Mechanix Illustrated 1960-04 Vol 56 No 4

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McCahill Tests The New Sunbeam Alpine—Page 88 : Expert Tom McCahill Reports On ae F I N p AR The Low-Cost Family Sports Cars | Prices.. . Photos. . . Performance

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Learn Radio-Televisio Electronics by Practicing at Home in Your WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGE ie A YOU GET special NRI kits de- Pe veloped to give you actual practice ae with Radio-TV receiver or broad- casting . circuits and equipment. All equipment is yours to keep. Fast Growin Good Bigger than ever and still grow- ing tat ei Rato TY has ial ap) to ambitious prog ot satisfied with their job and earnings. More than 4,000 Radio and TV stations. More than 150 million home and auto Radios, 40 million TV sets. Color TV promises added opportunities. For the RADIO-TV BROADCASTING (see above) offers important itions as Operators and Technicians. J. E SMITH R ADIO- TÝ SERVICING Technicians (see below) Founder n in every community. eir services are trained man, there are good jobs, bright fu- respected, thew slalll appreciated: tures in Radio-TV Servicing or Broadcasting. Training PLUS opportunity is the ideal J combination for success. So plan now to get = into Radio-TV. The technical man is looked T up to. He does important work, gets good pay for it. Radio-Television offers that. kind of work. NRI can supply training quickly, without expense of going away to school. Keep your job while training. You learn at home in your spare time. NRI is the OLDEST and LARGEST home study Radio- TV school. Its methods have proved success- sane Ri Sees i : ful for more than 40 years. g Field Offers You Pay, Success, Bright Future ne Added Income Soon - $10, $15 a Week in Spare Time Soon after enrolling, many NRI students start to earn $10, $15 a week in spare time fixing sets. Some pay for their training and enjoy extra luxuries this way. Some make enough to start their own Radio-TV shops. NRI traming is practical—gets quick resulte, Easy to understand, well illustrated lessons teach you basic principles. And you LEARN- BY-DOING by practicing with kits of equip- ment which “bring to life” things you study. Find Out What NRI Offers NRI has trained thousands for successful careers in Radio-TV. Study fast or slow—as you like. Diploma when you graduate. Mail coupon now. Paste it on a postcard or mail in envelope. ACTUAL LESSON FREE. Also 64 page catalog that shows opportunities, shows equipment you get. Cost of NRI courses low. Easy terms. NATIONAL RADIO INSTITUTE, Dept. ODC, Washington 16,D. C. NR.. TRAINED THESE MEN FOR SUCCESS RNT "VP ITE stuy i) FREE “I was repairing Radios “Doing s time re- i i: r3 by 10th lesson. Now airs on Radio and TV. | National Radio institute © have good TV job.” &ġ Soon servicing full | fi M. R. LINDEMUTH, Dept. ODC, Washington 16, D. C. Fort Wayne, Ind. time.” CLYDE HIG- GINS, Waltham, Mass. “There are a number of NRI graduates here. I can thank NRI for this "5% WHPE.” V.W.WORK- job.” JACK WAG- | MAN, High Point, N.C. ER, Lexington, N. C. i 5 Ciee Zone Staten $ VETERANS Approved Under G.I. Bills | _Accradied Mombor National Home Study Counel! Ù “I had a successful Radio repair shop. Now I’m Engineer for When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 1

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W: H. FAWCETT, JR. ........... president DONALD P. HANSON .asst. general manager ALSAULARD sosniciesis aaa art director ROGER FAWCETT ........ general manager GEORGE H. CARL ..... production director RALPH MATTISON ...associate art director GORDON FAWCETT ..... secretary-treasurer RALPH DAIGH .......... editorial director JAMES B. BOYNTON .director of advertising ROSCOE K. FAWCETT ..circulation director JOHN WEBSTER ...... advertising manager WILLIAM L. PARKER editor LAWRENCE SANDERS ......feature editor ROBERT G. BEASON ...... assistant editor | LEONARD ULINE ............... art editor J. ROBERT CONNOR .......... news editor ROBERT BRIGHTMAN .home and shop editor JOSEPH DOYLE ............. art associate HARVEY GARDNER ....... associate editor JOHN J. SMITH .......... associate editor VINCENT TROIANO .......... art assistant HELEN E. SLOWIN ...... production editor DICK HOWE ...... nan associate editor ED BRANDON ............... art assistant 3

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_ April, 1960 VOLUME 56, NUMBER 4 HOME-CRAFTS-SHOP CONTENTS ON PAGE 6 Permission hereby granted to quote from this issue of this magazine on radio or television, provided a total of not more than 1,000 words is quoted and credit is given to the title of this magazine and issue, as well as the statement, copyright 1960, by Fawcett Publications, Ine. MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED is published monthly by Fawcett Publications, Inc., Fawcett Bldg., Greenwich, Conn. ADDRESS ALL MAIL: Subscriptions, change of address, Form 3579 to Subscription Dept., Fawcett Bldg., Greenwich, Conn.; and all editorial and advertising to Fawcett Publications, Inc., 67 W. 44th St., New York 36, N. Y. Second-class postage paid at Greenwich, Conn., and at additional mailing offices. EDITORIAL OFFICES: 67 W. 44th St., New York 36, N. Y. ADVERTISING OFFICES: 67 W. 44th St., New York 36, N. Y.; 612 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago ll, Ill.; 1532 Guardian Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich.; 2978 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, Calif.; 681 Market St., San Francisco 5, Calif.; 123 S. Broad St., Philadelphia 9, Pa.; Hale Printup & Associates, Lang- ford Bldg., Miami 32, Fla. and 1401 Peachtree St., N.E., Atlanta 9, Ga. Printed in U.S.A. Copyright 1960 by Fawcett Publications, Inc. Reprinting in whole or in part forbidden except by permission of the Publishers. Address manuscripts to N. Y. editorial office. Unacceptable contributions will be returned if accompanied by sufficient first class postage. Not responsible for lest manuscripts or photos. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: 25c a copy. $3.00 a year in U.S., possessions and Canada. All other countries $6.00 a year. Subscription price to members of the armed forces $2.75 per year. Foreign subscriptions and sales should be remitted by International Money Order in U.S. funds payable at Greenwich, Conn. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS | ne »

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scratched, worn or blistered chrome . . . to plate metal not chromed before. We'll vouch for SpeedPlater’s do- I understand that I must be COMPLETELY ATISFIED or I may return kit in 30 days for immediate CASH REFUND. tion, Outfit includes ting Brush with Perma- Special Buffing Wheels, Compounds, ete., Special Grinding Wheel, Stripping Solution for removing old chromium, Rust Remover, Special ing the job... it works i Name Polish, Full Instruction Folder. You quickly make exactly as described, giving a lasting, bright, durable coating.” PRICES SMASHED on MEN’S NEW ELECTRIC SHAVERS! Lowest prices in U. S. of wonderful, brand new, factory fresh, latest models Men Nationally Advertised Electric Shavers. (Prices smashed on Women's Shavers, too. Write for prices). In unopened factory cartons. COMPLETE! Nothing left out—all at- tachments included. We GUARANTEE you will be delighted, or purchase price refunded. We have over 1,000,000 satisfied customers. We’ll please you, too! Order at these low prices. Others Charge Our Price Ronson—C, F. L. ------------------- $20.00 $11.80

Norelco—Speedshaver -— $13.75 Sunbeam Rollmaster — $16.30 Remington Roll-A-Matic $17.70 Remington Auto & Home ~--$31.95 $19.85 We mail orders within 10 hours, or less, except in unusual circumstances. EXTRA! FREE! If you send this ad with order, we'll send you a knife that looks like a key! Send money and we pay all postage charges, or send 250% deposit and we'll mail C.0.D. L & M_CO., Dept. ES-9, Box 881 Carry your fools in safe HUOT HIP-ROOF TOOL BOXES You owe your tools a HUOT For men who treat their tools with pride! The models shown here are made with heavy gauge steel and full length piano hinges that never get out of line. Heavy duty hasps and latches, welded double corners. Bright blue ham- merlin boxes, red tote trays. Many models—write for free bulletin. Treat your tools to a Huot! Model 503—20"—$9 Model 502—19”—$7.10 HUOT MFG. CO. 504 N. Wheeler St. St. Paul 4, Minn.

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‘Try it for 10 days before you buy. If completely satisfied then send $3.55 and pay Balance at rate of $4.00 per month for 3 months — No Interest or Finance Charges Added! If not completely satisfied, return to us, no explanation necessary. As an Automotive Tester the Model 70 will test: © Both 6 Volt and 12 Volt Storage Batteries © Generators © Starters © Distributors © Ignition Coils © Regulators © Relays © Circuit Breakers © Cigarette Lighters @ Stop Lights © Condensers © Directional Signal Systems @ All Lamps and Bulbs © Fuses @ Heating Systems © Horns @ Also will locate poor grounds, breaks in wiring, poor connections, etc. $ 85 Model 70 cumes complete including 64 page book, only...... SHIPPED ON APPROVAL NO MONEY WITH ORDER — NO C 0. D.

SAAUOLOGE: anana back entire cost on your very first job! MONEY Í Cit E BACK GUARANTEE. Order now. If C.O.D. send y, $5 deposit. Superior’s New Model 70 UTILITY TESTER ® FOR REPAIRING ALL ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES MOTORS - AUTOMOBILES e TV TUBES As an electrical trouble shooter the Model 70:

© Will test Toasters, Irons, Broilers, Heating Pads, Clocks, Fons, Vacuum Cleaners, Refrigerators, Lamps, Fluorescents, Switches, Thermostats, etc.

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Measures A.C. ond D.C. Voltages, A.C. and D.C, Current, Resistances, Leakage, etc.

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@ Incorporates a sensitive direct-reoding re- sistance range which will measure all rosist- ances commonly used in electrical appli- ances, motors, etc. © Leakage detecting circuit will indicate continuity from zero ohms to 5 megohms {5,000,000 ohms).

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(5i Plastic Sealing and Piastic Magic Mail Plan-Make u Get ORDERS and CASH from your mail- $ “| man—do work in SPARE TIME at home y 3 aas —or expand inte FULL TIME business. SEI ae Send coupon for Free facts about the newest 1 and most fascinating of all home operat +, businesses. For the first time a simplified machine brings the fabulous profits of Laminating fo*5 on Hour! — Get into PLASTIC LAMINATING at home ` Within thereachof thesmalloperator. Any- supply the circulars you mail to bring back cash and orders, one can learn to operate the machine with a few minutes practice—then with our Don’t waste a minute. Rush your name. We’ll send you FREE and postpaid, pictures, prices, details, and all the facts you need Plan can get mailorderspour- to start. Mail coupon or send name on postcard. No charge. ic Mall ing in daily with cash in every envelope. No canvassing—no selling. We even Warner ElectricCo., 1512 Jarvis Av.,Dept.t-4-0, Chicago 26,1. COSTUME JEWELRY e CIGARETTE BOXES 2 š TRAYS o CANDLESTICKS e COASTERS | § postage prepaid. I am under no ob! MAN P LAMP BASES e BOOK ENDS...ALL IN a j; = SPARKLING COLORED PLASTIC i y .. -is taking out of _ the machine a Plastic Sealing Job — ordered by mail — only ile in material cost brings back $2.58 in cash by mail. of machine: $25.00 profit per hour of operation. q WARNER ELECTRIC CO., 1512 Jarvis Av. t i Dept.L-4-D, Chicago 26, tl. i At no cost to me, please rush complete details tion. e i J City. a BECOME AN EXPERT IN Men trained in Traffic Management earn top g Thousands of firms need experts on rates, tarifs, regulations. We train you thoroly in spare time for executive traffic jobs. Personal training under traffic authorities. Placement counsel and help. Write for free book *‘Traffic & Transportation. ’’ LASALLE Extension University, 417 So. Dearborn Street A Correspondence Institution Dept. 4493r, Chicago 5, lile BARBELLS 140-Pound, CHROME DeLUXE Bar- bell-Dumbbell set only $19.80. 100 This is our feature set and is the finest ever manufactured. POUND Training with adjustable weights is the BEST SET way to keep fit: the ONLY way to develop grea stren; an a perfect y. s e t strength d rfi bod; As th oldest and best equipped barbell company, $ 4 9.80 BUR gives value and prices no one can equal. Extra Plates Only SEND FOR FREE CATALOG. 12c Pound BUR BARBELL CO. Lyndhurst 2, New Jersey "1 HAVE EARNED AN AVERAGE OF *1522an HOUR” with Science’s New Midget Miracle, the Presto Fire Extinguisher, says W. F. Wydallis, Ohio € Many others ‘‘cleaning up’’—so can you! “© Amazing tiny new extinguisher ends fire fast as 2 seconds. Guaranteed 20 years! Sells for only $4.95. Write for FREE Sales Kit. No obligation. Merlite Industries, Inc., Dept. P-10M, Presto Div., 114 E. 32nd St., New York 16, N. Y. Bensen Gyrocopter This full-size one-man copter can be easily built and flown by do-it-yourself hobbyist. Women fly and like it too! Three-view drawings of the craft may be purchased for $2, or drawings of the samé machine without engine (as a simpler copter- glider) for $1. Send your order now to: eS LE SL NE NN HE MN NS Se «t BENSEN AIRCRAFT CORP., Dept. Mi-40 P. O. Box 2746, Raleigh, N. C. Name .... Address catch more fish! order your new 1960 HEDDON CATALOG! JAMES HEDDON'S SONS 179 WEST STREET » DOWAGIAC, MICH. [O Here's my 25c. Please rush CHECK Deluxe Catalog CHOICE [O Send your FREE 32-page pocket catalog Heddon’s all-new 64-page Catalog is crammed Ee = Name with latest fishing tips, tricks from the experts, > (please print) Features "Liar's Licenses’ - e ‘pictures, descriptions of game Address fish. e- “Sonar”, all purpose lure $ "Sonics"; lures that ; catch fish by SOUND e - “Hi-7ail”, greatest surface action City bait in years © “Ultra Sonic”, tiny fishing miracle e “Mark” State series rods ©: And special introductory price tackle offer e Use as fishing manuai »- Oniy 25 cents. When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 19

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® It’s Coming! New miracles of science that you'll be seeing soon. e © © > >ò > >ò o o e e e è @ o ISSILE mail may soon be delivered be- tween Genoa, Italy and Hamburg, Ger- many on a regular schedule. The 700-mile route would be covered in 23 minutes by the missile mailman. Negotiations are now un- derway between the two countries. Ugly scars may soon be prevented or erased chemically by an enzyme, according to Dr. John C. Houck of Children’s Hospital Re- search Foundation in Washington, D. C. In addition to its scar-erasing and known cleansing activity, the enzyme is expected to aid surgeons in removing certain tissues that cause adhesions of the intestines. A revolutionary new compound promises lifelong immunity for fabrics against textile- destroying insects which cause millions of dollars damage annually to carpets, uphol- stery and clothes. Entomologist Roy J. Pence at the University of California, Los Angeles, developed the compound. An electronic computer, no bigger than a breadbox, is being developed by the U. S. Navy to give one man total control over the complex functions of a nuclear-powered submarine. The new system may permit re- duction of atomic submarine crews from the present average of 100 to only 12 men. A new method for converting foods into high-quality instant food powders is ex- pected to expand markets for foods that can be adapted to the process. Known as “foam- mat” drying, the technique was developed by U. S. Department of Agriculture scientists. Future American servicemen may receive psychological immunization against propa- ganda and brainwashing, as well as conven- tional injections for tetanus, typhoid, ete. Psychologists under the direction of pro- fessor William McGuire of the University of Illinois are attempting to develop such a technique. Women will outnumber men five to two when normal life expectancy hits 100 years, predict doctors Edward L. Bortz of Philadel- phia’s Lankenau Hospital and Walter M. 20 o e e e o o e eoe e e > © è ọọ Bortz II, of Charity Hospital in New Orleans. One of the reasons, it is claimed, is that fe- males can withstand more ailments than the dwindling males. An antiseptic paint may soon be available for the home gardener’s wounded trees. A fungus-killing chemical added to the asphalt varnish used in painting tree wounds pre- vents growth of damaging fungi, claims the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Super-Supermart shoppers of 1975 will get to market by helicar, sashay through the aisles in a radar-equipped cartmobile and buy pre-shelled eggs in tear-open plastic boxes. This is the prediction of Ralph Ernst, store engineer and consulting architect of the National Association of Retail Grocers. Colored bread may soon add a variety of hues to the family dinner table. One large English firm is currently experimenting with the idea and has baked loaves in yel- low, green, pink, blue and also in multi- colored twists. One day you may be able to look into your girl’s eyes and tell how old she is. Biologist Rexford D. Lord, Jr., of the Illinois Depart- ment of Conservation in Urbana, can’t yet tell a gal she’s fibbing but he can tell an ani- mal’s age by analyzing its eye lens. Ten years from now you'll be able to sit on a lawn that needs no mowing and reach up to pluck a normal-sized peach from the low branches of a dwarf tree, according to Dr. James A. Lockhart, biologist at the California Institute of Technology, who is doing research which would suppress the growth of plants without affecting their ability to flourish and yield normal crops. Electronic machines may one day be able to tell why some children have difficulties in learning. That is the forecast of Dr. David G. Willis of Lockheed’s Missiles and Space Divi- sion who has been experimenting in the field of creating “artificial intelligence” using electronic machines. —J. Robert Connor April, 1960 À

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y WAR SURPLUS ži SAVE 3 90% $2940 NAVY AIR-COOLED POWER UNIT most com- E Fully bearinged 3 HP motor with a reduction of 240 to 1. Will operate on 6, 8, 12, . 24 or 32 V. Will lift up to 2 tons. Safety clutch set at 3 tons. Fully reversible. Adjustable hand brake and lock. He ALL-PURPOSE ELECTRIC WINCH pact engine ever assembled. Portable, net wt. 150 lbs. 200 Drum will handle over 500’ of 14” steel cable or 54” rope. A Amp. Gen. self-starter capable of delivery of double overload terrific, compact power takeoff for beachjng boats, etc. Will work or continuous service at 200 Amps. Mfd. by Ranger aircraft. off any battery within the range from 6 to 32 V. Cost of this unit 2 cylinder, 4 cycle, 10 HP. 3200 RPM. Fully governed for is less than an installation for a competitive brand. Shpg. Wt. varying loads. This unit makes one of the finest are welders 150 Ibs. Complete, ready to run (less cable). NEW. $99,50. obtainable. Aiso makes excellent: poat engine. Shipped pompis with rheostat voltage reg. units checked pre-teste n our shop. Complete $185. ra, ELECTRIC PUMP WITH CONTROL UNIT Engine same as above with deluxe welding acces- Runs on 12 or 24 V. Centrifugal type. Draws 5.2 AMPS. sories as follows: rheostat, voltage reg., dry Has built-in removable filtering screen. Great for bilge, cir- culating or sump pump... bait tanks, etc. Pumps 500 GPH. Complete with variable control rheostat. Explosion-proof charged 24 V. battery, 50/ heavy. duty welding cable, 1 electrode holder, 1 hood, pr. of gloves, motor. Mfd. by Ingersoll-Rand. Shpg. Wt. 7 lbs, Approx. ¢ GOVT. COST $195. NEW $8.95. voltmeter. All this only $225. TH gpg BUILD YOUR OWN ARC WELDER, LIGHT PLANT OR BATTERY CHARGER $37.50 Kit incl. 1 Navy NEA-5 Gen. combination AC-DC type. AC 115 V. DC 24 V., 200-300 Amps. 2 complete generators in 1, yet no larger than reg. gen. Ideal for home, shop and farm lighting plants. „Delivers 1200 Watts AC, DC side for charging batteries, weld- ing and operating war surplus motors. Also in kit: 2 Voltage Regs., AC & DC, Reverse Current Relay, 30/ New Welding Cable, 1 Ammeter, Rheostat, Elec- 200 amp gen. Extra heavy duty. Internal fan cooling. Brand new 9 H.P., ball bearing, Briggs & Stratton en- gine. 200 amp generator (direct coupling to engine), Portable wheeled frame mount, Voltage reg. Rheostat. Re- actor coil. Welds lg” rod to SAE standard, any thickness metal. Complete. Wt. 200 Ibs. NEW. A $750 value. $198.50. y 200 AMP D.C. WELDER 24-32 volts D.C.. SENSITIVE ALTIMETER in 20 ft. increments. 0 to 35,000 ft. (inches of Mercury). Famous Pioneer. Tested & inspected in our own instrument lab. Guaranteed pet- fect. Approx. GOVT. COST $150. Wt. 2 ibs. $13.95 = trode Holder, Toggle Switch, Welder’s Shield, Wiring Diagram for kit. Wt. under 100 lbs. Approx. GOVT. = COST $650. Kit—$37.50. Navy NEA-5 Gen. as above, purchased separately, $23.50. “DELUXE 11” ARC WELDING KIT Consists of 160-250 AMP Gen., voltage reg., ammeter, shunt, adjustable helmet, electrode holder, pr. welder’s gloves, 30/ welding cable, reactor coil, giant toggle switch, rheostat. Approx. GOVT, COST $650. All units guaranteed pre-tested. $34.95 complete,. NEW 1960 CATALOG! Tremendous catalog—our big- gest ever—fully itlustrated—1000s of bargains in war sur- plus & other items. Send 25c in coin for your copy today or free copy with order. Where ppd. indicated applies to US {! only. Other prices FOB Culver City, Cal. -Send cash, check, money order. 50% dep. COD. Caw Qe opm AIRBORNE SALES CO., \we. vert. i460 8501 Stellar Drive, Culver City. Calif. LEARN Train quickly in 8 short weeks at Toledo for a bright future with security in the vital meat busi- ness. Big pay, full-time jobs—HAVE A PROFIT- x f ABLE MARKET OF YOUR OWN! Pay after gradua- tion. Diploma given. Job help. 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Learn what successful Chicago Tech graduates say about high pay and opportunities in drafting. No Get more miles per dollar—install an AC n ie ACon-O-Mizer between your fuel pump and carburetor. Reduces flooding and stalling +. tailors fuel pressure—precisely and instantly—to every driving condition from charge, or obligation. idle to full throttle. The best answer yet to real gasoline economy! E D-284 Tech Bidg., 2000 So. Michigan Ave. Chicago 16, filinois i Mail me FREE lesson with facts about big opportunities in i DRAFTING. suggested retail price At Your Nearby $ y Service Station, garage e Zone..... State..vesevess or Generol Motors ACon-O-Mizer eee ee et tt ee AC SPARK PLUG ‘BP THE ELECTRONICS DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS 21 > 03 > ee

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ty Dear Editor [Continued from page 10] © Mere Replacement Men? One hardly knows who or what to believe. In Car Doctors Wanted (Jan. MI) author Stanley Brams says, “Don't be fooled by re- ports that today’s mechanics (and, even more surely, tomorrow’s) are and will be little more than replacement men.” And where does one read this charge most often? Why, in Uncle Tom McCahill’s articles, of course. Should we believe Old Chrome Dome or no? George Bulkley Irvington, N. J. McCohill has said that many of those posing as auto mechanics are merely replacement men. Brams urges young men who want to make a career—and presumably an honest one—in this field not to think there is no more need for real mechanics. Surely Uncle Tom’s complaint proves Brams’ point rather than contradicts it. @ A Use For Babies The article Emergency Repairs in the Jan. MI reminded me of that summer night when my family of seven was stranded miles from home by a leaky radiator hose. A search of the car revealed no tape. Finally, my wife remembered that we had some waterproof material with us. This I wrapped tightly around the hose, securing it with a length of baler twine. Water from our picnic jug re- filled the radiator, and soon the Studebaker brought us across the mountains to our home. The waterproof object? Why, the baby’s plas- tic pants, of course! Floyd C. Spade Wolfsville, Md. @ Baseball Cards Just read your article, Picture-Card Col- lecting Is Back! (Oct: ’59 MI). Please tell me where I can obtain 1880 baseball cards and their price. Also send me the addresses of some of the “collectors’ shops” that are near Southern Illinois. Richard Cox Fairfield, Ill. Park Viewcard Service, Baden Station P.O. Box 11, St. Louis 15, Mo., specializes in post- cards but may be able to steer you to another dealer in your part of the world who handles insert cards. Your best bet is to get a copy of The American Card Catalog ($2.50) from J. R. Burdick, 35 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. The A.C.C. is loaded with American and En- glish card dealers’ ads. @ LA AT HOME! EARN LL. B. DEGREE LaSalle’s famous Law Library—used as refer- ence in many Law libraries and Law offices— has enabled thousands to master Law surpris- ingly fast, in spare hours at home, for business and professional advancement. 3 These 14 remarkable volumes, compiled by leading professors and lawyers, cover the whole basic field of Law in condensed, orderly, sim- plified manner. You advance rapidly with this great library, plus special lectures step-by-step with personalized Problem Meth- od of instruction... you learn by doing—han- dling legal problems—not by memorizing rules. Send for two FREE booklets, “Law Training for Leadership,” and “Evidence,” answering questions about Law and its value to. you. Mail coupon below. No obligation. Accredited member, National Home Study Council LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY A Correspondence Institution 417 S. Dearborn St. Dept. 4493L Chicago 5, tii, Send me your two FREE booklets described above, without obligation For Free copy of ‘‘Elmer’s Guide to Good Gluing” send stamped, self- addressed envelope to The Borden Company, 350 Madison Avenue, New York 17, N.Y. BORDEN’S PRODUCTS FOR THE HOME HANDYMAN When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED ished. We guide you 23

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Invention Clinic [Continued from page 14] small business, including financial assistance. If a manufacturer wants to expand or has other reasons for needing aid, he can seek help through an SBA field office. Inventors dealing with small manufacturers can point this out, if the manufacturer says he has no money for expansion. So hop right to it, you inventors. Note: if you want to get the Products List Circular, please don’t write MI. Send your request to Small Business Administration, Washington 25, D. C. Pocket Knife Mechanism Vito J. Pizzi of Bronx, N. Y., sends a design for an easy-opening pocket knife. Is this worth a patent search? Very few housewives carry pocket knives, so it is unsound to produce one especially for them. Furthermore, there are many easy- opening knives which are not of the switch- blade or gravity type, with a much safer releasing system than yours. But perhaps you should give this whole idea some additional thought. There are many manufacturers of pocket knives who just might be interested in something really new and good. New Use For Product Clarence Phagen of Alexandria, Ind., has developed a new use for a commercial product. Can he get a patent on it? If not, how can he capitalize on this idea which might increase tremendously the sales of the present product? You cannot patent a use for a product. You might be able to negotiate a contract with the manufacturer to the effect that he will give you a percentage on all of the additional sales if he accepts your idea and advertises it for the purpose you have discovered. Be sure to have your lawyer examine any agreement. Toothpaste Tube Cap Mrs. B. G. Underwood of Miami, Fla., sends a diagram and description of a fliptop tube cap. Is this good enough to deserve a patent? It would have been if you had been the first to make such a cap. The identical cap is avail- able for use on bottles. Wire Clothes Hanger-Spreader John D. Griffin of Kirkland, Wash., has a -wire clothes hanger that will keep garments April, 1969

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E apart. Is it patentable? ` This design is so simple that you easily could make a couple of samples and test them. In no time at all you would discover your hanger’s demerits. It might be patentable but I certainly advise against wasting your money. Answering Abacus Board T. S. Swarts of Springfield, Ore., recently won a patent on an abacus with an answer section. What is the best way to get this on the market? Preferably through a toy manufacturer specializing in educational toys or currently producing one or more models of an abacus. Check listings in the magazine Toys And Novelties or the annual Playthings Directory. Or try listing in the Products List Circular of the Small Business Administration. Garage Door Opener Claude Scott, Jr. of Louisville, Ky., describes a garage door. opener which is op- erated through a key inserted into a post set on a level with the car window. What should he do about this? There is nothing new about the post-key feature. This was one of many systems for opening garage doors which was described in these pages several years ago. However, if the price you quoted for a complete installa- tion is correct, you must have something more than you detailed in your description. If you are sure of your costs and have included a profit, you may have something worthwhile. Auto Tire Len Johnson of Houston, Tex., submits a diagram and details for a new “special tire” for automobiles. Is it worth further examina- tion? Would it work? Should he patent it? You certainly should give this more study. There is every reason to believe that this design would work. The question is how well it will work, how much extra one must pay for this performance and how difficult it is to make this tire. I would not recommend patent procedure until you have learned a lot more about these problems. Many puncture-proof tires have been patented which never made the market. Masking Tape Applicator Eugene J. Silvestri of Venice, Calif., sends a diagram for his patent application for a de- [Continued on next page] Some make more, some less; 1050 gross in single MONTH in my own business F.E.DORAN reports: — Start your own business! Here’s YOUR chance to start a money-making, year round business of your own and make the success you’ve dreamed about. G. R. Adcock took in $102 in one day. O. W. Hare landed a $750 hotel job. J. S. Corbit grossed $279.50 his first month. Homes, hotels, offices, clubs, offer you big profit possibilities. Auto upholstering also. NO SHOP OR OFFICE NECESSARY o You clean furni- ture on customers’ premises. No hauling, no high rents. Supplies inexpensive; you operate from your own home. What you take in is mostly profit. If you want to be your own boss—-free from lay-offs and’ strikes, we will help you to start and succeed. This is not a lease proposition. You own the machine, you work when and where on please and all the money you take in is your own. VON SCHRADER MFG. CO.-———— = 412 ''D"’ Pi., Racine, Wisconsin 1 Without obligation rush your FREE booklet about how I can start my own permanent, profitable electric Upholstery Cleaning business. ' l | l Nom - l Address - City. one— State RE ep ee fee aes vette eee a Want BIG PAY— Your Own Business? You can quickly step into a well-paid job or start a big-profit business of your own. Shortage of locksmiths means opportunities everywhere, spare-time or full-time. EARN EXTRA MONEY FROM THE START! All Special Tools, Supplies Furnished Free Age, education, minor physical handicaps don’t matter in this growing, steady-income trade. You learn fast at home—gain practical experi- ence through well-illustrated lessons. You do real jobs under the personal guidance of ex- perts. For a future as your own boss, or in a big pay job, send for FREE illustrated book. Mail coupon at once. No salesman will call. Licensed by State of N. J.; Accredited by Nat'l. Home Study Council. Only school of its kind. Approved for Veterans. LOCKSMITHING INSTITUTE, Dept. 304, 150 Park Ave., E. Rutherford, N. J. pe e e m a Ce ee. oaao omnee | LOCKSMITHING INSTITUTE, Dept. 304 (Div. of Technical Home Study Schools, Inc.) | 150 Park Ave., E. Rutherford, N. J. Please send FREE and without obligation illustrated book. No salesman will call. | When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 25

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Captive Tube Cap Seymour Epstein of - Toronto, Quebec, Canada, sends a diagram and description of a captive cap to fit toothpaste tubes. What is our advice? . Use for an article is not a claim for a patent. You already know that this design is used on bottles. The present patentee has the right to make or license it for anything else—tooth- paste, face cream, hair oil, shoe polish, salt and pepper, etc. Paint Sprayer A. J. Caillairet of New Sharpy, La., sends diagrams of a paint spraying system. So far as he knows, there is no such paint spraying equipment on the market. Should he try to patent it and get it on the market? You cannot get sufficient air from the sys- tem you propose to produce a spray which will continue to operate for more than a frac- tion of a minute during each cycle. Entirely too much time is lost during the cycles. First you should be sure that your system will op- erate. Then you might consider patenting and marketing. Incidentally, this system is used in artists’ small air brushes. Head Rest Raymond Zukor of Monticello, N. Y., has received a patent for a portable and adjust- able head rest that can be affixed to an up- holstered chair or used in a train,. bus, plane or auto. It can be carried in a woman’s hand- [Continued on next page] . look what | found in front of the drug store!" “Hey, Mom. . AUDELS GUIDES No. 1 AUTOMOBILE MECHANICS GUIDE, 1132 Pages..... No. 2 HOME APPLIANCE SERVICE GUIDE. 864 Pages. No. 3 TV & RADIO SERVICE LIBRARY. 2 Book Set... No. 4 HANDY BOOK OF ELECTRICITY. 1052 Pages. No. 6 PLUMBERS & STEAMFITTERS GUIDES. 4 Book Set No. 8 CARPENTERS & BUILDERS GUIDES. 4 Book Set No. 9 DIESEL ENGINE MANUAL. 640 Pages... No. 10 WELDERS GUIDE. 608 Pages... No. 11 MATHEMATICS MADE EASY. 672 Pages... No.12 MACHINISTS & TOOLMAKERS HANDBOOK. 1250 Pgs. 6.00 No. 13 WIRING DIAGRAMS. 304 Pages... inmi 2,00 No. 14 REFRIGERATION & AIR CONDITIONING. 1360 Pages.. 6.00 No. 15 ELECTRIC LIBRARY. 10 Volume Set... 25 BLUE PRINT READING. 448 Pages. No. 26 MASONS & BUILDERS GUIDES. 4 Book Set. No. 27 ELECTRIC MOTOR GUIDE. 1056 Pages... No. 28 OIL BURNER GUIDE. 416 Pages................... 2.00 No. 29 SHEET METAL PATTERN LAYOUTS. 1152 Pages. 7.50 No. 30 SHEET METAL WORKERS HANDY BOOK. 448 Pages. 2.00 No. 43 DO-IT-YOURSELF ENCYCLOPEDIA. 2 Book Set........ No. 44 NEW MECHANICAL DICTIONARY. 712 Pages .... 7-DAY FREE EXAMINATION HERE IS ALL YOU DO SEND NO MONEY—Pay the postman nothing! IT'S EASY TO ORDER: In the No-Risk Mail Order We'll send you any of the Audel Guides for Coupon below you need only draw a circle FREE examination ín your home. If you decide around the number of Audel Guides you want, to keep the books you may pay for them under We will send them to you at once. (f you are our easy-pay plan of only $2 a month. not completely satisfied, return the books to us. MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY! THEO. AUDEL & CO. — Self Improvement Publishers Since 1879 M4 49 W. 23rd Street, New York 10, N.Y. Please mail me for 7 days’ FREE EXAMINATION the books I have cireled. I agree to mail $2 in 7 days on each book or set ordered, and to further mai) $2 a month on each book or set ordered until I have paid the purchase price, plus shipping costs. Jf I am not completely satisfied with my Audel Guides I may return them, NAME__ ADDRES: OCCUPATION____ DU BY 2 9 3 4 6 8 -9 10 13 12 [] Check Here for Free 1314 35 235 26 7 28 29 3 43 44 Complete Catalog SAVE SHIPPING COSTS! Check here it you enclose complete pay- : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : * ; > * way to train eke PAY! The amazing new CTI Home Training Plan in Auto Mechanics is so practical it starts you earning spare- = time money in weeks—makes you an expert mechanic in months! It is better written, more clearly illustrated, more understand- able. It offers more up-to-date, usable knowledge. CTI also sends you Mechanic’s Tools and Testing Instruments (Compres- sion Tester, Ignition Timing Light, Vac- uum Gauge & Fuel Pump Tester.) CTI offers you added training, free of extra cost, in Diesel Mechanics or Body & Fender Rebuilding. Mail cou- pon for new booklet which tells of America’s need for 100,000 mechanics and 25,000 shops. Sample Lessons included. Act today! COMMERCIAL TRADES INSTITUTE Dept. A1244 1400 Greenleaf Avenue e Chicago 26, Ilinois Send booklet, Make Big Money in Auto Mechanics. Name. Age— |i Address. City. Zone. State. i Accredited by National Home Study Council seas Sa a a a A S SA OS E S ea O O B EA e E a a a E a | When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 27

