched screech coming from under A few minutes later, Gus returned grin-
the hood that didn't sound quite like any- ning from ear to ear. "This seems to be our
thing Gus had ever heard. day for bird hunting. Ted Trimble's out-
"Well," announced Gus, "we'll tackle that side with another canary."
screech owl in the morning. I'm going back "Oh, no," groaned Stan.
to bed." "We'd better give him a hand with his,"
Stan turned to offer his thanks, but the advised Gus, "and maybe we'll learn some-
big wrecker was already rattling off. thing."
"Just listen to this," grumbled Ted, as the
Datvn Brings New Troubles
pair walked up to Ted's blue sedan.
Gus was a little late arriving at the Model As the engine idled, a rhythmic chirp,
Garage the next morning, and when he got chirp, chirp came from the engine.
there Stan was hard at work. "Step on the gas a little," suggested Gus.
Stan looked up and greeted the master Ted complied, and the chirps speeded up,
mechanic with an embarrassed grin. "Gee, keeping time with the engine.
Boss, I'm sure sorry about last night. I—" Methodically, Gus checked the tension
"Forget -it," cut in Gus. "But I think [Confirmed on page 2161
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Unloading the Glove Compartment. A Keep This Under Your Ha*. One me-
pocket sewn to the seat cover like this chanic solved the head-on-floor problem by
makes a handy place keep maps and
to stitching an oblong piece of foam rubber
other bulky papers. Centered, it won't be inside an oversize shop cap. This makes a
in anybody's way. For appearance, try to pillow for his head when he crawls down
make it of the same material as the covers. under. It also keeps dirt out of his hair.

TACKY PIECE OF NO. 50 ^6 DEEP HOLE IN CAP SCREW

SHELLAC THREAD KEEPS HEAD PERMITS SCREW TO .-M
ON GASKET CAP SCREWS PIVOT ON END OF WIRE TOOL
IN PLACE WHILE BEING STARTED

FRAME 4
CROSS/
MEMBER
How to Replace an Oil Pan. Some shop came up with method No. 1 and Rhodes
manuals give you this advice: "Unbolt front with method No. 2, both illustrated here.
engine mounting and jack up engine." That In No. 1, a thread is used to hold the
gives you room to hold the front cap screws screws while you start them and then is left
while you start them. in place. Tightening the screws seals it into
But H. M. Springstun, of Payette, Idaho, the gasket. In No. 2, a tool made from
and Marion L. Rhodes, of Knightstown, coat-hanger wire slips loosely into holes
Ind., wanted an easier way. Springstun drilled in the heads of the screws.

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C aterial
ftjOlfe Hints from the Model Garage

Glasses Case Holds Meter Change. A Flashlight Helps Spot the Jack. A flash-
snap-lid case kept in the glove compart- light clipped to the side of ashop jack like
ment makes a handy container for the nick- this will help locate the jack under a car,
els and dimes you need while driving. The especially when light is bad. The clip can
case serves as a. camouflage, too, for who be screwed to the jack frame or tack-welded
wants someone else's glasses? in place.

Removing Shock-Absorber Plugs. On How to Protect Chrome. To prevent rust,

some shock absorbers the head of the filler apply light oil after each washing and wipe
plug is recessed. If the corners of the hexag- away surplus. The American Electroplaters
onal plug head round off, you've got a Society recommends such washing and oil-
problem. A socket wrench won't hold. One ing at least three times a winter if salt is
solution is to hacksaw through one side of used on highways. To remove rust that has
a spare socket, slip it on the plug, and formed, use any scouring powder that is
squeeze it tight with a vise-grip wrench. safe on porcelain or tile.

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 Heat Cleans Gum from Choke Strainer
Wing Stops Wind Whistle If solvents won't
Plastic
clean gum from the
When a car's vent windows are open, the
fine-wire strainer in an
wind often makes an annoying whistle at
automatic choke, try
high speeds. Clipped to the window division
holding it in a blue
bar, this Wiss-L-Stop is claimed to cut down
gas flame until the
wind noise. Allen Products Corp., Detroit,
metal almost glows.
markets the accessory for about $1.50 a pair.
1 (Be sure it isn't sol-
| dered to its ring.)
Compound Cleans Off Undercoating
After the metal cools,
If undekcoating is carelessly sprayed on / I
r
\^Jl45 you can sweep out the
a car's bumpers or fenders, get it off with
painters' rubbing compound. Go easy on —Walter E. Burton,
i>* ^fTji
painted areas.—/. H. Sweitzer, Newell, Pa.
Hi
Coil Spring Disengages Starter
How to Make a Dipstick Wiper
If the starting-motor return spring breaks
Cement weather-
on an older car, you can usually mount a
stripping between two
coil spring as below for an emergency re-
angle brackets bolted
placement. A fairly heavy coil is needed.—
together like this,
Clinton R. Hull, Costa Mesa, Calif.
mount the assembly in
engine compart-
the
ment, and you have a
very handy dipstick
wiper.— David Find-
lay, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Tape Roll Acts as Third Hand

To support your
flashlight for roadside
repairs, try forcing the
end through a roll of
tape. This will often
do the and put
trick
light exactly where you
want it.— H. Leeper,
Canton, Ohio.

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For Roadside Emergencies

If you run out of gas, you will

save the battery by priming system
instead of waiting until the starter
draws gas from the replenished
tank. Save half a cupful, remove
the air cleaner, slop gas into the
carburetor, and hit starter fast.

Borrow juice from another battery if yours is

run down. In setup above, heavy table joins
'Ungrounded terminals; bumpers touching each
other complete circuit. This trick works only
when both cars have the same pole grounded.
Hcav\ cable will pass enough current to turn
starter of stalled car. If you can't scrounge
heavj enough wire, use the best you can and
wait until live battery boosts weak one. Run
engine of "donor" car to keep up its battery. If headlamp goes out, cor-
rosion on the contacts might
be all that's wrong. Remove
lamp and clean contacts with
wire brush. This trick may
save you the cost of a new
sealed-reflector unit.

Reducing a wrench si/.e. An

open-end wrench that's too
big for the nut you have to
turn can be used by plac-
ing a flat piece o( metal
between one jaw and the
nut, as illustrated above.

Temporary fan belt can be

made from rope. Cut it a bit
longer than required loop,
unravel the strands at each J* , ' :.

end, splice by interbraid-

ing the strands, and wrap A fuel-line leak can often be plugged temporarily by soften-
splice securely with tape. ing a piece of soap and forcing it into the split.

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 You can combine craftsmanship with
sport in micromidset racing. Here
is how to get started.

How I Built WHEN you broadside into an oil-slicked

turn in a one-cylinder midget, sitting
inches from the ground, you know you've
really been in something. The cars are
small, but the thrills are as big as any you'll

My One-Lung find at Indianapolis. We couldn't resist

Racer
By John Rogers
Member. Dallas
Micromidget Racing Club

Power plant is a B.S.A. Model

C-ll, a 15-cu.-in. overhead-valve
air-cooled British motorcycle engine.
Turning up at 5,400 r.p.m., this
engine kicks out 11 blip. Built-in
three-speed transmission and clutch
make it ideal for midget-ear build-
ing. Assembly has a kick starter.

John Rogers stirs up dust as he broadsides in his homemade midget. Top speed is around 60.

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 Seen from this angle, the
brightly painted car seems to
exceed its actual over-all length
of 91".

N taking a crack at the sport after reading

Vlfr" BOLTS \yA *r CHANNEL
(14 GA. MUD STEEL) in Popular Science about the fun that
Indiana club had ("Homemade Racers
Hit the Dirt Track," Oct. '49, p. 186).
Our Dallas club got going a year ago.
All last winter and through the spring, you
could see the flare of welding torches and
hear the rasp of hacksaws in scattered back
yards all over town. Along with spring
came a new crop of one-lung midgets, many
of them with interesting modifications and
improvements. I'll tell you about mine.
SPRING
MOUNT Before touching a single wrench, I sat
down at the drawing board and did a little
Frame measures 20" by 60". Midget has a doodling. I wanted a car that could be
6252" wheelbase. Front and rear spring mounts
built with a minimum of machine work and
are W welded to top of frame. Two
steel plate
%" bolts hold engine to the supports. welding, one that would use mostly stock

Axle of Model-A from end was cut, shortened,

welded in center, and planed to 1" thickness.
Steering knuckles were cut down to U shape as
shown, spindles shortened, and hubs modified
to fit Cushman wheels. For both front and rear,
Crosley springs were shortened to 22" o.c. and
reverse ej es rolled in ends. Reverse eyes help
to lower entire car. Radius rods were bolted
to old spring-perch holes.

18"
HOLU CROSLEY DRAG LINK
BA.Lt JOINT
*4 STEEL TUBING^ FRONT R*t»<JS ROD (2 REQ.)
AO"
SPRING PERCH,^OD
...
REBUILT
STEEL TUBING WELDED CROSLEY SPRING .»
\ -HtfH / "I*!""

LP
SHOULDER MACHINED AND HOLES DRILLED ^ RADIUS ROD
DRILLED TO PIT MOTOR SCOOTER WHEEL TO LIGHTEN ATTACHED HERE

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parts. I also wanted to maintain the
But shaft so it will protrude beyond the frame.
beautiful proportions of an Indianapolis The chassis design of my car would
Special. takes no more material to build
It accommodate many other engines with a
a sleek car than a junky one. few minor changes. For easy removal, my
First the engine. My racer is the only engine is held in place by only two bolts.
one in the Dallas club with the engine in Both front and rear ends are also bolted
front. I am convinced that's where it should in place. Many of the Dallas cars use steel
be for the best weight balance, cooling, and tubing for frames. This keeps down the
the long look a racer ought to have. frame weight, but welding usually is re-
Rules of the Dallas club allow a maximum quired to attach a part.
displacement of 20 cu. in. for L-heads, 15 The rear end is a big reason for the
for overhead-valves, and 11 for two-cycles. success of my car. Although simple in de-
The B.S.A. overhead-valve motorcycle en- sign, it rugged and efficient. The solid
is

gine that I chose hits the ceiling for its rear axle keyed to drive both wheels, in
is

class. contrast to the one-wheel drive found in

In action, this has proved a good choice. other midgets. This means there is no
In my meet, the car turned in the fast-
first tendency to go into a spin when you gun
est time of the evening— 11 seconds
trial it while broadsiding.
for one lap of the 1/15-mile banked clay In competition, bumpers or nerfing bars
oval. Acceleration was terrific. And out on are needed to protect the car. A safety belt
the open road I hit up to 60 m.p.h. is a must for the driver.

The engine then was still strictly stock, TheDallas club has worked into a very
bought secondhand. I had been so busy successful organization. Lights have been
completing the car that I had not had time installed for night races. At the present
to attempt any modifications on the engine. time, meets are held twice monthly on Mon-
Engines of this size (249 c.c.) are made day nights. Admission is free.
by nearly all foreign motorcycle firms, and Other Texas cities have invited us to
frequently can be bought used in this coun- bring our cars and put on race programs
try at a reasonable price. With built-in under the sponsorship of such organizations
transmission and clutch, they put you well as the Lions Club.
ahead on the construction job. For us drivers it's all just sport. And,
In races, I start my engine by pushing, take it from me, you couldn't find a better
as is customary at most meets. But the one anywhere.
kick starter could be used by extending its Two more pages of construction photos
follow.

Solid rear axle drives both wheels. Axle, ta-

pered to fit Crosley hubs, runs in ball bearings
pressed into ends of ,065"-wall tubing. Wood-
ruff key and setserews attach drive sprocket to
right end of axle. Collar held by setserew to
brake end of axle prevents side play. Spring
hangers are l"-o.d. tubing welded to axle hous-
ing. Cushman 100 tires and wheels were used
at rear, Cushinan -1.00 by 8s at front.

BACKING PLATE
AND SHOE
ASSEMBLY

CROSLEY FLANGE MADE FROM AXLE SHAFT BALLBEARING 10 •'200

'

BACKING PLATE CROSLEY REAR ENO I'STRESSPOOOF PERMANENT GREASE-SEAL

BOLTED TO GREASE SEAL. WELD STEEL TYPE
FLANGE -TO HOUSING Qfc-TOOTH
SPROCKET
COLLAR

BALL BEARING HOUSING. '

StAMLEiS STEEL TUBING

CROSLEY >
REAR HUB
AND BRAKE
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STEEL BRACKET,
WELDED TO
HOUSING

Vi"x21" STEEL

lb
Jack shaft transfers drive from the center of
frame to outside. The bearings have setscrews
that lock shaft firmly to inner race. Woodruff
keys and setscrews hold sprockets to shaft.
Sprockets must be carefully aligned with those
on engine and rear end. Gear ratios can be Rear radius rods were mounted on both sides
changed by changing sprockets. like this. Front ends are above jack shaft.

Seat-back frame also serves as a roll-over bar. An aluminum firewall supports coil, oil tank,
It was shaped from 1" thin-wall steel tubing, and battery box. Frame for firewall, hood, and
with steel plates welded to ends. Sheet alumi- cowl was shaped from cold-rolled channel that
num was screwed to front of frame. Bottom pan is used for installing metal lath in buildings.
also was formed of aluminum, screwed outside This bends easily without heating. The brake
frame from seat back to firewall. lever was pivoted to side of frame.

Crosley steering gear was center-mounted by wheel moves front wheels from full cramp to
lengthening control shaft and adding tubing ex- full cramp position. This fast steering is needed
tension on right side. Pitman arm was length- for racing. Clutch and gas pedals are on op-
ened to 6J2" o.c. and left steering arm shortened posite sides of the chain guard. The guard was
so less than three-quarters of a turn of steering shaped from sheet aluminum.

CROSLEY
TIE ROD
DRAG LINK
(CROSLEY TIE ROD)
PITMAN ARM

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ted material
Gas tank made from a gallon can was strapped
high on back of seat for gravity flow. Filler
pipe extends above tail section of the body.

Tail section was made from one sheet of

aluminum, attached to seat frame with
8-32 machine screws ( 1 ) Then it was cut
.

to a curve along bottom edge ( 2 ) and cut

,

out at top rear ( 3 ) Rear section was

.

shaped with hammer and dolly and welded

along scam. Weld bead was smoothed with
file and emery cloth.

Rest of body consists of simple curves. All pieces were

attached with machine screws, and the edges smoothed
with a file Radiator shell was shaped to suit grille used.
Cooling louvers are needed in radiator shell and top of
hood. Bright paint completed the job.

