Friday, January 22, 2016
Glendale Toy Show -- January 16, 2016 (Saturday)
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| Bought a couple of small items from the guy in the white shirt (other side of the setup...) |
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| This guy had great stuff and several things that I would have liked to have purchased but too pricey... |
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| Have not seen this seller at previous events. Nothing but Snoopy related toys... Cool to see the collection... |
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| Bought 4 or 5 items from this vendor... |
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| This vendor seemed to have all cowboy type of stuff... |
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Flathead Ford V8 Stock Intake Manifold -- Cast Iron & very heavy
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| After sand blasting but before painting... The stock carburetor was pretty small... I've had this for many years on the garage wall but was in pretty ugly/rusty condition (didn't take a picture before...). It seems that Ford painted the intake manifold/block the same color. Seems like most were in a dark green or dark blue/green... There sure are a lot of mounting bolts (at least 10...). Seems like stock intake manifolds are dime a dozen... Even today... |
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| There's still some gasket material on the bottom of the manifold (needs to be scraped off...). You can see how close the four ports are to each other. That puts the two middle cylinder exhaust ports next to each other (heat concentration...). |
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| Don't know anything about the markings on the manifold but I'm guessing they can be correlated to a certain year... |
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| After spray painting... The color is not quite right to the original, I think... May have to find the right paint in the future but for hanging on the garage wall, doesn't matter too much... |
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Blue Point & Blomb
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| Blue Point is the budget line for Snap-on. This is a pretty large wrench (about 10 inches long...). 7/8" is the size for the shower head in the kid's bathroom... Need to remove the shower head again to see if it's clogged... (did this already a couple of days ago & found a lot of plastic debris in the filter going into the shower head) & remove the shower water valves to remove any debris... |
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| The "Plomb" brand name was changed to Proto in the 50's. So this wrench is 50's but probably at the very end just before the name change. What's interesting is the "Los Angeles" on the wrench (most Plomb wrenches said USA, not Los Angeles). The basic design of the wrench changed from the "pebble finish" inset design to this more rounded, simple design. The early Proto wrenches look like this Plomb wrench... What's cool is that it says "Los Angeles"... Can't imagine wrenches being made in Los Angeles today... |
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