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(+ O more zipper jamming, men! Silvan F. Goeser of Denison, Iowa, won patent 2,904,868 for his device which features a spreader bar across the top of the zipper slider that sticks out on each side. Thus, as you zip up or down, the overlying cloth is spread outward and upward, preventing jam- ming. Future houses and offices may be made of bright-colored bricks that never need paint- ing. Harley B. Foster, Greensboro, N. C., got patent 2,902,739 for his method of changing the natural color of brick, tile, etc. The in- gredients are added to unfired brick and the final color becomes part of the brick and re- sists flaking under freeze-thaw conditions. A violin hook which prevents the artist’s instrument from taking off while he is per- forming a vibrato got Edward Sokolik of New Brighton, Minn., patent 2,902,895. The hook goes around the neck and is attached to the chin rest of the instrument. Clinton O. Powell’s toothbrush has a handle which is a pressurized capsule of tooth paste. As you brush the ivories, a valve in the handle is moved, squirting the dentifrice out through the openings near the brush bristles. The Norfolk, Va., inventor got patent 2,900,651. Smelly movies may soon assault the nostrils of cinema addicts. An apparatus which per- mits the producer or film editor to select odor sequences suited to the action on the film was given patent 2,905,049 to inventor Hans Laube of New York City. Do-it-yourself lads will like the paint roller with a fender devised by Carl F. Gaetke of St. Paul, Minn., which was granted patent 2,902,706. The splash-guard, or fender, is de- signed to catch paint slung off the roller when painting walls. It can also be adjusted to catch the drippings whilst one is dabbing at the ceiling. ` A safety pin that sharpens itself during normal use won patent 2,904,865 for Paul W. Ziegenbein of Norfolk, Neb. The self-sharpen- ing safety pin has a coating of abrasive on the inner and outer surfaces ef the holder. This wears against the pin’s point each time the pin is fastened or unfastened. ® ALLIED’S MONEY-SAVING 1960 | ELECTRONIC SUPPLY CATALOG r D ON EVERYTHING 5 IN ELECTRONICS Send for the most widely used Electronic Supply Guide. See what’s newest (including prod- ucts available only from ALLIED), see what’s finest. SAVE ON: e Everything in Stereo Hi-Fi Music Systems & Components e Knight-Kits® —Best in Build-Your-Own o» Tape Re- corders & Phono Equipment » TV Tubes, Antennas, Accessories © Paris, Tubes, Transistors e Amateur Equip- ment ¢ Tools » Technical Books « Pub- lic Address Systems © Test Equipment. Save most at ALLIED. Write for FREE 1960 Catalog today! d.d 38 SEND FOR VALUE-PACKED CATALOG onty 52 DOWN on orders up to $50; only $5 down up to $200; $10 down over $200 ro | ALLIED RADIO, Dept. 19-D 100 N. Western Ave., Chicago 80, ill. O Send FREE 1960 ALLIED Catalog our 40th ~ year Get in on the ground floor of a booming $750 million a year industry. Fill the need in your area for safe, effective “‘on loca- tion” cleaning of carpets and upholstery. Every home houses a customer! We’ll train and establish you in your OWN lifetime business. Start part-time if em- ployed. You'll be trained by a nearby dealer and at 50-hour school. You provide 6 services to multiply profits. You get exclusive use of process which cleans without harmful scrubbing, soaking, seas shrinkage. It’s acclaimed by house- s wives, manufacturers and backed by famous McCalls and Parents Seals. No shop needed. Just 2 jobs a day nets $8,750.00 first year. WE HELP YOU GROW Our whole program is cooperative; thus, your training is only the beginning of a continuous assistance program designed to build your business. You re- ceive continuous counseling from specialists at Hdqtrs. You’re backed by National Advertising in Parents’, House & Gardens, McCalls, others; ads in national trade magazines target retailers in your town to refer customers to you. Others among 25 regular services you receive are con- ventions, regional conferences, product development, sales letters, ad- vertising kits, monthly magazines. Free booklets explain everything. No obligation. No salesman will call. So write for Free Booklets today! DURACLEAN CO., 0-174 Duraclean Bidg., Deerfield, Il. “OWN A BUSINESS’ COUPON | DURACLEAN CO., 0-174 Duraclean Bldg., Deerfield, Ilinois | Without obligation, rush me FREE 16-page booklets giving full | details on a dealership in my town. | When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 29

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(4 Lites SCIENCE | SHORTIES BOUT 18,500 Americans were killed by falls in 1958. Tobacco, next to money, is the item most handled in the U. S. every day, being sold in 1,400,000 retail outlets in a variety of forms. The increase in the number of psychiatrists in the U. S. from 8,713 in 1956 to 10,562 in 1959 now provides an average of one psychia- trist for every 16,400 people. The world’s greatest sugar consumers are Icelanders who averaged 134 pounds each in 1957. In the first 200 miles a missile travels, the atmospheric temperature may drop 125 to 150 degrees. Radars as large as a football field have been developed to detect ballistic missiles 3,000 miles away. A single redwood tree may contain enough lumber to build 15 average homes. Fleet truckers today average about 71,000 miles without accidents, compared with about 22,000 in 1948. The flying squirrel does not fly but glides; glides of up to 125 feet have been recorded. Every month the population of mainland China grows by more than 1,000,000. If you keep bread at home for more than a few days, the best way to keep it fresh is to freeze it. At the presently unattainable rate of 93,000 mph—the speed required to overcome the gravitational attraction of the sun—it would take three weeks to reach Mars. Lightning kills about 500 Americans each year and injures another 1,500. One out of every four persons in the U. S. is now attending school. ® X Get Into One Of Today’s TOP OPPORTUNITY FIELDS ELECTRICITY —ELECTRONICS TELEVISION RADIO- ELECTRONICS Train in the New Shop-Labs of Oldest, Best Equipped School of Its Kind in U.S. 0) š N E Founded 1899 in Chicago— Electrical and Electronic Center. Prepare for a better job and a successful future. Train on real equipment — no advanced education or previous experience needed. Lifetime employment service to graduates. Part time em- ployment help to students. Finance Plan—enroll now, pay most of tuition later. FREE BOOK — Mail Coupon or write to address below for Big Free Illustrated Book—“‘Guide to Careers.” information comes by mail. No obligation and NO SALESMAN WILL CALL. COYNE ELECTRICAL SCHOOL Chartered as an Educational institution Not for Profit 1501 W. Congress Pkwy., Chicago 7, Iil., Dept. 40-1C i COYNE ELECTRICAL SCHOOL, Dept. 40-1C 1501 W. Congress Pkwy., Chicago 7, Ill. 1 | Send FREE Book, “Guide to Careers” and details of | all training you offer. I am especially interested in | OC Electricity O Television C Both Fields l l Name. l I Address. l | City. tate. | L ———— (1 understand no salesman will call) —————) in your spare time run- your own business AT HOME BE YOUR OWN BOSS |J—= 2 race T0018 Earn more from the start AL lee while learning AT HOME. Set up your own profitable business at home, enjoy steady income, independence. You’re in demand in the booming field of Custom Furniture Upholstery. EARN WHILE YOU LEARN... the easy UTS way Right off, you start with tools, complete frames, fabrics, materials, included FREE with your N.Y. state approved UTS course. You earn as you learn professional custom SUP COVERS] upholstery, reupholstery, furniture finish- ing, repairs; to make slip covers, window cornices, cushions, draperies in your spare time at home. Send for FREE Illustrated Book, Sample Lesson Get ready for well-paid job, steady work and big profits as your own boss. Also Training in N.Y. School. Acc. by N.H.S.C. APPROVED FOR VETERANS. MAIL COUPON TODAY. No obligation. 7 RN UPHOLSTERY el A. Í FREE BOOK SAMPLE LESSON WITH COURSE YOU: MAKE OTTOMAN [ UPHOLSTERY TRADES SCHOOL, Dept. MD-1510 | 721 Broadway, New York 3, New York tion—no salesman will call. | Please send me FREE bouk with FREE Sample Lesson. No obliga- | O Home Study O Training In N.Y. School | | Name CY 3 arse a eo wea Zone___ State___-------- 9 Check if Korean Veteran I a oy A sass When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED > 31

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ia Classified Advertisements VENDING MACHINES—No selling. Op- erate a route of coin machines and earn amazing profits. 32-page catalog Free! Parkway Machine Corporation, Dept. 2, 715 Ensor St., Baltimore 2, Md. 11,000 NEW PROSPECTS Daily. Baby rec- ord books, shoes, albums. Sell mail- order. Use our literature. Write: No-Co-Ro, Capitola 16, Calif. $250.00 WEEK PROFIT possible. Earn at home spare time with fascinating Printing method. $5 starts you—send no money now. Free Confidential Facts and Valuable Samples. Screen-Print AL, Los Angeles 61. FREE PICTURE Folder, "How to Make $3,000 Yearly, Sparetime, Backyard, Raising Earthworms!" Oakhaven-45, Ce- dar Hill, Texas. GROW ORCHIDS at home. Profitable, fascinating. Successful home grower ex- plains special light, temperature and humidity conditions orchids need. Free— full details. Orchids, 100 S. Vermont, Los Angeles 4. YOUR ENVELOPES addressed accurately, reasonably. Fast service. We have ca- pable addressers in your city. Glenway System, Box 6568, Cleveland |, Ohio. QUICK MONEY! “Repairing Car Bat- teries." At home! Easy too! Free De- tails! Batteryman, Penrose, Colo. $3.00 HOUR—HOME, sparetime, assem- bling pump lamps. Easy. Free Details. Ougor, Caldwell, Arkansas. FIX TYPEWRITERS. Free Repair Course. Home operated. Remit 25¢ for book explaining Free Course and Agency Ap- pointment. Athey, Tarentum, Penna. QUICK PROFITS, with no capital! Take orders for magazines your neighbors like, want. Make cash on the spot! We show how with Free kit. Get yours now. Write McGregor Magazine Agency, Dept. 372, Mount Morris, Illinois. $70 WEEKLY—HOME, spare time. Simpli- fied mail bookkeeping. Immediate in- come—easy! Auditax, 34757E, Los Angeles 34. BRONZE BABY Shoes: Instructions, Equipment and Mountings for genuine Electroplating Process. Largest Supplier of all Plating Equipment, Supplies. Free Catalog. ollywood Bronze Supply, Dept. B-5, 1624 East First, Los Angeles 33, Calif. COLORGLAZED CONCRETE pottery made without molds. Patented method. Cemetery products, novelties, files. Basement leaksealing. Money- making projects. Booklets, details free. Men only. National Pottery, Grand Rapids, Minnesota. LIQUID MOLDING Rubber, Free Sample Shellcraft Supplies. Chaney, 1907-B East Road, Jacksonville l1, Fla. EASY HANDWORK makes profitable ar- ticles. Sample Free. Sunmade, Brockton 64, Massachusetts. MAKE FLEXIBLE molds. Cast plaques, figurines. Free sample. Tooker, 1045-E Fairview, Hamilton, Ohio. OPPORTUNITY TO earn $15,000-$30,000 annually. Franchise protected. Granted on $12,500 basis. Live at home. No merchanidse to buy. Selfemployed. One of most exclusive and noncompetitive Businesses in United States and Canada. Send for free explanatory booklet. Harrell & Company, Box 8-F, Louisville, Ui. MINK RAISING information free. Com- plete. Lake Superior Mink Farm, Su- perior, E E, Wisconsin. COSTS I5¢—RETAILS $1.50. Needed Au- tomotive Products. You manufacture, distribute, easily. Everything furnished. Wilson, Box 505-BA, Princeton, West Vir- BUY DIRECT from factories. Appliances, cameras, watches! Free details! Cam Co., 6810MI-20th Ave., Brooklyn 4, N. Y. FRANCHISES MAKE Profits! Have your own prosperous franchise business. Op- portunities nationwide for distributors, dealers, agency operators. Write today. National Franchise Reports, M1-528, 333 North Michigan, Chicago |. IMPORT-EXPORT OPPORTUNITY, prof- itable, world-wide mail-order business from home without capital; or travel abroad. Established world trader ships instructions for no-risk examination. Ex- perience unnecessary. Free details. Mellinger, Dept. C754, Los Angeles 24, alif. "50 NEW HOME-BUSINESS Ideas" Book- let, sample Free. Spray exotic Velvet- Suede on anything. Flokcraft-AL, Los Angeles 61. BIG MONEYOperate own Fix-it Shop. Service household appliances, motors, mowers, saws, skates, etc. Free Book. Christy Trades School, A-8706, 3214 Law- rence, Chicago 25. CASH FROM Sawdust, Tin-Cans, News- papers. Over 200 methods. Instructions $1.00. Charles Company, 42-EPF, Nor- wood, Ohio. MARKETS EVERYWHERE. Make Artistic concrete birdbaths, pottery. Best color- ing. Home Workshop. Hundred varieties. Hollywood Cementcraft, 8527-E Wonder- land, Hollywood 46, Calif. PLAN AND Personal Help. Retired mail order operator will show you how to start profitable home business. A. Cole, 217 West 49th, Bradenton, Florida. GROW MUSHROOMS, Cellar, shed,and outdoors. Spare, full time, year round. We pay $4.50 Ib. dried. We have 29,000 customers. Free Book. Mushrooms, Dept. 183, 2954 Admiral Way, Seattle. Wash. REPAIR HYDRAULIC Jacks: Earn high wages in this non-competitive field. Work in your garage or basement, full or part-time. Ideal sideline. Details free, Write: Hydraulic Parts Supply, Box 4104, El Paso, Texas. MONEY MAKING Machines for sale; Proven performance in thousands of shops. Acme Saw and Lawnmower Sharp- eners. Free literature. Max Manufacturing Company, 138 Stockton Avenue, San Jose 26, Calif. BAKE NEW Greaseless Doughnuts In Kitchen. Sell stores. Free recipes. Irving, 3605 South I5th, Minneapolis 7, Minnesota. RE-CAST JUNK batteries into new. Lat- est achievements. Battery Laboratories, Bayou LaBatre, Alabama. YOUR NAME wanted. We'll send 1000 publishers, mailers, wholesalers your name, on our list one year 25¢. Dixie Mailers, King, N. C APRIL, 1960 $200.00 MONTHLY. SPARE Time. With Tablesaw. Write. Holiday House, 7227 4th Plain, Vancouver, Washington. OPERATE MAILORDER Folio Business. Free details. Ballard, MI-1834 Edge- land, Louisville 4, Ky. PIANO TUNING learned at home quick- ly. Tremendous field! Musical knowl- edge unnecessary. Be independent! Infor- mation free. Empire School of Piano Tuning, Champaign, Ill. (Founded 1935). MONEY FROM Your Mailbox Daily, Free Details. Write Wayne's Service, 3016-9 Channing N.E., Washington 18, D. C. $34.70 TWO HOURS. Manufacturing Con- crete Products. No Selling. Castings #6, 1803 Fremont, Rapid City, South Dakota. GET FRESH Facts on new opportunities! All types—All areas! Details free. Triton, Dept. 1043D, 760 Market, San Francisco 2. $75.00 WEEKLY POSSIBLE mailing cata- logs. Roe, 2317C Marshall, Chicago 23, Wl. MONEY MAKING Opportunity in your own fishing equipment business. Free details. Postal Sales Div. AB4, 11139 Mc- Cormick, North Hollywood, Calif. MAKE $46 FROM Square Foot Plywood; Jigsaw necessary. Free Details. Woodet, Bridgewater, Mass. e e o HELP WANTED COPYRIGHTED REPORTS. Best paying Companies—travel, adventure, promo- tions. Construction, aviation, shipping, oilfields, laborers, clerical, trades, super- visory, factory, unusual opportunities. Skilled-unskilled. Foreign-stateside. Only $2.00 ($2.25 Airmail) (COD'S Accepted). Satisfaction guaranteed. Included free: Special reports on Alaska—Venezuela— South America. Research Services, Mera- mec Building, St. Louis 5-MI, Missouri. FREE INFORMATION — USA Overseas Jobs, High Pay. Transportation. Futures, Dept. L, 215 West 34th Street, New York City I. FOREIGN JOBS—Latin America, Alaska, Canada, up to $1500 monthly. Up-to- date 1960 Foreign Service Directory gives complete information; hot list of firms hiring for Military and Civilian Construc- tion, Aircraft, Oil, Exporters-Importers, Mining. How-When-Where to apply. 12th successful year. $1.00. Global Reports, Box 8873-MI, Los Angeles 8, Calif. LATEST INFORMATION — Civil Service jobs—mechanical, clerical, professional —overseas, U.S.A. List $1.00. Civil Service Bulletin, 115R Haypath Road, Plainview, New York. WANTED, MEN, Women, Raise bait for us at home. Full, spare time. Doesn't take up space. We furnish everything. Sherwood, Dept. A-I, Monmouth, Maine. AMERICAN—OVERSEAS Jobs. Higher Pay. Transportation Paid. Men-Women. Act Now!! Free Information. Employment Headquarters, 79 Wall Street, Dept. 15-A, New York 5. JOBS ON Ships and Yachts Traveling Foreign Countries. Davenport's, 1354-M, GPO NY I, NY. e o o MONEYMAKING OPPORTUNITIES START YOUR Own Business On Credit (U. S. and Canada). Your own boss. 1383 Dealers sold $5,000 to $33,500 in 1958. We supply stocks, equipment on credit. 200 home necessities. Sales expe- rience unnecessary. Pleasant profitable business backed by world-wide industry. Write Rawleigh's, Dept. D-U-MOM, Free- port, Ill. COLLECT NAMES for us $1.00 each. In- structions 25¢. Wilson's Specialties, 621-M North Fancher, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. DETECTIVES — EXCELLENT Opportuni- ties. Experience unnecessary. Detective Particulars free. Write, George Wagoner, 125-J West 86th, New York 24. When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 37

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MAKE BIG Easy Profits making costume jewelry at home in spare time! Quick, easy to make; easier to sell! Details Free! Don-Bar, 3511 W. Armitage, Dept. D-212, Chicago 47, Ill. FORTUNES MADE by prospectors! We teach you! Recognize valuable mineral deposits in your home area. Free infor- mation. Modern Prospector, 3433 Essex Road, Cheyenne, Wyo. MEN—WOMEN! Start Money-Making Plastic Laminating Business at home in spare time. Material that costs Ilé brings back $2.58. No canvassing or selling but mail orders bring in $20 a day. Write for full particulars Free. Rush name on post- card to Warner, Room CL-4-D, 1512 Jarvis, Chicago 26, Ill. VENDING MACHINES—No selling. Op- erate a route of coin machines and earn amazing profits. 32-page catalog Free! Parkway Machine Corporation, Dept. 15, 715 Ensor St., Baltimore 2, Md. MAKE EXTRA Money—Big Cash Commis- sions plus premiums for you and your customers. Sell Advertising Book Matches —sensational new Tenorama, Glamour Girls, Hillbillies; dozens others. All sizes —Quick daily sales; big repeat business. Free Master Kit makes selling easy—no experience necessary. Superior Match, Dept. FX-460, 7530 Greenwood, Chicago 19, MAIL LETTERS Featuring Real Merchan- dise—Get $10 orders in every mail—$8 profit. Everything furnished. Write: The Mailerette, 1502 South Lowell, Santa Ana, California. EARN $240.00 A Month at home, spare time doing only Two $5.00 Invisible Mending jobs a day. Big money paid for service that makes cuts, tears disappear from fabrics. Steady demand. Details free. aaa 6256 Broadway, Chicago 40, HI. MAKE MONEY Clipping Newspapers. Write Newscraft, M!-983-E. Main, Co- lumbus 5, Ohio. MAKE BIG Money Selling Books by Mail! Free details. Write today! Direct Mail Service, Dept. BM, Box 581, Bakersfield 5, California. BIG MONEY Opportunities—Jobs, busi- nesses, investments. Retirement oppor- tunities. Free details. Shoreland, 20 W. Jackson, Suite 1412-M, Chicago 4. SENSATIONAL SELLING Books By Mail! Catalogs Free! Mailway, Box 124-MX, Stuyvesant Station, NYC 9. $1,000. MONTHLY POSSIBLE, raising Earthworms—African Giants! Backyard, Garage, Basement. Complete Illustrated Booklet, explains raising, feeding, pack- ing, marketing. Send 25¢! Ozark Worm Farm-4, Willow Springs, Missouri. $1,000.-$10,000. YEARLY POSSIBLE, rais- ing Fish Worms! Full, sparetime; back- yard, garage, basement, spare room. Sell your crop to us! Moneymaking Book- ion 35¢! Red Wigglers, Warsaw 8, In- iana. CHURCHES! SCHOOLS! Fast $650.00 profit. Your choir or local talent on 45 R.P.M. Records. Free Information. Wescourt Records, Osceola 10, Arkansas. MAIL TRADE Magazine as moneymaking opportunities galore. Sample 25¢. Donovan, 79-M Greenbelt, Levittown, New York. PROFITABLE HOMEWORK! Guaranteed Earnings. No Selling. Everything Sup- plied: Elvee, 556 Beacon, Manchester, N. H. OPERATE PROFITABLE Home Import Business! Details Free. Direct Mail Service, Dept. IM, Box 581, Bakersfield 5, California. START BIG-PAY Business At Home in spare time. No experience needed to operate little table-top machine for bronzing baby shoes. Make $5.46 profit on every pair. Full particulars Free. Send postcard to Mason, 1512 Jarvis, Room CM-4-D, Chicago 26, Ill. BUSINESS OF your own. Earning potential as high as $40,000 annually. Issued on $12,500 base. No merchandise to buy. Send for free explanatory booklet. Harrell & Company, Box 8-FF, Louisville, Mh. INVISIBLE REWEAVING: $5 in one hour possible reweaving burns, tears, moth- holes. Spare-full time. Free details. Skil-Weave, Dept. WC-364, 335 W. Mad- ison, Chicago 6. BECOME INDEPENDENT with your own franchise business. Thousands earning handsome incomes. Request interesting facts today. National Franchise Reports, MX-528, 333 North Michigan, Chicago }. PROFITABLE HOME Mail Order Busi- ness! Particulars Free. Progressive, Box 422, Raymond, N. H. ATTENTION! MEN, Women! Earn extra cash, address advertising postcards. Langdons, Box 41107-M, Los Angeles 41, Calif. EARN MONEY Using Any Camera. Proved method. No experience neces- sary. Work at home, anywhere—make money! Write today. CPC, Box 1066C, Richmond, Calif. YOUR NAME on our Giant Mailing List, brings you moneymaking and other mail offers galore! Send 25¢ today! Direct Mail Service, Dept. GM, Box 581, Bakers- field 5, California. home in spare time. Make up to $9.80 an hour without experience. Facts free. Write to Roberts, 1512 Jarvis, Room CR-4-D, Chicago 26. $200 WEEKLY BUYING Gold. D'Amico, 24 North Wabash-D Ave., Chicago 2. e o o PROFITABLE OCCUPATIONS VENDING MACHINES—No selling. Op- erate a route of coin machines and earn amazing profits. 32-page catalog Free! Parkway Machine Corporation, Dept. 16, 715 Ensor St., Baltimore 2, Md. FREE PICTURE Folder, “How to Make $3,000 Yearly, Sparetime, Backyard, Raising Earthworms!" Oakhaven-3, Cedar Hill, Texas. $5,000 FROM HALF Acre growing Gin- seng, crop bought. Particulars 10c. Associated Growers, Sperling, Manitoba. DETECTIVES—MAKE Secret Investiga- tions. Interesting occupation. Write, George Wagoner, 125-J West 86th, New York 24. JOBS: HIGH pay. Foreign countries, USA. All trades. Write Dept. 55D, National Employment Information, 1020 Broad, Newark, N. J. SHARPEN-SCISSORS, PINKERS. Inexpen- sive outfit. Clipper sharpener. Blackhawk, Sheldahl- 6, lowa. e o > BARGAINS—WHOLESALE SAVE—WHEN buying new car. We show you how. Literature free. Price Research Bureau, Box 15, Tonawanda 4, N. Y: Classified Advertisements BUY WHOLESALE: 100,000 Nationally Advertised Products. Appliances, Cam- eras, Sporting Goods, Housewares, Watches, Typewriters, Tools, Clothing, etc. Discounts to 60%. Buy-Rite, Box 258, Hawthorne 12, New Jersey. NEW MULTICOLOR Wholesale Catalog — automobile catalog — and others. Housewares, appliances, refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers, television, ra- dios, furniture, clothing, luggage, binocu- lars, phonographs, recorders, cameras, projectors, typewriters, sewing machines, power tools, toys, sporting goods, watches, jewelry — name brands — huge discounts. Postcard: Selbyco, Decatur 131, Ilinois. LARGEST WHOLESALE supply in U. S. Free catalogs. Furniture, clothing, ap- pliances, housewares, automobiles and accessories, farm equipment, tools, hobby supplies, new products, imports. Free details. Associated Wholesalers, Box 2068M-2, Sioux City 4, lowa. WAR SURPLUS Bargains! New govern- ment releases arrive constantly. Save Up to 80%. Blankets, boots, cots, tents, wearing apparel, etc. Send for Free War Surplus Catalog, Sioux Falls Surplus Store, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. HFREE!! BIG 64 page Leathercraft cata- log. Hundreds of new items. Write MacPherson Bros, Leather Company, Dept: M, 730 Mission St., San Francisco 3, Calif. WHOLESALE! WORLD'S largest supply. Buy from 257 American, European, Jap- anese wholesalers. Tailormade suits from Hong Kong. Free details. International Buyers, 216-MI Jackson, Chicago 6, IH. BUY HOUSEWARES, tools, jewelry, etc., wholesale; or buy for entire family directly from Britain. Catalog $1.00, de- ductible from first order. House of Brown; P. O. Box 8741, Washington 11, e > e U. S. GOVERNMENT SURPLUS JEEPS—$223.00, TRUCKS—$212.00, Trac- tors, $68.00, Tools, Guns. Typical Gov- ernment Surplus Prices. You can buy di- rect. List of Depots, Procedure, full de- tails only $1.00. New York Enterprises, Wall Street, Box 402-H3, New York 5. ə o o OF INTEREST TO WOMEN HOUSEWIVES WANTED! Big money. Spare or full time cake decorating and candy making. Turn your kitchen into a gold mine. Complete instruction. Learn and earn at home. Write for free facts: Candy And Cake, Dept. 662, Fallbrook, California. "8 MISTAKES PARENTS Make." Every parent should have this new book about child training. It is free; no obligation. Simply address Parents Association, Dept. 944, Pleasant Hill, Ohio. $200. MONTHLY POSSIBLE, Sewing Babywear! No house selling! Free In- formation. Send name to Cuties, Warsaw 58, Indiana. MAKE $25 TO $35 weekly addressing en- velopes. Our instructions reveal how. Glenway, Box 6568, Cleveland J, Ohio. e o o FORMULAS, PLANS LATEST—BEST Formulas. Genuine Money- makers. Free literature. Kemistry, Park Ridge 40, Ni. EXCLUSIVE MANUFACTURING For- mulas and Processes. List Free. Moon, Martville, N. Y. 38 When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED APRIL, 1960 y

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te Any FORMULA $3.00. Catalog—Mfg. Treatise 10c. J. Belfort, 192 N. Clark, Chicago |. ; FORMULAS. LATEST. List free. St. Louis Enterprises, Box 102, Magog, Que. Can- ada. è o e CHEMICALS & SUPPLIES ER SCIENCE MATERIALS, Private, Indus- trial Laboratories. Catalog, 25¢. Laboratory Sales, Box 16l-C, Brighton, Mass. ECONOMICALLY PRICED! Laboratory Materials — Catalog — 20¢. Starr Scientific, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. CATALOG WITH 3000 Illustrations $2.00. Laboratory Materials, 1330 E. Hyde Park Blyd., Chicago 15, Illinois. CHEMICALS AND Apparatus Catalog 25¢. Nu-Age Laboratories, Box 232, Bellmore, N. Y. e`e e TREASURE FINDERS, GEIGER COUNTERS TREASURE! BURIED coins, gold, silver- ware, relics. Transistorized M-Scope lo- cates them! From $59.50, Easy Terms. Free Catalog. Fisher Research, Dept. C-4, Palo Alto, Calif. TRANSISTOR TREASURE Detectors, un- derwater detectors. Many models. Free catalog. Gardiner Electronics Co., Dept. 3, 2545 East Indian School, Phoenix, Ariz. GOLD-SILVER DETECTORS. Very sensi- tive. Complete $10. Decter, 353-B, Menard, Texas. GOLD-SILVER DETECTORS. Geiger Counters. Violites for tungsten, etc. Best available, Guaranteed. Information Free. Detectron, Dept. 4-A, Sylmar, Cali- fornia. TREASURE! MAP, Handbook, 25¢. Lo- cators. Howe, 811 Kansas, Atchinson, Kansas. ə e e OFFICE SUPPLIES TYPEWRITERS, MIMEOGRAPH, Printing, Adding Machines $25.00 up. Write Dixie Graph, King, N. C. e ə e PRINTING, MULTIGRAPHING, MIMEOGRAPHING 1000 BUSINESS CARDS, Raised Letters. $3.95 Postpaid, Free Samples. John H. tavlor R.D.2, Box 215, West Middlesex, a. 1,000 BUSINESS CARDS, “Raised Let- ters'' $3.95. Samples. Pioneer, MI-4, Island Park, N. Y. FREE BUSINESS Printing Catalog; sam- ples. Howprint, 723-L Eunice, Webster Groves 19, Missouri. POSTPAID PRINTING free catalog. McDonald, 545 North Oakland, Pasa- dena 4, California. e e o PRINTING OUTFITS & SUPPLIES A EE S PRINTING OUTFITS, type, supplies. Send dime for illustrated supply book and tomples; Kelsey, Inc., H-57, Meriden, onn, MAKE YOUR Own self-molding rubber stamps and printing cuts. Plexirubber, Argyle 3, Wisconsin. RUBBER STAMP Presses, Supplies. Kiewiet 2025 Barney Road, Kalamazoo, Michi- gan. APRIL, 1960 Classified Advertisements a o e RUBBER STAMPS & MARKING DEVICES NE THREE LINE with inked pad. Pocket $1.00, deluxe $2.00, indelible $2.00. Donald Messier, Hudson, Massachusetts. POCKET CASE three line, inked pad $1.00. W. S. Atherton, Box 6l, Ran- dolph, Massachusetts. THREE LINE cushion stamp $1.00. Eldredge Industries, 152 Rosemont Ave., Trenton 8, N. J. e ə o STAMP COLLECTING GIANT-SIZE ISSUES Collection: Laos Elephant set, Brussels Fair, Olympic. Jet Aircraft, Boy Scout, Somali Animals complete. Romania Flags. Togo set, Dia- mond Popes, UN set, etc., plus big Stamp Dictionary and Approvals. Every- thing 10¢! Stampex, Box 47-KI, White Plains, N. Y. WEIRD DIAMOND Shape Coffee Stamps —Lovely Flower Triangle! First Ameri- can big commemorative. Greenland, Idol Dancer, etc. 10¢ with approvals. Capital Stamp Co., Ferrysburg 5, Mich. WONDERLAND FISH, Flowers, Sports Triangles, Roosevelt, Bicycle Diamonds, 25 others, only 4¢. Approvals. Baker, Thomaston, Connecticut. FANTASTIC FISH Triangles!! Valuable "Ben Franklin" on Canal Zone!! Flam- ing bi-colored Volcano Triangle!! Lovely Olympics Triangle!! Plus Icy Greentand, Weird Wild Beast issue and others, t0¢ with approvals. Ozark Stamps, Spring Lake 5, Michigan. 1000 DIFFERENT WORLDWIDE Stamps $1.00. Valued over $20.00 Universal, Box 6, Kenosha 10, Wisc. 105 DIFFERENT U. S. stamps 25¢, Ap- provals included. Shelron, Box 907-R, New York 8, N. Y. FREE! $1.00 WORTH, your choice, from first selection. No strings! Adults only. Rush request now. Philatelics, Dept. VF, New Paltz, N. Y. 307 WORLDWIDE DIFFERENT stamps only 25¢. Approvals. Niagastamp, St. Catharines 673, Ontario. WOW! 110 ALL Different Germany 10¢ Zeppelins, Semi-Postals, Airmails, High values, etc. Giant Catalog, bargain lists included with beautiful approvals. Jamestown Stamp, Dept. A40MI, James- town, N. Y. 100 DIFFERENT BELGIUM Free. UPU. Brussels Fair, Railroad Stamps Free. Approval applicants only. Trylon, Box 31-M, Brooklyn 30, N. Y. 225 STAMPS FOR Only lOc! This mam- moth value includes Airmails, Picto- rials; stamps from strange Countries cataloguing up to 25c each! Also ap- provals. Mystic Stamp Company, Cam- den 30, N. Y. TERRIFIC STAMP Bargain! Israel—ice- land—Vatican Assortment—plus exotic triangle set—Also fabulous British Colo- nial Accumulation — Plus large stamp book—All four offers free—Send 10¢ to cover postage. Empire Stamp Corp., Dept. MI, Toronto, Can. 105 BRITISH COLONY Stamps, all differ- ent, 10¢. Approvals. Crown Stamp Company 903, Virgil, Ontario. UNITED STATES commemorative collec- tion containing 33 different—i0¢. Ap- provals. White, 516-M Avenue L, Brook- lyn 30, New York. SURPRISE COLLECTION exotic mint British Colonials absolutely free with approvals. Viking, Great Neck 4, N. Y. 102 DIVERSIFIED WORLDWIDE stamps 10¢. Approvals. Linstamp, St. Cath- arines 620, Ontario. 44 ALL DIFFERENT, Triangle, Diamond, Timor, others, I0¢, approvals. Carpenter P. O. Box 310, Claremont, alif. PENNY APPROVALS; Regardless. Cata- E logus! Kloster, 4164 52nd St., San Diego , Calif. 100 STAMPS i0¢ WITH approvals. Smith, 508-D Brooks, College Station, Texas. FREE COLLECTIONS—Canada, Philip- pines, World Wide, many others—each over $5.00 value. Many other attractive premiums Free with purchase of sensa- tional foreign approvals. Topval, Box 486, Redlands, Calif. 25 DIFFERENT COMMEMORATIVES 1893 up 10¢. U. S. Approvals. K & B, Box 70, Brooklyn 23, N. Y. U. S. STAMPS. Giant Discount Catalog- 20¢. Raymax, 37-YL Maidenlane, NYC 38. “BEAUTIFUL''—3¢ APPROVALS. Thou- sands Varieties! Marshall, Box 451-DC, Long Beach, Calif. FREE—ANY Volume Scott's International Albums, Scott's 1960 Catalogues, even Master Global Albums Free when you buy our sensational foreign approvals. Bargain Stamps, Redlands |, California. SPECIAL! OLD U. S., flags, Famous Americans, Presidents, commemora- tives with approvals plus free packet, 10¢ handling. Metropolitan Stamps, Box 312EX, Jackson Heights, N. Y. FIVE MINT Sets 10¢, Approvals. Janel, Box 132-M, Boston 14, Massachusetts. MILLION FOREIGN Stamps On Ap- proval! 2¢ each! Send for thrilling, giant selection! ABC Stamp Company, San Francisco I-AL, California. 100 OLD UNITED States between 1861 and 1935, $1.00. Roush Stamps, 5] Chestnut, Mansfield, Ohio. FREE UNITED States Price List Of Sin- gles, Plate Blocks, FDC's. Introductory Discount, Bailey, 45-M Bromfield, Bostona ass. 200 DIFFERENT BELGIUM 50¢—Penny ap- provals included. Reed, Box 980, Chi- cago 90, HI. 14,000 DIFFERENT! AMAZING new plan builds your collection systematically, country by country. Only 50¢ weekly. Free details. L. G. Ware, Stepney 22, Conn. OLD SCARCE U. S. Seconds On Ap- proval. Slight imperfections, lowest prices. Hernfelder, Clintonhill Sta., New- ark 8, N. J. ALBUM! HUNDREDS of Spaces! Only 10¢. Postpaid! Stampmart, Hartford |, Connecticut. FREE! "MYSTERY" packet. Approvals. Premiums given. Dancer, B75-X4, Mans- field, Ohio. : 60 DIFFERENT U. S. (30 commemora- tives) 25¢. No approvals. Seidenberg, Appleton, Wisconsin. 151 DIFFERENT U. S. Commemoratives $1.00. Carstamps, 739 Ordway, Free- port, Ilinois. When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 39