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How to Sharpen
a SawYou'll do better
your saws
work and save time by keeping
in first-class shape. By Edwin Mm Love

YOU
job
don't have be pro
to do good
sharpening handsaws. Contrary
at
a to a
to
old-fashioned opinion, it isn't a mysterious
rite, to be undertaken by experts only. Ac-
tually, keeping your saws in perfect cutting
condition is a skill you can pick up with a

bit of practice. One good way to begin is

to touch up your saws as they first begin to
lose their sharpness. After you've done this
a few times, you'll be better fitted to re-
sharpen a badly blunted saw.
The tools you need won't make much of
a dent in your shop budget. They include:
Vise. A special saw vise is a help if you
are going to do much sharpening, but a
pair of 1" by 6" boards in your bench vise

Mounting the saw. Most saw vises

can be clamped to a stand, sawhorse,
or bench. Be sure to set up the clamp
where the light is good so you can see
clearly the edges and points of the
teeth. If your saw needs sharpening
only occasionally, you don't need to
buy a saw vise. Use your bench vise
and clamp the saw between two 1" by
6" boards. Let the teeth project above
the saw vise or boards as necessary for
filing or setting them.

Cor
Jointing the teeth. If teeth are worn Setting the teeth. Turn the anvil so the proper face
down unevenly, they must be aligned. istoward the plunger. Begin at one end of the blade
You can buy a saw jointer or you can with the first tooth that is bent away from you. Slip
make one as shown above. A jointer is the saw set over the tooth and squeeze the handles.
simply a holder for a second-cut mill file. Exert only enough pressure to set the tooth without
Pass jointer over teeth until you see a crushing it. Set every other tooth. Then turn the
bright spot on point of each tooth. blade around and set the other teeth.

is all right for occasional jobs. It is impor- Saw jointer. Like a saw vise, a saw
tant, though, to have some way to clamp jointer can be bought at a hardware store,
the blade fairly close to the teeth to keep but you can make one in a few minutes (see
it from chattering under the file. Combina- drawing above). This homemade jointer is
tion vises and file-guiding jigs are available nothing but a rabbeted block of wood with,
and are especially useful if you are a novice a slot to hold a mill file that evens the height
at sharpening, or if a saw is inbad condition. of the teeth. {Continued on next page]

-YOUB POSITION-

Sharpening a ripsaw. Begin at the

point and work toward the handle.
Put the file in the gullet between a
tooth set away from you on the right
and the tooth set toward you on the
left. Hold the file level and at 90°
to the blade. File only on the push
stroke. File only enough to narrow the
tip of the jointed tooth by half. Filing
complete point-
in the next gullet will
every other gul-
ing the tooth. File in
let. Beverse the saw and file in the
remaining gullets.

7a

YOU* POSITION
Sharpening a crosscut saw. Begin at
the point and work toward the handle.
File in every other gullet against the
face of the tooth. Beverse the saw and
file the remaining teeth. Hold the file
level and at about 45° to the blade,
instead of at 90° as you do when
sharpening a ripsaw.

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 set originally. You may break a tooth if

you set it in the opposite direction.

Files.Besides the second-cut mill file
for jointing the teeth, you'll need several tri-
angular files for sharpening. They can be a
handsaw blunt file, a slim taper file, or an
extra-slim taper file. The kind and size de-
pend on the size of the saw teeth. For in-
stance, a good file for a 5/2- or 6-point saw
is an extra-slim taper file 7" long. For a

17-point dovetail saw, you'd want a 4" extra-

slim taper file.
Pick a saw file that has a cross section at
Dressing the teeth. After you have sharpened least twice the depth of the saw tooth. And
all the teeth, lay the saw on a bench or board use as long a file as possible. Then you'll be
so the blade is flat. Slide a file or oilstone gently
able to make steadier, more effective strokes.
over the sides of the teeth. This will remove
wire edges or burrs left by filing. Sharpening hints. When you are filing
the teeth, try to retain their original shape.
Saw set. This is a tool that bends saw And file all the gullets the same depth.
teeth left or right so they will cut a kerf Your saw won't need setting every time
slightly wider than the blade thickness, giv- you sharpen it, but it is a good idea to joint
ing working clearance for the blade. Num- it lightly before each sharpening. It does

bers on the anvil faces correspond to the need setting when it drags and binds— then
number of points (teeth) to the inch of dif- the teeth aren't cutting a wide enough kerf
ferent saws. Before you use the tool, turn to give the blade clearance.
the proper face toward the plunger. For Dull coping-saw blades can be sharpened
example, if yours is an 8-point saw, turn and new ones improved by filing. With the
face No. 8 toward the plunger. blade in the frame, lock the frame in a vise.
When the handles are squeezed, the Use a very small, fine file. Steady the blade
plunger bends the tooth against the beveled near the point of filing with your thumb and
face. A stop automatically fixes the depth forefinger. All teeth can be filed from
of the bend to about one half the tooth one side if you will change the angle and
height. When you're setting teeth, remember cant of the file from right to left accord-
to set them in the direction that they were ing to the set of the tooth. end

CURVED PLYWOOD WALLS 1

WAUL FRAME

must be bent and dried on a form.

f The wall framing itself can be used as a form,
'.STEAMED as shown in the sketch, if the wet sheet is clamped
. PLYWOOD to it or held by nails driven through wood blocks.
When the panel is dry, split the blocks to expose
the nail heads and draw them. The shaped piece
can then be glued in place.
Often it is simpler to use two or more thin
CLAMPING SLOCK sheets of plywood on a sharp curve than to steam
a thicker sheet.
If the curve of a wall is not too great, plywood The following are the smallest radiuses to which
can be applied directly to the frame by nailing or Douglas fir plywood can be bent:
nailing and gluing. The smoothness of the curve
depends on the framing. When studs are too far Thickness Lengthwise Crosswise
apart, flat areas will appear between them. This ( across outer grain ) ( with outer grain

can be remedied by inserting horizontal curved Vi" 24" 15"

girts or by adding more studs. %" 54" 36"
Steaming or soaking (suitable only for water- Vj" 8' 6'
proof plywood) permits bends of fairly small %" 10' 8'
radius. A panel that is to be glued to a frame %" 12' 10'

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 Robert Peters, left, adjusts speed-controlling
rheostat while Carl Weiner holds his finger on
the color disk to synchronize it with the pic-
ture. Adapter is box at top right of cabinet.

Homemade Color Wheel Gives High-School Boys Color TV

Color television an old story to two
is Later they purchased and installed a com-
New Jersey high-school lads. Robert Peters, mercial adapter and improvised a color
14, and Carl Weiner, 16, have been watch- wheel from bits of plastic, colored cello-
ing colorcasts for a year and a half. To get phane, and an induction motor borrowed
their first glimpse of CBS' broadcasts, they from a fan. To control the speed of the
readjusted the built-in controls in a 630- motor, they wired it in series with a rheo-
type receiver manufactured by Crosley. stat and light bulb.

Spark Booster Starts Engine Faster

COIL A small engine with a flywheel magneto
r will often start faster if you add a booster

battery to fatten up the spark. Two flash-

light cells in series with the primary magneto
winding make my engine kick off very easily.
I removed the flywheel to get at the coil, dis-
connected the ground, and ran out a
coil
REMOVE
EXISTING «J SINGLE-POLE lead as shown in the diagram. I use the rig
GROUND --i— DOUBLE-THROW only for starting, switching it over as soon
SWITCH
as the engine catches. Only two or three
volts should be applied to the winding.
—John H. Milbourn, Seattle, Wash.
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 Whether your boat is old or new,
canvas properly laid will make the
cabin roof or deck watertight.

CONSIDERING the beating that decks

How to Canvas of small craft take from the weather,

it's not surprising that they develop irritat-

ing leaks. About the best and easiest way

to get a tight deck or cabin roof is to cover

a Boat Deck it with canvas and then paint the canvas.

To cover the deck of a small boat, l()-oz.

canvas usually is used. Some larger craft
By Elon Jessup take 12-oz. material, but l()-oz. is more com-
mon. Such canvas runs up to 10' in width.
The canvas must be cut to fit around
some tilings— skylights, bitts, and hatch-
Spreading new canvas over a cabin roof. Dark ways. But take up everything on the deck
spots on canvas are fresh paint seeping through. or cabin roof that you can— coamings,
An opening, upper right, has been cut in the moldings, and accessories such as a search-
canvas to make room for the skylight.
light or horn— before you apply canvas.
Then you won't have to cut it so much.
Make sure the planking is dry, clean, and
smooth. Sand or plane off any ridges and
fill holes with white-lead putty. Then
when you're ready to lay canvas, give the
planking a heavy coat of paint and put the
canvas right down over the fresh paint.
Final step is to paint the canvas itself.

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Stretching canvas over hatchway opening. Two Slitting canvas inside hatchway opening
men pull while third tacks around hatch open- after edges have been tacked. Sharp knife
ing. Canvas shouldn't be pulled so tightly that should be used. Tacks are spaced %" apart.

mm mm After this is done, coamin^u

^^p^
Fitting lead molding around windlasses and Painting canvas is last step. First coat, be-
i
masts is necessary to insure tight joints. Strips ing put on here, will be followed by three
were cut from sheet lead and shaped as shown. more. These should be thin. Light sanding
This was done after canvas was laid. between coats is sometimes done.

Supports Screwed Inside Table Drawer Hold Bedside Tray

Two pivoted wooden stubs in a night- front, and cut them level with the table
table drawer will giveyou the extra, un- top, as shown in photo at left below.
cluttered table surface you need for a serv- These supports fold down into the drawer
ing tray. Attach strips to both sides of the when not in use. They are handy for serv-
drawer with round-headed screws and ing a sick person, and make breakfast in
washers. Tilt them against the drawer bed more comfortable, too.

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Climb Aboard on Tire Chains Bent Fork Makes Leatherworker's Tool

An old kitchen fork makes a good tool

for leathercraft.It's especially useful for

scoring lines on heavy belt leather. Place

the leather on a wood block with a perfectly
straight edge. Bend up an outer tine of
the fork and draw this tine over the leather.
The neighboring tine acts as a guide, keep-
Old tire chains make good boat ladders. ing the margin always the same width.—
They're cheap, they can be stored in a Don Nielsen, Aurora, Neb.
small space, and their weight makes them
hang straight down into the water to afford Pipe Helps You Twist Iron Rods
a secure footing.
FLAT IRON BOD
The conversion job is very simple. Just
remove two out of every three cross chains
and cover the remaining ones to make climb-
ing easy on the feet. One good covering
is garden hose, slit, slipped over the links,

and then lashed with cord. Another is brass

pipe— you can cut it to length, open an end
link in each cross chain, slide it on, and re- When twisting square rods in a vise for
fasten. Hose over the upper ends of the ornamental ironwork, put a piece of pipe
side chains protects the boat. To retard over the rod before turning with the wrench.
rusting, coat with red lead, then white paint. This insures uniform twists and keeps the
main axis of the bar straight.— Hugh Line-
Curtain Rod Guides Wire through Wall back, Stillwater, Okla.
You can wriggle
wire through a wall Color Glamorizes Fluorescent Tubes
the easy way with a If the cold, blue-white color of stand-
piece of curtain rod. ard fluorescent lamps bothers you, try
It works well with any painting the tubes. You can get warmer
light-duty wire. Fit a tones and achieve some striking effects with
few inches of wire liquid alcohol colors,
into one end of the sold at paint and art-
rod, jiggle the rod supply stores. Try sev-
through the hole in eral harmonizing col-
the wall, then slip off the rod. ors on each tube, or
If you put the wire through an outside a color varied
single
wall, slant the hole upward toward the in- in density so that it
side to keep moisture from seeping in. fades off and gradu-
Pack plastic weatherstripping around the ally darkens again in
hole for extra protection.— VV. McClay, tone.—£. F. Lindsley,
Pasadena, Calif. North Prairie, Wis.

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Smaller unit (above) is made like the larger one (right) but
is 8" in diameter and 16" high. It is camouflaged by a larger
cylinder of hardware cloth that fits over it.

Thirsty Chemical

Dries a Damp Room

IF HUMIDITY is giving you a bad time in your work-
shop, or any other room, calcium chloride in this simple
container will stop it quickly.
Calcium chloride is an old standby among dehumidifiers.
It's available at many farm and hardware stores, as well as

chemical-supply houses. Unlike silica gel, it cannot be re-

used, but it costs much less— about 30 cents a pound.
The container is designed to expose the maximum
amount of dehumidifier to the air. It is made of )i" hard-
ware cloth of 24" width. Roll up a cylinder of the cloth,
10" in diameter, allowing 6" overlap. Lace the overlapping
edges of the cloth with picture wire (photo at top right).
Lace a 10" circle of hardware cloth in the cylinder 4"
f rom one end. Drop a circle of cardboard on the wire circle

to form a bottom. Screw on a piece of broom stick for a

handle. Fill the container and place in a pan to catch the
water.— Ivan Grosvenor. Richmond, Lnd.
Repairing cracks in stucco walls is easy. See PS next month.
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 The earth bulges at the equa-
tor because of centrifugal ( cen-
ter-fleeing) force produced by
its rotation.A loop of stiff pa-
ger, mounted on a pencil that
ts the mixer chuck (below),
represents the earth. The faster
you spin the loop, the more its
middle bulges outward (left).
Centrifugal governors on steam
engines work the same way.

HHMHHHH91

Kitchen Mixer Answers

$64 Science Questions
It was meant to beat cakes, but it How does a cream separator work?
can also demonstrate some of physics' An electric kitchen mixer will answer
most curious facts. such $64 questions in an evening's science
fun for the whole family. Use a mixer hav-
By Kenneth M. Swezey ing a variable speed control. Most of the
experiments here can be done with a 2/2"
WHY does the earth have a pot belly—
bulge at the equator making its diam-
dowel or pencil stub pressed into one chuck,
with a small screweye turned into its end.
eter there about26 miles greater than from Use the other chuck for reverse rotation.
pole to pole? And when you're through with the sci-
How does a washer spin-dry clothes? entific tricks, you can put the mixer right
How does a cowboy spin his lariat? back to work beating up a batch of waffles.

In a washer, wet clothes

are whirled at high
speed in a perforated
cylinder. Centrifugal
force throws out the
water. A whirling coffee
can punched full of
holes demonstrates
(left)
this. Revolve it as at
right. Centrifugal force
is used commercially to
dry sugar and salt.

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Spinning a lariat. You can see the science in- Here's a real puzzler. Blacken half of a 4"
volved by fastening a 3" loop of electric-light disk and draw sections of circles with black ink
chain to a 7" string tied to the mixer spindle. on other half as shown. Rotate this disk slowly
Start mixer slowly and gradually build up speed. under strong white light, and arcs of black ink
As speed increases, loop will open and its bot- seem to change to circles of four different col-
tom rise. Finally loop will spin on its side in a ors. Reverse the rotation, and colors appear in
circle. Centrifugal force raises it until greatest reverse sequence. Scientists say illusion is re-
amount of its weight is as far as it can get from lated to rate of growth and decay of color sensa-
the axis. Lariat loops spin in an open circle tions in eve and mind— but the principle is still
for the same reason. imperfectly understood.

