[tcb] Re: '56 bus
- From: <captoaster@xxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:14:51 -0400
The only problem I have run into is how do you charge them after they go low in
juice!?
Rob
---- 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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