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TRADE YOUR duplicates toward our ap- provals! (Foreign only.) Complete in- formation, 10¢. Variety Stamps, Box 98-L, Newton Highlands 61, Mass. FREE 9 JAPAN War Stamps. Approvals. Schroeder, 1486!/2 Sherburne, St. Paul 4E, Minn. NUDES! TEN undraped; partially draped people on stamps. Two dimes. Ap- provals. Stamp Farm, 13-17, Oxford, Wis. LARGE U. S. Commemoratives. 115 dif- ferent $1.00. 200 different $2.25. McCarley, 3315-A E. Davison, Detroit 12, Michigan. FREE! GIANT Bargain Catalog—New Edition listing thousands of bargains including U. S. and B. N. A. stamps, packets, mixtures, albums, accessories and supplies; sent with beautiful ap- provals. Jamestown Stamp, Dept. E40MI, Jamestown, New York. 1000 DIFFERENT $1.00 (VALUE $20.00) ap- provals. Jacobsen, Crompond, N. Y. TERRIFIC BARGAIN Lots. Hundred of stamps $I. Giant assortment, sets packets $5. High value packet $3. Persile, 436 N. Y. Ave., Brooklyn 25, N. Y. SENSATIONAL; AFGHANISTAN, Yemen, set Laos, multitude other. Everything 10¢ with approvals. Improta, 51-15m 69th Street, Woodside 77, New York. NUDES SET (4)—unusua! approvals—l0¢. Atlasco, Eisenhower, Racine, Wisconsin. > ə o COIN COLLECTING COIN CATALOG 72 pages $1.00. Listing, pricing, picturing Canadian, New- foundiand, U. S. coins we buy. Philacoin, Regina 4. Canada. INDIAN HEAD cents, two different only 15¢. Approvals. Littleton Coin Company, Littleton R4, New Hampshire. FREE BONUS offer! U. S. Bargain list, 10¢ (refundable). Economy Sales, 156 Dean, Mansfield 3, Mass. LINCOLNS 25 DIFFERENT 1909-1934, $1.50. Numismatist, 1457 Moreno, Oceanside |, California. EIGHT DIFFERENT Indian Cents $1.00. Collector's Bargains, Box 356G, New Hope, Penna. e ə o OLD COINS WANTED $9,000.00 FOR 1913 LIBERTY Head Nickel. We paid $6,500.00 for one Silver Dollar, $2,300.00 for one Cent. Thousands of others we paid $20.00 to $1,400.00 each. Wanted Certain Dates—Cents before 1932—$2,000.00; Nickels before 1940— $275.00; Dimes before 1943—$4,000.00. Canadian Coins—l92I—Nickel $200.00. 1889—Dime—$250.00. 1875 Quarter $75.00. 1921—50¢—$1,000.00 Hundreds of others listed in our Catalogue worth $100.00 to $25,000 each. For Complete Alicoin In- formation, before sending coins, pur- chase our large Illustrated Guaranteed Buying-Selling Catalogue $1.00. Cata- logue dollar refundable. Thousands of persons have sold us coins. Incorporated 1938. Worthycoin Corporation (K-433-C), Boston 8, Massachusetts. $40-$500 PAID FOR 59 circulating Lincoln pennies. Aibum, information $1.25. Sanran Enterprises, Box 118, Colvin Sta- tion, Syracuse, New York. OLD COINS Bought. Illustrated Catalog 25¢. Hutchinson's, Box 4747, Philadel- phia 34, Penna. 40 When Answering Advertisements, Classified Advertisements ə ə ə INDIAN CURIOS, RELICS, ANTIQUES WARPOINT, BIRDPOINT, Arrowhead $1.00, Tomahawk or Pestle $2.00, Fif- teen Assorted Relics $5.00. Palmer, 435 Washington Road, McKeesport, Penna. > > o HOBBIES & COLLECTIONS MINIATURE TOOLS. They actually work. Less than J inch long. Excellent craftsmanship; metal; well designed; gilt plated. Pocket knife; shears; nutcracker; pliers; tin snips; also, screwdriver. 30 tools $1, 100 tools $2.75, postpaid. Hansens, Inc., 2721 East llth Street, Oakland |, Calif. MINT SETS- Teh coins 1959 $3.50. R. Schmidt Co., 4535 Harrison, Washington 15, D. C. e ə o EDUCATION & INSTRUCTION DON'T BE Outsmarted. Learn to think. Free details on $2 book. Huron Shores Institute, Box 110, Bad Axe, Michigan. ENGINEERING AND Art Degrees earned through home study. Electronics, Elec- trical, Mechanical, Civil, Physics, Busi- ness Administration Accounting, Liberal Arts. When writing specify course de- sired. Pacific Internationa! College of Arts & Sciences, primarily a correspond- ence school. Resident classes also carried. 5719-F Santa Monica Boulevard, Holly- wood 38, California. BOOKKEEPERS! INCREASE your earnings! Operate your own simplified ‘'Dollar- A-Week"' Bookkeeping and Tax Service. Full or spare time. 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STUDY TO Be Doctor of Psychology, Metaphysics, Divinity, or Philosophy. Correspondence courses only. Neotarian Fellowship, Desk 28, Pickwick Bldg., Kan- sas City 6, Mo. OPERATE RESTAURANT Or Diner. Free Booklet reveals plan. Write Schoo! of Restaurant Business, Dept. RC-722, 335 W. Madison, Chicago 6, Illinois. PROFITABLE WELDING training availa- ble Hobart Welding School, Box SM-401, Troy, Ohio, G! approved. Finest equipment in U. S. A. Reasonable prices. Request catalog. DISK JOCKEYS In Demand, Radio Sta- tions eager for men and women trained to do and sell own programs. Big money in salary, fees and commissions, plus per- sonal appearances. Successful N. Y. disk jockey has trained thousands, will show you how. Free information. No salesman will call. Fred Darwin, Studio A, 1639 Broadway, New York 19, N. Y. OPERATE COLLECTION Agency. "Gold Mine" opportunity. Lifetime business. Be respected. Franklin Credit, Roanoke, Va. EXCEPTIONAL INSTRUCTIVE Technical Home Study. Erka Institute, 7027 Smith Avenue, North Bergen, N. J. APTITUDE TESTING. Details free. Guidance Associates, II5E WHaypath Road, Plainview, New York. MASTER WATCHMAKING at home. Free sample lesson. Chicago School, 2328-TD Milwaukee, Chicago 47. PHYSICAL THERAPY and massage pays big profits. Learn at home. Free cata- logue. National Institute, Desk 2, 159 E. Ontario, Chicago, Ill. PAINT SIGNS. Fascinating System. Straley, 410-M South Western, Spring- field, Ohio. e ə ə BOOKS, PERIODICALS BOOKS, FREE General Catalog, 100 pages. Text, vocational, educational, instructional subjects. Millions of vol- umes, new and used. Bargain prices. Books bought. Est. 1902, Long's College Book Co., Dept. MI, Columbus l, Ohio. BOOKHUNTERS! ALL Subjects. Send Wants! Jaher Book Service, 183-M Hazelwood Drive, Westbury, N. Y. 100,000 NEW 10¢-BOOKS! Amazing sub- jects! Two catalogs, 25¢ (refundable). Particulars free! "Bargains," 1323-MJ Chaparral, Corpus Christi, Texas. 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la Classified Advertisements o `o o RADIO & TELEVISION SUPPLIES & INSTRUCTION canana TRANSISTOR RADIO pocket size. No ground or aerial necessary $9.95 post- paid. Free literature in U. S. A. Alessi Sales, Main P. O. Box 323, Yonkers, N. Y. FIX YOUR Own TY, Save 80%! Send for Free Illustrated Chart showing how! We'll include Giant Electronics Catalog. Zalytron, 220-X ‘West 42nd Street, NYC. RADIO & TV TUBES at Manufacturer's prices! 100% Guaranteed! Brand New! No re-brands or pulls! United Radio, Box 1000, Newark, N. J. e o o HI-FI, RECORDS PARTY RECORDS. Sample record and catalog $1.00 postpaid. Hollywood Jokers, Dept. 10, P. O. Box 1986, Holly- wood 28, California. e ə e MUSICAL INSTRUCTION SONGS INTO $$$$$$$$$$$$—Share $33 million dollars yearly for New Song- writers, songpoets. Any subject, songs composed, published, promoted by largest firm. Information, appraisal Free. Send Nordyke Music Publishers, 6000 Sun- set. Hollywood 28M, Calif. 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Send poems: Songwriters’ Associates, 1650 Broadway, N. Y. 19-A. VIOLINMAKERS, REPAIRERS. Fine tone wood, and all violin supplies. Send for free wholesale new price list. International Sales, 414-MI E. Baltimore St., Baltimore 2, Md. HYPNOTIZE SELF, Others while asleep with amazing hypnotic phonograph records, tapes. Catalog free. Research Association, Box 24-M, Olympia, Wash- ington. GUITAR MAKING. Books, Plans, Im- ported Woods, Tools, list 10¢. Rosewood 510 East’ llth Street, New York 9, N: Y- e © o ACCIDENT INVESTIGATOR TRAINING INVESTIGATE ACCIDENTS—Earn $750 to $1,000 monthly. Thousands of insurance companies, airlines, steamship lines ur- gently need Claim Investigators. Place- ment help. Free book—Today! GI Ap- proved. Universal Schools, CM-4, Box 8227, Dallas 5, Texas, e > o CARTOONING CARTOON YOUR way to success! Inter- nationally known instructor, Raye Burns, will personally teach you to create original, salable cartoons at home. Cost of Course is very low. Write for free de- tails. Raye Burns School, Box 3583-M, Cleveland 18, Ohio. CARTOONING FOR Profit! Learn at home, experience unnecessary. Famous System of Manual Training brings amaz- ing results. Free book, write Continental Schools, Dept. MI-4, 4201 S. Broadway, Los Angeles 37, Calif. “HOW TO Make Money With Simple Cartoons''—A book everyone who likes to draw should have. Jt is free; no obli- gation. Simply address Cartoonists’ Exchange, Dept. 354, Pleasant Hill, Ohio. ə ə e MAGIC TRICKS, JOKES, PUZZLES 500 TRICKS, DOUGLAS famous 120-page catalog now availablg just 10¢. Fastest service to magicians everywhere with latest in magic for parlor, stage, pocket. Send l0¢ to-day. Douglas Magicland, Dept. 14, Dallas, Texas. WORLD'S FINEST professional magic. Joker novelties. Giant illustrated cata- log 10¢. Top Hat, Evanston 14, Ill. 3100 NOVELTIES, JOKES, tricks, gadgets, funmakers, hobbies. Big catalog 10c. Johnson-Smith, D-499, Detroit 7. ONE THOUSAND tricks, jokers, stunts, magic, illusions, puzzles! Jumbo Cata- log (160 Pages) Rush 10¢. Free Trick given! House of 1000 Mysteries, 202Di Pinewood, Trumbul, Conn. PLAY GUITAR! Learn by Simplest, Quickest method. Copyrighted instruc- tion book $1. Denton, 358 All Hallow, Wichita 13, Kansas. POEMS WANTED! Best songs recorded Free with 7-piece orchestra. Melodies written. Send poems, free examination. Sprishiskes. 1472-B Broadway, New York TALENT PROMOTERS! Musicians! Sing- ers! Your own label 45 R.P.M. records; any quantity. Free information. Wescourt Records, Osceola 8, Arkansas. SONGPOEMS AND lyrics wanted. Mail to: TinPan Alley, Inc., 1650 Broadway, New York 19, N. Y. n e ə o MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS P ACCORDIONS—SAVINGS to 50%. Free trial. Trades accepted. Free catalog. Accordion Manufacturers, Dept. 40-MX, 2003 Chicago, Chicago 22. APRIL, 1960 TREASURE CHEST of Magic (catalog) 20¢. W. Ratzell, Cedar Brook, New Jersey. è o o HYPNOTISM S STUDY HYPNOTISM! Amazing illustrated lessons. Big 280-page treatise jam- packed with fascinating information. Sim- ple understandable language you'll en- joy. Full price only $3.95 postpaid—or C O D plus postage. Satisfaction or re- fund guaranteed. Order "Hypnotism" today. Nelson Company, 210 South Clin- ton, Dept. 2DP-3, Chicago 6. HYPNOTIZE UNNOTICED, quickly, ef- fortlessly or refund! $1.00. Minter, Box 244-M, Cedarburg, Wisconsin. HYPNOTISM; AUTOSUGGESTION. Guaranteed home study courses. Di- ploma issued. Free brochure. School Applied Hypnology, Dept. H4, 200 W. 57th Street, New York 19, N. Y. FREE ILLUSTRATED Hypnotism, Self- hypnosis catalogue. Write: Hypnotist, 872) Sunset Blyd., Hollywood 46M, Calif. INVENTION, PLASTIC Hypno-Coin has whirling hypnotic lense. Complete with secrets, instructions, only 99¢. Suc- cess or Money Back. Free catalog-rec- ords, books, machines, enclosed. Hypnotic-Aids, MI-4, 1133 Broadway, New York City 10. FREE CATALOG! Hypnotism! Autosug- gestion! 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Classified Advertisements OIL COLORING Photographs—A fasci- nating hobby or profitable sideline for those with artistic talent. Learn at home. Easy simplified method. Free booklet. National Photo Coloring School, 835 Di- versey Parkway, Dept. 2044, Chicago 14. COLOR SLIDES sent "on approval." Or- der the packages that interest you from big catalog listing 17,000 subjects. Send 35¢ for catalog. Meston's Travels, Dept. MI-4A, 3801 N. Piedras, El Paso, Texas. o e o MOTION PICTURES & SOUND EQUIPMENT FREE EVERY Month—Blackhawk's news- Paper-size catalog 8mm., lémm. movies, 2”x2” color slides. Biggest selec- tion in USA. Bargains in used lémm. sound films, projectors. Blackhawk Films, Davenport 16, lowa. 5,000 8MM.-I16MM. SILENT-SOUND Films. A ees International-l, Greenvale, Jw, N. Y. TAPE recorders, HI-FI components, Sleep Learning Equipment, etc, tapes. Un- usual values. Free catalog. Dressner, 69-02L 174th Street, Flushing 65, N. Y. RECORDERS, HI-FI. Free wholesale cat- alogue. 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Motaloy, Grantham 2, Penna. e e o AUTOMOBILES & MIDGET CARS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION offers automobile literature — old, modern and foreign; dealer books, service man- uals, glossy photographs; free motor magazines. Write immediately; get on free mailing list. Auto Maniacs 2, Stock- bridge, Mich. MI SPORTSTER. Why envy the owner of a snazzy sports car? Build one yourself with these complete instructions and plans for less than $500. To get your copy, send $3.00 to MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED Plans Service, Greenwich, Conn. Specify Plan No. JH-19. FIBERGLAS SPORTS Bodies — Bolts on your chassis. $295. Free Literature. Almquist Engineering, Milford M12, Penna. LEARN ROCKETRY. Start your career to- day with new simplified 368 page illus- trated “Rocket Manual" by authority Captain Brinley. Plus: Valuable 24 page tocketry information source ‘''Guide- book." Together $2.00. Space Products, Dept. M5, 38 E. 57 St., New York, N. Y. e e e ENGINES, MOTORS "POWER DRIVES Handbooks''—36 pages illustrating many types motor drives for model autos, boats, displays, turn- tables, etc. Mail 25¢ cash, returnable first order $3.00 or more. Wilson's of Cleveland, Dept. MI, P. O. Box 8995, Fi. Lauderdale, Fla. DIESEL INJECTOR parts and fuel pumps wanted. GMS5I-53-71-110. Packard, 7120 Carnegie, Cleveland 3, Ohio. e e o ELECTRICITY & ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES WHOLESALE APPLIANCE Parts Cata- logue 25¢. 1,001 Repair Parts. Seco, 26 South 20th Street; Birmingham 3, Ala- bama. CONDUIT BENDING Guide and Pro- tractor $1.90. Pal-Notes, B502, Under- wood, N. Dak. e e e WELDING, PLATING & SOLDERING BUILD OR buy efficient inexpensive 350 ampere welder. Guaranteed plans 25¢. Free welder kit catalog. LeJay Manufacturing, Minneapolis, Minnesota. TUCKER AUTOMOBILE Factory Litera- ture, Pictures, Postpaid Anywhere $1.00. Moore Hobby Shop, Grand Rapids 2, ich. e e e MOTORCYCLES, BICYCLES MOTOR SCOOTERS WHIZZER MOTORBIKE $20, Travis bike motor $7, Go cart with engine $45, en- gines $3 up. (Mailorder only.) Send 25c (35c for First Class Mailing) for new Di- rectory-Catalogue Number 94 listing these and Hundreds of other bargains in midget cars, motorscooters, homebuild- ers parts, plans, etc. Midget Motors Directory, Athens, Ohio. RECONDITIONED MOTORCYCLE Mo- tors. Chrome accessories. Complete stock Indian parts. Expert rebuilding. Fast service. Indian Motorcycle Sales, Kansas City 27, Missouri. 1,000 MOTORCYCLE, MOTORBIKE, Bi- cycle bargains. Parts. Accessories. Bar- gain catalog 35¢. Bunico, Box 146-MI, Covington, Virginia. e o « AVIATION HELICOPTERS ARE our business, not our sideline. A-W, originators of home built helicopters (not autogiros), sells more kits, plans than all others com- bined! Learn why—photos, specifications, complete prices; 25¢. Adams-Wilson Helicopters, Inc., Lakewood 3, Cali- fornia. REVOLUTIONARY DEVICE eliminates brake failures hydraulically operated vehicles. Easily installed. Fully guaran- teed. $9.95. Safety Brake Corporation, Box 3024, Oklahoma City 5, Oklahoma. AUTO SHOP welding repair training in world's largest non-profit school. Low tuition. Free booklet. Hobart Welders, Box SM-46, Troy, Ohio. 42 When Answering Advertisements, PROPELLERS, PLANS, supplies for air- boats and snowplanes. Catalog 25¢. Banks-Maxwell, Box 3301D, Ft. Worth 5, Texas. o e e JET PROPULSION & ROCKETS ROCKETEERS: SUPPLIES, Catalog, Plans 25¢. Central Company, Waupaca, Wis. Chemicals, Rocket Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED ACETYLENE WELDING Outfits — New, Arcwelders. Eagle Welding, Dept. 21, 5085 Broadway, Chicago 40, Ill. WELDERS, 110/220, WELDS 1⁄2”, $39.50. i Morris; 1070 Inner Drive, Schenectady 3, e e o INVENTIONS WANTED INVENTORS: HUNDREDS of manufac- turers have requested our assistance in locating marketable new products. Com- plete information, free. Institute of American Inventors, Dept. 50-C, 635 F Street N. W., Washington 4, D. C. CASH, ROYALTY, obtainable for good ideas, inventions. Ketchum's Advertis- ing, B-1058F, Springfield, Illinois. INVENTORS! CONSIDER our offer first before selling or licensing your inven- tion on a cash or royalty basis. Inventions on Demand, 79 Wall Street, New York 5, N.Y INVENTIONS WANTED. All types. Tre- mendous manufacturers lists. Global Marketing Service, 2420 77th, Oakland 5, alif. INVENTIONS WANTED: "Patented" — “Patent Pending.’ 29 years experience Promoting Inventions. National Service Bureau, 3126 Meramec, St. Louis 18, Mo. INVENTIONS NEEDED immediately for manufacturers. For additional informa- tion write Kessler Corporation, C-64-IW, Fremont, Ohio. INVENTIONS WANTED now by my man- ufacturer clients. Write Gilbert Adams, Patent Broker, 80 Wall St., Financial Dis- trict, New York City. INVENTORS! Outright cash sale or roy- alties for your inventions. Constant de- mand from our client manufacturers. Write United States Invention Brokerage, 15 Park Row, New York 38, N. Y. APRIL, 1960 i»)

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la Classified Advertisements INVENTORS' COMPLETE Service. Cash- Royalties Sales. Inventions Researched. Patent Development Engineering. Free Invention Certificate. George Spector, Licensed Invention Engineer, 3615 Wool- worth Building, New York. WE MARKET worthwhile inventions and idees. Harvey Consultants, Cambridge, Md. aielo Re a EE EE a E e e o FOR INVENTORS paan SS FREE! A valuable booklet full of infor- mation on how to protect, evaluate, and market your invention. It can save you time and money. Write for free copy of "The Inventor's Guide." No obliga- tion. Inventors Guidance Service, Box 451-A, Calimesa, California. INVENTORS! CONSIDER our offer first before selling or licensing your inven- tion on a cash or royalty basis. Inventions on Demand, 79 Wall Street, New York 5, N. Y. INVENTORS: NEED Help? Write Institute of American Inventors, Dept. 50-T, 635 F St, N. W., Washington 4, D. C. INVENTIONS NEEDED immediately for manufacturers. 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mS F i 2 i Light plane record holder uses Champions! Max Conrad set anew endurancerecord for single-engine, light planes last June . . . 7,668 miles non-stop! His Lycoming- powered Piper Comanche was sparked by Champions. Land speed record holder uses Champions! ompson seta new American speedrecord o Mickey 363 m.p.h. at Bonneville Salt Flats last October. His car’s four Pontiac engines were all sparked by Champions. Why dotherecord breakers, in field after field, use Champion e spark plugs? Because they know they can depend on Champions to wring every bit of performance out of every drop of gas. Your car will perform better, too (and save money on gasoline) with new Champions. Put in a set every 10,000 miles! Worn spark plugs waste lots of gas— so check your plugs every 5,000 miles! Outboard record holder uses Champions! Hugh Entrop holds the world’s outboard motor record with a dazzling 107.8 miles per hour. His stock Mercury outboard was powered by Champion spark plugs. E E d SE Indianapolis record holder uses Champions! Rodger Ward set a new record at Indianapolis last year at 185.8 miles per hour. Rodger, like 9 out of 10 race car winners, uses Champion spark plugs! >

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{4 @ Ina recent mail column you expressed an interest in the origin of the word “Boji” (The name of Uncle Tom’s Labrador re- triever—Ed.). Perhaps the following will help: The Boji were a Frankish-Germanic tribe living in the north of France before the beginning of the Christian era. It seems they migrated eastward and settled in the valley of the Moldau in the general vicinity of the present city of Prague, or possibly in the vicinity of Brunn. Europe was then very sparsely populated. A Slavic people, the Czechs, were pushed westward by the invad- ing Huns and settled in the unoccupied areas of the land held by the Boji. Just how your dog connects with this I must leave to you and him. I can only hope he is a good pooch. A. J. Herbolsheimer, M.D. Livermore, Calif. “Boji?” means “Scared Stiff” in Slovak. Ha! Rev. John L. Matovich St. Cyprian’s Church Wyandotte, Mich. After reading Fred Drake’s letter about the name “Boji” in the November mail column, I thought ld see about helping you out. I talked to Mr. Taubert (Boji’s breeder) and asked him about the name. He told me he just makes these names up so the dog can be registered. The name has no particular mean- ing or origin. Arthur Hazel. Fargo, N. D. You just loused up a lot of good research, Arthur, but thanks. ® I believe you will be interested in an acci- dent which I had in Colorado last winter. It had been snowing lightly and getting icier all the time. I would occasionally try my brakes and I seemed to have good control of the car. But I went around a particularly icy curve and the rear of my car started flipping MAIL FOR, McCA HILL, UNCLE TOM ANSWERS HIS MOST INTERESTING LETTERS IN THIS COLUMN. WRITE TO HIM AT MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED, 67 WEST 44TH ST., NEW YORK 36, N. Y. back and forth. I had made the mistake of staying in overdrive and when I let up on the gas, the compression of the motor naturally did not have any effect. Just as I got around the curve I saw a snow plow coming at me fast and at close range. I couldn't pull out on my side of the road as there was a drop-off into the river. So, remembering in a flash things that I had read in your articles—Num- ber One of which was to avoid a head-on accident at all costs—I spun the car to the left so that I would go skidding into the snow plow’s blades. This, I figured, would reduce my forward speed. I also remembered that you had stated that you should take a crash with your head and body below the instru- ment panel. So just as I whipped the wheel I “dove for the cellar.” The car was banged up pretty much but I came out of it without a scratch. Thanks for the good advice which, you put into your articles. Floyd I. Galway Salt Lake City, Utah Glad my articles helped you out of a rough spot. Many a guy could be saved if only he knew what to do when the going gets tough. ® In the November issue I read where Ed Lothrop was having trouble with the rear window becoming dirty on his ’59 station wagon. I remedied that problem on my wagon by cutting a piece five feet long and ten inches wide from a heavy conveyor belt. I bolted this piece to a strip of angle iron, then bolted that to the end of my car’s frame, giving me a mud flap all across the back of my wagon. Went from Texas to Maine without having the rear window get dirty. Also, Pve never had fumes in 61,000 miles of driving with this rig. T/Sgt. Bob Farnham New Braunfels, Tex. We hesitate to print this letter as half the [Continued on next page] 47

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factories in America may come down with mutilated conveyor belts, but it sure sounds like a good idea. ® I bought a copy of your great new book, Today’s Sport And Competition Cars and read on the jacket that you had “survived over 200 auto performance tests.” On your old book, The Modern Sports Car, which I bought over five years ago, it states the same thing. What have you been doing for the last few years—loafing? F. T. Morrel Dayton, Ohio The guy who edited the new book jacket goofed. It should have read “over 400” and if all the additional commercial tests were in- cluded it would be closer to 600. However, whether I survived. or not is purely a matter of opinion. @ In Mail For McCahill of November 1959 you said that the Canadian Ford Product “Monarch” is called Richelieu for the re- membrance of “The hardest-hitting Cardinal since Stan Musial.” Believe me, you are way off! “Richelieu” is the name of the river which goes from St. Lawrence River in the prov- ince of Quebec, Canada to Champlain Lake in New York and Vermont, U.S.A. I hope that you will correct your statement and that MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED will continue to stay the publication of exact facts. Gilles Lafreniere Montreal, P.Q., Canada Who do you think the river was named after, Gilles—Duke Snider? @ I recently became the proud (?) owner of a 1928 Imperial rumbleseat roadster and like anyone else who is about to attempt to restoration of an old car, I’m badly in need of information. I wonder if it would be possi- ble to state in MI that I’m interested in obtain- ing whatever information I can get on 1928 Chryslers and Imperials? If this request can- not be handled through you, perhaps it could be handled through the Dear Editor depart- ment. John Bemis Hamilton, N. Y. Let’s not wake the boys up, John; we’ll run it here. © I have a problem. I recently bought a “Michigan Monster” (as you say) sedan. It’s just too wide to get into my 1928 garage. I can get it in, but once in I can’t open the car [Continued on page 50] SF ecto itt STOR off They all know the Superiority of AMALIE OIL Sports car enthusiasts know the value of a superior motor oil. Because their cars are tuned and balanced exactly, each owner demands a lubricant that will match this exactness. Amalie Motor Oil is an exact lubricant. Our refining process is gentle and slow, under special controls that keep refining temperatures low. It is an expensive method but it protects all of the precious lubricating quality naturally pres- AMALIE DIVISION, O-4, Sonneborn Chemical and Refining Corp., Franklin, Pa. 48 ent in Pennsylvania Crudes. Next time you need an oil change, look for the Amalie sign . . . at better dealers everywhere. For a look (and a chuckle) at the Automobile World circa 1909, write for FREE reprint of 28 page booklet “HINTS.” You'll be amazed at the repair remedies that every 1909 driver had to know. April, 1960 |

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l4 “i built my Chevy as a trailbreaker.” “That’s my office there in the picture, you might say. I’m a conservation officer, and I spend most of my time patrolling my beat—four hundred square miles of wilderness, with darned few miles of road in it. Takes a real man-sized car to haul me and my equipment around. I talked it over with a Chevrolet dealer a while back, and when he pulled out that tremendous list of options—well, here’s what I’m driving now: “A Nomad station wagon, as you can see. Four doors, six passengers, plenty of space for gear—a beauty, isn’t she? Under the hood, there’s that 230-horse Super Turbo-Fire V8*. I teamed it with the standard three-speed transmission. You just don’t find a tougher pair than that, or one that’s quicker to answer. I wouldn’t pass up Positraction,* of course, for pulling through the gumbo that comes up around here after a rain. Heavy-duty clutch* and rear coil springs,* seat belts* and a compass* finished this baby off fine. “This, friend, is all car, and it won’t quit no matter how hard I push it. And the best part of it is it’s all mine, with all the things I want in a car.” ; You can do your own “building,” you know, with Chevy’s long-as-your-arm list of options. Sports car, family car, luxury car—you name it, you can create it. Ry : Right now, we’d suggest a trip to your Chevrolet dealer’s. . . . Chevrolet Division of General Motors, Detroit 2, Michigan. *Optional at extra cost. oe Cab 3 / 2 See x ck, re | Ss Whatever sort of car you’d like your car to be, there’s a Chevy package that’ll fit you like a glove. Seven perky engines . . . five transmissions . . . special cams . . . solid or hydraulic valve lifters . . . dozens of heavy-duty and comfort and convenience features . . . youve got some really pleasant choosing ahead of you! When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 49

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Mail For McCahill [Continued from page 48] door to let myself out. Any suggestions? Carl Powell Newark, N. J. The only hope I can see for you is to trade in your sedan for a convertible. Then, with the top lowered, you can climb up and slide down the back deck. Or buy a compact car. © We have a chap in our shop who owns a Kaiser. He claims to get 28 miles per gallon on runs between L. A. and Morro Bay, Calif. This we can buy—it is possible—but he also claims that on Angeles Crest Highway (a mountain road) he really waxes Chevy Impalas, Ford wagons and any other car that is willing to try him. Charles H. Pratt Sun Valley, Calif. He must mean on the way down. The last Kaiser that started through the measured mile at Daytona Beach hasn’t made it yet. ® I would like to know your opinion as to the best method of tire balancing. G. R. Tyrrell Seattle, Wash. The best way is: first balance the wheel | HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTOR CO. | Dept. Mi, Milwaukee 1, Wisconsin | Send me more information on | the Harley-Davidson Topper. | | and tire off the car; then, with other types of balancing equipment, on the car. Bear in mind it is a waste of money to have any wheel balanced until the tire has gone 500 miles. - @ A couple of weeks ago I bought a new 1960 Pontiac and have a problem. Rarely do I find a service station operator who knows how to find hood release. What’s the game? Harry F. Slattery Jacksonville, Fla. The game, invented by Bunkie Knudsen and his Brownies, is called “Hide The Hood Release.” © After seeing all the 1960 cars my annual complaint is the same. Lots of garage-fill- ing room but meager interior space for people with heads. A. H. Stewart _ Hayward, Calif. Many Detroit firms have proven that heads are not an important part of the average driver. @® In 1957 or so the Mercury automobile came equipped with a radiator fan that [Continued on page 52] HARLEY- Angling for your favorite trout stream is twice the fun on a Harley-Davidson Topper. Plenty of room in this scooter for meal and creel, too. Fishing is just one of many activities that give more pleasure because you get there on a Topper. The Topper boasts a host of new scootering features developed by the world’s leading build- er of 2-wheeled vehicles—see it at your Harley- Davidson dealer or mail coupon for colorful folder. April, 1960 DAVIDSON

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What horsepower really means James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine, determined that a husky horse could lift a weight of 33,000 pounds one foot in one minute. He called this horsepower. Automobile manufacturers later adopted what they call brake horsepower—so named because they used a brake on the flywheel of the engine to measure horsepower. The method of measuring brake horsepower has undergone changes over the years, but the term is the one in everyday use. Brake horsepower simply means the developed power that’s actually delivered at Buy the best... buy TEXACO TUNE IN: TEXACO HUNTLEY- BRINKLEY REPORT/ MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/NBC-TY the engine’s flywheel and therefore avail- able to drive the car’s wheels. The average American compact car engine has about 90 “horses,” while the most powerful American car engine has about 350. Be sure to get all the power your engine can develop. Your Texaco Dealer has two great gasolines for your driving needs: top octane Sky Chief Su-preme, with Petrox...or famous regular-price Fire Chief. You drive with more pleasure and save for good measure, at Texaco’s Tower of Power.