How a stroboscope shows EIECTR1C

up flaws in rapidly moving ft-TOOTHED
DRIU
CARDBOARD "GEAR
machinery is another experi-
ment you can perform. (A
stroboscope makes revolving
or vibrating parts seem to
slow down or stand still.
Cut a sheet of cardboard to
represent a broken "gear."
Spin gear in an electric drill
and view it through the re-
volving slits of a stroboscope
improvised as shown. Care-
fully adjust the speed of the
mixer motor and you will
find one point at which the
gear seems to stand still, re-
vealing broken tooth. When
this happens, the stroboscope
slits are passing your eye at
same rate gear is revolving.
You see gear for fraction of
a second in same position
each time it revolves. Per-
sistence of vision blends
these images into one. You
can also "stop" electric-fan
blades, the hammer of a vi-
brating bell, or alternating-
current fluctuations.
[Continued on next fiuae]
 Red lamp turns green
if you view it through
slot of this disk, revolv-
ing slowly counterclock-
wise Scientists say that
this illusion is caused by
retinal fatigue. The eye
tires of the color it sees
every time the opening
in the disk passes, and
so creates an image of
complementary color on
white section of disk.
Speed up disk, or re-
verse direction, and il-
lusion vanishes.

Cream separator. If two bod-

ies of different weight are ro-
tated at same velocity, the heav-
ier one pushes out with greater
DOWEL FORCED force than the lighter. Start up
THROUGH HOLE mixer after assembling the setup
STOPPER
at left, making sure fittings are
tight and flask exactly centered.
The shot will form a ring around
widest part of flask with water
in rings above and below. Cream
is separated from milk by same
principle, since the cream is
lighter. Laboratory centrifuges
separate chemicals in same way.

Cuckoo Clocks Assembled from Kits Modeling Clay Identifies Cut Film
When have been loaded for
film holders
weeks and you don't trust your touch to
identify the notches, unload in the dark
and press the notched edge into modeling
clay. Then look at the clay in the light.

Carvings, works, and all parts are in-

cluded in these cuckoo-clock kits. The
works come mounted
in place and ready to
run. You assemble
the other parts and
stain the case. The
kits, priced from
about $13 to $30, are
imported from Ger- Whal are they talking about?

many. According to Where do they work? Answer below.

the importer, J. F.
Reich, of Quivira They're steel workers.A bug is a small par-
on the nozzle of a
ticle of steel that solidifies
Lake, Kansas City, ladle formolten metal and interferes with
Kan., assembling a pouring. The bug causes spraying during pour-
ing. This in turn causes the ingots to have a
clock from a kit is a
poor surface that might require scrapping or
one-evening job. expensive surface conditioning.
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Pulley Line Used to Moor Boat Vacuum Defrosts Refrigerator Fast

The blower end of our vacuum-cleaner

does a fast job of defrosting our refrigerator.
We just insert the hose in the freezer com-
partment and direct a stream of air on the
frost. The ice drops free in about seven min-

Moor your boat like this and you won't utes, and frozen foods removed from the re-
have worry about it banging against the
to frigerator can be popped back in again be-
dock. Mount one pulley high on a piling and fore they have a chance to thaw.— E. F.
another pulley on the dock. Run a con- Lindsley, North Prairie, Wis.
tinuous line through the pulleys. To moor
the boat, secure the line at bow and stern, Extension Leads for Radio Batteries
as shown in the photo. Pulling one line hauls
the boat away from the dock and the other
hauls it back. Use this rig only in sheltered
moorings, and leave slack if there's a tide.

Decals Locate Objects in the Dark

Luminous strips that can be applied like
decalcomanias are now available. Called
Safti-Cal, they're recommended for use on
switch plates, in
stairs,
darkrooms, and for
making night - visible
signs. A product of the Extension* leads that enable you to sepa-
Meyercord Company, rate the chassisfrom the battery of your
of Chicago, each pack- portable,as above, give easier access to
age contains more than the receiver for servicing. You can buy
nine feet of half-inch matching plugs and sockets at many radio-
strips, and sells for 69 parts stores, or you can use connectors sal-
cents. vaged from worn-out batteries.

Outlets Now Easier to Install

These two receptacles simplify the task of
installing or replacing electric outlets. The
plastic unit at the immediate right, made by
John I. Paulding, Inc., New Bedford, Mass.,
combines a double receptacle and wall plate
in a single molded piece.The outlet at far
right, a product of Monowatt Inc., Provi-
dence, R. I., can be connected without loop-
ing or twisting wires. It uses flat metal wire
clamps in place of the usual binding screws.
Both receptacles are made to fit standard
outlet boxes and are UL approved.

AUGUST 1951 |8|

 ^4 >~
Super Camera .

\ Stops the Show

PS Photos by IV. IV. Morris

Tightrope Walker— 1/200 sec.

The Flying Concellos— 1 /800 sec.

 Juggler Veronicq Martell— 1 /l ,600 sec.

With the Greatest of Ease— 1/800 sec.

Ever try to shoot circus pictures

from the peanut gallery? It can be
done. To see how one man did it,
please turn the page.

ipyrighted material
SHOOTING action circus photos has al- appreciated at the big show, with three
ways been tough. I know because I've rings in action, plus clowns.
tried. But this time I had a Hasselblad Hassie is a single-lens reflex, so you've
This handful of precision machinery got to open the lens wide to focus in poor
from Sweden is just about the prettiest job light. But there's an aperture pre-selector.
for off-the-hip shooting I've ever seen. It You the stop, flick it open to focus,
set
packs into one black box all those features swing it to stop down— and shoot.
back
that make you wish for the Leica when Naturally, they don't give Hasselblads
you're lugging the Graphic and long for the for box tops. The basic outfit (one lens)
Rollei when you have the Leica. costs about $550 at Willoughby's, New York.
shot lots of pictures to get the ones
I
shown. And I shot them fast. A quick turn A photographer of champion dogs tells
the tricks of his trade in PS next month.
on a big, easy-to-find knob moves the film
and cocks the focal-plane shutter.
It's got a bayonet lens mount, so you can

switch lenses to your heart's content. An

80-mm. coated f/2.8 Ektar is standard. But
at Madison Square Garden, I needed a long
lens, the 135-mm. f/3.5 Ektar shown above.
I shot wide open on Super XX, usually
with a No. 6 flash fill-in. Synchronization,
both flash and strobe, is built in.
The circus gave that Hasselblad shutter
a real workout. It's something— going way
beyond most jobs to 1/1,600 sec, which I
used to stop the lady juggler. You can even
change speeds with the shutter cocked.
And magazine loading, too. No need for
Safety features. You can't remove magazine if
a second camera and a film-loading assist-
slide is out, shutter won't work if slide is in.
ant to keep you on the firing line— just clip And you can't double-expose because the film
on a new magazine. Don't think that wasn't is advjinced when >ou cock the shutter.

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Three Ways to
Build the Sam:

5 SOLID BLOCKS

You can make it from solid blocks or tion shown at the top of the next page.
from boards and strips. Choose the Miter six 3&" and six 4Js" lengths. Use the
grain effect that pleases you most. rest to build a gluing like the one
frame
shown. Line the frame with wax paper and
By Edwin M. Love glue up each tier in turn.
Make the bottom of the base from four
THIS good-looking lamp can be made in mitered pieces of maple. Then glue the wal-
three ways,depending on the stock you nut center and maple bottom together.
have on hand and your woodworking skill. The /s" maple step and %" walnut block
The mitered version (1) uses inexpensive that top off the base are simple square-cut
board stock and conceals end grain on all pieces. Glue them together and drill them
important surfaces. Block construction offers
you a choice of vertical grain all around (2)
both %" to take a Wlength of W
threaded
pipe nipple. Secure the nipple by threading
or a glued-up combination of side grain and on a nut and lamp harp, glue the step and
end grain ( 3 ) block in place, and glue the top unit to the
Building with miters. The upper part tiered center.
of the base is a maple box 3/a" by 4%" by Building with blocks. Saw the maple
4Js". Miter the four sides and glue them to- top and bottom to size. To make the center,
gether. For the tiered center section, shape draw lines around a block of walnut where
about 80" of walnut strips to the cross sec- the tiers go, make straight saw cuts on the

AUGUST 1951 |85

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 After corners are glued,
reinforce mitered center
section by gluing blocks
inside. Wedge them
lightly until the glue
sets.

You'll have to coun-

terbore the top block
to about W
of the bot-
tom in order to screw
it tothe tiered cen-
SECTION ter.Place the counter-
GLUING FRAME bored holes where they
will be covered.
lines,and chisel the tapers. If you don't The shade. The wire frame can be
mind exposed end grain, you can make the built up from Bessemer rod or heavv
)'*"

tiers out of individual blocks. coat-hanger wire. If you solder or braze the
Drill a %" hole for the wire through the joints, make a holding jig like the one shown
center of each section and join the blocks at the left below to simplify assembly.
with screws and glue. Monk's cloth makes a good shade covering.

Build shade frame on a T support. After Sew the monk's-cloth cover with seams on the
jointsare brazed, clip off projecting ends of outside. Then remove the cover, turn it inside
wire and remove the framework from T support. out, and stretch it over the shade frame.

Discarded Light Bulbs Replace Flush Valve and Float Ball

Somebody has finally found a use for
burned-out light bulbs. Tackling the old
problem of the leaking flush valve, Samuel
Kass, a Philadelphia inventor, designed a
rubber insert to fit the worn brass valve seat
that usually causes leaking. Then, seeking a
perfect ball to fit, he hit upon using a dis-
carded light bulb.
The valve assembly kit consists of the
rubber insert, a rod with a socket for the
bulb, and a guide to clamp on the overflow
pipe with a soft bolt that can be bent to fit
various pipe sizes.
Also available is a rod and socket for
replacing leaky copper floats with a light
bulb. It's claimed that this can't leak, and
is easily replaced at no cost if broken.

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Hall Light

Cools
the House
A grid made from 5/16" by
US" lattice strips is supported
by a 1" by 4" frame screwed to
the ceiling. The grid hides the
opening to the attic and diffuses
a soft light over the hall.

A CEILING vent like the one shown here

can brighten a house while it cools it.
ter ceiling, cut the outline of the hole
a chisel. Be sure to tie together the ends
with
of
The brightness comes from an inexpensive any joistsyou cut by putting in headers as
fluorescent fixture that sweeps the shadows shown in the sketch.
out of the upper hall. It cools by letting the Construction of the vent is similar wheth-
warm air rise into the attic where it can be eryou cut a hole or use a scuttle. First build
sucked out by an exhaust fan. An attic fan a box of 1" by 6" stock around the top of
combined with such a vent is a simple form the opening. Nail a 2" by 6" strip across the
of air conditioning. The vent a sim-
itself is top center of the box to support a fluorescent
ple woodworking job. light fixture and two ventilating doors. Hinge
The best starting point is a trap door— the doors so you can close off the vent in
technically a scuttle— in the upper-hall ceil- winter.
ing. If the scuttle is in thewrong place, or A type illustrated
lattice-strip grid of the
if it is the only means of access to the attic, conceals the opening without cutting off
better leave it alone and cut a new hole in either light or air. It clears the sides of the
the ceiling. well about Y\" all around and is held in place
Before you cut a hole, sound out the lo- by a frame that is screwed to joists and
cation of ceiling joists and use them to frame headers from below.— Edwin D. Thatcher,
the opening if possible. If you have a plas- New York City.

An inexpensive industrial-type DOOR AND LIGHT

fixture is used behind the con-
cealing grid. If you have no
SUPPORT(r.tf)
VENTILAT
HOOKS
HOLD ^ VENTILATOR
k
DOOR OPEN
electricity in the attic you may DOOR CLO
have to add a junction box and
side
run BX up to the new light.
(i"«

EXISTING
CEILING
JOIST /
ATTIC GRID DETAIL
FLOOR

-JOIS

ADO UEiDtR TO
LIGHT support joist emos
CEILING
c*id(V-iV
ifes. L ATT ICE STRIPS^
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 One way to get a glider
up high is to attach a
propeller and, when the
craft hits its ceiling, let
the prop unit drop off.
That s what happens
with this one. Relieved
of extra weight, the
glider loafs along on
the breeze while the
prop unit falls, usually
without harm to itself.

Power Glider

Drops Its Motor

By Paul Mueller
TAKING its cue from the droppable gas it apart at the center and sand the cut ends
tank and the step rocket of space flight, so they will form a joint when each wing
this model is a combination of glider and tip is raised 2Vi". Glue the wing halves to-
power unit. A rubber-powered prop takes it gether at this dihedral angle and strengthen
aloft, but when the motor run is over, the with a glue fillet. Cut the stabilizer and rud-
power stick falls, leaving the glider free of der from 1/20" sheet, sand smooth, and
its weight and drag so that duration flights dope. No camber is required.
may be obtained. Fuselage and stick. Both the glider
The glider fuselage has two notched metal fuselage and the power stick are Ye" by J4"
fittings. Pins in two other fittings on the pine or hard balsa. Taper one end of each as
motor stick are held in the notches by the in the drawings, leaving the sections square
tension of the rubber motor, but drop out to make The prop
fittings easier to attach.
as the strands go slack. bearing bought ready-made. Bind it on
is
Wing and tail. Cut the wing from V,,-," tightly with thread and coat with cement.
medium-weight, straight-grained balsa. Sand The special fittings are all made from tin-
both surfaces smooth and round off the can stock, strips )i" wide being cut and bent
edges. Give the wing a coat of clear dope. as detailed. File the notches to slope down-
Now apply streaks of cement across the ward for easy release of the motor stick.
wing and pin it down over blocks to form Three of the fittings are attached with
l
the A" undercamber. When this has set, cut cement and thread. Wrap the motor stick
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STABILIZER
FUSELAGE FITTING POWER -STICK
(2 REQ.- FULL SIZE) (Wo SHEET BALSA)
FITTING
(full size)

PIVOT ANCHOR
(FULL SIZE)
GRAIN

4>
TOP VIEW RUDDER 7
('/^. ACTUAL SIZE)

RUDDER
CEMENT PYLON C'lo SHEET BALSA)
BEAD
(>& SHEET BALSA)
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FUSELAGE
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FITTING THREAP 4 yfe (PINE) FITTING
^

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STABILIZER
POWER STICK'' PIVOT PIN
PIN DROPS RUBBER
(PINE) OUT OF NOTCHES HOOK
LANDING GEAR
</3
2 WlRE
HARDWOOD ANCHOR PIVOTS
WHEELS AS RUBBER GOES
SLACK

smoothly with thread where the pivoting into the hub in the usual way. Insert the
motor anchor is to go, and coat the thread rear motor hook in a hole in the pivoted
with cement. Insert a bit of 1/32" wire as a anchor. Four strands of 3/16" rubber power
pivot. Cement in ordinary pins, with the the original, but you may want to experi-
points cut off, to engage the notches in the ment to suit your own model.
other fittings. Although not used for landing, the wheels
Pylon. This wing mount is cemented on enable the model to make ground take-offs.
5/s" from the front of the fuselage. Sand it Shape the wire landing gear and bind on
front and back to an airfoil shape, and cut a tightly. Hardwood wheels can be held on
V-shaped groove in the top edge to seat the with a bead of cement over a washer.
wing, which should have about 1/16" in- Test flight. Add clay to the nose of the
cidence or uplift at the leading edge. glider until you get a slow, flat glide. Then
Cement on the wing and tail. Sight from the wind the motor 50 turns, attach it to the
nose to align them. glider, and try it. If the model stalls, warp
For outdoor flying, advisable to rig
it's down the trailing edge of the stabilizer. Ad-
stays from wing tip to wing
tip, across the just for a steady climb.
front fuselage fitting. This saves the wing The original climbs to the left in a tight
edges. Use heavy button thread pulled taut. circle until the power unit drops. The glider
Prop and wheels. A 6/2" theprop flies descends in a slow right circle. Flights aver-
model shown. Bend the hook and sink it age one to one and a half minutes. end
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 1< New Tools

"Dowser" Locates Studs. This plastic tool Hydraulic Stabilizer Levels Ladders.
is held with its base against a plaster or wall- This adjustable "shoe" attachment makes
board wall while you pound the wall above ladders sure-footed even on a sloping sur-
it with the side of your fist. If you are test- face. Vertical tubes house plungers that
ing between two studs, the small bearing are connected by horizontal telescoping
ball will be jarred away from the large ball. tubes leading to a valve. Above the plung-
If you hold the tool over a stud, there will ers, the unit is filled with oil. When the
be little if any movement of the small ball. valve is open and one leg moves up to ad-
Ford Products, Tuckahoe, N. Y. $2. just itself to a difference in level, the other
leg moves down. Closing valve locks the
legs. It fits ladders from 17" to 29" wide.
Mine Safety Appliances Co., Pittsburgh.

