[tcb] Re: '56 bus
- From: Neil <nbmdude@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:34:05 -0700 (PDT)
We converted an old 1920sumpthin; Farmall to 12
volt...easy as hell!
--- sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Denis: I know how to convert a tractor to 8
> volts. I grew up on a farm. For an address I'll
> deliver the info to them in person. Or you can just
> do it. You remove the 6V battery and you insert the
> 8V battery. The extra 2V aren't enough to hurt
> anything, the 6V generator will keep it charged, the
> 6V starter will run a little faster and make the
> tractor start easier, and if it has lights, doubtful
> on an old 6V farm tractor, they will just burn a
> little brighter and probably burn out after about 5
> years of infrequent use. That's what we used to do
> on the farm. Cept most of our tractors didn't even
> have batteries. Magnetos and arm cranking. These
> guys don't even sound up to speed for Arkansas
> hillbillies are they would have known that. Or
> maybe they were just really pulling your leg.
>
> Conrad Klahn <conradk@xxxxxxx> wrote: If I were
> you, I'd find as much info on the 6 to 8 volt
> conversion you can and drop it by with your name and
> number on it.
>
> On Mar 27, 2008, at 8:44 PM, Denis Dodson wrote:
> So, I took Murray and went to Sam's Club to
> get huge bags of grass seed for the Psycobilly
> parking/camping area. As I am coming out, one of the
> two super old guys who check your receipt to make
> sure that you don't have a 60" plasma under the
> tomatoes says, "Are you a mechanic?"
>
> I'm thinking, what about me would provoke such a
> question, and I say, "Why?" He says, "We are trying
> to figure out how to convert a 1950 tractor from 6
> volt to 8". Putting aside the fact that I have never
> heard of 8 volt anything, I suggested that there
> were probably about a million antique tractor guys
> on the internet. They both looked at me as if I had
> spoken Navajo. I said go to a library and they would
> do the search for him.
>
> I loaded up Murray and as I was leaving the
> parking lot I drove by the door and one of the guys
> waves at me to stop. I do. He says, "I have one of
> these". I say really? "Yeah, It's older though, and
> not as nice."
>
> He tells me that it is a '56. I asked him if it
> has an overhang over the windshield. "No, and it
> also has a bigger door in the back, over the engine
> door. It has a little bitty engine".
>
> Of course, my next question was, "Wanna sell it?"
>
> "No."
>
> I know his name and I know where he works. If I
> can find out where he lives and where his bus is. I
> might have to kill him.
>
>
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