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NO TIME FO A BIG CIGAR?... JUST TIME FOR A TREND MILD LITTLE CIGAR | TREND fi hyi LITTLE CIGARS B Humidor pack of 20 35¢ Nothing smooths rough going as fast as a Trend Little Cigar. They’re long enough for complete satisfaction . . . short enough to enjoy anytime. 100% cigar tobaccos clear through, including all tobacco, Trend-Air Conditioned wrapper. And you need not inhale to enjoy them! Mild . . . try a pack today. NOW...TREND-AIR CONDITIONED FOR MAXIMUM MILDNESS... Scientifically placed, microscopic air-inlets “breathe” just the right amount of cool air into the smoke stream to give you the mildest, freshest smoke you’ve ever tasted in a cigar. STEPHANO BROTHERS (Cigar Division) Phila. 7, Pa. PIONEERS IN MODERN CIGARS 52 Mail For McCahill [Continued from page 50] became a free-wheeling unit at 40 mph, when the fan is no longer needed. Claims were made that this device would increase the perform- ance and economy of the car while making it run quieter at speeds of 40 mph or greater. Several auto stores now offer this fan for in- Sstallation on all makes of cars for about $30 to $40. If the claims are justified, wouldn’t this be a worthwhile addition to one’s car? Bernard Greenberg State College, Pa. Thirty or 40 bucks will buy an awful lot of [Continued on page 54] April, 1960

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is ...extends Spark Plug “PRIME OF LIFE” Comparison Proves Special Duty Advantages The usual extended tip spark plug (left) has a long ground electrode that can burn or wear away under severe operating conditions. The new AC Fire-Ring Extended Shell Spark Plug has the short, sturdy ground electrode design that reduces vibration, burning and breaking off, assures superior performance. Every AC Fire-Ring Spark Plug features the exclusive Hot Tip that heats faster, cools faster N to stay clean longer. RS stay c longe i RS yv They must be fhe best! AC FIRE-RING SPAR AC SPARK PLUG Ba THE ELECTRONICS DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS Here’s the newest of the new for car owners requiring extended tip spark plugs — an extended tip spark plug with an extended shell. This revolutionary new shell design offers all the advantages of the ex- tended tip design, plus greater effi- ciency during the spark plug’s peak power period — or “Prime of Life.” It permits a shorter ground electrode that reduces power-robbing misfire and electrode wear. It fully protects the insulator tip to shield it during starts and prevent “drowning,” after false starts. You get faster, surer starts and cleaner burning full power perform- ance throughout the entire life of the spark plug. If your car calls for extended tip spark plugs, ask for this newest devel- opment — new AC Fire-Rings with extended shell. AC PRESENTS THE ART CARNEY SHOW, NBC-TV, April 8 When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED > 53

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Mail For McCahill [Continued from page 52] gasoline. However, this wasn’t an original idea with Mercury. Wills-St. Claire featured it over 35 years ago. The average fan does rob about ten horsepower at 75 mph and is a gas burner. After 50 mph it can actually slow down the flow of air that would reach the engine without it. I’ve driven coast to coast on several occasions without a fan. But when you hit big city walking-speed traffic, things can get real sticky even in mid-January. Cars operated out in the open country in cold climates all the time can certainly save money by just taking the fan blades off during the winter months, providing the blades aren’t welded or riveted. @ I wonder if you could settle an argument between me and the gang at the local gin mill? I say that a cold engine should be warmed up to full operating temperature be- fore being used to pull the car. The opposi- tion claims that an engine should be driven under 30 mph until full temperature is reached. Dan Valenti Rockaway Beach, N. Y. Personally, in real cold weather I like to let the engine run several minutes before slip- ping it into gear. © Guess you've been asked thousands of questions and—well, brace yourself up, here’s one more: What has happened to your tresses? Matti Fors Saaminki, Finland Nothing. All six are still there. @ I’ve just bought a 1946 Ford convertible which is in beautiful condition. If you have any literature at all on this model, speci- fications, test reports, repair manual, etc., I would very much appreciate a way to obtain such. Warren Bausert 84 Maplewood Ave. Selden, L. I., N. Y. The first car I ever tested in these pages was a 1946 Ford, in the February 1946 MI. Frankly, I haven’t any old copies but any top- flight garage thats been in business more than a year or two will undoubtedly have an [Continued on page 56] WOLVERINE’S SE- $ Leather gloves always ORY SOFT! CHOOSE DELUXE FULL GRAIN HORSEHIDE OR BUDGET- MINDED PIGSKIN. (HANDY IN THE CAR, TOO!) ONCE YOU WEAR EM, YOU WONT BE WITHOUT EM! AT STORES EVERYWHERE. 54 CRET TRIPLE-TAN- NING PROCESS TANS NATURALLY TOUGH HORSEHIDE AND PIGSKIN SUPER ———— SOFT TO STAY SOFT —EVEN DRY SOFT AFTER SOAKING. WOLVERINE OFFERS THE MOST COMPLETE LINE OF HORSEHIDE, PIGSKIN, STEERHIDE AND BUCK- SKIN GLOVES AVAILABLE... ALL LONG ON WEAR... LOW IN PRICE! | j VERINE | a7) WOL wonm Goyt? HEAVY WEIGHT SUEDE PIGSKIN PROTECTS HANDS FROM SPARKS, HEAT; GREAT FOR HANDLING ROUGH- FINISH METAL! (EVEN WELDERS USE ’EM!) WOLVERINE GLOVES Wolverine Shoe and Tanning Corp., Rockford, Mich. - Canada: Huck Glove Co., Kitchener, Ont. April, 1960

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Too much flexing wears out people... and tires! New “Low Profile” tire shape flexes less, reduces heat build-up, increases mileage! NOW! THE TIRE THAT DOESNT GET TIRED Takes regular air pressure...yet it’s lower and wider to keep you safe at top speeds! Same air pressure...but look at the difference! § ee Oy Do a few quick knee bends—and what happens? You heat up fast, soon feel real strain. Ordinary tires do 700 “knee bends” per mile as they roll along under your car. This excessive flexing builds up torturous heat, weakens rub- ber and fabric, increases blowout danger. Now U.S. Royal reduces danger of tire fail- ure with a revolutionary new tire. Even though air pressure is the same as in ordinary tires, U.S. Royal “Low Profile” tires are lower and wider to flex less, run cooler, wear better. “Low Profile” tires cost no more than ordi- : nary tires. See the complete line now in 5 popu- LOW PROFILE* lar price ranges for every make and model car é TIRE ae —at your U.S. Royal Dealer. ž E ses SP ESI ORDINARY TIRE SHAPE flexes exces- sively building up intense heat that murders tires, burns ’em out fast. But the “LOW PROFILE” TIRE SHAPE reduces flex, keeps temperature well below destructive danger zone. Run- ning for hours on end at top high- way speeds. U.S. vee “Low Profile” tires stay cooler, -sgag keep you far é safer. eee ten, ORDINARY TIRE STOPS QUICKER, RIDES SMOOTHER. A lower, wider shape gives U. S. Royal “Low Profile” tires more tread to grip the highway. “Low Profile” tires are made of U.S. Royal's exclusive no- shock rubber for the “Red Carpet Ride”! STEERS BETTER, SAVES GAS. Pre-shaped to actual rolling proportions, U.S. Royal “Low Profile” tires are much more stable on curves, respond quicker in emergencies. And less flexing means 6 to 12 extra miles per tankful of gas! PIONEERED BY U.S. RUBBER AS THE ANSWER TO GREATER TIRE SAFETY Ts U.S. ROYAL LOW Pesca ie United States Rubber Rockefeller Center, New York 20. N.Y. ` +*“Low Profile” is U. S. Rubber Company’s trademark for its lower, wider shape tire. When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 55

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Wel BRIAR PIPE DISCOVERY WILL YOU TEST SMOKE THIS DEMONSTRATOR AT OUR RISK? Breaking in a new pipe is usually torture, but this ”magic-cake” discovery will change all that. A nut sweet cake, specially built into the genuine imported briar bowl, makes this mellow beauty break in like a dream. You'll get dry, clean, sludge-free smoking, because the special construction of this won- derful pipe utilizes the 3 C’s of Scientific Smoke Control — Combustion, Condensation and Capillary Attraction. We've set aside a limited quantity of these imported briar beauties as Demonstrators. The bowls are ‘slight seconds” taken out of the regular production line before final smoothing and polishing, but they’re guaran- @eed to smoke exactly like our regular top quality $2.95 model. Because we want to make new friends for this sensational new kind of briar pipe, we've written off the cost of these Demonstrators. Send us nothing for the pipe. Please send 25¢ to cover postage and handling. All we ask in return is your good-will and word of mouth adver- tising if you like the pipe. Remember, the risk is ours, you can’t lose. Sorry, only 1 Demonstra- tor to a family on this non-profit transaction. (Good in the U A. only.) PIPE 2/3 ACTUAL SIZE 132 Church Street, New York 7, N. | enclose 25¢. Send me the Demonstrator Pipe described above. Please Print Name and Address Below. WALLY FRANK Ltd. Dept. J 107 CATALOG Build Your Own Hi-Fi, Radios, Ham Gear, Test Inst., — Save 50% Get started in ELECTRONICS the easy EICO way: No technical knowledge needed to build EICO- kits. Simple, step-by-step “Beginner-Tested”. pictorial instructions guide you all the way. LIFETIME service & calibration guarantee. Mail coupon now! EICO, 33-00 Northern Bivd., L.1.C. 1, N.Y. Please send FREE catalog & name of local dealer. MI-4 Mail For McCahill [Continued from page 54] old Motor’s Auto Repair Manual that will give you all the dope on your 746 Ford. ®© Your comments on water mixed in with gas purchased at service stations made me wonder how many planes go down on take-off for reasons of water in the fuel? Paul Stadwick Miami, Fla. All the good pilots I know drain off a little gas before each flight to eliminate the possi- bility of water being in the line. On a recent trip in an old DC-3 the pilot made a point of draining gas off into a Coke bottle and then checking it for water before we took off. Of course, on the big commercial lines this work is supposed to be done by maintenance, but the job I was flying was privately-owned. ® I havent seen any of the readers call you a bum for a long time, and I miss it. So here goes: McCahill, yowre a bum! Ken Schultz Brooklyn, N. Y. Good old Ken—a respecter of tradition! @ Your remarks on race drivers “living it up until the wee hours” the night before a big race prompts me to defend myself and other USAC drivers. If half our drivers were boozers and night-owls, as you insinuate, Pd agree it’s a serious situation. On the contrary, however, USAC rules out this kind of conduct and our own common sense keeps us on a strict training program. In my own case, I usually take a workout in the YMCA when- ever I can find one and have the time. In any case, I never touch hard liquor nor do I smoke, and I maintain a sensible early-to-bed schedule. Most of my racing associates are equally strict self-disciplinarians. By no means are we playboys, as you would lead your readers to believe, but are professionals in a field where our lives depend upon stamina and trigger-quick reactions. I don’t know what automobile races you’ve attended, Tom, but catch one of our USAC events one of these days—and bring your “booze saliva- tester” if you care to. Rodger Ward Winner, 1959 Indianapolis 506 Rodger, I’m only too happy to print that you are no boozer and train for events like a good prizefighter. However, this is not true of all your racing competitors. —Tom McCahill When answering advertisements please mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED April, 1960

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f~ ATTENTION This picture was taken with new G-E SUBURBAN Head- lamps on the low beam. See the barrel in the road beyond the lights of that oncoming car? With the low beam of ordinary headlamps, you'd be lucky if you Saw it in time. With new G-E SUBURBAN Headlamps you can see better in spite of the other car’s lights —even when drivers fail to “dim” for you. Only General Electric puts the low beam filament on-focus to provide a “spotlight effect that gives you twice as much light as previous two-headlamp systems—down the right side of the road where you need it. Geta pair of G-E SUBURBAN Headlamps for your 2-headlamp car-and be sure you have them aimed properly. Enjoy safer night driving from now on! Genera! Electric Co., Miniature Lamp Dept. M-05, Nela Park, Cleveland 12, Ohio. Progress ls Our Most Important Product GENERAL G ELECTRIC OWNERS OF 2-HEADLAMP CARS Wed ur Ni a \ ae Have a pair of G-E SUBURBAN Headlamps in- v7. ‘i stalled and aimed today. Look for the big G-E monogram (bigger than a quarter). When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 57

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want training in Photography? Mechanics? Electronics? SET á i Motion Picture Photographer - It's up to you! The Army's new “Choose-it-Yourself” System lets you choose valuable training before you enlist. Here's how it works: 1. Choose before enlistment. Choose your training from fields like Photography, Missiles, Communications, Construction, Automotives—and many more. 2. Qualify before enlistment. Take aptitude and physical exams to qualify for the training you’ve chosen. 3. Know before enlistment. If you qualify, you know you'll get the training you want. Your choice is written into your future Army record—guaranteed before you enlist. Choose, qualify, know — this week! Ask your Army recruiter to show you his complete list of available training fields. CHOOSE IT €& | J ovsa VOCATIONAL TRAINING SYSTEM 2i US ARMY 58 April, 1960 C

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7 44 MG is rig that started sports car craze back in 1948, McCahill reports. It tops at just over 100 mph, is still one of the finest buys available. TOM McCAHILL REPORTS ON... CARS BUILT FOR FUN! These are cars for the connoisseur and are a ball to drive. Most of them have price tags under $3,000. NOW that Detroit, with one or two exceptions, has made the American automobile as standard and utilitarian as inside plumbing (and just about as dull), what’s left for fun? Not so many years ago just about any automobile made could prove a swashbuckling adventure-companion in dozens of different | $ 2,675 Triumph TR. “Hoiriest of the whole under-$3,000 bunch.” says Tom. 9 It does just over 100 mph, knocks hell out of ten seconds for 0-60 mph.

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$1 9 5 Austin-Healey Sprite is lowest-price job that qualifies as sports car. Oe = It tickles 80-mph on four-cylinder mill and has road feel of a Ferrari. $2,768 Granturismo SAAB is hot, 100- mph model of standard two-cycle job, has new four-speed, all-synchromesh gears. 60 ways. All cars were fun to drive then. Even a trip to Florida could include as many true adventures as a picnic on the poop deck of a freshly-captured girls-for-the-col- onies ship. Today, thousands of salesmen travel better than 50,000 miles a year without much more trouble than an occasional tire failure or other minor ‘mishap. Coast-to-coast trips can be as un- surprising as warm weather in Panama. Driving has become— in the words of the Great Bard— “Strictly Drabsville.” But the guy who doesn’t need a coop for his nine kids or a rear- seat lecture platform for his Mechanix Illustrated

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Volvo has close to 100-mph $2,342 speed, is true connoisseur’s car, has top workmanship, construction. mother-in-law, there are still a lot of out-and-out fun cars being sold, many of them under the label “sports cars.” Sports and fun cars don’t have to be justified to anyone (as long as it’s your loot you’re spending), any more than a set of golf clubs, a shotgun or even a dog. They are cars those in the know will appreciate. As for those who Fiat 1200 Spider has four- $2,685 cylinder mill, four-speed gearbox, posh appointments, swivel seats. don’t—the hell with ’em. A sports car is a lot more personal than just a piece of transportation, which it can also be used for. Any guy with a jigger of red blood can get a bang out of tooling one of these highly-co- ordinated small machines through coun- try bends and around blind corners or just loping along a few inches above

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$ 3 OSL Austin-Healey 3000 has six-cylinder mill, comes in two- or four-seat 9 i models, goes over 100 mph, has good acceleration, terrific road manners. the ground, enjoying the ride. To start with, one of the biggest fea- tures of a sports car is its accuracy and fast response to your slightest prod. Many of today’s sports cars can be creamed by a Michigan Mangler in a turnpike drag—but so what? The guy in the big Detroiter will never experience the man-and-car team feeling of the sports car owner. It’s the difference be- tween going out with your best girl alone or going out with her whole family. It is almost impossible to explain to a man who has never experienced it, the fun of tooling a sports car as against the boredom of pushing a family sedan. It’s like trying to compare vintage wine with carrot juice. 62 On the market today are a number of excellent sports cars selling for $3,000 and under that can be used in a variety of ways. You can race them, if that’s your idea of jollies. You and a wife (preferably yours) can use them for rallies, or for just having a general all- around ball doing the things you can’t do with the typical American Together- ness Bus. With a _ $3,000-and-under budget you can end up with a sports car capable of cracking 110 mph, or a little luxury bucket that’ll draw crowds and mark you as your block’s Man Of Dis- tinction. You get that last title because you had guts enough to be different from the other 50,000,000 sheep roaming the highways. Mechanix Illustrated vw

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Without wasting any more of your time trying to sell you on cars that are strictly fun to drive, let’s look some of them over. The ones we are about to consider won’t require a half interest in the Chase Manhattan Bank. It’s pos- sible, as you know, to pay more money for a sports car than for a house. These cars are not in that class but represent real buys that won’t shame you or make you feel self-conscious in any company. You'll be able to stare down the door- man at “21” as you flip him a five spot and tell him to park it. The Sunbeam Alpine is my choice as the most desirable offering in this crop, Renault Caravelle is new $2,395 arrival in U. S. It nudges 80 mph, gets 30-plus mpg, has top styling. and the newest, but since it is covered thoroughly in my test on page 88 of this issue, we'll slide by it here. The Austin-Healey 3000. When this car was introduced back in the early 1950s, it was as sensational as doubled money. Before many weeks the entire production was back-ordered by more than a year. Since its early introduction as a four-cylinder offering, the engine has been changed to a six, and the rear compartment has been carved out for two legless passengers, a couple of small kids or a big dog or two. The Austin-Healey is one of the most desirable cars of semi-classic design $2 810 Morgan Plus Four boasts 9 classic looks, 100-mph per- formance, superb road handling qualities. Berkeley has two-cylinder air-cooled engine, fiber $1,795 glass body, does about 75 mph, gets 40 mpg. April, 1960 Si O is a four-cyl- $3,219 har sobp nig. Twocs senger car gets 40 mpg and does 90 mph. 63

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LUXURY BARGES for guys with extra dough. The quality Mercedes-Benz 190SL is a $5,032 rig. -LANCIA APPIA convertible has a four-cylinder engine and 90-mph top speed. Price: $4,490. PORSCHE SUPER has four-cylinder, air-cooled mill, 110-mph speed, gets 28 mpg, is $3,910. JAGUAR XK150 does 130-plus mph, gets 20 mpg on six-cylinder, 225-hp mill. Price: $4,250. DAIMLER SP 250 sports V8 engine, 140 hp, does over 120 mph and gets 25 mpg. $3,923. 64 ever to hit these shores. For a price tag of about $3,000, plus a bob or two when loaded with extras, this car is a great buy, if your competition desires don’t stray much beyond a Class Production race or a hot rally. It’s available in ei- ther two- or four-seat models with over 100-mph performance, good accelera- tion and terrific road manners. As a small family car (meaning two, plus junior offspring) it’s as reliable as a Civil War lecture in Atlanta. Service is adequate and nationwide. The MG-A 1600. The MG is the car that started all this sports car ruckus in America when the old TCs started showing up on our roads about 1948. The TC was the first out-and-out sports car ever tested on these pages. Progres- sively, the MG has not kept up with the competition as well as it should have, in my opinion. It held onto its 14%4-liter en- gine much too long and when it went to a full 144-liters with the now-old TF, it still wasn’t the ball of fire you’d expect from a car that led all imports by many miles just a decade ago. It had the world by the tail but somewhere along the line the MG management loosened its grip. Today the MG-A, every inch a sports car (selling for $2,444) is still one of the finest buys on earth, though it has less prestige than it once had. No car selling for under $5,000 is better built and its reliability is unquestioned. It’s a great little fun-sports car with a top speed of just over 100 mph and a fair head of ac- celeration performance that'll allow it to get up to 60 mph in about 13 seconds. It’s a great car for rallies and similar sports but as a competition rig it can’t do much except against other MGs. It is comfort- able and if you have lots of loot you can order a Twin Cam version selling for quite a bit over $3,000, with a top speed of better than 110 mph. However, at this price it runs into a bargeload of competition and hasn’t proven too suc- cessful on the big sports car circuits. The MG is one of the greatest and worth every dime it costs, if it fits your needs. The Triumph TR3. When the Tri- umph was first introduced to these shores a few years ago it was a tooth- less, flat-sided bucket with a heart of pure gold, some pretty nice upholstery and a fair turn of performance. That was the TR1. The [Continued on page 180] Mechanix Illustrated

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SLOSH BROOM that applies water as you PUSH-A-BOOK device for frequently-used sweep pavement, combining hose and book shelves, to keep books upright and in broom in one. Paul Dunchach, Spangler, Pa. shape. Danny MacLaurin, Hanover, Md. 53] INVENTIONS WANTED! Is there a gadget you think should be Invented? If so, send its description to Inventions Wanted Editor, MECHANIX ALLEY SCOREBOARD that would show run- HY, nach one printad will be awarded 55: ning totals as well as strikes and fouls. Mike Rosenbleeth, North Miami Beach, Fla. FIREPROOF SLEEPING. BAG that would TAILGATE COOKER as part of the built- allow campers to go to sleep close to the in equipment of the fishing and camping campfire. John Emery, Fort Collins, Col. station wagon. Jack Boehner, Trenton, Mo. 65

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LOCKHEED LIGHTNING P-38 plastic scale model is the first twin-engine, ready-to-fly craft in its field, according to its maker, Wen- Mac Corp., Los Angeles, Calif. It is a model of the famous World War II fighter plane. The craft sports twin tails and twin booms. It has a 21.5-inch wingspan and is more than 17 inches long. Two .049 engines with three-bladed props supply power. The retail price of the tether-controlled model is $16.98. TOYOTA LAND CRUISER is a rugged, four- wheel drive utility vehicle that is powered by a six-cylinder, 135-hp engine. It boasts a four-speed transmission, gets about 20 miles per gallon and tops out at around 80 mph. The Japanese rig has an 89-inch wheelbase, a 15l-inch length and is 65 inches wide and 72 inches high. Weight is 3,197 pounds. Steel top model: $3,365. There is also a canvas top job available: $2,930. 66 Z-BOAT made of expanded polystyrene can tote 250 pounds yet weighs only 15 pounds. It can’t sink and is untippable because of outrigger attachment. The all-purpose boat is fine for children and can be paddled by hand. It is five feet long, has a 29-inch beam and three-inch keel. It comes in blue and yellow, olive drab, red and white, blue and white and all red. Jay V. Zimmerman Co., St. Louis 17, Mo. $55, including outrigger. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Co. Ta CHOW HOUNDS will wag their tails for joy at the master who brings home this auto- matic pet feeder. When dog’s best friend goes out, Fido will no longer growl with his hunger pains. Master need only fill the scraich-proof, rust-resistant tray and set the clock. The tray automatically moves into feeding position at the pre-set time, has hammertone gray baked enamel finish. $9.95. H.S.M. Co.. 253 10th Ave. N. Y. C. Mechanix Illustrated

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PENSSYLYAMA ae <Se z — TIN-CAN CHOO-CHOOS ANY interesting things hap- pen to old tin cans, but few of them come to such an artistic end as those salvaged from the kitchen waste by Donald Smith of Coraopolis, Pa., an ex-Pennsy roundhouse foreman who converts ex-tomato soup cans into model locomotives. A book about 100 Useful Things You Can Make Of Old Cans could not include Smith’s models, which are things of beauty rather than utility and which you couldn’t make anyway—unless you’re highly skilled with the tin shears or likely to become so. But this is one hobby that’s all fun and no outlay. © SNIPPER SMITH at play. Ex-railroad- er is now employed in advertising.

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MOTORCYCLE SIDECAR SLEEPS EWLYWEDS Poin Dexter Galloway and his lovely bride, Devona, began a unique honeymoon trip after their wedding last summer. They left Louisville, Ky. in a homemade motorcycle sidecar that sleeps two. Destination was Florida, then a flight to the Bahamas for a more conventional honeymoon. Galloway, a motorcycle enthusiast, built the ten-foot cottage on a sidecar frame. The rig is 42 inches high and about 39 inches wide. It includes an icebox, stove and bat- tery-powered lights. The sidecar is made of plywood, has seven windows and is painted with white boat paint. ° HONEYMOON cabin is homemade rig built on a sidecar frame. It is ten feet long, 42 inches high and about 39 inches wide.

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eit * it Ar a +. Sch {a PLYWOOD-MADE sidecar took about six months to build, is painted with boat paint. GROOM reaches for one of his saddlebags. He is member of Louisville Motorcycle Club. KISSING couple. The window is one of seven groom built into mobile honeymoon cottage. SIESTA. Sidecar was equipped with small icebox, stove and battery-powered lights. HOME away from home sleeps two comfort- ably, is equipped for light housekeeping. AIR MATTRESS added to interior comfort. Newlyweds flew to Bahamas from Florida. 69 `

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HUNTING AND FISHING WARM AND DRY are the watchwords. Expect good fishing md cold, nasty weather and you will outdo the crowds of shivery city “hicks. By Wynn Davis ANY a man has come back from an early spring fishing trip with an empty creel and a cold in the head, or a broken leg, or worse, because he didn’t 70 wear clothes to match the weather con-. ditions. Proper clothes are every bit as important as proper tackle. This is true whether your trip is for a week or an afternoon. Just last [Continued on page 185] Mechanix Illustrated

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PININ FARINA’S experimental Cadillac has transparent plastic roof. It can be covered with electrically operated aluminum panels that slide into rear deck at touch of button. HIDEAWAY bathtub, German, folds up ELECTRONIC bike, owned by English into wall, can be lowered in jiffy. When schoolboy Howard Coleman, has 12 lights, up, it hides hot water heater and tank. radio, speedometer, horn, burglar alarm. CONTINUED... 71

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GYROPLANE is Canadian Avian 2/180. It seats two, has four-cylinder Lycoming en- gine, cruises at 150 mph. This vertical- takeoff job will sell for about $10,000. ARMORED BOOTS now under test by Marine Corps, allow men to walk on anti-personnel mines. 72 4 i NEW CART for supermarkets is designed to prevent carmapping. Magnets buried in ground around market lock the’cart wheels. Swiped carts cost market owners millions. VENDING MACHINE sells five different items, takes coins or bills and makes proper change. It automatically totals money received and rejects bogus currency. Experimental “automatic merchandiser” is from National Rejectors, Inc. Mechanix Illustrated

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PORTABLE tank of oxygen with a plastic mask is designed to be carried in police cars, used in case of auto accidents or heart attacks. Made by Linde Co., Canada. rae aC ev ANSWER io problem of sidewalk grilles and women’s high-heeled shoes are these plates for comfortable strolling. They've been installed on Kiel, Germany, grilles. April, 1960 AIR-FILLED boxing gloves are invention of Finnish doctor. Air is blown through small valves into inside pockets. Gloves are said to prevent bloody facial cuts. NEW STARTING device, left, lets sprinter lean over starting line although feet are “legally” behind line. He drops handles, springs away at gun. Inventor is German. 73

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HE number of Americans troubled by bedbugs probably is not large. But Uncle Sam—always alert to the tax- payers’ slightest needs—has some sound advice on chinches in a booklet entitled How To Control Bedbugs, which ex- plores just about every phase of the sub- ject. The next time you have to bail out over shark-infested waters you won’t want to be without another government publication, entitled Shark Sense, that describes, with text and illustrations, how to convince the shark that you’re not his meat. These publications may not kindle your immediate interest but they do in- dicate the almost limitless variety of booklets and brochures published by the U. S. Government. Uncle Sam can supply you with instructions on cooking scallops, pouring concrete, getting along with the natives of southern Europe, and an explanation of missiles, rocketry, satellites and space science. His vast li- brary also includes a Manual Of Septic 74 Tank Practice, plus pamphlets with such awesome titles as Photoelectric Tristimulus Colorimetry With Three Filters. But besides such highly-specialized publications, the government puts out hundreds of booklets crammed with valuable information for the home owner and hobbyist. Wood-Frame House Construction is a typical title. This booklet tells you how to pour concrete floor slabs, erect and . finish interior partitions, install insula- tion, hang doors, build stairs, driveways, walks, chimneys and fireplaces, lay lino- leum and other floor coverings and com- plete many other construction jobs in and around the house. All for 65 cents. Another booklet, entitled Starting . And Managing A Small Business Of Your Own, costs only 40 cents, covers how much capital you need to set up in some 50 different kinds of enterprise, where to get the money, the advantages of buying a going business, how to buy, price and sell merchandise, business Mechanix Illustrated

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CLE SAM taxes and insurance. The Superintendent of . Docu- ments, from whom you order these booklets, probably sells more pamphlets than any other individual on earth. Currently, his mailing list totals about 675,000 names. You can get on it simply by making a written request (see below). Headquarters of this booklet club is the Government Printing Office, an agency bearing roughly the same relationship to the rest of the gov- ernment that a publisher does to an author. In the course of administer- ing the laws, and carrying out their multitudinous research activities, federal departments and agencies unearth vast amounts of informa- tion useful to the general public. Sometimes the agency or depart- ment prints and distributes the ma- terial itself. But usually the project is handed over to GPO officials. The Superintendent of Docu- ments takes care of the distribution job. Currently, he has about 30,000 titles for sale; they can be purchased either by mail or at a bookstore lo- cated in the GPO building. Each year, 4,000 to 5,000 new titles come out. To become a member of the Su- perintendent’s booklet club, all you have to do is write him a note say- ing that you’d like to receive the Selected U. S. Government Publi- cations price list regularly. The address is: Superintendent of Docu- ments, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. The selected list comes out every two weeks and catalogues all new publications which the Superin- tendent has available for sale. Pe- riodically, flyers are prepared from these lists and are sent to everyone whose name is on file. Each flyer contains a [Continued on page 190] April, 1960 De BE ; FULL-WIDTH machine weighs two lbs., has a telescopic carriage. Machine is British-made. POCKET -SIZE TYPEWRITER OPERATION is standard. “Pocket” in this in- stance means a sportswriter’s game pocket. FOUR-COLOR RUBBER STAMP ROLLER, REALLY. Rolling eliminates bang- ing, smudge, wrist fatigue. When putting in- formation on back of a photo it does not harm the picture. Inside the plastic cover are a number of inkpads, allowing the use of several colors at one “stamping.” Made in Germany.