Miter-Gauge Attachment Holds Work. Pen-Size Grease Gun for Small Parts.
This attachment consists of an overhead For model makers and watchmakers, this
bracket and two clamps that firmly hold grease gun uses a 1" hypodermic needle
work at the preset angle. Delta makes it for .049" thick. Pressing plunger controls the
use on miter gauges for its circular saws, amount of grease ejected. A cap protects
bandsaws, shapers, and abrasive finishing the needle when the gun is not in use.
machines. Rockwell Mfg. Co., Minneapolis. Gaunt Industries, Chicago. $1.
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 Auto-Engine Compression Runs Sander.
A compressor, air tank, or the compression
of your car engine will power the little
vibrating sander above. It's designed to re-
move rust spots and scratches from auto
bodies before touching them up. For use
with a car engine, an adapter is screwed in
the head in place of a spark plug. Dupli-
Color Products Company, Chicago. Sander,
Holder Takes Four Tool Bits. Any of $3.98; adapter, $2.98.
four cutting tools can be brought into posi-
tion by indexing the vertical turret on this
tool holder. An internal pin at the end of
Fixture Converts Saw to Sharpener.
the shank locks the turret in position. The With this attachment you can use your cir-
tool holder does not have to be reset when
bits are changed. Designed for 5/16" tool
bits the holder is available with left-hand,
right-hand, or straight shanks. Wilgus
Manufacturing Co., Los Angeles. $28.75.

Gear Puller for Home Shop. Intended for Vacuum Lifter Feeds Punch Press. De-
the home craftsman, this tool removes signed to prevent finger and hand injuries,
stubborn pulleys and gears without damag- this feeder is used to position blanks in a
ing them or their shafts. It has a diameter punch press. A light blow fixes the vacuum
capacity of 5/2" and will reach 3" in from cup on the blank. Depressing a thumb
the end of a shaft. Armstrong-Bray and lever releases vacuum and drops the blank.
Company, Chicago. $3.60. Industrial Products Co., Philadelphia.

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Rack Your Tools
for Better Service
Whether you store tools by method or The box at the right gives pointers on tool
madness makes a whale of a difference storage, but it isn't meant as a blueprint. A
in the ease —and quality—of your work. good plan foryour shop has to take into ac-
count the tools and equipment you have, the
By Robert Gorman space you can spread them in, the number
of people who use the shop, and the use

DO YOU sometimes use the wrong

because the right one is hiding? If
tool each one makes of it.
The photos below and on the next three
you're not getting full mileage out of your pages show some tool-storage tricks used by
workshop, maybe you've forgotten the first PS contributors Walter E. Burton, Edwin
rule of the professional: There's a right place M. Love, Herbert Pfister, and Doris Aller.
for every tool. Can you make their ideas serve you?

Where to Store Them: Put Dead Space to Use

Tools and parts should be kept near the area

m
w here they're used. Spate under and around a
jench is otten used vvastefully or else over-
looked. The flat storage drawers above hold
sandpaper, drawings, and other small, light ob-
jeets. Two drawers are cardboard gift boxes.
Square wood strips tacked along the box edges
ride in undcr-the-bcnch guides made of L-
shaped molding. Third drawer (at right) is a
block of wood bored full of 2" blind holes that
hold a variety of screws, nails, small parts.
Rack for glue clamps (left) shows how you
can put rough stone walls to use. The rack is
made of two-by-two's nailed to the joists Over-
load so they hang down in front of the wall.
A crosspiece at the bottom joins them. Clamps
rest on angled nails driven into the strips.

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 Identify your "quality" tools. A reminder
Tool Storage Do's and* Don'ts tag or band of paint may keep you from
opening a packing case with your best chisel.

Keep common tools handiest. Keep track of borrowed tools. Hang a tag
Screwdrivers, pliers, and hammers on the vacant hook even when your neighbor
deserve front-row seats in any shop. says "I'll bring it back in an hour."

Group tools used on the same job. Tin Store little-used tools where they won't
snips and soldering iron belong together— gather dust, especially precision tools like
but not necessarily with woodworking tools. micrometers or dial indicators.

Keep accessories handy to the tool they're Leave room for additions. When you plan
usecf with. Attachments for lathe, saw, and your layout, allow space in the right places
other power tools belong close to home. for the tools you're going to buy.

Store cutting tools where they can Leave fine tools where they can be jos-
get nicked or dulled. It takes only tled or dropped. Sharp blows ruin some tools.
a little care to keep blades sharp. They belong in drawers, not draped on pegs.
Leave pointed tools where they can snag Store electric tools so their cords can come
hands or clothes. Never put sharp-edged uncoiled. Wires that dangle .on the floor get
items in front of other tools. frayed, plugs get crushed.

How to Hang Them: Holders You Can Buy or Make

Hardware-store items made for other purposes circle ( lower left ) holds pencils, glue spreaders,
solve many tool-hanging problems. Double cur- or punches, and allows you to remove or re-
tain-rod hooks, for example, make fine supports place them instantly.
for many long, slender tools. Spring-closing cup If you have to store some tools behind others,
hooks (top center) resist vibration, keep tools put the rear ones on "steps." It's easy to reach
from being knocked off accidentally. Note also any tool in the plywood rack (bottom center).
the downward-sloping holes that take punches, Two plywood triangles were tacked together
small screwdrivers, and the like. and holes were drilled and sawed in both pieces.
A homemade magnet rack (upper right) is The sides were glued and nailed to two spacer
convenient for some tools. This type uses two boards.
strong horseshoe magnets and a pair of iron The tilting tool rack (bottom right) keeps
rods. Magnets are placed on the edges of a drills flatagainst the wall, but allows them to
board, flush with its face, and fastened with be pulled out when they're needed. A rack like
aluminum strips and brass screws. Like poles this, used below an overhanging shelf, is good
are in contact with each rod. Small nails under for tools that should be stored sharp side up.
rods keep them from shifting. It keeps points and edges covered and protects
A coil spring stretched around a wooden half vou from accidental cuts.
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 These Toolholders Keep Dust Out

Though exposed racks are handy, many work- the bench on two scrap-metal clips. The up-
ers prefer to keep some tools under cover. These rights that support the saw handles are made
holders let you hang tools where and when you long enough to Keep all but the front teeth from
need them, then store them when they're not in resting on the rack.
use. The canvas roll holds a set of fine wood- The plywood chisel rack can be hooked on
carving gouges. Grommets at the corners allow the workbench apron or stored flat in a drawer.
the roll to be hung above the bench. When the Leather bumpers hold the chisels securely, yet
job is over, their owner lightly waxes the gouges allow them to be snapped in and out easily.
and puts them away. The tapered guard strip is made just wide
The saw rack ( at upper right ) hangs behind enough to cover the blade edges.

Markings Are a Help in Storage and Selection

An outline on the backboard of a rack
shows where a tool belongs. The card-
board outlines (left) are sometimes
better than those painted on the board
because they can be changed easily
when tools are moved. These are
clamped between the holders and
backboard. They could be thumb-
tacked behind different types of hold-
ers. Either way they can be relocated
in a jiffy.
It's often helpful to identify the
quality or condition of a tool or part.
High-speed and carbon drills look
alike, but you'll have no trouble tell-
ing them apart if you brush a bit of
lacquer or enamel into the flutes as
shown at right. Wash grease off be-
fore you apply the color.

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 Keep Accessories Near the Tool They're Used With

Power tools, especially lathes, aren't complete keys, and the like fit into holes drilled in the
without a lot of Dits and pieces. You can speed top; cutters are lined up along the frame; a vel-
your work and make it easier bv keeping attach- vet eyeglass case holds a micrometer.
ments near the tool. The raised, sloping-top box A more elaborate box, ideal for collets, is pic-
(left above) occupies what would be waste tured in the inset ( right ) A dust cover doubles
.

space behind the lathe bed. Chucks, centers, as an easel for handbooks or work prints.

Special Tools Deserve Special Holders

Dust is a nuisance, but moisture is an enemy. nating agent such as silica gel or calcium chlo-
This rack, used with a suitable drying agent, ride. Or make your own by scorching brown
combats both, and protects your fine tools. It's paper or uncooked rice. Silica gel is best but
made from powdered-coffee jars and a couple most expensive. You may be able to buy some
of tin cans. The rack is mounted on the shop in surplus. If it's been exposed to air, restore
ceiling. Inset ( at left above ) shows construc- drying powers by heating for a few hours in an
tion of the slotted holders. Screws in jar lids open oven. Put the gel in small cloth bags or
slide in the slots. punched metal containers, such as the bouillon-
To keep tools dry, seal in a moisture-elimi- cube tins at right, above.

You can keep tool drawers more orderly— and tools, glue two or more sheets together. Trace
protect tools better— by using fitted storage the tool outlines and cut the recesses with a
boards. This drawer holds a set of machinist's sharp knife and chisels. Make one end deeper
telescoping gauges. for the tilt-up effect. Lacquer the cut parts to
Cut a sheet of Js" insulating board to fit the prevent fraying. In damp weather or places,
drawer. If extra thickness is needed for bigger oil steel tools lightly. end
Take Your Own
Easy Chair
to the Game
You'll have the most comfortable seat in the stadium when you've built this
folding, lightweight, cushioned chair. By John Rogers
ANY game is more fun to watch if you're What you'll need:
comfortable. And that's what this stadi- • 65" of W by 5*" aluminum strap.
um does— guarantees you an easy seat
chair • 45" of 55" by %" aluminum angle.
no matter where you're sitting in the stadi- • 16" of by %" aluminum strap.
um. • 10-24 bolts, nuts, and a scrap of plywood.
It folds into a compact, 2/4-lb. package, Figures allow a little extra for waste.
yet it's strong and rigid. Building it is Shaping the hack. Clamp the angle
simple. Bending, sawing, and bolting the strip ir a vise and notch it with a hacksaw,
aluminum frame require only a few hand as shown in aphoto at the top of the oppo-
tools. site page. Then, with the %" side in the vise,

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Notches are cut out of %" side of angle strip All aluminum parts can easily be bent to shape,
at points where it is to be bent 90°. Hacksaw Clamp parts in a vise and bend them with light
the cuts at 45° to the edge of the strip. taps of a hammer, as shown in photo above.

Quarter-inch plywood back is fastened in Braces across the rear corners of the bottom
frame with six 10-24 bolts. Holes in the back hold the frame square and also form brackets
give you finger grip for carrying the chair. for attaching the two side braces.

Back assembly and bottom frame are hinged Side braces, also attached to frame with bolts,
with two small bolts. Countersunk heads of bolts have a bolt hinge at their centers so the chair
go on outside of frame and nuts on inside. can be folded Hat for earrvinji.

bend it to form the U-shaped back. Drill the parts with bolts, countersinking them.
holes, bolt the plywood to the frame, and Assembling the stadium seat. The
the back assembly is finished. two bottom photos on this page show yon
Building the bottom. Hacksaw the how to join the back and bottom. Each
aluminum strap to the lengths shown. All hinged side brace is made up of two iden-
parts of the bottom— sides, rear, and the two tical lengths of %" strap. For looks, round the
braces— have to be bent. The front ends of cutis of these parts with a file.
the side pieces are bent so they will hook All that remains to be done now is to slip
over the edge of a stadium seat. After bend- the cushion in place and you're ready to
ing, locate and drill the holes, and assemble watch any sporting event in comfort, end
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Footstool
Is a Snack
Tray, too

CLEATS SUPPORT ('

REDWOOD
TABLE INSERT CUT TO FIT

WHETHER you go for sittin' or eatin',

here's piece of furniture that will
a
cater to your comfort. It's a combination
footstool and snack tray you can use in a
parlor, porch, or sun room. It's easy to carry,
a pleasure to use, and a cinch to build.
I made mine from a few cents' worth of

lumber and an old cushion. For the frame

and legs I used scrap two-by-fours. I cut
two pieces 15" long, two 16&", and two 12".
The first four form a frame for a 14"
cushion. I rabbeted the longer two, beveled
the sides on all four, rounded the sharp
edges, and glued and screwed them together
as shown in the sketch.
ripped the two 12" pieces to make four
I
two-by-two legs. I tapered them— though it
wasn't really necessary— notched the corners,
and glued and screwed them to the frame.
A couple of pieces of l"-thick lumber
serve for the recessed table top. They rest
on cleats nailed to the frame flush with the
tops of the legs.
I sanded the whole thing smooth and gave

itthree coats of water-white lacquer to pre-

serve and protect the natural finish.— Darrell The frame and legs are glued and screwed to-
Huff, Sonoma, Calif. gether; the cleats and table inset are nailed.

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 DO IT THE EASY WAY

To prepare a salad dressing or other To keep the paper from blowing back
recipe calling for a few drops of lemon over the typewriter platen when the elec-
juice, don't cut the lemon or it'll dry out. tricfans are going, weight the end of the
Pierce with fork and squeeze out drops. paper with a clamp-type paper clip.

_ To silence a loud- To tap a new pane

gg ticking clock in of glass gently into
your bedroom, or place, with less
an electric one danger of breaking
that's begun to or cracking it, use
grow noisy, stand the handle of a
it on sponge or putty knife into
foam rubber. Much which a rubber-
of the sound will headed tack has
j| be absorbed. been driven.

