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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 30, 1927
Page
3
Practical guidance to remove rust from tools using zinc contact or sodium chloride indigo solutions. It notes heating in a warm oven, brushing with petrol, and polishing. Safety tips include keeping camphor in the tool chest. it also describes building a temporary jack from a vise and steel pieces and extending drill shanks by sleeving with rolled steel.
Tar on the fa tah of the panels threatens the finish. It can be dissolved with oil and removed with a cloth dampened with petrol. Do not apply petrol to wine. For coughs and colds, neveraits.
When removing the Ford cylinder head the work goes faster if small sheet metal clips fit round the two rear bolts. The clips hold the two inaccessible bolts clear of tapped holes in the motor and dash, freeing both hands. In an emergency a small elastic band over the bolts serves the same purpose.
A reader describes a handy grease plug spanner adapted for the latest Ford model. The differential filler plug uses an aquaroit recess instead of a hex head, prompting a do it yourself tool fashioned from an old spark plug socket and wrench.
The article notes wheel wobble in cars fitted with ve Wheels may be caused by mud behind the rim and other imbalance factors. It warns owners to consider this fault when diagnosing the alarming steering issue and to keep the fact in mind.
A Tamworth man’s Whippet demonstrated four wheel brakes saving him from a dangerous corner. While traversing hilly terrain the road curved sharply and dropped into a gull, but timely braking kept the vehicle from a crash.
The City Librarian reports a drop of 22 000 books read last year. Fiction and children's books show the largest declines while outdoor life and new devices like broadcasting and gramophones shift time away from reading. The piece laments losing literature and urges sustaining reading as civilization’s moral and intellectual nourishment.
A fragmentary note mentions a person in Andrena on Maughan Street opposite the post office, with a reference to work and a motor car. The readable text is sparse but locates a street and intersection near a post office.
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