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BRIGHT IDEA ADA AAAA CUTTING FACE is 1% ins. long, needs no sharpening, cleans itself as it works. PORTABLE ELECTRIC DRILL gets another job. Combo makes edge-shaping fast and easy. OUR portable electric drill can now have another wonder-working at- tachment. The Kut-All, a multi-purpose tool for wood, plastics, metal and almost anything except diamonds, is all hard- MI will award $50 each month to the ened steel. It needs no cleaning or Sret penon xio a us = g now- and : . useful gadget that is patented and in sharpening. Great for shaping contours Sro daenen Mawaiechivers aro Glee ole and edges, rasping, planing, smooth- gible for this award. Pictures and a finishing, beveling, cross-grain finishing, description should be sent to Bright Ideas Editor, Mechanix Illustrated, 67 Wesi 44th Street, New York 36, N. Y. taking off paint, deburring metals and castings. $2.50, Copley Sales Corp., 721 Carroll Place, Teaneck, N. J. ° 76 f Mechanix Illustrated

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f zS = ¢ : K PARKING-LOT SAILORS STARTING A RACE; helpers hold the craft back as the wind fills sheets and bedspreads. OHN and Robert Bowater and Mark Jacobson, junior citizens of Lynwood, Calif., have a new use for old skates, old sheets and bedspreads, an empty parking lot and a spanking breeze. Working without plans or instruction in the art of sailing, the boys discovered the joys, pains and principles of sail all on their own. Besides the square rigs shown here, they are working on more ambitious fore-and-aft-rigs. ° MAJESTIC spread of che- SQUARE RIGGER; crew so this is how he shifts his upper nille takes the mild wind. can’tswarm the shrouds— main topsail, up-ending his yacht. 77

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TORPEDO ROOM. Lt. Terrass told me that tin fish are always ready to fire at sea. 78 USS SEAWOLF churns up the sea as she travels at speed dur- ing one of her rare moments on the sur- face. Crew works on deck (above) and one of the atom-powered sub's two periscopes is shown at the left. l f: T a sun hit the grey-black deck as photographer Curt Gun- ther and I crossed the gangplank and stepped aboard the USS Seawolf, America’s second nuclear-powered sub- marine, at Groton, Conn. Busy crewmen wearing yellow life jackets prepared to get the boat under- way. They hauled in the wrist-thick mooring lines and deftly coiled them in their assigned bins under the deck- plates. At 0800 Captain Richard Boyer Lan- ing, then skipper of the Seawolf (he is now with the office of Chief of Naval Operations in Washington, D. C.; the new skipper is Lieutenant Commander Alfred J. Whittle, Jr.), gave the signal to start the engines from the bridge half- way up the 54-foot-high conning tower. The atomic-powered steam turbines turned over with a muffled roar, then settled down to a steady, quiet beat. The Mechanix Illustrated

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ATOM SUB Seawolf slowly backed out of her berth, turned around, and headed out to sea. The Seawolf rides low in the water. There are no handrails, except around the conning tower, and waves sweep the deck in rough weather. Gunnery Officer Lieutenant Milford Terrass told us of standing watch hip-deep in water with waves cascading over his head in the bubble-protected part of the conning tower. Four hatches dot the deck of the boat, one located in the conning tower. We climbed down the hatch that passes through the officers’ wardroom on our way to the crew’s mess, one level below. The crew’s mess is huge by submarine standards. It is 20 feet long by 30 feet wide. It seats 42 men and when movies are shown an extra bench-type seat can be pulled out from under each table. This is the recreation center for the crew April, 1960 and also an emergency operating room with two large surgical lights placed strategically overhead. Captain Laning, a 1940 Naval Acad- emy graduate and veteran of World War II, briefed us here and gave us the run of the boat. We were then issued a dosim- eter and film badge. The dosimeter lets you make a quick visual check for radiation in milliroentgens while the film badge, pinned to your coat, gives a more accurate and permanent record. -The Seawolf has a closet-size nucleonics laboratory where the crew’s film badges -are checked regularly, along with the drinking water. f Suddenly a frog-throated klaxon horn burped twice and the calm voice of the Diving Officer ordered “Dive, dive.” The heavy clang of hatches being shut followed by the noise of surging water in the ballast tanks is an ominous sound to unaccustomed ears. Going down, the 79

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CREW’S MESS seats 42 men, is movie room and much larger than old sub's. 100-RECORD juke box plays at push of button, says commissary man Bill Crow. ENGINEMAN Carl Gay notes gauges and lights that tell how plant is running. THREE MEN in attack center keep sub on even keel and guide its direction. 80 i deck tilts gently under your feet but soon levels off as the Seawolf reaches her ap- pointed depth. There is no sensation of movement below except when the boat moves up or down or makes a fast turn. There are subway-type straps hanging from the bulkheads which can be grabbed in case of a sudden dive or roll. On routine opera- tions you might as well be sitting in your living room. When you go up, there is a tre- mendous whoosh as the big boat breaks the surface of the water. In one corner of the crew’s mess a juke box hangs on the bulkhead. “How many records does it play?” I asked Leading Commissary Man Bill Crow of Towa. “One hundred,” he said, “and we don’t have to put in any nickels. You just make your selection, push the button and it plays.” In another corner of the mess is the only electronic organ in the fleet. Machinist David Cornell of Scituate, Mass., is the sole man aboard who can play it. The crew’s mess also contains a tape recorder, a TV set (it can be used only in port), a good-size library and numerous magazines. Chow served here is cooked on electric ranges in the compact kitchen on the for- ward side of the crew’s mess. It boasts a garbage disposal unit that rids the boat of waste via tube. All dishes, cups and plates nest in special racks so that in a fast turn everything won’t [Continued on page 189] ATOMIC sailors eat high on the hog. David Cor- nell assists in mess, left, plays organ, right. Mechanix Illustrated

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Polenta SOs te, = ates ALL THOSE PIPES and no tobacco; he only collects. Nec Max Kaplan (above) nor his daughter Adelaide (below) is a pipe smoker. But Max collects pipes with the best of them without involving himself in the sordid details of dottle, goo, reamers, cleaners, burnt tongue and gifts of scented tobacco. Pipes come from 19 countries. In Turkish pipe Ade- laide toys with, the smoke would pass through the water in bubbles. ° P Sade ete SHAKESPEARE head adorns this short clay. HUBBLE-BUBBLE—and also hubba-hubba! April, 1960 81

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HOUSE WITH WALLS 82 MAGINATION HOUSE is a startling and futuristic dwelling with walls of air which MI has adapted from a design by A. Wil- liam Hajjar, an architect who practices his own specialty while serving as professor of architec- ture and senior design critic at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, Pa. Hajjar’s revolutionary new con- cept is being tested in a recently completed four-story 26x26-foot building at Penn State. The re- search is being done under a grant from the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. The unorthodox building has a skin of glass around its entire outer surface, with a space of two or three feet between the skin and the inner wall. Between these two walls Hajjar ’ hung an unusual plastic curtain which has an electric circuit printed into its fabric. This curtain will heat the building when the sun is not warm enough. The glass en- velope, or air space, will enable the circulating air to be drawn in at corner vents to function as a built-in climate controller, moving sun-warmed air via fans to the cool side of the building and cool air to the sunny sides, when necessary. This warm air will also be stored and used on days when the sun doesn’t shine. The air space can be illuminated at night to provide “daylight.” While Professor Hajjar’s initial design is for an office building, MI artist David Lockhart has used the principles involved to plan the ad- vanced design home illustrated above. MI’s design uses the inner wall of the house as the second wall utilized in Hajjar’s office building. Actually, the MI plan depicts a “house within a house.” The outer shell consists of glass to obtain maximum heating benefit from the sun during winter months. In the winter illustration, above, the electric curtain has been left open to show an inside view of the patio and pool area. The curtain would be closed during cold spells to furnish heat— which means that the occupants of the house would be able to go swimming year-round. This amazing electric cur- tain would also work with the sun in winter, providing less heat on days when the sun’s rays were strong enough to contribute warmth. In summer, occu- Mechanix Illustrated ES ioe et Ree

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OF AIR pants would switch to the cool air sys- tem. Here air is drawn in through vents and cooled and circulated by fans. Hajjar’s novel construction and his use of an air wall eliminates ducts and shades. The air-wall construction, ac- cording to the architect, “would do away with the problem of waterproof- ing, painting and maintenance in gen- eral. Your maintenance would simply amount to washing off the surface.” Hajjar also believes that his air-wall edifice might be the ultimate answer to making solar heat practical. This is truly a home of the future, one that you and your family may be enjoy- ing before 1999.—J.R.C. April, 1960 AIR-WALL house principle: 1. lighting; 2. glass wall; 3. heat curtain: 4. inner wall. 83

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Tes ornate gold-case French pocket watch is decorated with allegorical figures and Zodiac signs and tells seconds, minutes, hours, days, dates, months, seasons, years, sunrises, sunsets, solstices, phases of the moon, compass bear- ings, positions of stars, temperature, barometric pressure, altitude, humidity —and rings the hour! ° FRONT FACE has a visored, pearl-studded winding crown. Watch was started in 1897, took seven years to finish. BACK FACE of watch. TIMEPIECE is contained in spherical WINDING CROWN is - When completed in 1904, ornamental case. Grandaddy pocket on hinge which opens value was about $5,000. watch is in Besancon museum. to reveal the compass. 84 Mechanix Illustrated

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MIMI's cleaning up this month. She’s using her brand-new elec- tric floor washer made by the Hoover Co., Canton, Ohio. The nifty 11.5-pound device puts clean water on the floor, then scrubs and vacuums it dry. You don’t wet your hands. $79.95.

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RUGGEDNESS of plastic craft is shown by HIS model plane really can take it. It is made of high-impact, shock- resistant polystyrene and you can send it zooming into the side of a hill and all it does is bounce up, ready to fly again. The built-to-scale L19 Bird Dog model flying it into side of hill at full speed. is 13 inches long and sports a wingspan of 17 inches. Another advantage of this model that comes ready to fly is that its little power plant, which utilizes a new type of in- stant carburetion, turns over at the flick ENGINE is .049 Tornado, puts out 14,000 rpm and gives craft speed up to 75 mph. 86 SECRET of easy-to-start engine is a new and a more efficient venturi carburetor. Mechanix Illustrated

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ENGINE turns over at the flick of a prop. Four of them were started in fast order. of a prop. The engine also has a visible fuel level and operates on regular model engine fuel. Aurora Plastics Corp., West Hemp- stead, N. Y., makes the Bird Dog which BIRD DOG is made of durable plastic, has wingspan of 17 inches, is 13 inches long. retails for $9.95. The firm also produces flying models of the P-47 Thunderbolt and twin engine B-25 Mitchell Bomber, in addition to 400 varieties of scale shelf models. ° NOVEL tail has flexible plastic hinge. It snaps into stabilizer and elevator sections. April, 1960 FLEXIBILITY of the durable built-to-scale model is shown in wing bending exercise. 87

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NIGCAHILL TESTS sup = ALPIN “SUNBEAM AL- PINE gives the buyer top looks,” says Tom, above. The removable hardtop, left. can be had as an op- tional accessory in addition to the soft top. Photo be- low shows hard- top roof in place. Uncle Tom calls this new 100-mph sports car “ʻA real dream bucket, one that seems to have everything at the right price.” By Tom McCahill 88

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SPORTY two-passenger rig boasts clean-cut lines, fins and a wheelbase of 86 inches. Ce my hair crop first struck a drought many years ago, literally hundreds of new sports cars have been introduced. Very few have been excep- tional. To be an outstanding sports car doesn’t necessarily mean it has to be fastest in its class or even the best-look- ing. Character and personality are as much a part of a sports car’s makeup as guts and performance. In recent years such cars as the MG, XK120 Jag, Porsche and Austin-Healey have all been noteworthy for looks, character or performance. At the time these cars - were brought out, there were many other sports cars that never caught on in quite the same way. We wrote on these pages long ago that, among other things, a successful sports car had to be something that touched the imagination or sparked a dream. Unlike Detroit stampings, all pretty much alike, the sports car was accepted as a piece of sporting and fun equipment, with functional properties tossed in for good measure. The guy who bought a sports car because it would save him money on gas in getting to the button factory, or because it was easier to park, never should have bought one in the first place. Sports cars are dream stuff. A real dream bucket, one that seems to have everything at a right price, comes along only once in a long while. The new British Sunbeam Alpine is definitely one of the few. If Pm any judge of such things, the Alpine should prove as popular as a gift certificate to Tiffany’s and it ought to stay with us as an outstanding buy for some time to come. With a price tag of $2,599 the new Alpine gives the buyer \top looks, a lot of functional features and real crisp 142- liter performance. For an extra charge a removable hardtop is available in ad- dition to the soft top. The car also fea- tures wind-up windows, something you rarely find in a high-performance bucket TEST CAR SPECS MODEL TESTED: Sunbeam Alpine ENGINE: 4 cyls; $1.2 cubic ins; 83.5 brake hp; 89.5 ft-lbs max torque; 9.2 to 1 compres- sion ratio, Bore 3.11 ins; stroke 3 ins. Fuel required: Regular. Standard axle ratio: 3.9. Wheelbase 86 ins; length 155.25 ins; height 51.5 ins; width 60.5 ins; front tread 51 ins; rear tread 48.5 ins. Weight 2,165 lbs. Gas tank capacity 10.8 gals. Turning circle ‘diameter 34 ft. Tire size 5.60X13. PRICE (without optionals): $2,599 PERFORMANCE: 0-30 mph, 4.8 secs; 0-60 mph, 13.2 secs. Top speed 100-plus mph. All times recorded on corrected speedometer. NS

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CAR grooved through corners with “all the ease of a tomahawk through a soft scalp.” in this price range. It has a four-cylinder, high-compression engine which beats out 83 hp at 5300 rpm, using an alumi- num head and twin carburetors. The whole job lands on the dock weighing a brown trout-and-a-half under 2,200 pounds. But the big deal comes when the ap- pointments are examined. The instru- ments, for example, are real instru- ments—items Detroit hasn’t been able to afford in recent years. The upholstery on the two bucket seats in front is some- thing the Fisher boys should take a look at; this is real upholstery. Actually, this car might be rated by some idiots as a four-passenger con- vertible, though this would be stretch- ing your imagination beyond the break- ing point. Even the Rootes people, who make this job, refer to the rear seat as “a fully upholstered occasional seat with ample room for children.” They fail to mention the children’s age so I'll help them out—if they are much older than eight months, you’ve got trouble. There isn’t enough room (when the front seats are pushed back) for legs plumper than pipe cleaners. This would bea great bachelor’s car— for the guy who lives in the city and goes to the country for summer week- ends. That “occasional seat” is plenty big enough for your dog or a drunk friend who doesn’t mind sprawling out across the entire seat [Continued on page 182] 90 UPHOLSTERY is real, says Tom, and there are bonafide instruments, not-idiot lights. TRUNK, considering size ond type of car, is amazingly large. Spare is under shelf. Mechanix Illustrated

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FLECTRIC MAILBOX RAMPING down a 200-foot slope to the road and climbing back up twice a day—to put out- going mail in the mailbox and to fetch what the mail- man left—was not the way for a retired electrical en- gineer. So Morton Mur- phy, of Brown County, Indiana, strung a clothes wire down to the road, slung his mailbox on it on rollers, let the box coast _ to the road. A towline to an electrically-powered windlass drew it back up. ee : és cin L A signal to show when the MORTON MURPHY and his traveling mailbox—a regular mail was in completed mailbox turned cablecar. Cowcatcher and other adorn- the arrangement. ‘Saves ments were added from time to time at inventor's whim. 20,000 steps a year,” says Murphy, proudly. ° MAILMAN pops post in- WAITING for the mail at MOTOR draws the mail to the box at the roadside. house beats trudging for it. uphill in easy 54 seconds. April, 1960 91

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FILE-AWAY PARKING A the new Bohmann Parking Center, a 10-story building in Portland, Ore., they file away your car with the ease of a room clerk popping a bill in a pigeonhole. You drive in, lock your car, pay up and walk away. Then machines take over. The mechanical principle is fairly simple. Essentially the structure is two buildings with an alley between. The parking tower travels the alley from end seas RO meee UPS-A-GERMAN-DAISY. Note clearance under car. Pick-up adjusts to size of car. to end; inside the rolling tower is an ele- vator. When a car is to be “filed,” it is parked in front of the tower and a shuttle slides under it. Arms from the shuttle cradle the tires in a crablike grip; no part of the frame is touched. The shuttle will take anything from a Lincoln to a Volkswagen. The car is then slid onto the platform and an attendant, who travels with each car, directs the tower sideways and the lift platform up- wards. The movement is rapid—the de- vice can pick up a car and whisk it to the farthest point on the tenth floor and get back to the street level in 60 seconds. The 240-car structure can be taken down and put up again on another site if nec- essary.— Edwin C. Henry 92 SHUTTLE LIFT with arms (arrow) extended. With arms in, it cam slide under any car. ROLLING TOWER takes car from parking bay. Note entrance gates at street level. Mechanix Illustrated

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ee SUN GT eee SCALE MODEL of the steamboat Mary Powell is now in museum of West Point Academy. Sidewheeler For West Point’s Navy HE handsome sidewheeler shown ` above is a scale-model replica of the steamboat Mary Powell, known as the Queen Of The Hudson during her half- century of service from 1861 to 1919. It is estimated that during her life- time the Mary Powell traveled 1,150,000 miles on the Hudson River and carried 150,000 passengers yearly. The vessel operated 50 consecutive seasons and never had a serious accident. She was a favorite with cadets and officers sta- tioned at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., and of honey- mooners taking their first trip up the scenic Hudson to Newburgh, Pough- keepsie and beyond. The Mary Powell was 260 ft. long and had an overall beam of 64 ft. The paddlewheels were 31 ft. in diameter, each had 26 buckets and turned 22 revo- lutions per minute. : The model, 37 inches long, was con- April, 1960 structed to a scale of one-eighth-inch to the foot. It was built by steamboat authority F. Van Loon Ryder who in his youth worked on the Jacob H. Tremper, the Onteora and the Robert Fulton—all famous steamers that played important roles in the romantic days of steamboat- ing on the Hudson. ° rr L AmE P p yamp a Bt A ACTUAL PHOTO of Mary Powell shows her on the Hudson in her prime, around 1888. 93

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5 Bill France, who designed the unusual car shown on these pages, has had years of racing experience, both as a driver and as president of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). His most recent accomplishment is the completion of the International Speedway at Daytona Beach, Fla., the fastest racing track in the world. - ALMOST all racing cars are dangerous, regardless of class or kind. Lives have been lost on all the great speedways of the world and at practically all the smaller tracks and road courses. These accidents almost invariably have resulted when the driver lost control of the car, ei- ther because of driver error or mechanical failure. Unfortu- nately, there is not much we can do about mishaps for which the driver is responsible. But we can improve racing cars, im- i= prove their safety, stability and handling at the super-speeds that 95

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FRANCE-DESIGNED racing car has (1) top aileron to compensate for weight loss as fuel burns; (2) roll bars with carbon dioxide outlets: (3) bird-proof windshield: (4) automatic firedoors on grille and cowl vents; (5) rollers to prevent wheel climbing; (6) front ailerons: (7) side crashbars; (8) carbon dioxide carried in tanks fitted into the frame; (9) rear rollers. are now becoming common at tracks and speedways all over the world. Recently we completed the Interna- tional Speedway at Daytona Beach, Fla. It is the finest and fastest 214-mile racing track ever built. It makes pos- sible higher speeds than have ever been known in competitive racing. But to take full advantage of this exciting track, high-speed cars will need definite changes, improvements that will enable them to be steered and handled proper- ly at speeds averaging 30-100 mph faster than on other tracks. One thing must be recognized: the need for better driver protection in high-speed racing cars has been dis- gracefully ignored. At present there is no minimum weight limit, and as racing engineers strive to build lighter cars, driver protection and car reliability have suffered. I have seen racing cars so light and fragile that a slight bump causes them to disintegrate. On other occasions, after a bad wreck, light cars have been so completely demolished that the cause of the accident could only be guessed by track officials. For the protection of the driver and to enable today’s racing cars to obtain super- speeds safely, I have listed ten steps I feel strongly must be taken if racing is to continue to flourish in America. I urge all drivers, designers, racing executives and racing fans to consider these sug- ` gestions carefully. I believe that unless these or similar steps are taken, auto racing in America COCKPIT is sprayed with water from corner nozzles in case of faces a very [Con- fire. Water is pressurized by carbon dioxide in frame tanks. tinued on page 192] 96 Mechanix Illustrated l

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ELECTRONIC LIFEGUARD recently intro- duced by Minneapolis-Honeywell sounds an alarm when anyone—grownup, child or pet poodle—falls into or otherwise enters an unattended pool. The submerged sensing device (black arrow) reacts to sound or water vibrations set up by a fall into the water and the alarm (white arrow) goes off. Alarm can be placed at a point away from pool. Device can be adjusted so that hand or foot splashing will set it off. System can be installed in a pool for under $200. NEW WONDER ENGINE developed by Cur- tiss-Wright with NSU Werke of Germany is a rotating combustion engine with only two moving parts—the rotor inside the combustion chamber and the crankshaft. An automotive carburetor supplies gasoline and air to the chamber through a side wall port; as the rotor turns the mixture is com- pressed, fired by a single sparkplug. Ex- ploding gas delivers power to the crank- shaft through rotor. Noise is low, premium gasoline unnecessary. Hp range: 160-700. April, 1960 PLASTIC RELIEF MAP of the United States shows the shape of the land as it really is. Detailed 50-state map shows 4,000 geo- graphic names, includes 2,000 cities and towns, 1,000 rivers and lakes, 150 national parks and monuments and over 200 moun- tain ranges and peaks. Handy map index almost the size of the map slides out from the back and locates all of the place names shown. Map comes ready to hang, costs $10. Aero Service Corp.. 210 E. Cortland St., Philadelphia 20, Pa., makes and sells it. WATCH CHRONOGRAPH ihat does all its jobs with only a watch crown instead of the usual clutter of pushers is the latest triumph of Swiss watchmaking. The one shown here has a tachometer for telling rpm and a telemeter for telling how far away a cannon is—and it can also time Uncle Ed from the couch to the dinner table. Models are available with pulsometers and production meter scales. Eliminating the pushers around the rim not only looks bet- ter but makes the instrument watertight. 97

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ts MONEY MAKING IDEA THESE PONIES NEVER LOSE HORTLY after World War II Nicko- laus Klein, a Yugoslav citizen, pulled out of his native land and made for Stuttgart, Germany, where he soon hit a winning streak with the ponies. The ponies were of the lovable type called hobbyhorses, famous for getting nowhere. But they brought Klein all the way from Stuttgart to Chicago. Klein takes pride in trying to make his ponies more lovable than any others on the market. Kids not only ride them, they pet them. A Klein rocking horse feels like real horse because it is covered with genuine horse or calf hide, kept soft and lustrous with a secret liquid preservative. Manes and tails are real. Klein starts.a horse by nailing to- gether a wooden skeleton, the most im- portant part of which is the carved head. Then burlap is stretched around the skeleton and stuffed with wooden chips. Klein then pounds the stuffing into shape with a large paddle. Over’ the burlap go three carefully cut pieces of hide, soaked in preservative. Klein stretches and stitches the hide into place with great care. The hide dries taut, 98 HORSE’S MOUTH gives it a highly spirited appearance. making as attractive, convincing and durable covering as any horse could have. Ears, main and tail are sewn on next, and the horse is then mounted on its wheeled platform. The rocking horses cost $35 for the smallest size, and go all the way up to $133 for the largest which is 56 inches (or about seven hands). Klein’s shop, in case you want a horse, is 2962 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, Ill. —Howard. M. Greenwald Mechanix Illustrated

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z BURLAP is tacked to wooden skel- CHIPS OF WOOD are packed into the burlap, which eton. This is a 56-inch, $133 job. is then sewn up, pounded into shape with a big paddle. HIDE, soaked in preservative, goes on over burlap form, shrinks smooth and taut. Below. wheels go on platform. Rocker is removable. Stance shown below costs extra. FINISHED HOBBYHORSE can be rocked, rolled, washed, curried, petted and loved. 99

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SOLAR CONVERTER has been compared to four neatly filled cookie sheets. The tilting bar at the top of the unit keeps seagulls from alighting on it. FOE more than two years the lighthouse at Angel’s Gate, Los Angeles Harbor, has been flashing solar-powered signals to ships at sea, using a unit developed by Hoffman Electronics. Composed of 320 cells of almost pure silicon, shaved down to 16 one-thousandths of an inch in thickness, linked in chains and sealed in an anodized aluminum base, the unit looks most like sheets of cookies just out of the- oven. Every day at dawn a sun- relay switch turns off the flashing light and cuts in the cells, starting a flow of electricity into two 100- amp, 6-volt storage batteries. On overcast days output of .the con- verter is diminished but fog does not affect generation. Ultimate goal of the Coast Guard experi- ment—an automatic signal for un- attended use in remote locations. ® SUN-POWERED LIGHTHOUSE a DEAD BULBS are re- placed automatically. 100 ANGEL’S GATE lighthouse—an old-style RECORDER logs every tower on Los Angeles Harbor breakwater. flash of the signal light. Mechanix Illustrated

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ARTIST Ae day Guillermo Mendana Olivera works as a stenographer in Leon, Spain; every night he types pictures. Samples of his work shown here are, moving clockwise: typings of Ike, of Mendana himself, a detail from a picture of a church, and the Puerta de Alcala in Madrid. Each picture takes about 70 hours. Mendana uses small o and x and periods, dashes and commas. He starts with a paper covering all but a sliver of a photo; as the paper moves down he copies a line at a time. ° reseso Xe e oe AS ri rosod S xX. = hed bes j mmo =—. oo e MX e e TAX ™e mme eo meee ee owen p e mA Oe Meeose eeomm.

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ESIDENTS of Long Island, N. Y. can actually see the way their homes will look after anticipated im- provements are made by house remod- eler Herbert Richheimer. Salesmen at his Museum of Modern Home Improve- ments at Hicksville click on to the mag- netic model homes a dormer, garage, playroom or other additions for the ben- efit of a prospective customer. ° s MAGNETIC MODEL, left, is about to get another room over garage and a sun porch on opposite end of house. Right, here's how the improved house will look to customer. 102 Mechanix Illustrated

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PAT BOONE sings into microphone. Before actual. recording starts, he croons some test notes for the benefit of engineer. RECORD Illustrated by J. George Janes EEN-AGE singing idol Pat Boone has sold more than 25 million records over a five-year period which is quite a record in itself. Here’s how Pat cuts a “biscuit” for his fans. Boone, like all recording stars, first sings to a magnetic tape, not once, but many times. The best of these tapes are cut and spliced together to make what is called a composite master tape. Music from the tape is re-recorded to an acetate disc. The disc gets a thin coat of silver and is immersed in a plating ENGINEER in control panel uses singer’s test notes to adjust his complex equipment before actually recording Pat’s new song on the tape recorder. April, 1960 103 wy

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HIGH-QUALITY tape re- corders, usually two, as shown above, are used to reproduce the singer's voice. When recording session is over, right, Pat and re- cording officials sit around and listen in- tently to the playback. tank to make a metal master at the RCA factory. ; A metal “mother” mold is made from the master and gets an audible inspec- tion. A nickel stamper is then made from this mold to do the actual manufactur- ing of records in quantity. The nickel stamper is mounted in an automatic hy- draulic press and a “biscuit” of hot plas- tic inserted. The press molds the hot plastic into a record. ~—~When the center hole has been made and the edges trimmed, a machine pro- duces a smooth, finished edge. The record is now ready for final in- spection, packaging and distribu- tion to record stores. ° «7 fe > a tg ZS, ; MUSIC from the tape is re-recorded on an acetate disc. This disc has fine grooves cut into its plastic surface by machine. 104 “MOTHER” MOLD is made from master, then carefully separated by hand at RCA plant. A nickel stamper is then made from mother.” Mechanix Illustrated

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LABELS go on nickel stamper in hydraulic press. The disc is made with a hot “biscuit.” r RECORD is placed on a ma- PLASTIC which has been prepared and run off in chine which produces smooth sheets is being made into “biscuits” here. This edge atter center hole is made. is done after audible inspection of the “mother.” ; i ; 2 BOONE fans relax. F . and listen to crooner who has sold over 25 million records.

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30000 p PLASTIC. V SAILBOAT | - / os beautiful ocean-going sailboat zipping along with spinnaker set is the racer-cruiser Bounty II, a 40-ft. fiber glass pleasure craft equipped with an auxiliary 30-hp engine. The Bounty has a one-piece hull and one- piece deck, reinforced internally with structural bulkheads. The unusually spacious cabins and galley provide comfortable cruising for six, and sleek lines enable her to outperform boats of conventional construction. °

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BOLTS of fiber glass are soaked in resin before building of Bounty gets underway. iih pee pe E, on RUT e J A HULL HALVES are bonded chemically. The entire hull is produced in eight hours. ROLLERS of wet fiber glass stretch the cloth inside one section of the hull mold. PLASTIC deck and cabin top are ready to be installed on hull like “lid on a can.” FINISHED Bounty is shipped complete with aluminum mast, Dacron sails, engine, gear. GLASS CLOTH, held by VP Frederick Cole- man, is one of toughest materials known. Aeromarine Plastics Corp., Sausalito, Calif. 107

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COMPONENT PARTS of alarm mechanism are shown before assembly in metal file box. 108 TRANSISTOR FIRE ALARM This device may one day save your house—and your family. By John Michaels EAT increases transistor current flow—that’s the operating princi- ple of this fire alarm. The unit is designed so that normally a negligible current flows. through the relay circuit, but not enough to close the relay that sets off the alarm. It is only when the transistor is heated (135° to 185° F.) that current flow increases, closes the relay and triggers the alarm. Begin by drilling the required holes in the 4x6-inch metal file box housing. Then refer to the diagram at right to make the brackets for the transistor and for the seven-pit socket from one-inch

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= WHEN DRILLING HOLES, avoid denting the box: bear down genily on the drill press. aluminum strips. Mount bell, trans- former and socket bracket with quar- ter-inch, No. 8-32 roundhead screws: All connections are soldered, then in- sulated with electrician’s tape. Solder the half-watt resistor across the base QO Yo" DIA. 3%” DIA. Q 4x6” FILE BOX LINE rims of holes in the file box with rubber grommets to prevent chafing wires. and emitter legs of the transistor. The case of the 2N307 transistor is the col- lector leg and is connected to the relay. Test the unit by plugging in the trans- former, closing the toggle switch and holding a lighted match under the Yep w> f Q 1” a a ee RELAY SOCKET BRACKET © 7

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MINIATURE SOCKET takes the KI relay: it is wired prior to mounting to bracket. FASTEN ALARM BELL or buzzer to top of file box with half-inch roundhead screws. Slo. ARRANGEMENT of the components is shown in this top view of the completed assembly. transistor to trip the alarm mechanism. For complete protection install a re- sistor in each room, wiring the circuit in parallel. Check the circuit to see that no current leakage increase exists that would set off the alarm at room temperatures. Test base resistors of varying values until the alarm operates at the correct temperature. ° WIRING DIAGRAM. Note that bell is powered by house cur- “ANTENNA” of mechanism is the transis- tor. It can be tested shown with match. PARTS LIST B —22'%V. Battery, Eveready No. 763. Bell—Buzzer or Light may be used instead. *RY —Relay, Potter & Brumfield, SM5DS, 900 ohm, 24V. DC, (fits 7-pin min. tube socket). TR —Sylvania 2N307 Transistor. R —Il0K Yaw. Resistor. SW —S.P.S.T. Toggle Switch. *The SMSDS relay has contacts rated at two amps for non-inductive load. If heavier current is re- quired, operate a heavy-duty relay from the con- tacts of the SM5DS. 117V AC rent. The battery is only used to “sensitize” the transistor.

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ALLIED RADIO ® CHICAGO BUILD YOUR OWN TUBE TESTER Save money on service calls by checking radio and TV tubes on a tester you build from a kit. By Ken Murray OW many times has your radio or TV set failed when a favorite pro- gram was coming up? And how many times have you waited a couple of days for a diagnosis and had to pay for it be- FIRST step is to lay out and -mount those parts which go on front panel. 111

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s o 3 ; : 2 ae AS CONTROLS are mounted on the front panel with nut and lockwasher on inside and a securing nut on the outside. GOOD-BAD METER is inserted from front side of the panel and secured with a bracket and nuts at the rear. sides? Then the trouble is usually just a bad tube which you could have replaced yourself if you’d only known how to find it. Well, even if you don’t know an amp from an ohm, you can build your own tube tester from a $19.95 kit now on the market. Made by Allied Radio Corp., 100 N. Western Ave., Chicago 80, Il., the Knight “400” Tube Checker kit is easily assembled by following the instructions sup- plied. You just perform a simple step, check it off and proceed to the next one. Before you know it, the job is done and you’ve had fun doing it. The only tools required are a pair of long-nose pliers, diagonal cutters, a screw driver and a soldering iron. When the tester is finished, you set all the selector slide switches in the position marked K on the panel and plug the line cord into a 105- to 125-volt, 60 112 cycle, AC outlet. If the local voltage is between 115 and 125 volts, the Power Hi-Lo switch is set in the Hi position. If the voltage is between 105 and 115 volts, the switch is set in the Lo position. If you’re in doubt, the Hi po- sition is used. From there on, testing a tube is a snap —or just a few snaps of se- lector switches. Neatly fitted into a slot in the side of the case is a tube chart. You pull this out, find the number of the tube you’re about to test, turn the Filament switch to the position indicated, insert the tube in the ap- propriate socket and then set the selector switches in order given on the chart. Filament continuity is the first test. When the switches are set, the neon indicator light should glow. If it doesn’t the fila- ment is broken or faulty. The next test is for shorts. In this case, set- ting the switches should not cause the neon light to glow. If it glows steadily, there is a short in the tube and it should be discarded. If no short is found, you can proceed to the value test. The Load control on the panel is set to the num- ber given on the tube chart and the necessary selector switches are also set. Then the Short-Value switch is held in the Value position. If the pointer of the meter moves to the green section of the scale, the tube is good. If the pointer moves to the red section, the tube is not emitting properly and should be replaced. That’s all there is to it. By making quick checks Mechanix Illustrated

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SOLDERING requires care. Heat the joint thoroughly and flow solder on. on the tubes in your set, you can learn if you really need a serviceman or have a problem you can solve yourself just by slipping a new tube into a socket. To increase the scope of your testing, you can easily make a continuity tester for checking the condition of resistors ew 330 R-2 Vipfd 2w c-2 10K 15K R-i R-3 O LOAD TO TO NO. 8 NO. 6 PINS PINS TO NO. 7 PINS = O1 f ytd c-! SHORT | © © O © © (5) ALUE VALUES 7 © p © Gee KE TEST D s-13 FOR SIMPLICITY, separate wirings. is divided into three is after first wiring. job This and condensers. The attachment is-an eight-pin tube base with a length of lamp cord run in through a hole in the side and soldered to the. insides of the pins numbered four and five. For a finished appearance, the bottom of a black rubber [Continued on page 169] Q FILAMENT BLACK BROWN REO ORANGE YELLOW GREEN TO TO TO NO. 4 NO. 2 PINS PINS © KS) | oam @ Lo $-2 POWER NOTES (EN TOP CAP, RESISTORS INDICATED IN OHMS CERD K=1,000 OHMS ` MEG™= 1,000,000 OHMS 105-125 V CAPACITORS INDICATED IN MICROFARADS. All parts in diagram are called out in instructions supplied with kit. 60 CYCLES AC : 113

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NOW THEN, this is a con- versation stopper, not a con- versation piece, when your guests see how this door opens itself in front of you. Be ig hs Bc Be wet) A foot tap is all that’s required to open this connecting door between kitchen and dining room. David X. Manners OOK, Ma, no hands!” An electro- magnet inside the door release retracts a catch from the latch, and presto, an ordinary tension spring at the top of the door pulls it open. Heart of the system is an electric door release in- stalled as a replacement for the lock’s striker plate. After you pass through, you can push the door shut behind you with shoulder or elbow. 114 You see, the couple living in this house vowed that when they bought their new home it would have a separate dining area, not a part of the kitchen— and a connecting door so that cooking odors would not permeate the dining room. An excellent idea, but the door ‘became a headache; always closed to keep out the odor of cabbage and fish, it became not only a nuisance to open, but Mechanix Illustrated

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THE MORTISE-TYPE door release being in- stalled as a replacement for striker plate. THE OPERATING SWITCH, one on each side of the door, is concealed under a mat. at times an actual impossibility when the Mrs.’ arms were laden with food. A double swinging door was out of the question because of lack of room on the kitchen side, and, secondly, a latch was required so that their baby could be kept out of the dining room. Commercial door openers cost far too much for the average homeowner. How- ever, you can assemble and install this simplified one for less than $15. It’s safe and easy to install as it operates on low voltage. All required parts are manufac- THE SWITCH. Pressure on any part of tured by the [Continued on page 162] the housing will operate door release. Rear aes # 18 BELL WIRE 117 VOLT S 10V DOORBELL FLOOR TREAD - RECEPTACLE TRANSFORMER SWITCHES = RELEASE os ; THE WIRING DIAGRAM

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Using various combinations -of wall-covering materials, today’s cost-conscious home owner can renovate any room without ruinous forays into hard-earned family savings. By R. J. Capotosto HIS basement recreation room turned out so well that it is now a tossup as to whether more time is spent in the new den or the main living room upstairs. We used three interesting new wall surfacing materials that are so realistic that a close look is re- quired to distinguish them from real wood, marble and stone. The walls of the den proper are faced with Masonite Misty Walnut panels and self-adhesive Sculpture Con-Tact in a cut stone pattern. The built-in desk-bookshelf is of Can you find the pipe in the large picture? It is hidden by the plant.