Electric Outboard Has Steering Brake Piston Makes Pedal Hanger for Toy
Setting a thumb-
screw locks the steer-
ing brake of this 25-lb.
outboard mo-
electric
tor, holding it on
course and leaving
your hands free to
handle a fishing rod.
The Trolmotor de-
velops 1.1 hp. when
powered by a 12- volt
battery. Maximum
speed is 5 m.p.h. on a
14' boat carrying two
If you're making a pedal-driven car or
persons. It also will
tractor for the kids, the crankshaft mount-
operate : e jval hours
.
ing needn't be a headache. Simply drill two
on a 6-volt battery, holes in the head of an old piston and bolt
says the maker, Lejay it under the frame of the toy with the
Mfg. Co., Minneap- wrist-pin holes crosswise. Pick a shaft that
olis. About $50. is a tight fit within the wrist pin, or else

wedge or pin it in. The wrist pin thus be-

Masking Tape Holds Small Parts comes the running shaft, and will be free-
When you're working on models or in- turning and durable.
struments, masking tape can be used to Pedals can be salvaged from an old tri-
hold small parts for inspection, painting, or cycle or other toy. The appearance of the
work. Use thumbtacks to hold the strip of hanger can be improved by cutting away
tape— sticky side up— to your workbench.— the piston skirt as shown by dotted lines.
Morris Tanenbaum, Cleveland. —Wilber H. Fulker, Monument, Colo.
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Radial Drilling. An electric drill mounted was attached to a specially built

the drill
on the cross slide of a lathe makes very ac- mount with vertical adjustment. However,
curately spaced holes. The cross-feed any arrangement for clamping the drill on
graduations will locate the holes on any the saddle atcenter height, and
exact
radius within a thousandth, while the would do the job.
parallel to the ways,
spindle index will space them accurately at The inset photo above shows some of the
any radial angle. work done in this way.— William B. Good-
In the setup shown above, a cradle for rich, Somerville, Mass.

DRILL HOLES
% DEEP

I BOLTS
COUNTERSUNK

Bottle Saves Layout Blue. Of all the Tape Spool Holds Drills. A good bench
containers you can use for keeping layout stand for extra drills can be made from a
blue on the bench, a nail-polish bottle is fairly wide adhesive-tape spool. Bolt it on
perhaps the best. The brush in the cap is a wooden base, temporarily support the top
always handy and just right for small jobs. flange with a piece of wood between it and
Because the neck is small, less fluid evapo- the bottom one. and make each hole with
rates away and less spills if you acciden- its own drill.— George Kapitan, New York

tally knock the bottle over. City.

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Superfine Lathe Feeds. If a job requires bracket borrowed from an angle vise. The
normal compound-gear
finer feeds than the bracket was bolted to the end of the com-
setups can handle, add an extra gear as- pound-gear sector.
sembly. In this case a cross-feed of .001" The gear chainresulting gave five reduc-
was needed, while the finest available with tion stepsinstead of four. Intermediate
a normal gear train was .0024". feeds coarser than the one obtained this
A
22-tooth and a 52-tooth gear were way can, of course, be set up by choosing
mounted on a keyed bushing, the smaller the proper combination of compound gears.
gear behind. This assembly was free to ro- If no bracket is available, one can be cut
tateon a regular stud and bolt assembly, from plate, the slot being drilled and filed
which was mounted on one corner of a to shape.— Harry L. Truchelut, Atlanta, Ga.

Handy Clamp Setup. An inexpensive two-

way rod clamp of the kind used in chemical
labs is useful in the shop. In one photo at

the right, it holds an indicator; in the other,

itsupports a magnifying glass for inspecting

a delicate turning job.
The upright is a A" rod threaded about
l

IJ2" to fit a tapped collar. A nut under

the slotted cross slide clamps it right. If
your slide isn't slotted, drill and tap a hole
in it, or mount a tapped boss with screws.
With a suitable nut and with wrench flats
on the collar, you can mount the upright
in T slots of other machines.

Pin Down the Job. It's much easier to

solder small pieces together if you hold
them on an asbestos block with pins or
thumbtacks. A good block for the purpose,
and for silver soldering too, can be made
by cutting sheet asbestos into Ji"-wide
strips and coiling them up in a coffee-can
lid.— Arthur F. Yatv, Seelcy, Co] if.

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 Look, Pa...

No Hands,
No License
This radio can open garage doors,
run a lawn mower, or steer a boat.
And you need no license to use it.

By Howard G. McEntee
lie in a hammock
IET'S dream a little. You
J on a warm day with a cool drink in one
hand. With the other you jiggle a switch on
a small box by your side. And fifty feet away,
a power mower trims your lawn, about-
facing at the end of each swath. When the
chore is done, it rolls into the tool shed, and
the engine dies.
Or you're a modelmaker with a new pow-
er boat. You put it in the water, and a finger
on a control panel starts it up. You maneu-
ver it out, race it between floats, bring it
back alongside the slip. Invisibly, your hands
are on the tiller all the way.
Radio control does things like that. But cruiser. I can guide the craft within an 80'
Uncle Sam says you have to have a ham radius (or a 160' circle if I take the trans-
license to work a short-wave control rig. mitter out in a rowboat), and I can boost
Does that leave you panting behind a mow- this range by using a larger loop antenna on
er, or running your boat in circles? the receiver.
It needn't, because there is a radio-control The transmitter. You don't need a fancy
system you may use without a license. transmitter. The photos show how simple
Called RF induction, it's widely used for mine is, and I built in a couple of operating
"wireless" phonographs, garage-door open- frills that aren't essential.
ers, and campus broadcasting stations. Ihoused the whole broadcasting station-
Keep it legal. The Federal Communica- batteries and all-in a 5" by 6" by 9" steel
tions Commission permits transmission of box. A strip of brass on the bottom of the
f
this kind— provided it does not interfere case was drilled and tapped }* -20 to fit a
with other radio services or exceed a certain tripod screw. A similar arrangement on top
signal strength at a given distance from the fastens the loop antenna.
antenna. The transmitter pictured on the and a few items
Parts layout isn't critical,
facing page stays well within the legal limits, shown diagram can even be omitted.
in the
yet packs enough sock for a host of radio- Among these are the meter and thermo-
control applications. couple, which I salvaged from a two-dollar,
So far, I'm still dreaming of my robot war-surplus antenna unit from a BC-442
lawn mower, garage-door opener, and may- transmitter. The meter provides a handy
be a miniature Army tank. But I have actual- check on transmitter operation, but if you
ly put radio control to work in a model can't get one cheaply, leave it out and join

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Transmitter at right
is steering boat at
left. Antennas are
flat to avoid direc-
tional effects.

the two wires that go to the terminals voltsand 7 at 135 volts. The pointer should
marked "line." not go over 8.
On the front panel under the meter I If you have omitted the meter you can
mounted two jacks. The regular phone jack check the transmitter by plugging an or-
is which can be a
for the transmitter "key," dinary 0- to 25-milliampere DC meter into
simple on-off switch or a control mechanism the kev jack. It should read about 10 ma. at
such as is shown on page 206. The second 90 volts.
jack— also optional— furnishes 1.5 volts to It is fairly simple to tune up the receiver,
operate the control motor. but you will save time if you can lay hands
The receiver. The other end of the ra- on a signal generator and a 0-to-l milliam-
dio control resembles an ordinary superhet meter.
receiver. To conserve space I bent up my own Connect the meter to the receiver test
chassis out of sheet aluminum. The size of jack. When no signal is being picked up it
the coils, tubes, and relay limit the amount should read about .6 ma. If you have a signal
of squeezing you can do; the remaining generator, set the dial to 150 kc. and connect
parts have room to spare under the chassis. the output leads across the outside termi-
I wound the antenna loop on a VA" by nals of the transmitter loop. Rotate the
3Js" by 6Js" plastic box. If you don't have screws on the three receiver trimmer con-
one like it, cut a block of dry wood to the densers until the meter shows its lowest
same dimensions. A larger loop would make reading. Then adjust the tuning screws on
the receiver more sensitive; if you make it the transformer cans and see if you can
larger, however, you'll have to use fewer lower the meter needle.
turns and a smaller capacity for C4. If you If you don't have and can't borrow a sig-
redesign the antenna or build it into a model, nal generator, proceed as follows:
keep it away from metal. 1. Check the meter reading in the "no

Testing the units. I normally operate signal" condition, as above.

the transmitter on a 90-volt B battery, but 2. Turn on the transmitter and dial its
when I want to stretch the range a little— tuning condenser while you watch the meter
as when my boat sails out of control— at the receiver.
switch in an extra 45 volts. I haven't gone 3. If the meter doesn't change, adjust
beyond 135 volts because it would be illegal receiver trimmer C3 about a quarter turn
—and would also damage the 1S4 tube. and repeat step 2 until the receiver meter
The scale on the antenna meter is marked dips.
arbitrarily from 1 to 10. It should read about 4. Touch up the receiver trimmers and
4 when the transmitter is operated at 90 transformer screws till you get the lowest
AUGUST 1951 203

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 1.5-V01T
MOTOR-SUPPLY
JACK

Transmitter chassis is panel of steel box. Tun- Shaft goes through oversize hole in panel. Cir-
ing condenser must be insulated from case; I cuit below should be used with antenna shown
mounted it and tube socket on plastic (right). or signal strength may exceed legal limit.

10TURNS N0.I6 3-PR0N6 PLUG-

STRANDED HOOK-UP THERMOCOUPLE
WIRE-^^ ILINE LINE I

Cl C2

/Vy 3-CONTACT METER

TAPE
WIRE FLAT Sj>^^ l_

Tr'A VaP 4 TURNS

SOCKET

FROM ,N
I.5-V0LT
J FLASHLIGHT
"1*
<
\ GRID END CELL - |~
| TRANSMITTER
| ANTENNA JACK SUPPLIES _.
— WIRE CLAMPED BETWEEN TWO KEY JACK FOR ^1—
1.5-V0LTS
PLASTIC STRIPS CONTROL MOTOR
END 90-VOLT —
DETAIL -WASHERS B BATTERY T^Hllllllri-

LIST OF PARTS FOR TRANSMITTER

Cl: .003-mfd. mica. Rl: 22,000-ohm, Vsi-watt carbon, see text); SPST toggle switch;
C2: midget 3-gang tuning con- 3-prong plug and socket for an- dial plate and knob; phone
denser, 365-mmf. each section tenna connection; 125 ft. No. jack; two-contact socket; 1S4
(J. W. Miller Co. No. 2113 or 16 stranded hook-up wire for tube and 7-pin miniature sock-
equivalent). antenna ( see sketch ) meter ; et; 5" by 6* by 9" case; 1.5-
C3: .001-mfd. mica. and thermocouple from surplus volt A battery. 90- or 135-volt
C4: .005-mfd. mica. BC-442 antenna unit ( optional, B battery.

reading. If the needle goes to zero, move the wouldn't be able to start it up again by
receiver further from the transmitter. remote control once you stopped it.
When you have both units in operation, Minimum control calls for right or left
but before you remove the receiver test rudder in any desired degree, plus full ahead
meter, set the relay contacts. The relay or stop. This sounds like a lot to wangle
should operate at .5 ma. and open at .4. The out of a single control channel, but you can
contact adjustment screws regulate its re- do by pulsing the transmitter.
it

sponse. You can change the current that A

small permanent-magnet motor is con-
reaches it by detuning the transmitter or nected to the rudders through a gear train
signal generator. If you order your relay that moves them from one extreme to the
from the factory, ask them to preset it at other in about six seconds. Two single flash-
these values. connected across the relay
light cells are so
Control system. A model boat hull 27" points that when
there is no signal, one cell
long with an 8J2" beam just comfortably turns the motor to give right rudder. Recep-
holds the receiver, steering unit, and an elec- tion of a transmitter signal flips the relay,
tric drive unit. You could get more speed, closing the other cell circuit and reversing
of course, with a gas engine, but you motor polarity to give left rudder.
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Co| aterial
 VOLUME CONTROL
(EXPERIMENTAL ONLY,
OMITTED FROM
DIAGRAM)

4-TERMINAl
TIE STRIP

m
51
B-BATTERY
PLUG
(45 VOLTS)

METER JACK (INSERT SHORTED PLUG

FOR NORMAL OPERATION)

Volume control (shown in photo above) and Contacts on RF and oscillator coils, Tl and T2,
from diagram (below)
pilot light are omitted are numbered on cans. Follow diagram num-
because they play no part in actual operation. bers even if different from manufacturer's data.

LIST OF PARTS FOR RECEIVER

CI. C2, C3: 50-400-mmf. mica R2: 2.2-megohm, Ms-watt carbon. equiv. ).
compression trimmers ( Miller* R3: 270.000-ohm, %-watt carbon. Relay, 10,000-ohm SPDT plate-
160-B or equivalent). R4: 22,000-ohm, %-watt carbon. circuit ( Sigma Instruments,
C4: .00125-mfd. mica (.001 and R5: 27,000-ohm, M)-watt carbon. South Braintree, Mass. Model
.00025 may be used in par- R6: 1 -megohm, %-watt carbon. 5F, or 8,000-ohm model 4F. or
allel). R7: 2.2-megohm, %-watt carbon. equivalent )

C5: .002-mfd.. 150-volt midget Tl: 140-425 kc. miniature RF Tubes: 1T4 (2), 1R5, 1S5 and
paper. coil (Miller 0 X-121-RF or 7-pin miniature sockets ( 4 )
C6: 100-mmf. mica. equiv. ) aluminum for chassis; 4-lug
C7: 150-mmf. mica. T2: Miniature oscillator coil terminal strip; phono jack (for
C8: 500-mmf. mica. (Miller* X-121-C or equiv.). meter) and shorted plug; IVi"
C9: .001-mfd., 150-volt midget T3: 127-137 kc. input IF trans., by 3%" bv 6V&" plastic box and
paper. iron core (Miller" 01 2- Ml or % lb. No. 28 D.C.C. wire for
C10: 250-mmf. mica. equiv.). antenna ( see photo ) 45-volt ;

Cll: .25-mfd., 100-volt paper. T4: 127-137 kc. output IF trans., B battery, 1.5-volt A battery.
Rl: 47,000-ohm, %-watt carbon. iron core (Miller 0 01 2- Ml or °J. W. Miller Co., Los Angeles.

