[TheForge] Paging Frosty: No A&O pat. no. found

Wed May 7 02:14:01 2003

Back in December, Frosty wrote:

> Mike, the next time you have the Alldays and Onions untarped would
> you mind looking up it's patent number?

No patent number found so far.  The maker's name is cast into the
body.  There's a brass plaque attached by the Montreal importer.  I'll
look again but I don't think the patent number is there.

Other Alldays & Onions news:

I've got staging built around it and a 16' bipod rigged over it.  The
tup is out and all cleaned up.  Today I got the cover off the
compressor -- weighs almost as much as the tup, a 24" manhole cover.
Yesterday I got the valve sleeve out and cleaned it up tonight.

I think I can clean the tup bore with Scotchbrite pads on my angle
grinder, same as I did the valve sleeve.  Several patches of rust
pitting but no really bad spots.  The inside of the compressor looks
real good.  I may not have to take the piston out.  Everywhere else
there are pockets and layers of rusty oil, grease, water and slime but
just some dried-up grease in the compressor bore.

There's what looks like a grease cup on the compressor conrod and it's
full of grease but I think it's meant to be an oil reservoir.  Gotta
figure that out.  It has a little brass standpipe in the center.  I
think it's supposed to be filled with oil and the motion of the conrod
is supposed to slosh oil into the standpipe a little at a time.

Found some bearing bronze for the tup guide/alignment plate but it may
be too thick.  (I asked for gunmetal -- what the specs call for -- but
they told me that you can't get that stuff no more.)  There's another
smith nearby that I believe has a machine that will plane it down a
bit.  Other repair parts for the guide bar -- new bolts, 1/2" helicoil
-- are in hand.

No luck so far on a replacement Webster mag for the gas engine to run
this beast but a possible deal if my '47 International pickup carcase
is good enough for a swap and a possible free Dodge truck engine
that's been in sombody's cellar since it was factory-rebuilt.

All very exciting.  Trying to make significant progress before I get
distracted by gardening.

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 

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