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Misty Walnut with Marlite in a black marble pattern for the desk top and trim. The furnace and utilities areas were partitioned off with Weld- wood Expand-A-Grille lattice work (available from U.S. Ply- wood dealers). Two 4x6-foot sec- tions of the wall are on hinges. The upper halves consist of airy grill- work and the lower sections of Masonite hardboard faced with simulated stone. Access is gained by “opening the wall” and walk- ing in. ANCHORFAST NAILS are used to secure the 1x2-inch furring strips to the foundation walls. 117

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The main construction procedures outlined here will help give you a work- ing knowledge of how to go about start- ing your den. You'll probably have to alter some of the dimensions since each room must be approached on the terms of its own characteristics. But here’s the way this job was done: Interior partitions were constructed of 2x4’s, then the cement block founda- tion walls were furred with 1x2’s. The ledge formed by the recessed foundation wall was put to functional use by finish- ing it off as a mantle. Electrical wiring was next. Plenty of outlets were installed around the room flush with the finished wall surfaces. The wire used was No. 12 BX. This gage was chosen to permit use of heavy cur- rent drainers such as an electric heater and whatever additional appliances the future might bring. ~ Inasmuch as the self-adhesive Con- MASONITE MISTY WALNUT PANELING STUDY CENTER (SEE DETAILS) MASONITE HINGED WALL a SECTION SELF-ADHESIVE SCULPTURE CONTACT Wy 8 PLASTERBOARD yy} 21x4" FRAMING METERS 118 FURNACE AREA partition is 2x4 framing with Masonite bottom, Expand-A-Grille top. S 1x6” LEDGE PLASTERBOARD COVERS IS FURRING AND STUDS 1x2” FURRING NAILED TO WALL 2x4" STUDS GAS METER FIXED MASONITE ——>— STOP x = WELDWOOD EXPAND-A-GRILLE — IN SLOTTED FRAMING WATER HEATER 2x3” amna r FRAME FURNACE ; SCULPTURE CONTACT E MASONITE HARDBOARD BACK :

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OUTLET BOXES should be mounted PLASTERBOARD coverslarge TO APPLY simulated on wooden blocks to bring these units areas quickly and makes a stone, remove backing out flush with the completed walls. good surface for adhesives. to expose adhesive. LEVEL LINE guides first row of Sculpture Con-Tact: straightedged “mortar” pieces are used to form corners: press top-to-bottom in applying each section, then press in the “mortar” grooves with a cloth-covered stick: use a sharp knife to cut outlet openings. Tact requires a smooth surface for best adhesion, economical plasterboard was chosen as a base. The only exception was on the hinged walls. Here hardboard panels were used for greater strength. The first wall covering to be applied was the Sculpture Con-Tact, a tough, durable plastic material formed in relief to look like stone. With the protective backing removed, the sheets were sim- 119

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MARK OFF the Marlite, then cut it back-side- ier up using a saber saw. g IF A JIGSAW is used, cut the panels face ee up to avoid chipping the edges of the Marlite. 120 epee Mechanix illustrated

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MARLITE framing panel around window SHEATHING PLYWOOD is used for the built-in is fitted, then secured with adhesive. desk. Note clamped 2x4 which guides saber saw. SHELVING is screwed into place between uprights after daubing the joints with glue. ply pressed into place to form the bond. Next to go up was the Misty Walnut Masonite. These are random-grooved panels with a wood-grain finish. They were cut %- inch shy to allow for ex- pansion before the adhe- sive was applied to the back of the panels with a grooved spreader. The built-in desk was April, 1960 S x : ate PLYWOOD is then hidden with CUT end pieces carefully Misty Walnut cut to size: for fitting around shelves. 121

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LEVEL off the floor by DAMP floors require appli- troweling Ken Patch No. cation of special adhesive: 14 over all the low spots. we used Keéntile No. 10 here. HALF the floor should be tiled at one time; tile from a centerline and work toward the walls. GRILLWORK is tested for fit before screwing it into place in frames. constructed of 5¢-inch sheathing-grade plywood. A saber saw facilitated mak- ing the long cuts in both wood and hard- board. The wood members of the desk were assembled with glue and screws before the whole unit was secured to the wall. Marsh adhesive was used to laminate the hardboard to the wood, with the assistance of clamps. The Marlite desk top was similarly secured using adhesive and clamps. The desk drawers were constructed of 34-inch pine with Masonite bottoms and the front panels faced with Misty. All strips of Marlite used for the edging were planed smooth and the top edges lightly sanded. Contact cement was used 122 APPROACH to room shows partition built to hide the furnace area without restricting air circulation. to attach all strips to the desk as well as to the baseboards and the mantle. Weldwood Expand-A-Grille decora- tive grillwork was used on the swinging wall panels. The special slotted molding was cut to form a rectangular frame of the desired dimensions. With one side left temporarily open, the unique ex- pandable grille was adjusted to fit the frame, then cut to size and inserted. When the fourth side of the frame was attached the unit was screwed into the panel. The last step is to install Kentile Vinyl Asbestos Tile on the floor. With the project thus completed, you can look forward to many pleasant hours in this comfortable basement hideaway. ° Mechanix Illustrated

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z l fire ' tetardant ‘AT PAINT BIRDHOUSES (left to right) get no finish, regu- lar paint and Dupont's fire retardant paint... . .. are simultameously ignited to demonstrate METAL GUIDE for scraping off excess that the new paint slows down the burning... paint adjusts to fit window frame; $2.50. C. G. Paskaly Co., Box 96, Temple, Pa. - +. and even protects some wood—a fact which LEFT-OVER paint in nail polish bottle can give fire fighters time to save a house. is handy for the inevitable touch-up. 123

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REMOVE LIDS from empty rectangular tins of the same size and use these cans to store nails, nuts, bolts, washers, etc. CUT DOWN the bulk and weight of your key ring by first drilling a new hole close to the backstop of each key; then saw, grind, and file down most of the keys’ sides and tops. FREDDIE FUMBLES OH, THAT TOP ALWAYS FALLS A PRETTY KETTLE OF TEA! JusT BECAUSE I WANTED CREATE A ONE LUMP WITH MY TEA— TEAKETTLE- x * DOME l Ix SCANDAL? 124 Mechanix Illustrated

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BUTT JOINTS PARALLEL EDGES CUT THROUGH AT ANY ANGLE PENCIL-RUBBED paper set face down on drawer TO BUTT belt ends, twist belt once, front will mark screw holes for drawer pulls. lay one end over the other, then cut. BATTERY CLIP connects three D cells in series. Contacts are window shade brackets mounted to wood base and wired as shown. Solder leads to the first and last terminals. Send Freddie Fumbles your idea of a good short-cut, time-saver or safety device in your work, whether it be in the home, shop, office or farm. Each tip accepted will be paid for at the rate of $10. Naturally we cannot acknowledge or return the ones we cannot use. However all will be carefully read and evaluated. (Those which we can use in other departments of MI will be paid for at our regular rates.) Please send in your ideas on a post card only. Address to Freddie Fumbles, Mechanix Illustrated, 67 W. 44th St., New York 36, N. Y. YOU'RE REALLY p : AH, NOW I CAN TAKE BEARING DOWN ON TEA—AND SEE2 THAT BEARING! AD DIMPLE IN LID BALL KEEPS IT FROM BEARING FALLING OUT April, 1960 125

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MECHA X ILLUS aan Enne QOLDEN HAMMEN - im ee ward Winners HOUSE of 1,800 square feet has such features as hot water heating with well water for summer cooling, a central vacuum system with outlets on each floor and am intercom in every room. George R. Larsen, Bristol, Wis., did entire job except for the masonry. Each craftsman whose project is shown receives a 24-karat gold-plated Hammer and a Workbench Award Certificate. Runners-up will be sent a beautiful gold-plated Golden 2 Hammer Tie Bar or MI’s Certificate of Merit. So send us some black-and-white photos, with negatives, and.a full description of your latest project. Photos of your workshop are also eligible. Send all entries, with return postage, to MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED Golden Hammer Awards, 67 West 44th St., New York 36, N. Y. Entrants are advised that MecHanix ILLUSTRATED cannot accept responsibility for customs charges, duties, taxes, etc., levied ` against Golden Hammer and Golden Hammer Tie Bar winners outside the United States. The following craftsmen have been awarded GOLDEN HAMMER TIE BARS for their projects: William J. Hurley, Astoria, L.I.C., N. Y... . Eugene Wisniewski, Toledo, Ohio. . . . Bob Percival, Redlands, Calif. ... A. Gandenberger, Cincinnati, Ohio. . . . William E. Pope, Jr., Ocean Springs, Miss. . . . G. M. Tolson, Knoxville, Tenn. . . . Demetri Constantine, Oxford, Mass. . . . Carson Berton, Kansas City, Mo. ... John Woodson, Kansas City, Mo... . Victor H. Camponovo, Memphis, Tenn. ... John D. Sipkosky, Highland, Ind. . . . Fred Balda, Mount Vernon, Wash. ... Joe Young, Beaumont, Texas. .. . Emil Belsky, Antigo, Wis. . . . Robert P. Bryan, Jacksonville, N. C.... De Forest Rushing, Albuquerque, N. M.... Alfred Coretti, Utica, N. Y.... T. S. Warbin, Port Arthur, Ont.. Can. . . . Stanley Hoffman, Vandergrift, Pa. ... James Gilreath, [Continued on page 186] 126 Mechanix Illustrated

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SPORTS CAR built from old auto parts by Marvin Whiteside, Anniston, Ala., took 14 months of spare time, cost less than $300. BABY ACE plans in three 1955 issues of MI were used by Fred Pries, San Leandro, Calif. His building cost was under $800. TRACTOR was built by D. Curtis Wik of West Islip, N. Y., for his two children. It crawls at safe pace with 1'2-hp engine. CABIN CRUISER is 25 ft. with an 8-ft. beam, was finished in two years by Virgil Patter- son, Covington, Ky. Total cost was $2,000. April, 1960 TIN LIZZIE has aluminum body, 12-volt generator for motor, goes two mph. It's the work of Paul Falck, West Palm Beach, Fla. WIIG s MODELED after a racer, this 85-in. car does 25 mph. Paul H. Johnsen, Washington, D. C., was the builder, spent under $110. 127

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Are you one of thousands who own the new Valiant? Then read these special tips on care and handling. By Frederick C. Russell Member Society of Automotive Engineers 6° much about the Valiant is designed to spare an owner the usual week- ` end chores that we’re hard pressed to list some of the things which call for spe- cial attention. But here goes. The body of the newest compact from Chrysler is dipped a total of seven times in special pre-painting cleansing and coating baths to make the enamel finish just about weatherproof. With a special unitized body and frame, squeaks and rattles are held to a minimum. Then 128 too, there’s an. ammeter in the instru- ment cluster so that you can watch the electrical system at work. But remem- ber that the best of cars is at the mercy of owner habits. Typical is the 13-quart cooling system. The engine comes from the factory with a 180° thermostat. This is all right if you use ethylene glycol antifreeze but it had better be replaced with a 160° unit if alcohol is used. The Valiants 101-hp engine is an overhead-valve six with a crankcase oil Mechanix Illustrated

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AMMETER is included on instrument panel for a constant check on electrical system. LIFTING the emblem plate in the center of the grille releases catch on the hood. REPLACE standard 180° thermostat with 160° unit if you use alcohol antifreeze. y CAP on the gas tank may be lost easily if it is not properly screwed into place. April, 1960 OIL FILTER is disposable type. Replace it with new one at end of 5,000 miles. ALTERNATOR, used instead of generator, supplies more current at low engine speed. 129

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BATTERY is close to hood, has special GOOD RIDE is provided if the tires are vent caps to protect hood from corrosion. pumped to a pressure of 24 lbs. when cold. ` EARLY models have brass manifold studs; VALVE compartment tilts 30°. No oil will they're replaced with steel if they fail. leak unless cover is improperly installed. MANUAL transmission lever is mounted on SPARE WHEEL is kept in a well in the the floor within easy reach of the driver. trunk. Note wedge for use as wheel chock. 130 : Mechanix Illustrated

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capacity of four quarts; an extra quart should be used when it is equipped with an oil filter. The oil filter is disposable and the entire unit should be replaced at the end of 5,000 miles. You’ll like the position of the oil dipstick which is easy to see and reach because of the way the engine tilts at a 30° angle to help bring down the hood line. I can’t say as much for the neat-looking gas cap which is flush with the side of the left rear fender and which can come off unless properly screwed into place. It’s in a vertical po- UU NY -EMPIRE STATE AREA TRUNK storage space in Valiant is demon- strated by adult and two boys. ”Hi'ya Tom!” sition and won’t stay put if a careless filling station attendant doesn’t tighten it after filling the tank. Incidentally, speaking of that canted engine, don’t feel that it is likely to leak oil from the valve compartment. All V-8 engines have cylinders so tilted and owners have found that any leakage is usually due to over-tightening the covers. This makes them buckle. My vote for the prize feature of Val- iant’s under-the-hood equipment is the use of an alternator instead of a conven- tional generator. This alternator de- livers AC which is then converted to DC by six silicon diode rectifiers on the housing. By means of this switchover, a higher current output is obtained at lower engine [Continued on page 173] April, 1960 SERVICE TIPS from Detroit Studebaker, beginning with car serial numbers 60S-30816 and 60V- 22278, is installing a slide-type fas- tener on the sides of convertible tops. This serves to attach the top flap to the rear top side rail at the rear quar- ter and will reduce “ballooning” at higher speeds. You can get an idea of the number of miles your plugs have gone by measuring the gap across the elec- trodes. The average spark plug wears about .001 inch for each 1,000. miles the plugs are in operation. Cadillac has incorporated auto- matic brake adjusters in the 1960 models. These will keep the brake pedal at a constant height through- out the life of the liners. You can remove rust spots from automotive chrome with a new palm- size sponge being marketed by Buick. Called Buick Rust Eraser, the non- acid, non-alkaline sponge is ready for use after soaking in water. If the starter solenoid to starter cable on your 60 Dodge becomes en- tangled in the front suspension, the trouble may be eliminated by secur- ing the cable with an insulated clamp (Part No. 581523) to the left front fender shield. Mount the clamp so that it will not exert any abnormal routing or stress upon the cable. To increase the load-carrying ca- pacity of all 58 and °59 Imperial models by five per cent, install Part No. 2201550, Rear Spring Second Leaf Service Package, in preference to new springs of the same specifica- tions of those already on the car. Bi-

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SPACE- AGE TABLE TOP X By Tim McCoy = Shoot your own space probe using props you can find in the kitchen. F a stimulating change of pace in pursuit of your favorite hobby, why not move into the Space Age with some table-top photographs of the wide starry yonder. Let your imagination roam and you'll find there’s no limit to the pro- ductions you,can ‘dream up. In this case we

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REALISTIC MOONSCAPE is made by pour- ing plaster over crumpled newspapers. FLAME of Bernzomatic torch positioned under model rocket simulates jet exhaust. can truly say that the sky’s not the limit. Materials for your Space-Age table top are obtainable from local hobby and department stores. These include plastic models and inexpensive prefabricated kits of missiles, space vehicles, moon ships, satellites and launching platforms made by Revell and Ideal. Other props, such as plaster for your table-top moon- scape, buttons for flying saucers and cot- ton to simulate exhaust gases are readily available in most households. Backgrounds of starry infinities can be created by punching small holes in a sheet of back-lighted paper, or by stick- ing pins into a backdrop of black velvet. sa aes PLANET EARTH is formed by dabbing plas- tic wood in land areas outlined on a ball. Magazine or book illustrations or your own enlarged photographs of the sky can be used. You also can purchase special photographic murals of the sky from leading observatories. Plaster of Paris poured over forms of crumpled newspaper makes a good moon surface. Sifted dirt will serve as soil around launching pads, strips of paper as roads, sand as gravel and flour or corn starch as snow. The cotton used to represent rocket exhaust should be touched with a bit of oil for added real- ism. Oh, yes, you’ll need some thread with which to:suspend the props. The basic equipment required in- cludes your camera, a light meter, fine- grain film with enough speed to take comparatively small f-stops, and one or two floodlight bulbs which can be screwed into gooseneck sockets. You should also have a tripod or similar firm base for the camera. Finally, a close-up lens will be needed and—if you prefer them to photo floods—flashbulbs. Although the camera work is impor- tant, you needn’t be an expert photog- rapher to get the kind of pictures that are both realistic and exciting. Any good camera will do the job. However, you must be more careful than usual in focusing and take into account that pe- culiarity of close-up photography, paral- lax: when one picture is seen through the viewer while the lens of the camera 133

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© CONCEAL torch and clamps under some black velvet, but be careful to keep cloth away from torch nozzle. GENERAL VIEW of set-up shows moonscaped table top under approaching rocket, and a distant Earth. 134 takes a slightly different picture. You can compensate for parallax by having someone else sight from the side and tell you just how much to tip the camera to aim the lens directly at your subject. If you use a single-lens reflex camera (which lets you sight through the picture-taking lens), you won’t encounter this problem. A ground glass camera is ideal for this work. The average close-up may be taken at a distance of from 18 inches to three and a half feet. While few cameras will focus at distances less than these, any adjustable camera can be fitted with an inexpensive close-up at- tachment. These come in vari-

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ous strengths, the most powerful of which lets you focus a lens with a nor- mal, near-focus limit of four feet as close as 11 inches. Using a combination of lens attachments you can get as close as six inches. However, the closer you get with - any lens the shorter becomes the depth of field; so you should measure the dis- tance from the lens to the subject before each shot. = When shooting a picture like that on the title page, you will find that the props will have to be positioned over a rather wide distance in order to achieve the correctly proportioned size for each object. The distance between the moon- scape, which is nearest the lens, and the Earth, which is farthest from the cam- era, is approximately five feet. This ` raises quite a problem, for even with the smallest aperture there does not exist sufficient depth of field to render all ob- jects in sharp focus. Such being the case, you must turn to multiple exposure for the desired re- sults. Focus and expose each object separately; this means making several exposures on one sheet of film. Here’s the procedure: While one part of the scene is being photographed, the other parts are masked out (black velvet works well for this purpose). With the camera focused on the moonscape and the rest of the scene in darkness, the first exposure is made. Then camera and lights are refocused on the spaceship for the second exposure. Next the torch is lit, all lights are turned off, and a third exposure is made of the flame. This pro- cedure is repeated a fourth time for e J CLOSE-UP details the weird configura- tions of “moon's” surface. Starry back- ` ground are the heads of numerous white- painted pins stuck into black velvet. 135

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LIGHT focused on the launching pad cre- ates proper glaring effect as model rocket is readied to blast off for outer space. ROCKET speeds toward (a photograph of) moon’s surface. Note black thread—later retouched out of picture—holding rocket. 136 ONCE INTO SPACE the rocket discards its power pods. Use cotton wadding to simulate exhaust gases from rocket thrust chambers. photographing the Earth. Note: If yours is a modern camera which is foolproof against making more than one exposure per film, simply make separate negatives and sandwich them for printing. Keep your lighting as simple as pos- sible. Flashbulbs are easy to use but they do cast shadows. To avoid this problem, bounce floodlights off a low ceiling above the table. Make sure all elements of the picture are in the sharp- est possible focus, then shoot with the lens stopped way down. The film used in taking these table tops was Eastman’s Royal Pan (ASA, 160-200) and Verichrome Pan. All ex- posures were determined by a Weston light meter. Typical exposures, using one 500-watt spotlight and a 150-watt spot with Royal Pan film were as fol- lows: RIG iaa half-second at £-32 Earth ...... seven seconds at £-8 SURG aaa 15 seconds at f-8 Exhaust flame ..three seconds at £-8 ROCKO, worsen one second at f-8 All these exposures should be doubled for Verichrome Pan film. The exposure for your table top may be longer or shorter, depending on the amount of light illuminating the scene. To be on the safe side it is always a good idea to take at least three shots before dis- mantling the set. One exposure should be on the “under” side and another should be on the “over” side. è

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MT a va viwa w: LIFELIKE model spacemen are positioned ANY ROCKET CAN PLAY! Here a Jupiter C around their spaceship on “moon's” surface. model rests at its gantry prior to firing. MODEL SPACESHIP of the future is . positioned before photograph of mooń-

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MOTOR-DRIVEN HACK SAW Cut through metal in minutes with a power saw which you can build for less than ten dollars. By Richard Hanson VISE consists of bolts, sheet iron and rods. Spacer and blade adjuster are below it. 138 UTTING metal by hand is a chore _nobody likes and it’s a chore you can forget if you build this power hack saw. Ideal for the home workshop or farm, it can be built for less than ten dollars from readily obtainable parts. The oscillating or sawing action is provided by an old washing machine gear mechanism which can be picked up at arepair shop or junk yard. There may be variations in gear mechanisms but many of them will serve the purpose. The one used here has an eight-to-one gear ratio and operates the saw at about 60 strokes per minute. To begin, you'll need a flat piece of quarter-inch iron for the base. This base | is then bolted to a frame made by weld- ing angle iron together. Two legs of the frame (or stand) are equipped with five-inch, heavy-duty casters to make it Mechanix Illustrated

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WELD WASHERS TO BOLT Yalx1/2"x2” (2) 14” See ee 32” Yo"x11" VaV KZ XAYA" BOLT VISE 7 y Y2" NUT Wa (WELDED) V2'%2" BOLT Vayga" 24y”. ZG 5/16” ROD AA yi WHEELS Va-HP MOTOR 3/4" 6X6" ” WOOD SPACER | 3/16”x114” x514” (2) PULLEY, 3/18"x212"x2V2" (4) : Ye" x3/5!"x13"” \ £ BELT 1121x 112”x3/167. Wn > ANGLE IRON 21⁄2" GUIDE BAR 8” SF L 2v2” PULLEY uo ea Larl 3/16" x 1V2" x 114” EEN 12” NA Ya” SPACE z Z ee = : “lad 3/16” BOLT WELD S 3/16"x1a" x1" Ya!"x14"x32” BASE BOLTED TO FRAME An TOGGLE YQ SWITCH BLADE | ADJUSTER (WELD NUT) lA 74 O O 5/167x2” BOLT FOUR 5/18” NUTS- Oe WELDED TO PIPE S ‘a ELDED 5a” PIPE CUT NUT WELDE LENGTHWISE \ 3/16” SCREW : A TIGHTENS Va" BOLT TO 110-V AC ON BLADE (WELDED) GEAR CASE . (8 TO 1 REDUCTION) 3/16” 1” 0.D. PIPE (WELDED) ae FOUR 5/16” FLATHEAD BOLTS INTO HOLES DRILLED AND TAPPED IN GEAR CASE PORTABLE POWER HACK SAW 45° VISE MARK 139

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mobile. When the stand is ready, the gear mechanism is fastened to the base in a position where it will accommodate the rest of the saw and the quarter- horsepower motor. After obtaining a heavy iron guide bar for the saw frame to ride on, cut the pieces for the saw frame and lay them in position over the guide bar for welding. Then place a thin metal shim under the pieces, complete the welds and remove the shim immediately. Without a shim, the contracting welds would make the saw frame too tight to ride on the bar. The next job is to drill a hole through the guide bar for a bolt and make the bearing for the bolt. This pipe bearing has a slot the full length with nuts welded on top so that it can be made ab- solutely tight on the bolt, preventing side sway of the saw blade. The pieces for the bearing support are cut and welded together to place the bearing at a height which will bring the saw blade about one inch above the base at the end nearest the bearing. With the guide bar and saw frame on the bearing, locate the connecting rod so that the saw moves properly and then weld the rod to the saw frame. Then the bearing support can be welded to base. When the motor is mounted and the toggle switch is wired in, install the pul- leys. Then check the front end of the saw frame to see that it rides on the base for the full length of its stroke; if not, weld a short flat iron extension to the base. The saw blade adjuster is made up next. Then a 12-inch blade is inserted and the tension is increased by turning the bolt in at the end. Make sure the blade travels straight and at right angles to the table. Finally, the vise is made as illus- trated. If large pieces are to be cut, make the upright pieces higher than in- dicated. Locate the hole in the base so that the vise can be turned at any angle without interfering with the saw blade. Also locate it so that any piece to be cut is as close to the inner end of the blade as possible. For quick alignment of the vise, mark the base with 45° and 90° lines. Before sawing, tighten the vise securely with 140 the handle beneath the base and then clamp down on the piece. When you throw that switch, your metal cutting will be just a matter of lowering the blade—no more cramped fingers and a weary arm. ® CONNECTING ROD is welded to the saw frame which slides on a heavy guide bar. VIEW of right side shows vise location. Blade has a cutting stroke of five inches. Mechanix Illustrated

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EVENING PROJECT tl ninni TWO ‘Y-inch plywood pieces form shelf; check dado fit before gluing. PATTERN FOR SIDES (1” SQUARES) eae SCRAP WOOD left over from wall paneling job was used to make this shelf. You can alter the pattern shown for the sides to suit yourself. ERE’S a handy household holder any fellow can knock together in two shakes of a shop apron. Made entirely of quarter-inch plywood cut to the dimensions shown in the diagram and finished to suit, the shelf is designed to hold your toaster, radio, telephone or favorite knickknacks. Apply a couple coats of varnish to bring out the natural grain of the plywood. If you like, the piece can be brightened by hanging colorful pot holders from cup hooks screwed into the bottom of the shelf. °

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SYSTEM R YOUR BOAT By Keith F. Hildebrand URN on the faucet and the fresh water flows. That’s what you have A with this pressurized system. There’s no pumping at the sink and no gravity-feed tank to hang high on a bulkhead. The weight is low in the hull where it be- longs and where there are more places to locate a tank. Ideal for outboard cruisers, the system has been in use two years on our own 21-footer. The stainless steel tank is a war sur- 3 WATER FLOWS freely at the sink because plus item still available in many surplus of air pressure in the ten-gallon system. stores. Designed to contain breathing 142 Mechanix Illustrated

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oxygen, it has quarter-inch pipe threads at each end and holds about ten gallons of water. Ours, used but clean, cost $7.50. Installation is quite simple as can be seen from the illustrations. The only tricky part is the air relief tube which is necessary if the tank is to be filled to capacity. A straight- [Continued on page 176] TVo" TO V4” REDUCER Ya" PIPE TO yg! TUBING FITTING IF POSSIBLE eas z TANK IN BILGE N TO. PRESSURIZE CENTER OF BUOYANCY. PETCOCK COULD. BE WELDED 1 TOP TO RELIEVE AIR PRESSURE AIR VALVE “WHEN TANK IS BEING FILLED STEM EXTENSION ae COPPER UBING AIR RELIEF PETCOCK Ya" VALVE (OPEN 1a” 0.D. COPPER SU AOUE EEREYENT “AIR VALVE. ONLY WHEN FILLING) he Gay AL J IS BEING REMOVED by STEM CAP ; Ya" Ya" NIPPLE fig 3 12” NIPPLE COPPER a4! Seems TUBE y HOSE-T0-PIPE FITTING YA" TEE er N a= 24” Yq" NIPPLE F Va! PIPE TO EA EXTENDS. W” TUBING OVERBOARD TUBING JUST FITTING = SOLDER 7%” TUBING IN 14” NIPPLE V4” VALVE (NORMALLY OPEN) Ya" NIPPLES CLEARS BOTTOM Va" TO Ya” REDUCER TANK SUPPORT VIEW from intake end of tank shows hose TIRE PUMP is attached to air valve stem connection, valve and air relief petcock. to pressurize system. It isn’t used often. April, 1960 143

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NAUTICAL USES FOR RUBBER - MATTING FUEL TANK doesn’t mar hull if mat is placed beneath it; use synthetic rubber. ANCHOR and chain won't rattle and bang in a fast boat if they’re laid on a mat. Pe cae EE SiS ea ON THE BEACH, mat prevents sand from getting into the mechanism of the motor. gOS: ae 2 3 AE AE LEE E BN EBEE ae da V CUTTING BAIT on the mat lessens the DURING REPAIRS, small parts stay on mess and prevents knife scars on a seat. mat, don't roll off to get lost or dirty. 144 Mechanix Illustrated

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OU CAN perform this Jet-Age “‘par- lor” trick for less than a penny’s worth of materials. Besides being amus- ing, the experiment also demonstrates the basic principle of jet propulsion. However, because of a possible fire hazard, do your Cape Canaveraling in the yard—not in the house. Included in this gimmick are a launching pad (of sorts), a genuine count-down and the (subdued) roar of a blast-off. Here’s how it’s done: fold a little 1x2-inch strip of aluminum foil over the head-half of a paper match, fold down, then fold it tightly around the match. Now place the “missile” head-up on a paper clip launcher, hold a flame under the foil-covered head and start the count-down. In about five seconds a blast of hot gas from the exploded tip of the enclosed match will pffft from the end of your missile and arc it up and across the yard with remarkable speed. For a higher trajectory, elevate the launcher; but if it’s distance you’re after the angle of the launcher must be decreased. You can get some idea of the speed of flight from the photo at the head of the page which was taken with elec- tronic speedlight illumination. The flash duration of 1/1200 of a second wasn’t fast enough to freeze the motion of the match!—R. J. Capotosto 3 April, 1960 TO CHANNEL out the jet blast, wrap foil tightly around match, then bend down top. COUNT-DOWN starts when flame is applied to the missile on its paper clip launcher. 147

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AN EXTRA SWITCH, in series with the line, is added safety factor. MOE FAN IN OPERATION. It can be rolled away when not in use to avoid obstructing window. AN attic fan is the next best thing to air conditioning during the summer months. However, there are several draw- backs to the usual louver-fan combination. First, if the fan is located in the only win- dow in the attic, the louver blocks off the light during the greater part of the year when the fan isnot used. This is especially annoying if you make frequent trips to the attic for storage purposes. Secondly, most louvers are not completely watertight, which means that during a driving rain storm, and especially if your fan is located on the “weather” side of the house, rain and cold air will penetrate the louver with possible damage to walls and ceiling. The solution is a casement window in SHEET ALUMINUM is used as flashing front of the fan [Continued on page 178] before installing casement window. 148 é Mechanix Illustrated

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| CUT METAL OVER Sup Wood CAP f HARDWARE CLOTH ON \ TH 1x2 FRAME Hi i IN f, i EE Ly \\ | CUT SHEATHING FLUSH À INSTALL WITH HEADER BOTTOM ee | HEADER : SCREW. INTO WOOD ! SHEATHING (SAME AT SIDES) | WINDOW SIZE, PLUS HEADER AND SILL WINDOW SIRE CASEMENT (FAN) WINDOW METAL FLASHING ON DRIP SILL 2x4 SILL E CEA | sÈ # 1—IN_EVENT STUDS : 2—SHIFT OPENING -ARE NOT CENTRALLY ; TO NEAREST STUD pas LOCATED FOR NE WINDOW 3—CUT OPENING AS WANTED, THEN ADD DOUBLED STUDS TO EACH SIDE WINDOW SILL installed over flashing should HOW TO CUT am opening in your attic have a slight taper to shed rain and snow. if you do not have-an existing window. April, 1960 149

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Drama for 8mm Movies! New Kodak Movie Camera Zooms Scenes In or Away Now you can give your home movies the same dramatic zoom effects you see in theater movies or on your TV screen. Catch your subject in motion—then zoom in for a close-up without interrupt- ing the action or changing your position! The remarkable new Kodak Zoom 8 Camera (Automatic f/ 1.9) features a variable focal length lens. As you slide the lens barrel forward or back, it seems to “‘shrink” or “‘stretch”’ the distance to your subject. In shooting sports scenes, for example, you can get an over-all view of the action, then zoom in on one player. When you project the scene, the player comes closer and closer, growing bigger on your screen. You can also use the Zoom 8 lens to get the same wide-angle, regular, or telephoto effects that used to require a 3-lens turret camera. Each field is outlined in the telescopic viewfinder. Another great feature: built-in electric eye adjusts the fast f/ 1.9 lens automatically for correct ex- posure. And the viewfinder eye- piece adjusts for your own eye. Enjoy a new kind of action- packed movies with the Kodak Zoom 8. An unusual value at only $139.50, or as little as $14 down. Many dealers will take your old camera in trade. Kodak Zoom 8 Camera brings faraway subjects up close without stopping the action. Film Now Investigates Film, World’s Most Sensitive “Amplifier” Scientists are now using photography itself—and = the electron microscope—to learn more about the inner behavior of photographic film. They have found that when photons, the “energy bullets” of light, strike the silver halides in film, electrons are liberated. These electrons, in turn, trigger a development reaction a billion times as great as the photons’ original power! Such advanced research into the physics of film Enormously magnified crystal of silver bromide (left) in 10,000-volt-per-centimeter field. It is just starting to develop; note tiny metallic silver specks emulsions gives Kodak new knowledge to create along bottom. At right, fully developed silver net- faster, finer grained films for amateur and profes- work. Photos are of electron-microscope images. sional use. 150 Mechanix Illustrated

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from Kodak Screen Arrow Adds Showmanship to Automatic Slide Shows Now when you show slides to guests you can point out details on your screen without leaving your chair for even a moment. Lift a finger-tip control on your automatic Kodak Cavalcade Projector—and a shadow arrow appears on the screen. Up, down, right, left—the arrow moves as you choose, to point out details you want to discuss. And all the time, your Cavalcade is changing slides automatically at the pace you chose—as many as 40 slides in sequence. Instant change between slides, too—no long drag or dark screen! Controls let you hold, repeat, or skip any slide —or lift out any slide with a finger-tip ejector. And each slide is held in its own steel protector, for smooth showing, no jamming. Take some slides along when you ask your dealer to demonstrate this wonderful projector. With //3.5 lens, only $124.50, or $12.50 down. Ingenious Film Loading System Does Away With Take-up Spool Here’s the quickest, simplest 35mm film loading ever devised. No threading or hooking on a take- up spool. There isn’t any spool. With the Kodak Signet 80 Camera, you just drop the film in, start the tip into a slot, and close the camera back. As you advance the film, it feeds smoothly into an expansion chamber. Such ease of operation is typical of the Signet 80. Exposure control is easy— the built-in light meter ends guesswork. Focusing is easy, rangefinder couples to all lenses. Film advance is easy—two thumb-flicks! This is truly the camera with the skill built in. See for yourself. With 50mm f/2.8 lens, only $129.50, or as little as $13 down. Prices are list, include Federal Tax, and are subject to change without notice. 35mm wide-angle lens for Signet 80, $57.50; 90mm telephoto lens, $69.50; multi-frame finder, $17.50. Other aids available for ultra close-ups, sports, even photomicrography. EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Rochester 4, N. Y. SEE KODAK'S “THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW" AND "OZZIE AND HARRIET.” TRADEMARK When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 151

