Take A Trip And Never Leave The Farm

The geyser camera at Yellowstone is one of the sites I visit frequently. You can check the weather and the crowds at Old Faithful, and sometimes you will click in on an eruption. The timer in the upper left tells you how long it is until the next event, and I will hang around and watch it if the time is not too long. One day I watched a tourist take a cell phone call with his back to the geyser, and he missed the entire show. He turned around to look as the crowd started moving back to the lodge, but it was all over.

Not My Victrola: Warming Up For The Big Party!

Pax41 on YouTube has just posted a peppy number that is sure to put you in a party mood for tomorrow night. Irving Berlin published 'Alexandar's Ragtime Band' in 1911, and this recording was pressed the same year.

Model T Centennial Celebration Continued!

I am sure some of you took off for Grandma's house without switching to your winter oil. If that is the case, these next few pages of 'Dyke's Ford Supplement' will be your guide as you get under the old flivver and adjust the knock out of your rods. Remember on cold days to block the wheels and jack up one back wheel so the old girl doesn't run over you when you crank her up. Take off the top floorboard to get a little heat back in the cab on these cold winter days.

These pages are jpg images scanned at 100 lines per inch. Click on each one to expand, then save it to your hard drive. You will eventually have a very nice resource for working on your Ford. Click on the T's label to see all of the pages posted so far.

Not My Victrola

This is a great oldie done up for dancing a snappy fox-trot. Just the thing to help you scoot out the door on Monday morning! It is courtesy of Pax41, one of the old record posters on YouTube.

Monday Again!

Back To The Old Grind!

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EJ and his mother exercising their right to bear irons.

Weekend Steam: Kinda, Sorta

This nice old engine started life as a steamer in the oilfield, and then it was converted into a gas engine. It is set up to be used on a cable drilling rig, having a cable operated throttle for the driller to pull when he needed extra power. It operated in a power house for more than one hundred years, and the current owners have its history, which was recorded by the operators over the years. You will note that it fires every revolution. It is a two-stroke engine, with one end of the cylinder charging the other end the same as a Bessemer two-stroke engine.

Crankin' It Up: Something Old, Something New!

EJ brought a brand new microphone for the True Blue Sam recording studio! The old mike was bad about maxing out on loud records, and this new beauty will definitely improve the quality of our recordings. 'Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue' is our first attempt with the new microphone after readjusting the settings for audio recording.

Christmas Treasure From Long Ago

Merry Christmas!