The loop antenna is wound flat on a plastic

box as shown. The Sigma 5F relay seen in 62 TURNS No. 28 DOUBLE-COTTON-COVERED WIRE
photo is excellent but expensive; alternate, less l'/2 "« 3% x 6'/8
costly unit in parts list also works fine. PLASTIC BOX
C "
PILOT LIGHT
(EXPERI-
'Nrtj MENTAL
This sounds as if you have to keep going ONLY
from one rudder position to the other. But
ifan on-ofF pulse signal is transmitted, the
relay flipsup and down, making the steer-
ing motor turn just a few revolutions back
and forth continuously. The rudders jiggle
but don't move enough to have any effect.
So whenever you want to make the boat
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 ANTENNA JACK

KEY JACK

CAM FOLLOWER

Transmitter is housed in metal cabinet. Control is installed in an Elco 35 cruiser from a kit
A plate in the bottom is tapped }*"-20 for made by Marine Model Co., of Halesite, N. Y. An
a camera tripod; the antenna mount, oversize hatch was fitted to the forward deck to accom-
tapped the same way, is bolted to the top. modate the receiver. The cabin roof was made re-
A phone jack connects pulser into circuit, movable and the loop fixed to it. A 12-volt motor
and a two-contact socket feeds juice from drives the craft. Motor batteries and steering gear are
the A battery to the pulser's motor. in the stem.

RECEIVER CONTROLS
RELAY IN BOAT

1.5 VOLTS

UMIT
SWITCHES TIE
NORMALLY BAR
CLOSED -^5
WORM
DRIVE
STEERING MOTOR

go straight or keep turning in the same The steering linkage works between two
direction, you just send a pulsed signal at limit switches, each a pair of normally
the point you want the rudders to stop. closed spring contacts. At each extreme of
The pulser. To time the pulse for on travel, the linkage touches one contact leaf,
and off periods of the same length, I use opening the circuit through which the motor
a small battery motor with a 30-to-l worm is being powered. It can't then be energized

gear that turns at about 100 r.p.m. A brass again except through the reverse circuit.
cam on the gear is filed to a shape that will Drive control. To turn the driving
close a set of spring contacts during half motor on and off, a slide-type switch is
its rotation. This gives an on-off pulse about mounted between two adjustable throws on
100 times a minute. the rudder tie bar. When the rudder reaches
Control key. A telephone-switchboard extreme left, the switch goes off. To turn the
type of key switch with right, left, and cen- motor on again, the rudder must be swung
ter positions makes it easy to visualize rud- over to the extreme right.
der movement. But two single-throw spring If the boat gets out of range ( no signal )
switches, one normally on and one normally the relay throws to right rudder, leaving the
off, will do. The switches are connected motor on to bring the ship in a circle back
across the pulser so that in one position they toward the transmitter.
short the pulser contacts (steady signal, left For partial rudder, the tiller key is held to
rudder) while in the other they break the one side, then centered. The rudder will stay
pulser circuit (no signal, right rudder). Un- on that side. end
touched, they let the pulser send its rhyth- Do you know how to adjust room lights for
mic on-off signal. perfect TV viewing? See PS for September.
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Drainpipe Makes
a Bilge Pump
Most any boat takes in water from seep-
age or rain, and this little bilge pump gets
itout a lot faster than a bailing can does.
Y«u can make it from a 2' length of round
drainpipe with a hole cut about 6" from one
end. Solder a tin can into this opening to
form the spout.
Theintake valve is shown below at right.
Cut a circular piece of sheet metal to fit
inside the pipe. Then cut a hole in the cen-
ter of the disk. The size of the hole deter-
mines how fast the pump will move water.
Cut a flap from inner tubing and bolt it to
the disk at one end to open and close the
intake hole. If the rubber flap tends to pull
through, solder a piece of coarse screen over
the hole. Solder the disk to the pump bottom.
A piece of broom handle about 6" longer
than the pump makes the plunger. Cut a
disk from a blowout patch, or other heavy
rubber, to fit snugly inside the pipe. Fasten
it to the plunger's end with a brass screw.

Cut a disk from V

wood to fit upper end
of the pump and drill a hole in it to take
the broomstick. Slip it over
plunger the
handle and fasten it to the pipe with wood
screws.— Jim Miller, Moline, III.

Tubing Used as Skillet Holder Metal Trimmer Speeds Shop Work

I carry a 10" length aluminum tubing
of One of the handiest
—brass will also serve— on camping trips. tools in my shop is
One end of the tubing this trimmer for cut-
has been flattened so ting sheet metal and
it slips over the handle strap iron. I cut the
of my camp skillet. I two 18" blades from
find it much better for an old road - scraper
removing a hot fry- blade and set the
ing pan from the fire by 1" strap-iron legs
than cloth pot holders in a concrete base. It'll

that inevitably get cut cold metal

dirty and are easily thick and hot iron W
mislaid.— John Krill, thick. -C. A. Cole,
North Lima, Ohio. Graham, Ala.
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Co|
 Kodaslide Merit Projector, only
$24.50; carrying case, extra. The
big news about this projector is
the new, improved slide-feeding
mechanism. You insert slides in
top of projector— thus no jarring
or moving of instrument. Large-
sized lamphouse of unique, new
design assures efficient cooling to
keep slides flat. Built-in
elevating mechanism for
angles up to 10 degrees.
Other features: ( 1
Lumenized Kodak Projec-
Ektanon Lens, 5-inch
tion
//3.5; (2) ready access to
optical system for cleaning;
(3) powerful 150-watt lamp.

ColorSboW
Think of shooting and showing slides you get, and for displaying color prints
your own personal pictures in and enlargements made from them.
glorious full color with Koda- Your dealer will be glad to answer any ques-
chrome Film! It's one of the big- tions you may have regarding picture taking in
gest thrills in photography. On these pages you color— and to help you choose the right Kodak
see some of the latest equipment and accessories equipment for getting the most out of color
now offered for projecting and viewing the color photography. Visit him soon.

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The value-packed Kodak Pony 828 Camera makes Kodaslide Projector, Model 2A, is compact and effi-
superb color slides on Kodachrome Film; sharp cient—costs only $49.50, with Kodak Projection
black-and-white negatives; also gorgeous Kodacolor Ektanon Lens, 5-inch //3.5; with T^-inch f/4 lens,
snapshots. Kodak Anaston f/4.5 Lumenized Lens; $59.50. Slide carrier accepts two transparencies. All
Kodak Flash 200 Shutter with built-in "synch"; body optics are Lumenized. 150-watt lamp. You can tilt
shutter release. Takes 8-exposure rolls. Only $32; projector up to 10 degrees. Made of die-cast metal
similar "Pony" 135 for 35mm. films, $36.75. Field with gray finish. You'll find this model ideal for
cases for both models also available. large home gatherings.
 Budget-priced
table viewer
Kodaslide Table Viewer, 4X,
combines projector and screen in
one compact unit. Here's the
practical, effortless way to show
color slides, enlarged more than
four times, to a small group of
friends. With the "4X" there's no
longer any need to rearrange
furniture, no dimming of lights.
Just plug it in and you're ready
for a color show. Because of
the handy on-and-off switch on
the eight-foot cord, you can
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Attractively styled to blend with
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Accessory carrying case, extra.

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Prices start at lOtf.

Prices subject to change without noti e and

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Consult your dealer.
»

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Rochester 4, N. Y.
Metal Molding Protects Boat String Traces Oval Portrait Mask

THUMBTACK

Oval photographs
add variety to an al-
bum. Small portraits
Keels of small boats frequently are dam- for a billfold are also
aged by hitting floating debris or by scuffing attractive in this for-
when the boat is beached. Such damage can mat. But the oval
be avoided by covering the keel with the masks that make them
aluminum or stainless-steel molding used as aren't easy to cut free-
linoleum trim. Molding will also keep the hand. Here's how to
splash rails, chines, and gunwales from being trace an oval.
THUMBTACK-
scarred.— Grover Brinkman, Okawville, III. Lay out line AB on
black paper. Its length
sets the major axis of the oval. From its
Window Weight Secures Moored Boat
middle point (C), draw line CD, making it
half the length of AB. Insert thumbtacks at
points A, B, and D
and tie a cord around
them. Remove tack at D, place a pencil in
the string, and move it around the two tacks,
keeping the tension uniform. Then cut on
the pencil line.— John ]. Rea, Urbana, III.

Hanger Keeps Fishing Plugs Handy

Moor your boat like this and it won't be

rubbed against the dock by the rise and fall
of tides or the motion of waves. The bow
line is tied to the dock. The stern line runs If you like to change plugs frequently,
through a pulley that is bolted to the end here's a way to keep them handy. Thread
of a strut sticking out from the dock. On the screw eyes into two seats or seat braces and
end of the stern line is a window weight. As run a piece of wire between them. Hook
the boat rises or drops with the tide, the your plugs on the wire. They're easy to see
weight keeps the line tight and stops side- and the ones you've used will dry quickly.—
ways drift.— Eton Jessup, Woods Hole, Mass. John Krill, North Lima, Ohio.
210 POPULAR SCIENCE
 3 In the Auto-Lite "Sta-
ful" Battery, every posi-
tive plate has a Fibre-
mat pro-
insi glass retaining
tecting it and holding
the active materials in

place to reduce shedding

and flaking.

ofyour latteiy-
4 Side-by-side view
shows that the "Sfa-ful"

See how it works! Battery doesn't need

the extra space at bot-
all

tom as ordinary design

batteries do. So extra

In ordinary batteries, space in "Sta-ful" Bat-

small particles keep tery is moved to top

flaking off positive STA-FUL ORDINARY where . . .

plates, so ordinary de-

sign batteries must have
large sediment wells at
bottom of case to hold
these particles.

5 . . • extra space can be used to hold more battery

electrolyte, giving room for over 3 times the liquid reserve
in the "Sta-ful" as in ordinary batteries. That's why the
2 If sediment wells in ordinary design batteries
"Sta-ful" needs water only 3 times a year in normal car
aren't big enough to hold flaking particles from use. "Sta-ful" Batteries give longer life, too, in tests con-
positive cells, particles pile up and short circuit cells,
ducted according to minimum life cycle standards.
causing cell failure.
AUTO-LITE BATTERY CORPORATION
Toledo 1 Ohio

Ai/fo/ife sta-ful

...needs wafer

en/y times ayear 3 IN NORMAL CAR USE

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 This Bus Rolls Through the Sky
[Continued from page 217]

below 50 pounds, the

aii-brake tanks to fall
brakes automatically stop the car. There is
also an auxiliary hand brake. And should a
bus be stranded somewhere along the aerial
route, the luggage rack holds a block and
tackle and bosun's chair for lowering pas-
sengers to the ground.

Tramway Insured
Care and Feeding None of
for $1,000,000

these emergency facilities has

yet had to be used. A. L. Greenwalt, man-
of Engines BY S. P. CORP ager of the Mount Hood Aerial Transporta-
tion Company, points out that $1,000,000
worth of liabilityinsurance was obtained
COOL BEARINGS IN SUMMER HEAT "before we ever ordered our first ounce of
Lubrication of front wheel bearings every 10,000 miles materials."
is sometimes neglected with sad consequences. It's Originally, winter was expected to be the
not a hard chore to remove a front wheel, clean, big season for this bus that invades the
grease and replace — but re-
heavens. Mount Hood is the most popular
member these points. Have a
new inner oil seal and new ski resort in the Pacific Northwest. But the
cotter pin for replacement. skiers were only a one-way haul, at 75
Clean the bearings with gaso- cents each for the uphill ride. They
line and allow to dry but
DON'T spin a dry bearing. swooped back down on their hickory slats.
Inspect bearings and cups for The bus returned empty.
chipping, flat spots or for over- "Summer tourists are a better paying
—
heating indicated by a dark proposition," says Greenwalt. "They make
blue ball or roller. Work about
the full round trip in our bus. And, believe
a tablespoon of wheel bearing
lubricant into each bearing it or not, they have bigger appetites than

with your fingers. the skiers and give more business to our
Tighten nut till you feel a binding on wheel rotation, restaurants."
then turn one revolution to seat bearing and back off
wheel nut until bearings are slightly loose. Retighten
Designing and erecting the Mount Hood
nut until looseness is just removed. Install your skyway was the task of the Pointer-Wil-
new cotter pin. lamette Company of Portland, Oregon, mak-
ers of aerial tramways for logging.
CLEANING AIR CLEANERS
Oil bath air cleaners need Long Lift Required New Technique
service every 5000 miles,
others every 2000 miles. If At first, the Mount Hood undertaking
used on dusty roads, clean was to be patterned after the lifts at Fran-
them twice as often. Oil conia Notch and Sugar Loaf Mountain.
should be replaced with This meant that the cable would provide
SAE50 for hot weather and
a lighter oil for winter. A the traction. Engineers finally vetoed the
dry cleaner unit should be scheme. Franconia Notch is only a one-
plunged up and down in mile tram, but they were dubious about a
clean gasoline or kerosene,
moving cable more than three miles in
taking care not to wet the felt at the top of the cover.
length. The engineers also pointed out that
IF YOUR CAR DRINKS TOO MUCH the car at Franconia Notch is a light shell
An engine that uses too much oil needs new Sealed constructed like an elevator. It offers stand-
Power piston rings. The Sealed Power MD-50 Steel ing room only. Mount Hood needed a
Oil Ring does the world's best job of heavier, more spacious vehicle.
oil control, even in badly tapered and
out-of-round bores. Your dealer has.
The busses were literally handmade. No
phase of the Mount Hood project was more
Sealed Power Rings or can get themj^
for you. They save gas, save oil, re-
— ticklishthan this. Each coach cost $40,-
store original power to your engine 000, as contrasted with $16,500 for an
and lengthen its life. A postal to
"Sealed Power, Dept. H-8, Muskegon,
ordinary bus of the same horsepower.
Mich." will bring you free a helpful Because the equipment cannot be turned
book, "7 Ways to Save Oil." I Continued on page 214]

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 —
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taining the most modern testing equipment known of these great laboratories is being turned over to work
have contributed many of today's most important on the promising ideas of independent inventors
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This was no obstacle in our earlier days. The Wright hundreds of other oil companies for whatever he can get.
Brothers designed their first airplane with the help of a Under the Plan, Sinclair has no control over the inventor's
—
foot-square homemade "wind box" and the plane flew. sale of his idea to others, and has no participation in any
In contrast, the man with a new idea in airplane of the inventor's profits through such dealings. More-
design today often needs a supersonic wind tunnel over, it is a competitive characteristic of the oil business
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In short, science and invention have become so com- almost invariably adopted by the whole industry. This
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 This Bus Rolls Through the Sky
[Continued from page 2121

around, there are identical operating levers

VHiy do piston lings and control panels at each end of the coach.
Going downhill, the bus uses compression
wear out if you to retard speed. On the steepest of the up-
hill grades, the driver shifts to low gear.

use good oil ? Approximately seven gallons of

octane fuel are required for a round trip.
high-

The State Highway Commission exempts

the Mount Hood tramway, however, from
If your piston rings were always protected the Oregon gasoline tax of six cents a gal-
by oil, they'd last longer. Unfortunately, lon. After all, no bus of 24,000 pounds
when you your car after long stops, it
start ever was easier on the state's roads.
takes up to minutes for oil to reach
five
all vital parts. Meanwhile, dry metal grinds Driver Has Tricky Job
against dry metal. This DRY STARTING
It takes ordinary bus drivers at least six
forms "Metal Ulcers" causes most
. . .