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SCREW LIGHT BOX TO BACKBOARD a | Ja” PINE a.) 94” SQ. PINE BOOR STOP Ya" x14" PINE TWO of the DEAL for a permanent darkroom, this safelight box has a hinged door which is recessed so that a filter may be changed merely by lifting it out. Two or three boxes can be made, de- pending upon the length of the work- bench and sink. Their triangular shape 3Al'x6" PINE (NAIL TO WALL) Ya” PLYWOOD BACK AND TOP BRASS HINGES 8x10” SAFE LIGHT FILTER also makes them excellent supports for a shelf which will hold a large supply of chemicals and papers. If more than one box is made, wire the receptacles together in parallel so that all the bulbs can be controlled by a single switch—Don Shiner BOX is screwed to pine backboard. The bulb shouldn’t exceed 25 waits. Mechanix Illustrated e

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a Ke? Wy i el Weight-saving, welded construction helps the Falcon go up to 30 miles on a gallon of gas. Why does the Falcon have a welded single-unit body and bolted-on front fenders ? Welded, single-unit construction gives more usable space, great strength, an un- usually quiet ride. That means the Falcon can be compact outside and yet carry six þig people in comfort. And this lightweight method is one big reason why the Falcon goes up to 30 miles a gallon. Bolted-on front fenders cost less to re- place. In fact, just about half what welded- on’ fenders cost. They speed repair jobs, too, to save you time and money! That makes them right for an economy car. It’s the same with Falcon’s single car- buretor that costs half what a dual system costs to replace. And it’s much easier to adjust since it does not require synchro- nizing with a twin. But a true economy car must have fine- car quality to keep resale value high. And that’s where the Falcon shines brightest! Try these simple quality tests. Push your hand against the Falcon’s “ceiling.” You'll find a deep layer of sound-conditioning material. Feel the texture of that beautiful upholstery. Inspect the workmanship of each bright metal detail. That’s quality you can see and feel. Economy where it pays...quality where it counts! That’s the Falcon...easiest car in the world to own. THE eo F Alcorn FORD FORD DIVISION, Pordolor Company, When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 153

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MIXTURE is 94% Deisel oil, 3% Malathion and 3% Lethane 384. Mosquitoes won’t attend your next lawn party if you fog the yard beforehand with insecticides. AY lawn mower using an internal combustion engine can double as a pest-control machine by laying down a bug-killing fog of insecticide. Simply run a length of pipe between muffler and motor and allow the insecticide to drip into it via a tube connecting the pipe with a small tank installed on the mower. The hot pipe then burns off the insecticide as a fog.—Hal Kelly BUG BOMBARDIER opens the insecticide feed line just before heading out on Operation Skeeter-Kill. 154 WOODEN CHEMICAL STRAP CONTAINER CRADLES 6> PA 1—REMOVE MUFFLER VALVE N METERS FLOW OF METAL LIQUID SUPPORT INTO MANIFOLD 7 TN ar" SECTION OF PIPE 5 FOR FITTING na DM \ Sh § TO EXHAUST HOSE 4 > Já MANIFOLD S—INSTALL MUFFLER FITTING SHOULD Ker POINT oe A O FOG COMES x A o E > @ MUFFLER

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Another contribution from DuPont _ Research! Anti-Rust Paints for every surface. “Duco” Anti-Rust Primers for damp-proof priming of rusted metal; for clean steel, tin and alu- minum; for all galvanized and cop- per surfaces! “Duco” Wrought Iron Black for exterior or interior use. “Duco” Chrome Finish Aluminum Paint. And for colored top coats doubly durable DuPont “Duco” Enamel. These new Anti-Rust Paints . .. today’s best protection for metal, indoors and out... are all at your Du Pont dealer’s—now. When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED | Outdoor furniture Gutters, downspouts Wagons, bikes, toys Ged ‘Garbage cans Buy the paint that’s worth the work—the beauty lasts aU PONT REG. u, S. paT. OFF. BETTER THINGS FOR BETTER LIVING... THROUGH CHEMISTRY 155

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plus a BULL-DOG GRIP NEW TYPE of gas meter being installed by the Long Island Lighting Company is located on the exterior of the house instead of in cellar. No more rumpus room interference! No. 718 Long-reach Flat-Nose Plier Looking for a precision plier that really takes hold in hard-to-reach places? Here’s your answer . . . this specially designed CHANNELLOCK Flat-Nose Plier. Just the ticket for electrical, radio, TV, Hi-Fi and other electronics work. Micro-matched, scored, long, flat jaws. Comfortable, blue-plastic grips. Top quality, polished forged steel. Ask your tool supplier for a CHAN- NELLOCK No. 718 Fiat-Nose Plier. If he’s out of them, ask him to order one for you. Write for Catalog of og me * Complete Line of Pliers i eee WATER HAMMER eliminator can be mounted CHAMPION DEARMENT TOOL COMPANY into any convenient “tee.” Stops pipes from Meadville 3, Pennsylvania clanging. Neoprene expansion chamber is enclosed inside a threaded brass cylinder. General Fittings Co., East Greenwich, R. I.

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ASK THE EXPERTS! ‘Men who work on America’s top construction jobs work with America’s top saws—built by Black & Decker! That same tough dependability; prized on big construc- tion jobs, makes a Black & Decker Saw your best choice —whether you use it on the job or around your home. B&D 14" Deluxe Utility Drill. More power for There’s extra built-in power, speed, accuracy and ease filling and driving attachments Compact . of handling for more work with less maintenance. Ask the Drills from $16.95. Attachments at $14.95. experts, they’ tell you to put your money on B&D! Choose from five great models—from 64” to 914 ” blade diameter. Priced from $49.95. For free power tool cat- alog, write: THE BLACK & Decker Mre. Co., Dept. F-040, Towson 4, Maryland. Ai YEAR B&D’s Dustless Finishing Sander is so dustless you can sand and paint side by side! Long on power—light on weight. Attach to any lb e. ® vacuum cleaner. B&D Sanders from $29.95. When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 157 WORLD’S LARGEST MAKER OF PORTABLE ELECTRIC TOOLS

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SEPTIC TANK PERCOLATION TEST Can you install a practical septic tank system on your home site? This simple test will tell you. By Kirk Polking LANNING to build or buy a home in an area where the septic tank waste disposal system is used? If so, you may save yourself money and ag- gravation later by making a simple test on the site now. Many owners who failed to take the precaution of checking the absorption qualities of their soil have had the unpleasant problem of sewage backing up into their frontyards. The percolation test devised by the Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering BRANCH LINES FOR EXTRA BATH SIZE OF FIELD DETERMINED BY PERCOLATION TEST TYPICAL SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM Center of the U. S. Public Health Serv- ice requires only a few materials: a posthole digger, a small amount of gravel, a yardstick, a board, a watch and a supply of water. To make the test, only a few simple preparatory steps are required: (1) Dig or bore a hole four to eight inches in diameter and two- and-a-half to three feet deep; (2) Scratch the sides and bottom of the hole with a knife to roughen the surface; (3) Remove all loose soil from the hole; BACKFILL HAY OR ASPHALT FELT DRAIN TILE WITH TAR PAPER JOINTS OR PERFORATED ORANGEBURG PIPE

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(4) Add two inches of fine gravel to the bottom of the hole. When the hole is ready, the soil must be fully saturated and swelled before the test can be conducted. Soils are considered saturated when the water stands between the soil particles; they are considered swelled when the water has soaked into the individual soil par- ticles and caused them to meld together. This is accomplished quickly in a sandy type of soil but the process is slow in a clay type and should be allowed to take place overnight. When it is accom- plished, it simulates the condition the soil will be in during the wettest season of the year. To make sure the soil is thoroughly soaked, you should maintain a minimum depth of 12 inches of water in the hole for at least four hours before allowing it to soak and swell overnight. In some soils, it may be necessary to add water only every hour or so; extremely sandy soils will require filling more often. If it is inconvenient to remain at the site for over a four-hour period, you can let a jug do the work for you. As illus- trated in one of the drawings,\it will act as a siphon to keep water in the hole. Get a five-gallon distilled water jug from a drug store or use a five-gallon gas can from a filling station. Make a plug for the neck of the jug from a cork or a rubber stopper, inserting two pieces of copper tubing, one to let air into the jug and one to let water run into the hole. If a gas can is used, the cop- per tubes can be soldered into holes punched in the screw-type cap. The hole should be filled with clear water to a minimum depth of 12 inches over the gravel. Then the jug or can is filled with water and turned upside down over the hole to let the water drip out and main- tain the depth of 12 inches. You can leave it this way to soak overnight be- fore going back to make the percolation test. The next day, adjust the water level in the hole to a depth of six inches, either removing water if it is still standing or adding it if the hole is empty. Then measure the drop in water level at ap- proximately 30-minute intervals for four hours, refilling to a level of six April, 1960 POSTHOLE DIGGER is used to make a hole’ of at least 4-inch dia. and 2'%-foot depth. WATER is kept in hole overnight since soil must be thoroughly soaked for test. TEST is measurement of minutes it takes water to fall 1 inch when soil is soaked. 159

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CROSS SECTION OF TEST HOLE WATER JUG en een Mw eet DURING STS > GAL SOAKING ` ply oes oA PERIOD —— TER inches as necessary. From the drop that occurs in the final 30-minute period, cal- culate the number of minutes it would take for the water level to drop one inch. This is the percolation rate. ~ Using the handy table, you will quick- ly see the size of the absorption area needed for the size house you plan to build or buy. For the purpose of sim- plicity, this table relates the size of the house to the number of bedrooms it con- tains. It also takes into account that you may want to have a garbage disposal and an automatic washing machine draining into the tank. In any case, the absorption area provided should be for at least a two-bedroom house. Thus, if ‘tthe time required for the water to fall one inch is two minutes—and you have a two-bedroom house or less—the ab- sorption area should be at least 170 square feet (2 times 85). If you havea three-bedroom house and the water drop is one inch in four minutes, the absorption area should be at least 345 square feet (3 times 115). If your building site is on sandy soil in which the first six inches of water dis- appears in less than 30 minutes after the overnight soaking, the whole test will take but one hour since you can make 160 health department. PERCOLATION RATE (Time required for water to fall 1 in.) ABSORPTION AREA (Multiply by the number of bedrooms) Minute Minutes Minutes Minutes Minutes Minutes | Minutes Minutes Minutes Minutes 70 Square Feet 85 Square Feet 100 Square Feet 115 Square Feet 125 Square Feet 165 Square Feet 190 Square Feet 250 Square Feet 300 Square Feet 330 Square Feet your measurements every ten minutes, using the drop in the final ten minutes to calculate your percolation rate. For help in selecting the most practi- cal site for a septic tank, consult your county agricultural agent who probably has detailed soil maps of the local areas. Further information on septic tank sys- tems can be obtained from your local You'll need their approval anyway when you make the installation. ° PERCOLATION TEST SET-UP z= PERCOLATION TEST a -= S DOWNWARD ERATE IS READ HERE, IN INCHES PREVIOUSLY SATURATED SOIL 6 INCHES OF WATE IN HOLE GRAVEL= Mechanix Illustrated

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Carefree Boating Starts with Delco DC Marine Batteries! It’s fitting-out time... and getting things shipshape begins with installing a depend- able Delco DC Marine Battery! All the features that make Delco famous in the automotive field are found in these 100% fresh marine models . . . plus special features for those who want the best for their boats. Delco DC is dry charge . . . stays bone dry until you buy it, then delivers 100% fresh power for dependable starts in all kinds of weather plus plenty in reserve for emergencies. 12-volt models for out- boards, 8-volt for inboard use. Get all the power you pay for with Delco DC... product of Delco-Remy, manufacturer of a complete line of fine ignition parts. Your battery dollar buys more with Delco! YACHT ROPE HANDLES with polyethylene sleeves, bonded into case; flexible, non-conductive, resist acid and salt. STAINLESS STEEL TERMINAL CONNECTIONS resist corrosion. Wing nuts spin on and off quickly, easily, make secure connections. SFLASH:PROOF VENT. CAPS with special traps let gas escape but keep battery uid in. ALL HARD RUBBER CASE resists shock, stands up under extreme heat or cold. RUBBER SEPARATORS provide uniform fluid action on plate surfaces, prevent active material transfer between positive and negative plates. SPECIAL ALLOY GRIDS for long life, even current distribution, resistance to over-charge damage. HIGH-PURITY ACTIVE MATERIALS improve low temperature power, minimize self-discharge. Delco is another General Motors reliable product available through T UMSE SE E MOTORS SSIES <

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Electric Door Opener [Continued from page 115] Edwards Company of Norwalk, Conn., and are available from hardware and electric supply stores. Use an ordinary ten-volt bell trans- former, or, if you prefer, a six-volt dry cell battery for your power supply. If you al- ready have a transformer in use for your doorbell, you can tap into it. Connections are made with ordinary No. 18 bell wire or even lamp wire. The transformer can be plugged into an electric outlet or be fitted into the knock- out in a junction box. The Edwards trans- former has an expandable nipple which locks in the knockout when you tighten a screw, as well as metal flanges for mount- ing on wall or baseboard. One wire is run from one of the low volt- age terminals on the transformer directly to a terminal on the door release. The wire connecting to the transformer’s other low- voltage terminal is branched, each branch connecting to a floor tread switch at a con- venient spot under a mat on either side of the door. Both branch wires are then re- joined and connect to the second terminal on the door release. You can run the low-voltage connecting wires inconspicuously along baseboards and door frames, holding them in place with baseboard clips or insulated staples. If you use a stapling gun, exercise care not to staple through the insulation. Wires can also be run under a door saddle or be fed below the floor, completely out of sight, through tiny holes. To install the mortise- type opener, drill a series of holes with a one-inch bit to the required size, then square the mortise with a chisel. This door release installation has other applications. It can serve as a secret opener to a storeroom, workshop, or other room that you want to keep locked at all times but to which you yourself want immediate access without the nuisance of a key. A similar set-up can also be used as a gate opener or to keep a child or pet in a fenced yard, but intruders out. ® LOOKING FOR LONGER Iron Sn P| Age Me), | 162 ith NEO WEAR IN SAFETY SHOES? 2a & g Ae ia L” SOLES! Neoprene soles give longer wear ... resist oil, grease, chemicals and cold weather cracking. Neoprene soles Don i PRENE are resilient . . . cushion each step... help make standing jobs less tiring. Ask for neoprene soles the next time you buy safety shoes. RLG. u. $, pat. OFF- BETTER THINGS FOR BETTER LIVING... THROUGH CHEMISTRY Mechanix Illustrated ~i

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WEEKEND PROJECT MAKE THIS your next weekend project! Just look at the differ- ence the glazing of this garage door made in this workshop corner. Both pictures were taken under identical outdoor lighting conditions. Exposure: five sec- onds at £32, Eastman Royal pan. Se ee A FIRST STEP is to drill THEN USE A PORTABLE saber saw AFTER TRIMMING and a pilot hole in each to cut away the wood between sanding, apply a coat of corner of the wood panel. the stiles of the garage door. paint to the exposed wood. QUARTER-ROUND molding should be in- AFTER installing the glass (have it cut at stalled so that it is flush with the inside of least % inch scant) the final step consists the door. Set the brads below surface. of puttying. Paint after the putty has dried. 163

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HAROWARE STORE PUSH a button on this refrigerator and you convert compartment into a freezer unit. Philco Corp., Philadelphia 34, Pa. | Hygrometer HUMIDITY range from 25% to 75% is indicated on hygrometer. $7.95. Elden Sales, 920 E. Lincoln, Birmingham, Mich. IGNITION booster improves car engine per- formance, is simple to install. Cost, $9.95. R. D. Fageol Co., Kent, Ohio nate TOOL basket is water-repellant can- ALUMINUM is easily soldered with a new vas over tinned steel wire frame, $2.75. tool which eliminates tinning and _ fluxing. Handy Folding Pail Co., Inc., 17 Thompason St., N. Y. 10 Reynolds Metals Co., Richmond, Ya. 164 Mechanix Illustrated

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WHAT'S NEW A chemical that dissolves fuel tank sludge, Tank-Cue, is sold by Docu- ment House, Box 242, Greenwich, Conn. . . . Edith’s Custom Craft, 41 River St., Deep River, Conn., markets an inflatable hanger for drip-drying. ... A wall chart on grinding wheel safety is available from the Grinding Wheel Institute, 2130 Keith Bldg., Cleveland 15, Ohio. Write on com- pany letterhead. ... Solder in a tube is made by Hercules Chemical Co., 416 Broadway, New York 13, N. Y. ... For a free list showing all FM radio stations in the U. S., write to Blonder-Tongue, Inc., 9 Alling St. k PLASTIC PASTE mends NEW LINE OF lamps burn Newark 2, N. J. wood, plastic or metal. with the effect of a flame. Baird Dynamic Corp., Duro-Lite Lamps, Inc., Stratford, Conn. North Bergen, N. J. BASIN WRENCH has pivoting head and a PLASTIC strips replace torn ladders in long handle for those hard-to-reach spots. venetian blind tapes. Price, 39c a dozen. Schaul Mfg. Co., 6300 Roland Ave., Cleveland 27, Ohio Slat-Fix Co., 72 Spruce St., Hicksville, N. Y. FOLD-AWAY propane stove has a carrying PLANE with four-edge, disposable cutter case that acts as a windscreen, is $13.95. blade eliminates the need for sharpening. Turner Corp., Sycamore, IN. Sears, Roebuck and Co., Chicago 7, Ill. April, 1960 165

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Angular drilling for the splayed legs on a coffee table is no problem with this tool because the angle of right or left tilt can be set by a cali- brated scale and locked into position. Resetting head to vertical position is simplified by setting of the automatic stop into a milled groove. Inlay routing in the center of a 30” x 40” project is pos- sible because there is 1634” ca- pacity between the column and therouter bit. Use of the fastest of the four speeds available makes this a smooth operation. Controls are conveniently grouped “up front” for safe, positive action. Spindle drilling on an extra long hand rail does not require a special fixture or jig because the head tilts. Big 34” x 2334" x 15%" table gives adequate support while remaining par- allel to the base. Laminated wood work surface is mounted to a fully machined 844” x 9” cast iron table.

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Here’s just what you’d expect from Delta—a brand new radial drill—spe- cifically designed to handle drilling jobs you can’t do on a conventional drill press. There is almost no limit to the flexibility this tool puts at your fingertips—and you'll really appreci- ate the big capacity. The head swivels 360° around the column, tilts more than 90° left and right, travels almost a foot forward and back—yet the work always remains parallel with the base. You can drill to the center of a 32” circle, rout, sand, mortise, do dozens of operations at your choice of four speeds (700,1250,2400,4700 r.p.m.) on a wide variety of materials. See the world’s most complete line of home workshop power tools and accessories— pictured and described in this colorful, Company, Delta Power Tool Division, 556D N. Lexington Ave., Pittsburgh 8, Pa. In Canada: Rockwell Manufacturing Com- pany of Canada, Ltd., Guelph, Ontario. FREE Homecraft catalog. Write to: Rockwell Manufacturing New radial drill press makes “impossible” drilling easy DELTA 32” RADIAL DRILL—basic ma- chine complete with 4” capacity geared chuck, belt and motor pulley. Weig ht 85 lbs—only $89. 50 (slightly Bigheri in the West). You can count on this tool to extend your skill, broaden your range of proj- ects. And because you know tools, you know you can count on the precision, ruggedness and safety that Delta’s 31 years of experience build into tools used throughout industry and in home workshops. Consider the many ways you can do more jobs better, quicker and easier with the newest Delta tool—you’ll want to see the Radial Drill in action! Visit your Delta Dealer (he’s listed under “TOOLS” in the Yellow Pages) or your leading Department, Hard- ware or Building Supply Store. Do it soon! DELTA POWER TOOLS another fine product by ROCKWELL“ 167

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CREATED FOR THE PARTICULAR CRAFTSMAN Porter-Cable ORBITAL-ACTION ELECTRIC HAND SAW From the manufacturer of the world’s finest professional tools comes this versatile Model 152—actually 7:saws in one! Use it for hundreds of jobs—it’s a ripsaw, cross- cut, coping, keyhole, scroll, jig, and hacksaw. Many Porter-Cable features make it the most popular tool for every home craftsman—exclusive trigger-control gives you hairline accuracy, patented “Magic Circle” Insert Disc virtually eliminates chipping of plywood, blower gives constant visibility of cutting line, cuts 2x 4’s fast at 45°. This remarkable all-purpose saw can be used for all types of cabinet work, home con- struction, metal working, and countless hobby projects. See your Porter-Cable dealer NOW—or write for folder. PORTER-CABLE MACHINE COMPANY 6264 Marcellus St., Syracuse 4, N. Y.

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Your Own Tube Tester [Continued from page 113] TESTING TUBES. The tube chart tells how to set the switches for the tube under test. crutch tip is cemented into the top of the base. Separate the other end of the cord and solder a long headless brass escutcheon nail to each wire. Then wrap several turns of friction tape around the connections to serve as finger grips. To use the continuity tester, plug it into the eight-tube socket of the tube tester and move the Power switch to the Hi position. With the selector switches in the K posi- tion, switch 4 or 5 (but not both) is moved to the P position. The neon light will glow when you touch the prongs together. It will also glow when the prongs are touched to the leads of a good resistor, but not when touched to the leads of a good condenser. ® TEXT tells how to make your own continuity tester for checking resistors and condensers. What’s Your Plan, Man? A limited number of full-size plans for these popular MI models are still available. Check off the peas you want on the coupon below. As always, it’s first come, first serve—so mail in your order today and get in on the fun. 1. Here’s an 18-inch scale model of the Chevrolet Cor- vette. It has a Fiberglas body, takes a .14 gas engine and will do about 40 mph. Real head and tail lights add to the realism. 2. Scamper is a powerful propeller-driven car or boat that will speed down a runway, at the end of a tether or over the water at speeds ranging from 20 to 40 mph. Length is 15 inches. 3. The North American Navion is a smooth-flying con- trol-line model. It has a 36-inch wing span and takes a -19 to .49 engine. Plans include photos, material list and instructions. Send 50¢ for each plan ordered to Mechanix Illustrated Plan Service, Fawcett Building, Greenwich, Connecticut. Please send me the plans I have checked. I am enclosing the required amount. O Corvette No. M-243 O Scamper No. M-242 O Navion No. 369 I am also enclosing 10¢ for your latest MI Plans Catalog containing pictures and descriptions of 132 plans. (] S O ss ns oe D GA OBA CAT OO OAA OBSER Ot 8 A A o ea

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“KANGAROO” LAMP TABLE It has built-in storage for 48 paperback books. 170 By Roe John TS handsome table was designed to match the sofa bed featured in the August 59 issue of MI. Like that trim piece of modern furniture, it’s made of rich walnut and has tapered brass legs. The top is unique in that it has a built-in book trough which holds approximately four dozen pocket-size novels neatly stacked on edge. Material requirements for the project are few. You’ll need a 30x30-inch sheet of 34-inch lumber-core walnut plywood, Mechanix Illustrated

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a 24x24-inch sheet of quarter-inch wal- þe salvaged from waste 1x4-inch stock. nut plywood and 11 feet of 1x4-inch The 14-inch high brass legs are available solid walnut. A five-foot length of %4x34-. from the Dennix Co., 33-04 Downing St., inch trim to border the book trough may Flushing 54, N. Y. Bee marx -o = Vag" JOINT TRIM ae A 144" DIVIDER; =. ie MITERED AT ENDS ae N ve a ; PivWoon ‘SIDES CUTOUT FOR Ya" x29441 X29 WALNUT VENEER TOP HAPED EDGE 3/167x34” DADOES — W STOCK LEG PAD TWO-POSITION ~ METAL PAD COMMERCIAL LEGS (4) S As is evident from the drawing, con- struction is rather basic. Cutting the top 4 presents no problem except for the fact : that the average jig saw won’t permit a full swing of the 30x30-inch panel. Therefore, to cut the rectangular open- ing, you'll have to bore a hole at each Dove corner of the outline and saw from both Fyre directions on the long sides. When the top is cut and sanded JIG SAW is used to cut rectangular opening in walnut plywood table top. 171

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smooth, the skirts are next. A little care should be taken here because one thing which will do more than any- thing else to mar the beauty of the finished piece is a poorly-mitered, patched-up corner. Yet there is no magic formula for achieving a truly professional miter joint. Success de- pends entirely upon the effort you put into making preliminary trial cuts. Due to human or mechanical error, you can’t always go by the reading of the angle scale on your bench saw. So, take two pieces of scrap wood, make the 45° cuts and fit them to the table top. If the angles don’t butt exactly, ad- just the saw blade and try again. You'll soon achieve a perfect fit and then all parts can be sanded smooth before as- sembly. A few words on gluing are in order: Don’t try to squeeze the sap out of the wood with clamps. All that is neces- sary for a good bond is a firm meeting of both surfaces with a very thin film of good glue between. Be moderate in applying the glue. Flooding the joints will cause trouble; glue which oozes out on the finish surface is tough to remove and will always leave its mark, For the finish, two coats of Weld- wood Satinlac lacquer were applied and each [Continued on page 177] LEGS are hand-tightened in brackets which are screwed to one-inch corner blocks. 172 SQUARE up the miter gauge and tilt the arbor precisely 45° for an accurate joint. CLAMPS hold the skirts until glue sets; soft wood under jaws protects the walnut. SHAPER molds edges of the skirts; use a hold-down, keep hands away from cutter. April, 1960

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Your New Valiant [Continued from page 131] speeds as well as at idling. Valiant owners shouldn’t have to fast-idle the engine to keep an ailing battery on charge. Those special battery vent caps should not be replaced with ordinary caps since they serve to prevent escape of battery spray during periods of excessive charg- ing. Because the hood is low and near the battery, the new-type caps prevent corro- sion of the metal. Just for the record, the 12-volt battery has 54 plates and the nega- tive terminal is grounded. This matter of negative grounding is especially important because of the use of the alternator. Should a replacement bat- tery be installed and connected with its positive terminal grounded, the rectifiers may be burned out. Also keep in mind that if the alternator is to be disassembled, the brush assemblies should be removed first; otherwise they may be damaged. A pre- lubricated ball bearing supports the rotor shaft of the alternator at one end and a pre-lubricated roller bearing does the job at the other end. Low output, accompanied by a growl or hum is the result of a shorted phase or a shorted rectifier, whereas too high an output is caused by an open recti- fier or open phase. When I took the wheel of a Valiant dem- onstrator, I cranked the engine by flipping the ignition key to the right. Just to the left of the steering post, on the dash, are the buttons for operating the special Torque- flite transmission. When I pressed the Drive button and accelerated the engine, the car did not move. I had released the parking brake over at the left side of the cowl and I was sure I had pressed the Drive button all the way in. Then it was that I noticed a small lever marked Park just below the transmission button control group. The car can be locked up through its transmission for added protection in the event of trouble with the parking brake. Pushing up this little lever released the car for action and away I went. ~ The special automatic transmission is wrapped in a one-piece aluminum housing and is. water-cooled. It holds 13 pints of special automatic transmission oil and has three forward speeds. This is handy for ob- [Continued on page 174] When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED THE WELDWOOD TIPS ON WOOD FINISHING from our file of “most-asked" questions. Q. How can I prevent knotty pine paneling from turning yellow? A. First, sand wood thoroughly, then apply a first coat of new Weldwood® Satinlac Lightener right away. This anti-wetting agent pre- serves the light, freshly sanded vir- gin tone of the wood—withstands yellowing or darkening with age. Follow with 2 coats of new, improved Weldwood Satinlac for a lasting, soft-luster finish. Satinlac’s built-in ultraviolet screen provides additional protec- tion against color change from sun’s rays. Q. Is it possible to give exterior wood a stain that resists fading? A. It certainly is! New Weldwood Exterior Stains are a deep-penetrat- ing combination of hard-drying re- sins, oils, and pigments that last through rain, sun, and wear. Choose from 4 natural-looking stains: Red- wood, Driftwood, Sierra Brown, and Cascade Green. Each subtly brings out the wood’s native grain while adding rich, beautiful color. To protect wood from termites, rot, use new Weldwood Wood Preservative. This high “penta” sealer makes an excellent foundation for stains, paints, or varnish. Send your questions on wood finishing, gluing, and working with plywood and prefinished wood paneling to: The Weldwood Workshop Clinic, United States Plywood, 55 W, 44th Street, New York 36, N. Y. WELDWOOD WOOD FINISHES Satiniac® « Satinlac Lightener e Firzite® Wood Preservative e Putty Stiks® « Exterior Stains Trim Stains • Paste and Liquid Paste Wax. 173

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UNDERWATER WORK by John E. Caytford; 232 pgs.; $5.00. ANUAL for Scuba divers concerns commercial, salvage and construction operations; includes chapters on cutting and welding, safety measures, laying pipe, blasting, photography and other subjects; the book for the underwater worker who’s going into business for himself; illustrated. 3k * * PRINTED CIRCUITS by Morris Moses; Gernsback Library; 224 pgs.; $2.90. VIRTUAL encyclopedia on the title subject; tells how such circuits are made and used, what components are used with them and how to maintain and apply them in home, industrial and test equip- ment. Cornell Maritime Press; * k & SPORTS CARS OF THE FUTURE by Strother MacMinn; Sports Car Press; $2.90. Ts 126-page paperback describes in text, drawings and photos an eye-pop- ping array of tomorrow’s super-sleek road monarchs—a preview to excite the most blasé car buff. * * * LOOKING AT THE STARS by Michael W. Ovenden; Philosophical Library; 192 pgs.; $4.75. F. bopa that gives young star gazers an understandable interpre- tation of the wonderful ways of the heavens; profusely illustrated, it is an ex- cellent introduction to astronomy for youthful enthusiasts. THE FIRST QUARTER-CENTURY OF STEAM LOCOMOTIVES IN NORTH AMERICA by Smith Hempstone Oliver; U. S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution; 112 pgs.; $1.00. ANS of the old-time iron horse will cherish this little bulletin written by the Smithsonian’s Curator of Land Transpor- tation; text, diagrams and photos review the early history of the steam locomotive; also tells which original locomotives still survive and where they’re located.—D.H. 174 Your New Valiant [Continued from page 173] taining added engine compression braking when going downhill, using the button marked 2 for a 1.45 to 1 ratio. Low, or but- ton 1, has 2.45 ratio and should be used for very steep downgrades. Valiant’s brakes carry riveted brake lining with a total area of 153.5 square inches. The parking brake operates me- chanically through both shoes of each rear wheel rather than on a drum on the pro- peller shaft. Applied by pressing a pedal, the parking brake is released by pulling up on a small lever. When you lift the hood of the luggage compartment you are immediately aware that it is nicely counterbalanced with springs and needs no folding bar to keep it raised. While the lid carries a simulated covered spare, like some other Chrysler cars, the spare is actually located in the flooring so that the trunk has 24.9 cubic feet of storage space. This is the only new compact available with power steering. The arrangement is smaller than on the Plymouth but servic- ing is essentially the same. It’s a full-time system and only Mopar power steering fluid should be used. For the manual steer- ing gear, which is a worm and recirculating ball type, two adjustments are required. One is for worm bearing pre-load, the other for ball nut and sector gear mesh. It is important that any such adjustments be made carefully and in a special order rec- commended by the factory. If an adjust- ment is needed, make sure the mechanic follows instructions given in Valiant’s service information bulletin, No. 19-1. Some of the early cars came off the as- sembly line with brass studs at each end of the exhaust manifold. If these fail, they should be replaced with steel studs, part No. 2121585. To take off an old stud, just lock two nuts together on the stud and then unscrew the inside nut. The job can be done in a half hour. Valiant carries a special version of Chrysler Corporation Torsion-Aire sus- pension which has nothing to do with air. It is a combination of torsion rods, ball joints, Oriflow shock absorbers and asym- metrical leaf rear springs. Sedans have April, 19690

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Your New Valiant four leaves in each rear spring; station wagons (the Suburbans) have five leaves. Front shackles of the rear springs are a pivot type while the rears are shackled; both are rubber-bushed. This means that no petroleum lube should be applied if squeaking develops. Use brake fluid or special lube for rubber. Due to the fact that the standard trans- mission is rotated 30° to the left to reduce the floor hump, the shift lever is mounted on the floor at the driver’s right hand. ® The proot is in the puffing and P. A. has the flavor most favored in the U.S. A. e always tastes fresh e mild, mellow flavor Sh. cool ’n’ steady burning FERLIN HUSKY OF “GRAND OLE OPRY” R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. America’s Largest-Selling Smoking Tobacco! PRINCE ALBER When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED š 175