engine wear.
weeks to become expertat operating these
busses in the clouds. Trickiest aspect of the
To stop it, use Miracle Power in your gas
and The colloidal
oil. synthetic graphite in driver's job is taking the coach through the
Miracle Power clings to rings and cylinder "jacks" or cable supports at each tower.
walls . lubricates them until oil arrives.
. .
The weight of the heavy car makes the in-
Actual tests show 49% less piston ring cline extremely steep where the cable
wear. Result— longer engine life more . . . passes through the towers. Yet it is not
power more miles per gallon because
. . . feasible to speed up and gain momentum
of freer movement of parts. Next time you for the grade, for the coach must cross each
get gas, get Miracle Power. jack slowly to avoid a jarring bump.
Miracle Power Division The towers "float" on pivots, so they will
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Manufacturers RP MUe&fe Qetluvf
of: Mufflers age of the heavy car. A rigid upright might
and Other RP Quality Products be in danger of buckling under the stress.
When the bus ends its ascent, it is still a
full mile in elevation below the glacial sum-
mit of Mount Hood. Will the route ever be
extended to the top? That is the question
asked most often by eager tourists. The
last 1,000 feet of Oregon's loftiest crag are
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 Gus Answers a Night Call
{Continued from page 1 601

of the fan belt and then began turning the

fan by hand. Finally he reached into the
side pocket of his coveralls, pulled out a
screwdriver, and pointed to a dark spot on
the inner groove of the fan pulley.
"I think just maybe that might be our
trouble," he said, digging at the spot with
the tip of the screwdriver. "Feels like
greasy dirt," he added, after he had scraped
some off and rubbed it between his fingers.
When Gus had cleaned the fan pulley,
he told Ted to start the engine. Both men
listened, but there wasn't a chirp.
"That's got it," grinned Gus. "Every time
your fan belt hit that greasy spot, it slipped
a bit and let out a squeak."
When Ted had driven off, Gus turned to
Stan. "Well, one clown, one to go. At least
we're batting .500."
"I don't get it," said Stan. "I checked
the generator brushes like you said, and
they're all right, too. What's left?"
Gus looked watch. "Well, it's get-
at his
ting on to noon and you probably have
something better to do with your Saturday
afternoon than chasing after noises. Why
don't we give it up for now?"
Stan Joins Song Fest

"That's just it," said Stan glumly. "Jane

and I were planning to go to the beach this
• afternoon, and she'll be here in a few min-
utes to ride out with me."
"I get it," winked Gus, "if you don't get
rid of the noise, she'll get rid of you. Well,
if we can't find out what it is, let's see if we
can find out where it is."

As Stan started up the engine again, Gus

cupped his hands around an ear, like a
funnel, and began moving his head slowly
along the side of the engine.
Intrigued by what Gus was doing, Stan
began unconsciously to whistle a tune.
Gus's patience collapsed like a punctured
tire. "For Pete's sake, Stan, how can I hear
anything if you're going to—"

Suddenly Gus straightened up. "Hey,

wait a minute. Stan, we've been a couple
of chumps!"
Stan's expression had made a fast change
from wounded vanity to abject apology to
utter amazement and had now come to rest
completely blank.
"No wonder we didn't recognize that
noise," Gus went on. "It isn't a screech like
{Continued on page 2181

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 Gus Answers a Night Call
[Continued from page 216]
two metallic surfaces rubbing together. It's

a whistle, like air rushing through a hole."

Quickly Gus checked the vacuum line to
the windshield wipers, but the hose was
sound and the connections tight. Then he
reached for the air cleaner. It wobbled. As
he held it. the whistle stopped, then when
he let go, it started again.
"That's it," Stan shouted, "the air clean-
er's loose."
"No," corrected Gus, "the whole carbure-
tor's loose.Get me a wrench."
Stan brought the wrench and Gus fitted
it to one of the studs that held the base of

of the carburetor to the intake manifold.

"This one's loose," said Gus, as he tight-
PfpeTobaecos ened it. And as he did so the whistle be-
came fainter.
"Now the one on the other side."
let's try
When he pulled that one up tight, too,
the whistle disappeared completely.
"Well, that's one for the books," exclaimed
Stan. "The looseness of those studs allowed
air to be sucked in between the base of the
carburetor and the intake manifold and
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Gus nodded.
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As Gus finished explaining, there was the
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sound of high heels outside the garage, and
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the two looked up to see the pretty young
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figure of Jane Stevens standing in the door-
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way. "Hi. Stan. Hello, Mr. Wilson. Am I

too early?"
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"Oh," exclaimed Jane, "I almost forgot
to tell you. After we left for the dance
State. last night, Dad drove over to Towns ville to
some business convention and stayed over-
night. He wasn't home at all." end
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 The Boy Who Grew Flying Bananas
{Continued from page 132]
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 What Were the Flying Saucers?
ONE REASON YOU GET [Continued front page 75]

BETTER SERVICE But J. U. Watts, Jr., a Darlington, S. C,

lawyer, wrote:
from UTICA TOOLS "They are real and man-made. I remem-
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When you buy tools —
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. . . is

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and it means top not mass hysteria or optical illusions. Inci-
quality and long service.
dentally, the ones observed by me were not
DROP PORGED FOR STRENGTH round but oval shape and moving
in much
as a flying wing might do."

Sees "Classified" Saucer

Somewitnesses were tantalizing, like the

The diagram of the Air Force sergeant who reported watching
pliert above thews hew drop
forging aligns steel fibre a saucer with high-powered binoculars from
structure with shape of tool.
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CONTRAST he couldn't reveal what he saw because it
THIS WITH was classified. Others opened new vistas,
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of American Airlines, who wrote:

STAMPING — does not conform to the "I have talked to just as many pilots who
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and have not reported it, as have reported
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 Highballing World's Fastest Train
s Ave oy|R.5() [Continued from page 811
^ Art Franke. A fresh road foreman of en-
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BUILD own POWER T00LS- s5w throttle. The speedometer needle swung
BANDSAW back over the face of its dial.
Exclusive GIL-BILT Buiid-lt-Yourseif Features
• No machining— build easily with hand tools only
• No blueprint reading— step-by-step pictorial plans, BELT SANDER "Here she comes!" called the fireman.
actual photographs
full scale patterns,
• Sturdy wood, aluminum, and steel construction The southbound Zephyr bore down on us
• Capacity and performance of commercial saws
selling for $60 and up on the companion track and roared by.
GIL-BILT 10-INCH TILTING ARBOR SAW
• 27x28
ity
in. table, 13 Vi
In front of blade
In. capac- "A Little Slow Today!"
• 10 in. blade cuts 3Vi in. deep,
~--^*»»
tilts full 45 degrees
• Floor model 34" high, table al-
It was 11:28 before we were back to 90
ways stays level miles an hour. As we slowed to pass the
• New Departure hall bearing arbor. pre-
cision shaft turned down for *fer bore
blades, alum, housing, shipped ready to run Crawford tower outside Prairie du Chien,
• Jackscrew and 4M| In. dla. handwheel
lowers and raises blade Engineer Kerrigan looked at his watch and
• Cast aluminum miter gauge and self-align-
ing rip fence guide
GIL-BILT Metal Parts Kit includes Plans, ball
shook his head. It was 11:39 when we
bearing arbor, miter gauge and bar, rip fence
guide, dado Insert, lock knobs, Jack screw rolled to a stop. Our speed from East
mechanism and handwheel. and all other
metal parts Mess blade) 520.95
Same Kit with lO" Combination Blade $24. 90
Dubuque had been 81.6 miles an hour.
Same Kit with 8" Combination Blade $23.90 At North La Crosse the train changed
GIL-BILT 12-INCH BAND SAW crews again. I climbed down from the cab.
• Cuts to center of 24 inch circle
• Handles stock up to 6 Inch thick
• 18x18 Inch table tilts 45 degrees "Little slow today!" boomed Engineer
• Lower wheel and drive pulley runs on sealed New
Departure Ball Bearings; Upper wheel runs on two
3/8* bore Olllte Bronze bearings
Kerrigan, knocking out his pipe on the heel
Upper wheel tension and tilt mechanism of
cast aluminum, completely assembled of his hand as we walked toward the di-
Upper and lower blade guides. Each has ball
thrust bearing, self-lub bronze Jaws
• Rigid cast aluminum wheels fully machined
vision superintendent's office. "Little slow!"
ready-to-lnstall. Heavy rubber tires
• Uses standard 78 Inch blades up to a H In. wide The Zephyr's Diesels began barking as the
• Fully enclosed mechanism for utmost safety
OIL-BILT Metal Parts Kit Includes Plans, rubber tires',
aluminum wheels, In. blade, ball bearing spindle,
i
i
throttle came open. The train gathered
tilt mechanism, blade guides, table tilt segments, and
all other metal parts $20.95 speed. In an hour and 59 minutes it would
Return Kits In 1<> days for refund if not satisfied.
(Prices include postage within 600 miles. Over 900 mdd 6%)
Also available— Plans and Parts Kit for Belt Sander and 8" Tilt /Table
be in St. Paul, 128 miles away. end
Saw. Order Plans at 51.00 each— Send postpaid anywhere In the
world or write for FREE descriptive catalog. Next Month: Building the world's biggest
p
GILLIOM POWER TOOLS %fl\ u\?2i^7£%r r
e,a
little railroad.

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TOE STANDARD REPLACEMENT CHI popular-priced Home-Utility Drills, you
So many owners of make, and models power
all

chain taw i have installed Oregon Chipper Chain with

of
release production tools for defense plants
Fast-File Tooth that it is now recognised as the "stand-
ard replacement chain." It fits afl saws, gives owners
where their heavy-duty capacity is vitally
superior performance. Write for name of nearest
dealer. State saw make, bar length. (Money making needed
dealerships open.)

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HOMILITI . ttIO.miNTICS- II
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Stand Holds Soap Upright

Soap lasts longer
when kept in a holder
that allows it to drain

18 dry. I made
one
of Lucite, but any lA"
this

plastic would do.

Trace and saw the
"Used with a V*" outlines carefully.
Electric Drill Becomes Sand and buff the
a POWER SAW edges. If you don't
have a buffing wheel,
Vollrath, with 76 years of experience, use toothpaste and a heavy cloth pad. As-
have produced the finest light weight portable hand semble the parts with plastic solvent or
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SET 30 Selected H. S. Straight Shank MORSE TAPER SHANK DRILLS SET Mixture of
1R Drills from Mixed new 12 Mounted
and used — '/a* to Va".
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Speed Morse Taper Shank
16R Stones with
length up to 7". $15 Value, only 10R shanks. 52 75
Drills up to 9/16" with
SET 10 Different Size H.S. Straight Shank No. and 2 tapers. $50
I
SET 24 of „
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It Value, priced */_in 17R above $4.85
(shank same dia. as drill) *o or t at only »0.4V
$25 Value, only *O.T3 jj
1

SET 20 Different Size

1 1R H 'S" Speed Morse GEAR BOX BARGAINS
ll.t Taper Shank Drills
HICH SPEED DRILLS """ I

from Va" to tlOOC

Excellent for small hoist
or winch. sq. for V
$70 Value. Priced at only
I".
W'tO 2 "with Va" l/ Shanks
cct10 Different Size High Speed Morse
hand crank with 15:1
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Taper Shank Drills from Vt" to *0 OC motor drive with
V2" to 1" with V2" Shanks 2Rl!/4 '.$50Value. Priced at only.. 4»".T3
for
20:1 gear ratio. Large gear
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cct
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6 Different Size H.S. SET 8 Different Size High Speed Morse clutch. Ballbearing through-
3R
Drills, Va" to Vz" all lip* Taper Shank Drills from I" to 2" out. Rated up to 6 to or
shanks
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with No. 3, 4. and 5 ta-
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OC too H.P. Weight 30 lbs* 0 '" f.o.b. Tulsa
SET HIGH SPEED HAND TAPS^
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Different Size 90° HEAVY II DUTY GEAR BOX
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Set 3R and 4R will fit any including 2 std. High Speed &n nc
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dia.
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arbor.
size
5' 2
pullies
lbs. Length
or gears.
II".
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beveled
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These H.S. precision drills with 2 " shanks 1

Thickness from
can be used in a electric drill or a V2" .040 to .071. Cuts
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2
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Only $4.95 tube, all 3 postpaid 'OC
CHUCKING REAMERS
SET 20 Different Size High NEW CARBIDE TIP MASONRY DRILL CASKET PASTE one lb. tin excellent
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'
Carbide tip goes for automotive pan gaskets, etc.
'R Chucking Reamers up to through any mason- <
Dis. on quantity. Only.. Qg^
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AND PRICES
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DEPT. 16S
CUSHMAN MOTOR WORKS Lincoln, Nebr.

How to Get Better Paint Jobs

BmagnetsU
Imb^s^bbbbI*
AMAZING PERMANENT
ELECTRIC. Retrieve guns,
^ m y s
tackle, tools and otber steel Items from
lake, river, plating tanks, drains or other hard-to-reach spots. Recover
\* MdksflUaaH
MAGNETS— WILL NOT WEAKEN! NON-
.
Send for free
tells how to
illustrated 24-page booklet
buy and apply right aluminum
V jfr\ p paint for all jobs around the house. don't
i»2IIr. F make paint, but prepared this booklet to help
We
drills, taps, etc. from floor sweepings. Clear alley of harmful tacks, you get better results with aluminum paint.
nails. Many other uses listed. Pays for itself quickly. GUARANTEED:
Try any magnet one week. Money refunded If you are not well-pleased. Write for free book "Paint it Bright".
Cat. No. 67 3 < Has a pull of 17 n lbs. on a flat steel block
Cat. No. 650 ( 150 lb. pull) S8.S0.
.... SIO.SO
Cat. No. 550 ( SO lb. pull ) S 4.00
l
ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA,
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—
Cat. No. 30 Hobbyist assortment of six medium magnets. $ 1.50 .

Send M. O. or check. We pay postage.

MIAMI MAGNET CO.
3,240 N.W. 27th Ave.. Aviation Bldg. No. 43. Miami, Florida
<^P0WER MO
i FREE Building
Write For Them
Amazing invention makes whirl-blade
Instructions
PULLS
ITSELF,
/^ti^ £asi/as/-2-3 mower pull and steer itself as well
A« cut grass and weeds. Convert
mim i
> jt
1 " —jvour mower or build a complete STEERS
:: vise-grip - m- ^--
v.... Mower
mower with screw-
driver
name and
ic
address.
pliers. Send
•
ITSELF.
Now. VISE'GRIP makes short work Convert Your i
I postcard win do.
of every Job from the largest to Or Build A New One
the smallest! LOCKS with more
lhan Ton Grip! Can't slip. Turns T & H Mfg. Co., Dept. MSC-8, 811 E. 31 St., Kans. City, Mo.
stubborn nuts, screws, broken
studs. Holds anything. Whether
you use It for electrical, plumbing
or car repairs. It makes every Job
a cinch! With cutter— No. 7W, 7", $2.25: No. 10W. 10". 5.2.60.
—
Without cutter No. 7C, 7", S1.9S; No. IOC. lO". S2.25. No. 7. 7".
S1.8S; No. 10. 10", S2.1S. Order From Your Dealer.
PETERSEN MFC.
spindle — Platform — Wheels— Fork — Handles— Driving & Steering Part*
CO., Dept. M-8. DeWITT, NEBR. All parts available— Kit or separately.