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you can always BE SURE OF A JOB FOLEY SAW FILER Have you been laid off—or afraid you may be? If you want security, plus a bigger income too—don't look for a_job—start your own spare time business. In his first 2 months J. P. Robitaille earned $300 with his Foley S ._ Fro his starting day R. T. Hart made $600 in 4 months. Frank P. Layne wrol ‘In our town of 2,800 instead of 200 to 300 saws I did over 1, 500 the first year, averaging about $1.50 each.’ FREE booklet “MONEY MAKING FACTS” shows you how to get business. The new Model 200 sharpens hand, band and both ‘‘combination’’ and crosscut circular saws. Use our Time Payment Plan—pay for the machine out of your CASH profits. Send coupon today—no obligation, and no salesman ‘will call. Send Free Booklet ana Time Payment Pla on Foley Saw Filer. Name Seah tubs: IRRIGATES - CIRCULATES - SPRAYS 1,001 uses. Stainless shaft. Pon t rust or clog! Use Ye HP motor or larger. 34 HP for up to 3,000 GPH; 450 Ge "i 86" high: Eo 1,800 DRAINS cellars, ‘cisterns, GPH from 25’ well. 1” i Coupling included Trea: ans Hesvy Duty Ball- „Bearing Pum ‚500 GPH 11⁄4” inlet; 1” outlet. Postpaid if cash with order. Also other sizes, types. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE LABAWCO PUMPS, Belle Mead 30, N. J. QUICK! Pep it up with a few drops of 3-IN-ONE. Lubricates chain, coaster brake and pedals. Prevents rust, too. 3-IN-ONE OQIL REGULAR - OIL SPRAY - ELECTRIC MOTOR J-IN-ONE niL 176 A Fresh Water System [Continued from page 143] forward solution would be to weld a fitting for a petcock in the top of the tank. How- ever, we had neither means nor knowledge of welding, so the tube method was de- vised. This calls for drilling a diagonal hole in the nipple so that %-inch O.D. copper tubing can be worked through and bent in an arc to come close to the inside top cen- ter of the installed tank. Determine the length and bend of the tubing by trial and error and then solder it in place, taking care not to clog the inside of the nipple with solder. Though the intake is restricted by the tubing, the tank fills quite rapidly; however, it would not be wise to restrict it further. When the nipple is finally tight- ened into the tank, the location of the petcock on the outside can be used to de- termine that the tube is pointing upward on the inside. At the outlet end of the tank, the nipple will have to be reamed a bit in order to force the 3%-inch copper tubing in for sol- dering. When this is done, a scratch or a dab of paint on the nipple, opposite the downward curve of the tubing, will indi- cate the correct position of the tubing when the joint is finally made up. The valve on the outlet side really isn’t necessary but was installed as a means of testing the system for leaks. It is followed by a nipple and an air valve stem extension which is available at auto supply stores. As indicated in the drawing, it might be de- sirable to install a valve above the tee to keep water from squirting at the instant the tire pump is being removed. This, how- ever, is of minor importance. Naturally, all pipe fittings should be brass for ease of soldering and freedom from rust. To fill the tank, normal pressure from a water system is required. You could not, for instance, pour water in if the tank were standing on end. In practice, we seldom use the air vent to fill the tank to capacity. We’ve found that filling the tank as much as possible without venting compresses the air inside and provides pressure that allows us to take several one-day trips without refilling or using the tire pump. On long cruises, we fill the tank to capacity and use the pump several times until the water drop allows pressure build-up. ° April, 1960

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Kangaroo Lamp Table [Continued sips page 172] TRIM is temporarily fastened with brads to test fit at the corners before applying glue. lightly rubbed with a fine (00) steel wool. Then a dry stick filler was applied to the few nail holes. Two coats of wax, rubbed down, will make the walnut sparkle with a smooth, silky look. OUTSIDES may be sanded after assembly but top and insides should be sanded in advance. When Answering Advertisements, Please REVOLUTIONARY. NEW DESIGN SAVES YOU $20 TO $40 NEVER BEFORE POSSIBLE AT SO LOWAPRICE = “A. NOW og (shipped complete as Y ONLY $1995 SOLD DIRECT FROM FACTORY Patents pending on revolutionary new engineering developments make this bargain possible. This is a power plane with all the features of machine tools costing 3 times OUR PRICE. it planes, rabbets, bevels, aids beveling and glueing joints; is so rugged and durable we guarantee it unconditionally for ten years. SEE THESE QUALITY FEATURES All cast iron and steel construction è Balanced steel cutter head e Hardened and ground knives © Pre- cision ground cast iron tables e Rugged cast iron base ¢ Table depth adjustable 0” to y3” e Cast fence with single action cam lock e Pat. lift-off aluminum guard œ Big, full size—22” long © Shp. wt. 25 Ibs. Order By Mail — Sold Direct From Factory to You SEND $19.95 CHECK OR M.O. OUR 30TH YEAR} SENT C.O.D. WITH $3.00 DEPOSIT (If not completely satisfied after ten days return for full refund.) Shipped express collect. AMERICAN MACHINE & TOOL CO., INC. ROYERSFORD 1, PENNSYLVANIA BLADE TILTS — TABLE STAYS LEVEL@~ Heavy duty all cast iron R2 and steel construction. Precision ground cast iron table. Price in- cludes massive cast iron mitre gauge and pat- ented motor drive that fits any motor. Cross cuts, rips, bevels, mitres, dadoes, cuts compound angles — everything expected of saws costing four times as much. Depth of cut adjustable; 0” to 214 — table always level. Send check or M.O. $2.00 deposits on C.O:D.'s. SPECIAL BARGAIN — This saw is our 1959 model. Each saw is brand new — sent to you in factory sealed cartons. Sold and guaranteed direct from the factory to you at a fantastic bargain. FREE 10 DAY TRIAL — MONEY BACK GUARANTEE Try this famous saw 10 days. If you are not satisfied that it does the work of any tilt arbor saw, regardless of price, return for immediate money back refund. Complete as Shown Sent Express Collect We reserve right to refund money if stock is exhausted AMERICAN MACHINE & TOOL CO. ROYERSFORD 1, Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 177

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& Command Performance- with \ GRAVELY Power! y Gravely does the jobs other tractors can’t! The unmatched performance of the Gravely Tractor gives you dependable. POWER at your command to mechanize your lawn, garden and farm jobs. POWER to mow the toughest rough or the finest lawn. Choose from 30 job-proved tools. NEW full-flow Oil Filter, NEW Power —now 6.6 HP! All-Gear Drive, Optional Starter. Riding or Steering Sulkies. Ask your authorized Gravely Sales and Service Dealer for a FREE DEMONSTRA- BRAVELY À TION. Or, write for FREE 24-page s\ “Power vs Drudgery” Booklet today! GRAVELY TRACTORS, INC. P.0.BOX 603-D DUNBAR, W. VA. Boa? Plans 0) ATS Patterns Frame Kits KIT CATALOGS-Over 50 Models — Pre- assembled. Runabouts, Cruisers, Fish- ing (8’ to 19’). Anyone can assemble. a Complete Marine Accessories, Fiber- REDIT glass plastics, Trailers, Paint, etc. TERMS Also Catalog on 50 Mòdern Plans and Patterns. Prefab Frame Kits— SAVE 24 SEND 10c FOR 2-COLORED CATALOGS CRAIG-CRAFT, Tonawanda 1N, N. Y. \Print YourOwn Cards, Stationery, Advertising, Circulars, labels, photo and movie titles, church work, tags, etc. Save money. Sold direct from fac- tory only. Raised printing like engraving, too. Own a Printing Business Print forOthers,Good Profit. Have home shop. Junior press $15; Senior $29up. We supply eve- thing. Easyrules. Pays for self in short time. rite for free catalogof outfits and alldetails. KELSEY PRESSES, B-9 Meriden, Conn. to ya” Freel plate: ot lion uses for Home, auto, farm, inventors, factories, etc. Works from any home 110 volt plug-in. Complete with dark welders mask, arc welding and brazing rods. Comple Portable—efiicient—1 year guarantee. (cash, ck, mo) and pay postman only $9.95 SEND ONLY $3.06 pius COD postage on arrival or send $12.95 and we wili send postpaid. Ideal gift for mechanically minded home owners, relatives, friends. Order now for early delivery. Available only from: MIDWAY WELDER Dept. DMI-4 _torch, supply of carbon te Welding Instruction Book. KEARNEY. NEBR. 178 Mobile Attic Fan [Continued from page 148] incertae TWO ROUNDHEAD screws and hooks hold hardware cloth screen behind open window. which can be locked tight during the months when the fan is not in use and the installation of the fan on a wheeled box or platform which will enable you to move the fan when it is not needed. The first step is to remove the existing louver and measure the opening to de- termine what standard size casement win- dow will fit the opening. Casement win- dows are made in more than 20 sizes so the chances are you can get a window A SET of double ball-bearing casters, one in each corner, completes the box assembly. April, 1960

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Mobile Attic Fan which will fit the existing opening within one or two inches. In this particular case, a Ceco aluminum casement window, 37x383% inches (No. A2323) was used, which was the closest possible size to the window cut-out. A 2x4 at the bottom and a 1x2 at each side made up the discrepancy between the opening and the new casement window. Before the casement window was screwed in place, aluminum flashing was used at the top and bottom to insure a weathertight fit. As further insurance, the window sill at the bottom was slightly canted so that rain and snow from the glass would drain to the outside and not back into the attic. After installation, all joints were carefully caulked. Putty and paint are fine for this job. The next step was to build a boxlike platform which would center the fan in the middle of the window opening. The dimensions of the box from left to right and front to back are relatively unimpor- tant as long as there is sufficient “sitting room” for the base. However, the distance from top to bottom should be accurately determined so that the fan blades are in the exact middle of the opening. In de- termining this distance don’t forget to make allowance for the height of the cas- ters. The four, two-inch, double ball- bearing Colson casters, used for this job, are 23⁄4 inches high. To prevent birds and squirrels from en- tering the attic when the fan isn’t operat- ing, a screen made of half-inch hardware cloth mounted on a 1x2-inch framework was constructed. The screen rests on the window sill and is held in place by means of two screw eyes which slip over two roundhead screws as shown in one of the photographs. As an added precaution, an extra switch was wired in series with the fan motor. Normally, the fan is put into operation by turning on the usual switch located in the hallway. However, just to be on the safe side, this second switch was wired in series [Continued on page 186] Time-savin’ and thrifty... GO CUSHMAN, Avoid time-wasting traffic tie-ups and parking space searches. Ride a sleekly-styled Cushman scooter. You find unique enjoyment in the safe, sure way it handles .. . in a sensation of dynamic ruggedness. And you save money all-around: on initial investment, operating costs, upkeep, maintenance, taxes, insurance. © Dependable Cushman Husky 4-cycle engine © Up to 100 miles per gallon © New brake action for sure stops © Roomy built-in package compartment NEW) Low Cost SCOOTER INSURANCE Ask your dealer for a FREE demonstration or write for colorful booklet a ee ee ee eee es ee ee CUSHMAN MOTORS 1032 No. 21st, Lincoln, kis A subsidiary of Outboard Marine Corporatio! maker of Johnson and Evinrude outboard motors i r Please send Scooter booklet. Name I Address ee ee i City State, When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 179

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a | FIBERGLASS or PET WOOR BO Meel: FACTORY-DIRECT A : PRICES FREIGHT Paid to You 12, 14, 16, 18 ft. runabouts, ski- models, convertibles, utilities: $114 up. 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 ft. racing, fishing, T utilities: $41.95 up. FIBERGLASS 14 & 16 ft. From $299 (at right) Interlocking units (lower right photo) snap together, bond into l-piece boat easily assembled in one evening. Luger's pretormed preassembled units aa aré easily assembled by anyone. Equal factory-built yet save V2 to 34. FREE catalog has all details, trailers, ac- cessories, paint, Fiberglass supplies. MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE SEND FOR FREE EASY TERMS % DOWN COLOR CATALOG wuse KITS Dept. D-4. 9200 Access Rd., Minneapolis 20, Minn. CEARS in Stock - Immediate Delivery Gears, speed reducers, sprockets, thrust bear- ings, flexible couplings, pulleys, etc. A com- plete line is carried in our Chicago stock. Can also quote on special gears of any kind. Send in your blueprints and inquiries. Send for Complete Catalog No. 15 CHICAGO GEAR WORKS 440-50 N. Oakley Blvd., CHICAGO 12, ILL. SUPERSHOP includes precision- |- built 8” tilting table saw, verti- f cal and horizontal drill press, 30” . lathe, sander, grinder. 100% BALL BEARING. Write for FREE catalog, full details, trial plan. Power Tools UNITED INDUSTRIES, INC. 630 Yates Avenue, Beloit, Wisconsin Loosens Rusted Bolts nuts, screws, ‘frozen’ parts! LIQUID SUPER-PENETRANT The super-penetrating rust sol- vent that quickly loosens rust and corrosion. i, AT ALL HARDWARE J AND AUTO STORES RADIATOR SPECIALTY COMPANY Cars Built For Fun [Continued from page 64] latest, TR3, is still a fairly homely little beast; however, now it has teeth—some- times called a grille. This is the hairiest car of the whole under-$3,000 bunch and the car to buy if performance, either on a race course or in a big-time rally, is what you’re looking for. This job, selling for just below $2,700, can top 110 mph when in tune, knock hell out of ten seconds for 0-60 mph and knife through corners like a cleaver separating a rib. It is equipped with excel- lent disc brakes and a good gearbox. It has fantastic roadability and an engine as re- liable as sundown in the Poconos. The TR3 is a big-time sports car for a low budget connoisseur. As if that weren’t enough, it’s very comfortable for two people. The Fiat 1200 Spider is another rig that fits into our fun-car category. This is a neat convertible powered by a great little four-cylinder engine displacing only 74 cubic inches. It has an excellent four-speed gearbox and beautiful appointments, in- cluding swivel-out seats for easy entrance and exit, if your kilt happens to have an extra tuck in it. The performance, consid- ering the engine size, is remarkable as the car can hit a full 91 or 92 mph and break 0-60 mph in 18 seconds flat. It is comfort- able, and would be a real fun car for a couple to cruise from coast-to-coast in while getting better than 30 mpg. Though this is not a strict competition car in any sense, it certainly would be fun to have on a rally. If you happen to be married, your wife will have a ball driving it to and from the supermarket. The Austin-Healey Sprite. This is the lowest-priced car on our list that qualifies as a bonafide sports car. Selling for $1,795 in New York, and powered by a little 57 cubic-inch mill, it has a top speed that just tickles 80 mph and all the road feel of a Ferrari. When it first made its appearance about two years ago, the mounting of the two headlights (which gives it a bug-like appearance) brought a lot of adverse criti- cism but, like olives, you soon get used to them. The Sprite today is considered a very neat little fun car. It is remarkably comfortable and a real gasser to drive. If your family commitments aren’t too large (meaning more than one wife or one girl April, 1960

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friend) , you’ll get more fun out of owning a Sprite than suddenly being declared tax- exempt. The Karmann-Ghia hardly qualifies as a sports car in the true sense but gets under the wire through its good looks and thoroughly reliable Volkswagen chassis and power plant. It doesn’t have the space of a standard VW but it does have average . sports car room of the Austin-Healey type. Two people can be very comfortable on two lush seats and there’s plenty of space behind the seats for offspring or a 90-lb dog. Without kids or dog, the back com- partment can be used for extra luggage space. As a rally car, with a top speed around 80 mph, it’ll prove very adequate except in the big events where a good head of top speed and 0-60 mph in ten seconds are essential. Anyway you slice it, the Ghia is-a real fun basket for under $2,500 and from a quality standpoint it just can’t be topped for less than $3,500. It should last for years as a combination work-and-pleas- ure car and you get better than 30 mpg. The Volvo, though not considered a true sports car, has beaten a helluva-lot of real sports cars in open competition and hot rallies. Homely as a sneezing platypus, with promises of prettier models on the way, this is one of the greatest hunks of machinery produced in Sweden since Greta Garbo. Zero-60 mph in less than 13 seconds and a top speed of close to 100 mph make this job, at $2,342, a true connois- seur’s car and one I feel positive no one ever regretted buying. Its workmanship and construction are tops. The Granturismo Saab is a hopped-up version of the standard two-cycle job. It has won dozens of rallies in class competi- tion. The latest model sports a brand-new four-speed, all-synchromesh gearbox. This front-wheel drive rig is hairy enough to bring many a monster to its knees when the terrain gets tough. It is a real ball to drive. With a price of $2,768 in its Grantu- rismo suit (which means loaded with extras for rally competition) , it can top 100 mph. It’s comfortable and reliable and the array of instruments on the G.T. model would bring stars to the eyes of a Pan American pilot. This is a car for the serious rally man to consider. It has fantastic trac- tion and great roadability. [Continued on next page] new. leader in precision tools Here’s why Lufkin’s Indicator is the most sensitive! It is made with the precision of a fine watch, with jeweled bearings. The ball-bearing mounting is an exclu- sive feature that reduces friction, assures _ greater accuracy. And this Dial Test Indicator has a 180° contact point swivel. The dial has clear, easy-to-read graduations to .0001” ... and a switch lever for full reverse action. Mount this V32 on a Lufkin Miti-Mite Holder with its rigid (%6’’) center post and you have a vertical testing setup that stays firmly in place. (There’s a 50-Ib. pull magnet in the base.) YOUR INDUSTRIAL DISTRIBUTOR is the man to see for Lufkin precision © tools. Lufkin, Saginaw, Michigan. When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 181

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of the way. The gearbox is as smooth as an oiled ear lobe, with a floor shift lever about the size of an airedale’s tail. The body and frame are what they call “Uni- tary” construction, similar to what we call Unitized or Unibody—you know, together- ness. This is a great feature for eliminating squeaks and rattles and is also a weight saver. The brakes are Girling four-wheel hy- draulic; disc in the front and conventional leading and trailing shoe in the rear. The steering is clean and fast without lag. Even the severest potholes are not telegraphed up to your hands, as is the case with many light, fast cars. In addition to an excellent speedometer, you get a tachometer. The suspension has independent coils in front and semi-elliptics in the rear. The electri- cal system is 12-volt Lucas and the fuel pump is mechanical. The car also has twin horns and a blessing from Mr. Sunbeam’s mother. All this doesn’t mean a thing unless the car gets over the road right. In this depart- ment the Alpine is truly superb. It has two drawbacks and both come under the head- ing of Driver Comfort. If the motorman is any taller than an eggplant and decides to own this heap for some time, the first thing he should do is re-work the gas throttle linkage so that he’ll have more right leg room with the left-hand-drive American version. This is probably okay in England with the right-hand twirlers but not in the States models. There is enough legroom when stabbing. for the brake or clutch to satisfy Wilt The Stilt. By an odd bit of shaping under the bonnet, the firewall protrusion makes the right foot on the gas pedal feel like you’re driving a Dodgem. It would be a simple matter for a blacksmith or a quick guy with a welding torch to bend this entire array slightly to the left, giving the right foot several more inches of throttle length. If you are on the shortish side, the present set-up might not bother you in the least but if you even approach six feet you’ll be unhappy with it. I liked this car so much I was strongly thinking of buying one. If Give your son's GO-CART the sleek aluminum look made easy with Reynolds DO-IT-YOURSELF ALUMINUM Aluminum hood, grill and fittings make the slickest Go-Cart on wheels. For either push or powered car, Reyn- olds rust-free Do-It-Yourself Alumi- num lasts ages without painting. Finish easily in an afternoon using common woodworking tools and free plans (see coupon). Look for this rack at most hardware and building supply stores. Over 73 items— sheets, tubing tubing fittings window and screen frame sections =f fasteners, rod, bar angle i Reynolds Metals Co.- Richmond 18,Va. Please send your Do-It-Yourself Aluminum j How-To booklet with free Go-Cart plans. | I did, my solution would be some bending | Name ee I and repositioning of the current throttle. i This should give me all the room I need at Address I the cost of a fast $20 bill. j City. Zone State. - [Continued on next page] E al When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 183

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than an old movie with an entire cast of Lionel Barrymores. The Sunbeam Alpine isn’t the greatest sports car I’ve ever twirled down the pike but in my book, at its price tag of $2,599, it’s the best offering dollar-for-dollar and swashbuckle-for- swashbuckle since the first Austin-Healey hit here in the early 50s. This is a fun sports car that may not be sensational in 114-liter Open Racing in its present form. But as a top rally car and possibly produc- tion-class sports car, it’s going to take a lot to beat it. ° Spring Fishing [Continued from page 70] April, all along three choice miles of a single top-ranking New York trout stream, I saw men sitting in parked cars with en- gines running and heaters on full blast. Up and down the banks were groups of anglers huddled red-faced and blue-lipped around fires as a northwest breeze kept the mer- cury down to a bitter 36°F. Today there seems to be an antipathy toward wearing “long-handled”’ under- wear, especially among city slickers. So every season hundreds of thousands. of men and women set out from towns and cities for a week or more of trout or salmon fishing as soon as the season opens (some- times literally breaking the ice to get fish- ing) wearing the same thin cotton or nylon underwear that they wear in their steam- heated homes and offices. The most practical underwear that I’ve found is made by Duofold and has a cotton side next to the skin, eliminating all chance of wool itch, and a woolen side next to your outer garments. In between the two layers of cloth there is a dead air space creating a fine barrier to cold penetration, without bulk. Most stores handle these garments in all sizes. Other good types of underwear are regular woolen longies, cotton longies and thick cotton seat shirts and pants. Socks: two pairs of thin woolen socks will keep your feet warmer than one pair of thick ones. Socks should fit perfectly, without the least bit of tightness even at the toes. Most anglers make the mistake of pack- ing one thick woolen shirt for the trip. Even if this shirt is thick as a blanket, it [Continued on page 188] When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED FREE PLAN tells how to start your own business FILING SAWS Here is a steady repeat CASH business you can start in your own basement or garage in your spare time and make up to $3 or $6 an hour. You can file hand, band and both ‘‘combina- tion” and cross-cut circular saws on the new Model 200 Foley Saw Filer. No eyestrain—no experience needed. ‘‘The first saw I sharpened with my Foley Filer came out 100% ’’—writes Clarence E. Parsons. Every saw you sharpen with the Foley Saw Filer brings you more customers. “I rented a_ two-car garage and have all the work I can do” —Charles H. Smith. FREE BOOK f Shows How to Start saw sharpening charges. S coupon todays oO salesman will call. SEND. COUPON FOR FREE BOOKS ‘FOLEY MFG. CO., 445-0 Foley Bidg. Minneapolis 18, Minn. Send me free book “Money Making Facts” and Foley Price Guide of saw sharpening charges. Address r L 5 i E i i i i 5, BELT HOLSTER NOW WITH EVERY EVANS TAPE Sizes from 6 ft. to 12 ft. YOURS FREE! — A fitted belt holster with each EVANS ‘“‘White-Tape” that you buy! Metal-reinforced holster provides great on- the-job convenience — clips to the belt, for easy carrying and quick measuring. On Evans Tapes only at your hardware dealer vana RULE CO. Factories at: Elizabeth, N. J. and Montreal, Que. 185

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Mobile Attic Fan [Continued from page 179] with the first, so that the job of moving the fan and installing the screen can be done with ease of mind. This switch also permits the attic lights to be used when the fan is “off.” The louver is, of course, removed and discarded, which now makes the fan much more efficient as there is no baffling action by the louver vanes. To put the fan in operation, the windows are cranked so that they are wide open. The fan then has only to blow through the relatively friction-free hardware cloth. When the fan is not in use or when it is not needed, it can be moved out of the way with very little ef- fort. The window cranks are then access- ible for closing the casements. This setup is a big improvement over the prior one using a louver. Now the attic is flooded with daylight whether the fan is in use or not. The casement window forms an absolutely tight seal against rain and snow and the disturbing clangor of loose louver vanes during a wind storm is pleas- antly absent. If you’re wondering what the handle on the front of the platform is, it’s for a swing- ing door which covers a storage compart- ment for miscellaneous small items. —Robert Brightman Golden Hammer Awards [Continued from page 126] Pleasure Ridge Pk., Ky. ... Bernard Seguin, Ont., Can. . Norman L. Whiteley, Linwood, Pa. ... R. G. Agnew, Toronto, Ont., Can. ... P. D. Liddell, Fairfield, Ala. ... Charles J. Miller, Westville, N. J.... Ned F. Britton, Memphis, Tenn... . Ariel H. Freund, Elmhurst, Ill... . Ken Marwin, Clawson, Mich. ... Maynard L. Guilford, Mountain View, Calif. ... Henry C. Elliott. Georgetown, S. C. .. . Gus Pivano, Union City, N. J. . .. Edward Soltis, Yonkers, N. Y.... Roger E. Stiles, Clinton, Okla... . Joseph W. Scheld, Ansonia, Conn. . Glen Harnishfeger, Fort Wayne, Ind. The following craftsmen have been awarded CERTIFICATES OF MERIT for their projects: John T. Wagstaff, Allentown, Pa.... Peter Van Zanten, Skagway, Alaska. ...O. A. Smith, Harrisburg, Pa. . F. C. Feller, Cedar Rapids, Iowa... . Bob, Marge, Mitch & Craig Altschuler, Somers Point, N.J.... Albert Mark, Alpena, Mich... . Laaden Godshall, Souderton, Pa. ... Michael Allen, Middle Village, L. IL, N. Y.... Peter Pollock, Blairsville, Pa....H. Donald Tosh, Mary- ville, Tenn. . . . Frank Patterson, Coffeyville, Kan. Watch for names of more winners next month. April, 1960

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A New Pil That Helps You Quit Smoking - Science at Last Tells You What to Do if You Want to Stop Smoking By George Clark IRE INABILITY to give up smoking is one of the more curious idiosyncrasies of 20th century man. Ever since Sir Francis Drake in 1586 brought tobacco back to England from Virginia and the habit of smoking was reimported to America by the Pilgrim fathers, the ‘“‘noxious weed,” as an eminent Victorian referred to it, has had half the world in its grip. There are signs that this grip is at last being loosened. It is being loosened by a harmless little white pill. The story of how this little white pill was discovered is a curi- ous one. In 1947, doctors composing a research team at Chicago’s Loyola University, set out to study gingivitis, a rather unpleasant. inflam- mation of the gums that bedevils mankind. It had long been theorized that smoking con- tributed to this inflammation. But would stopping smoking help? In true scientific fashion our researchers decided that half of their patients should stop smoking to see if they showed any improvement over the other half. But what could they give a patient that would help him to stop smoking quickly and easily? Up to that time medical experience showed that there was no easy, pleasant way to stop smoking. Years before, some experi- mental work had been reported with a drug called Lobeline Sulphate. This curbed the desire to smoke; but in doses large enough to be effective, it produced various un- pleasant side effects. Here at least was a starting point. Soon the tail was wagging the dog and the project of finding a way to help people con- quer the tobacco habit had become the all- important problem. After months of research and experimentation, our scientists hit upon the solution. The addition of two common antacid ingredients to Lobeline Sulphate ac- complished two things. First, any unpleasant side effects were eliminated; secondly, the amount of Lobeline Sulphate necessary to do an effective job was greatly reduced. The result was a harmless little white pill which, when given to test patients, enabled them to stop smoking in 5 days! What made it work? Lobeline Sulphate is extracted from the Lobelia plant which is sometimes called ‘‘Indian Tobacco.” It is a first cousin to nicotine, mimicking its action but without its harmful effects. It works by removing the craving for nicotine in the sys- tem and not by making smoking unpleasant or intolerable. The footnote to this story is an interesting one. It turned out that smoking did irritate the gum tissues. Those gingivitis patients who, with the help of the little pill, stopped smoking, showed a marked improvement over the smoking half. And of course there was a sequel. The uni- versity realized that in this little pill they had something that thousands longed for. Here was something that would really help anybody who wanted to free him or herself from the smoking habit. More research was carried on, more tests were made on hundreds and hundreds of patients. It was proved that 83%, more than 4 out of 5, of all people who wanted to stop smoking, could do so easily and pleasantly in five to seven days with the help of the little pills. Significantly, it was found that those who didn’t stop completely had cut down their smoking drastically. This new discovery was soon reported in medical journals; demand for it came over- night from every corner of the globe. The Campana Company of Batavia, Illinois, was chosen to market these amazing pills. Today you can buy them at any drug store in the United States, under the name of Bantron, for only $1.25 a box. They are also available in Canada. Bantron has been proven so safe, it can actually be bought without a doctor’s prescription. Of course, Bantron can’t do all the work for you alone. It will not tie your hands be- hind your back. But if you really want to stop or cut down smoking, it can be a power- ful helper. As Capt. Roger Don Rae, a senior pilot for TWA, said: ‘‘I used to smoke all the time. I just couldn’t stop. Then one day I heard about Bantron. With the help of Bantron, I stopped smoking in a few days. Today I am free of the habit.” Advertisement When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 187

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I Rode An Atomic Sub [Continued from page 80] come tumbling down. The food is delicious! Here’s the lunch I devoured: pork chops with peas and pota- toes, plenty of tasty bread and butter, su- perb Navy coffee, milk and ice cream. All bread is baked aboard the boat and the ice cream also is homemade. The mess is open 24 hours a day and a sailor can fix himself a snack anytime he likes. Muscular John Novak of Antigo, Wis., was shaving in one of the heads as we passed by. He showed us the layout which includes a shower, two heads with doors for privacy, two urinals and two wash basins which fold up against the wall. Waste here is also expelled into the sea. The Seawolf carries a complement of about 89 men and 12 officers. The officers sleep in tiny two-bunk cabins off the ward- room—with the exception of the Captain who has a 6x7-foot cubicle to himself. Bunks for the crew are scattered through- out the boat. They hang on the bulkheads in tiers of four, each with a small reading lamp. We found Electrical Technician Ted Parke reading in his bunk on a four-inch thick foam rubber mattress. He said, “It’s comfortable and has plenty of room” when I remarked it looked rather cramped. The officers’ wardroom and sleeping quarters and the crew’s mess are decorated in pleasing pastel colors. The four 60-ton air-conditioning units aboard keep the temperature a shade below 70° F. at all times. There’s a clean-smelling odor down there that reminded me of a new air-con- ditioned railroad car. For submarine men boredom is the big problem. The Seawolf is submerged most of the time at sea and the crew works a monotonous four-hours-on, eight-hours- off shift around the clock. Movies are shown in the crew’s mess every night. The men also play chess, checkers and cards. Lieutenant Bob Crispin, Propulsion Of- ficer, keeps an Exercycle in his locker to help him stay limber. A hobby shop is in the tool room in the tail of the boat where spare parts are kept. Up in the attack center, just below the conning tower, we watched three sailors seated abreast control the boat. The port- [Continued on next page] PROBLEMS?” Solve’em with DAP New DAP Spackling Compound lets you patch cracks, holes and breaks in plaster with professional skill and ease. Good for wood, too, and for sealing dry wall panel joints. Ready-mixed. Creamy smooth, Get DAP Spackling and other nationally advertised DAP products at paint, hardware and building supply dealers. Write for GLAZING COMPOUNDS DICKS-ARMSTRONG-PONTIUS, inc. » Dayton, Ohio free do-it-yourself folder. TUB AND TILE SEALER NEW BELSAW MAU LTE-DUTY power too. DAP CAULKING COMPOUNDS SPACKLING COMPOUND SAWS— PEANES= MOLDS Now you can use this ONE sonari sci shop to turn n rough lumber into moldings, trim, flooring, furniture ... ALL poputar patterns. RIP ... PLANE.. . separately or all at once with a one HP motor. Use 3 to 5 HP for ‘high speed output. Low Cost... You can own this power tool for only $30.00 down payment. Send postcard today for complete facts. BELSAW POWER TOOLS, 930 Field Bidg., Kansas City 11, Missouri When Answering Advertisements, Please Mention MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED 189 `

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I Rode An Atomic Sub side man steers; the one in the middle controls the stern planes; the starboard- side man operates the bow planes which fold up and hug the sides of the boat when it is surfaced. Since an atomic submarine’s power plant furnishes its own atmosphere and requires no outside oxygen, it can stay sub- merged indefinitely. The Seawolf has al- ready remained below for 16, 30 and 60-day periods without surfacing. The Seawolf displaces about 3,200 tons and is some 330 feet long, slightly larger than the Nautilus, the first U.S. atomic submarine. The Seawolf was built by Gen- eral Dynamics Corp. and is currently in dry dock where her experimental sodium- cooled reactor is being replaced by a pres- surized water-cooled plant like that of the Nautilus. The U.S. Navy has already commis- sioned ten atomic-powered submarines and 23 more have been authorized. The Seawolf will be a veteran of this coming nuclear fleet. She and her officers and crew are pioneering nuclear propulsion—the fantastic power that promises to make Diesel-powered ships of all classes obso- lete. After a full day aboard the “Wolf,” as the men call her, we surfaced at Groton, _ Conn. I walked down the gangplank con- vinced that the U.S. Navy’s atomic sub- marines will be tough to beat. If the Seawolf is a sample of Uncle Sam’s grow- ing undersea might, we’re going to be top dog for a long time to come. ® Learn From Uncle Sam [Continued frompag e 75] recap of all recently-issued booklets per- taining to a particular subject. Publications can be bought from the Superintendent of Documents in one of three ways: 1. By sending cash, a money order, or a personal check made out to Superintend- ent of Documents with the order form. If you send cash, you assume all responsi- Don’t Miss this Fabulous Contest! 1st Grand Prize: a Mercedes-Benz 300SL Sports Roadster worth $10,950 40 other exciting automobiles also being given away in TRUE’s ‘100,000 GLAMOR CAR CONTEST | ENTER NOW! Get TRUE, the Man’s Magazine, at your newsdealer today 190 April, 1960

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4. Provide nerfing bars (bumpers) at front and rear for protection in the event of guard rail contact. 5. Rollers set into front and rear bumpers would help prevent wheel-climb- ing in case of contact between two cars. 6. Develop adjustable ailerons to com- pensate for weight loss as fuel is consumed. Present cars weigh 250 lbs. less after 100 miles of running. Adjustable ailerons would improve stability and help keep the car on the track, much as trim tabs allow a pilot to keep his plane level. 7. Take a tip from the aircraft industry and install bird-proof windshields. 8. Install carbon dioxide tanks in the frame with nozzle outlets in engine and fuel compartments to operate either auto- matically or manually in case of a fire. 9. Carry a gallon of water to spray the driver in case of fire. The water could be under pressure from the carbon dioxide carried in the frame tanks. 10. Construct fuel tanks from welded steel lined with synthetic rubber or glass fiber to help prevent tank ruptures. As an additional big step toward maxi- mum driver protection, I suggest that drivers be given as long a time as possible to familiarize themselves with the cars they are to race, to practice and learn the characteristics of the machines in which they risk their lives. Even with these suggested improve- ments, drivers will continue to be injured _and cars will continue to crackup in the high-speed races we have today. But I feel these are the minimum precautions that must be taken to develop a safer racing car so that auto racing in America may continue to earn new friends. As a reward to the driver and car- builder who develop a faster, better- handling car, the management of the Day- tona International Speedway has posted a prize of $10,000 for the first driver to lap the 244-mile track at 180 mph. The Speed- way management wants the driver to live to collect it! —Bill France An ordinary drinking straw slipped over the spout of an oil can will enable you to lubricate otherwise inaccessible bearings, spindles, ete.

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