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 Clock Coil Demagnetizes Small Tools

Ptacte
"I did very well
last year with my
$900
Foley equipment,
about 950 saws IN SPARE TIME
and 240 lawn
mowers, in my
spare time. About $900 for me." Leo H. Mix,
New York.
Make up to $2 or $3 an hour in Spare Time. With a
Foley Automatic Saw Filer you can file hand,
band and circular saws better
than the most expert hand filer.
—
Cash business no canvassing.
No eyestrain, no experience
needed. Don't throw away
FREE BOOK — "INDE- a worn-out electric
PENDENCE AFTER 40" clock until you've sal-
shows just how you
can start at home in vaged the field coil
spare time, with from the motor. If
small investment, no
—
overhead and develop into
a full-time repair shop. Send
the coil's good, you can use it to de-
still

coupon today magnetize screwdrivers and other small

..tutKvM no salesman tools that tend to pick up filings. Splice on
1^" \\ will call.
enough wire to reach an AC outlet and tape
SEND COUPON FOR FREE BOOK the leads. Plug in the coil and insert the
FOLEY MFG. CO. tool to be demagnetized in the coil opening.
Rotate it to the left and then right for a

Name
11 . .
819-1 Foley Bldg.. Minneapolis 18, Minnesota
Send FREE BOOK- -"Independence After 40. second and draw it away slowly while the
current is on.— Arthur F. Yaw, Seeley, Calif.

Address
Ruler Trick Divides Circumference
1

HAND MITRE
SENSATIONAL!
IT'S
"It pays its way
in just one day!"
New HAND MITRE saves the carpenter - picture framer
- cabinet maker and craftsman hundreds of hours . .

a "flick" of the hand and a few seconds for a pre-

cision mitre every time.
The HAND MITRE will cut any desired angle. Its rugged
construction will handlehard and soft wood mouldings,
base shoe, dowels, laminated materials,
plastic trim,
rubber extrusions, leather, linoleums and asphalt tile.
Made of heavy gauge stainless steel, electro polish
finish. Will endure years of hard usage.
Eliminate bulky mitring equipment - save valuable
hours ond labor $3.95 postpaid.

RIVET Universal type, case hardened tips. Set of

Two familiar dodges can be combined to
head up any brazier or round head
dies will divide the circumference of a tube, rod or
SETS rivet from Vh* to 14 " With adapters for air
gun or hand use. All new cost Government . . .
pipe into any number of equal parts.
about $27.00." Complete 1 5 piece set, wt., 2 lbs., $5.00 Wrap a piece of masking tape around the
HIGH SPEED DRILLS piece, overlapping the ends. Cut squarely
All New. Fractional
EXTENSION DRILLS
High Speed Steel, like new. through the lap with a razor, and remove
& numbered. Orig. Asst'd sizes from No. Vi to 40.
Vol. $15. Nationally lengths from 6" to 12". Ap- the tape, being careful not to stretch it.
known brand. Astd. proximately $20 value. Stick the tape vertically on a piece of pa-
sizes. Set 30. $3.50 Set of 12 $3.75
per and draw a line down the center. With
HIGH SPEED DRILL BITS a T square, draw horizontal lines from its
Like New! Original value over $16.00. 25 assorted sizes and lengths, $2.50
top and bottom. Then lay a ruler across
MICROMETERS these lines with the desired number of ruler
Chrome plated, precision engineered and carefully tooled to
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. .lea. $2.25. 1-2" capacity . . $3.50.

divisions spanning them. Mark off the ruler

Send check, money order or cash. 25 V* deposit required on COD

divisions, then, with the T square, run a line
orders. All prices FOB Culver City, California, unless otherwise stated. from each division to the tape. Again wrap
Send 25c for Illustrated Catalog.
the tape around the piece to be divided,
AIRBORNE SALES CO., INC. ^lll^cll, and prick-punch the marks.
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 POINTERS FOR HOME PAINTERS
HOLD-E-ZEE
THE ORIGINAL AUTOMATIC GRIP
SCREWDRIVERS
FIRST CHOICE OF
SKILLED CRAFTSMEN

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pes
ly At Leading
Dealers
Everywhere

Gripper Recedes
into Handle Upson Bros., Inc. Rochester 14, N Y.

SHEET METAL BRAKES

Forms angles, flanges and Pittsburgh locks. 2G gauge steel, heavier
aluminum. Cam locking. Portable, can be bolted to bench, or clamped
to edge of truck. AH steel, reinforced.
Shipped Exp. Coll. 30" size. Wt. 54 lbs.,
S26.SO. :J6". Wt. OB lbs. 431. OO. 48".
Wt. ino lbs.. $45.00. Floor mountings,
portable, 32" high, 3(1 lbs.. $7.00. 12"
BRAKE. Fits in vise to form difficult
compound bends, up to 2(1 gauge steel.
How to get smoother paint jobs . . •
Not Illustrated $12.50 P.P. 30'—36
5" Wide Pliers forms locks. .$2.50 . .

24" CURVE FORMER, 2 roll, 10 gauge. 2" to 2' dla. .$10.00 P.P. .
longer service from brushes
IRON BENDER. 1/4x2" capacity. 10 parts. All steel. .$10.00 P.P. . .

Immediate detirrnt. Oriler direct, canh or CO. P. or send tor folder.

VYKE BRAKE CO.. S-III6 So. 27th St.. Omaha 5. Nebr.

NEW JIG SAW 70% MORE

A rm
POWERFUL— QUIET! adjusts to
SAFE for children yet cuts 1" wood, any length
metal, plastic with 70% power. MORE
Quieter! Basic tool for Dad's shop. UL-
Approved. With BUILT-IN Fractional
Horsepower Reactance Electric Motor. I -

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$22.95 at dealers or postpaid from
S Y N C RO
Jk I I I ]
CORP., DEPT
iJLMJI 1 G-61. OXFORD When finishing rough sur- Apply varnish and enamel
116 SAW V^J MICHIGAN. faces,work in the first coat finishes with a full brush, al-
to cover all cavities. Then lowing the paint to flow on.
TEST Circuits, brush the second coat on Always use as few strokes as
Fuses, Outlets with smooth, even strokes. possible for the job.
easily, quickly, safely.
Shockproof. Pull fuses
10 to 100
Amp.

$2.75 $1.50 add'l lor 2' leads

At Dealers ... or from us POSTPAID.
STAR FUSE CO., 237 Canal St., New York 13, N.

Jiffl-Klip SHOP SHELF

USES STANDARD
JAM JARS Clean brushes in thinner When you store brushes for
USE THIS SHCIF FOI
U fV
STOIAGt
vv 13 PINT
after
brush
daily
in thinner overnight.
use. Suspend long periods, clean
oughly and wrap securely in
thor-
Throw away the screw copi le you* tmoll
ports jori and put up the Jiffi-Klip shop thclf Bristle tips should not touch manner shown here. Brushes
on flat wall or between 16" c.c ttvd* Store
rlWftti wtihin, nails, tie, In your shop SNAP) The |w bottom of can. Work out stay in better condition when
tlipk into its clip under the thelf — SNAP! Owl it tomes
thinner before painting again. they're kept in shape.
with cenlenti clean and ready 10 vie without bothering
to remove a wielei* tcrew cap. We don't sell the ion, 79c plui poitoge
you probably hove dotem of thom in your shop now
Colper Soles Co., 70S S. Vassar, Wichita, Komat
3 sent prepaid for $2
For best results use NYLON PAINT BRUSHES
Make Your Own Job after fob, you'll gel best result* with a well-tipped nylon painl
brush. Durable Du Pont nylon bristles don't break off, even on
POWER LAWN MOWER roughest surfaces. They last 3 to 5 times longer than ordinary
paint smoother . . are clean and sanitary. Nylon paint
with this DRIVE CUTTER ASSEMBLY bristles . . . .

Constructed for those who desire to brushes are made by leading manufacturers in all types and sixes.
build their own mower or *
NYLON on the handle.
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 HYDRAULIC CYLINDER SPECIAL
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Here's a rool buy! Finest precision
GADGETEER or SHOP MECHANIC.
thrust with 3,000 lb. line pressure. CAN GADGET MIX - Rivets, Spacers,
ALSO BE OPERATED ON LOW PrtES- built R-l Generators, used on B-29*s, Bolts, Screws, Gears, Wheel bear-
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MOTORS
„FOUR WAY VALVE ELECTRIC LEAR ELECTRIC
1/18-16
29.
33«
PIPE TAPS
5/8-18
47.
66<
PULLEY MIX - You'll want this one
around.jO micarta & metal pulleys rang-
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type. Valve 1/8 4B« 1/2 JI.32
' 1# Po.^rc-t shuts off
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bearings. These are aircraft pulleys, the
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Xj!\i < 1500 PSI Pis load clutch. Motor turns 11,000
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Has 11 toeduction box turn-
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Hns piston with built-in relief valve to - bevel
ing 1000 rt.P.M. at take-off. Adaptable
gear
hove plenty of screws on hand. . |,39
limit cylinder strokes. Inlet and outlet IJj to reduction. A
9QC life-
1

to flex or rigid drive. Limit switch box.

ports have ;" std. pipe ports,
1
time value NUT MIX NM-1-3 Ibs. appro*. 500 nut
'?" A.C. tube to cyl. (Y* x 18* «»e>7j2^ Site: T'x 6" . . .^ZS Anchor, Lock, Castle, Hex, Elastic Stop
thread) . . . , . . . . • • Ha* l«V«r control for entjoginy & disengag- Nuts, etc. You'll afways hove plenty of
ing positive clutch. Dust sroef housing, pr*. Nuts in the shop. NM-1
fTd STRATO POWER PUMP SAMSELL MOTOR lubricolod bearings ... Can b* odapfod to 1 39 |
I
7j 27 volts, 16 omps Vickors Transmission. SUPER COMBO MIX - No. SC2. Here's
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wound
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displaces .450 cu. in.
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9 32" diameter. 12-spline. 4-1 8" x
Hundreds of uses for any
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fa 15 sec. Operates at 3750 RPM, inter- GEAR HEAD MOTOk ion. Opens, c loses, raises 1/14" - 4H. ft. :/i 0 " - WW ft.

mittent max irr urr 4500 RPV. or lowers doors, wind- 5/o4" - Sth. 7/32" -10)S«ft.
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Rotates either direction with- ows, gates, valves. 3/32" - 5>i* ft. 1/4" - PH« ft.
Gear Head Motor,
out a djustment I'l" - 7«fl.. 9/32"-
IS. ft.
I
H.P., 24 volt
V.>1
CTU-2 Foote linear actuator. 24 Volt,
GER0TE 0 TYP E PUMP DC, 125 amp rev-
5/32" - 7>'K It. S/H"- lf}H«f,.
or D.C., 8500 R.P.M., 1/6 H.P. -
.
I
A.C. 1/2" 20. ft. 3/»" - I8.fr.
Logan Geroter type. For op- ersible rrotor will Series wound motor. 4';" stroke in 13J Special I 3/16" coble, 18 ft. long with
erating hydroulic systerrs drive reduction seconds.Corpress ion and tension loads tumbuckle ends . .99.
cn trucks, tractors, etc. De- geor box unit icro- sw rrcr
up to 750 lbs. Adjustable r.icro-swjtch Stolnloss Steel Cable - Pre-fermed
livers 8 GPM ot 1200 KPM 44.5 to 1, re5L.ti.ng in 168*. P.M. ot for limits of travel* Overall 16" - i* ft- 5/32" - 20. ft.
ot 1000 PSI with 5
also be used as Hydroulic
H.P.Can 5 8" diameter take-off shaft. Motor con-
tains electro magnetic break.
length retracted 11"- 62§ 1.

3 32" - <« '«' 1/4" -

I

TWO HEAT SOLDERING IRON Brenle Coble - Not Pre-fermed

fluid motor.
ports,
3/8"
l/2"splined shaft for
std. pipe
UNIT COMPLETE/02£' MOTOR (
4%
tyf
pulley or direct attachment.
5V dio., 7" long. Used but
GEAR BOX ALONE ]7 99
This is really TWO IRONS in ONE!
condition guaranteed.
No. 500 - New 3 H.P. - '
A c on fro I button in handle selects 150 or
27 Volt, D.C.-A.C. This 300 wott heat. Full size iron for light &
motor con be readily ad- hvy work. Removable, solid copper^f 0£
opted to deliver up to tip. Complete with cord & tip, TT^Sf
1951 CATALOG H.P. on 110 Volts, A.C. by by the simple
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tature brush-
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AUGUST 1951 237

Insulated Casing Improves Side-Arm Water Heater
Here's a way you can make an old side-
arm water heater much more efficient. I
improved mine in the way shown at right
several years ago and it's still giving good
service.
Discarding the original cast-iron shell
that surrounded the gas burner and copper
coil,I remounted the coil as close as pos-

sible to the storage tank. Then I formed a

16-gauge steel shell around the coil and
fastened it to the tank with two straps. At
the bottom I placed a metal skirt around
the tank and coil shell so heat from the
burner would warm the base of the tank.
A hinged door in the front of the skirt gives
access to the gas burner.
The outlet from the coil was placed close
to the tank and enclosed by a 24-gauge
steel casing, also strapped to the tank. As
the hot gases rise through this stack, the
hot-water delivery pipe is kept hot. Insu-
lating sheets wrapped around the entire
assembly cut the heat loss down to a mini-
mum.— O. Bogert, Maplewood, N. J.

Deep Cabinet Made of Narrow Lumber Barrel Bolt Is Simple Flag Holder
I needed a small record cabinet but
didn't want to buy a costly 4' by 8' ply-
wood panel to make it out of. So I built
two identical units from cheap 1" by 8"
lumber as shown. Then I doweled and
glued them edge-to-edge as shown below to
get the necessary depth.— George Warren,
New York City.

I The socket of a bar-

rel bolt, attached to a
I window frame, porch
post, or other wood
surface, makes a con-
venient holder for a
small flag. Whittle
down the end of the
stick so that it fits into the metal collar as
shown at left above. The eye plate of a
large hasp will hold a larger flag stick.—
John J. Rea, Urbana, 111.

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When the ponies run at the track, most of them
sport lightweight aluminum shoes.

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 V6u fly to Work
IN THE U.S. ARMy AIRBORNE'
That's how the Airborne gets there
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