Counter and Numberwheels: 1927-1929 Model A Speedo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- There is two general types of Speedometer for the Model A - the oval and the round bezel is the most obvious difference from the outside.
On the inside, they are entirely different, too - so since this thing landed on my bench, I decided to do a teardown and repair video on this one, too.
Link to the instructions I used: www.modelahouse...
Enjoy!
Great to see these old parts being repaired and not just tossed and replaced with a reproduction. Thanks as always for the great content
This was a great video. Especially the link to print such valuable and hard to find instructions. Thanks
Excellent work! Really enjoying the journey and your sense of humor. when you were getting the speedo back to the correct mileage and hoping that you didn't go over and need to drive in reverse like Ferris Bueller's Day Off. That would have been tragic.
Well, just keep a'rolling until you're back to all Zeros and then some ;P
You have given me the incentive to rebuild my Speedometer. 31 45B
Good luck on your endeavour - on a 31, the speedo will be different, though - albeit much easier to work on. I've made a video about the 30/31 speedos, too.
Dear Astra Werke guy.
👍👌👏 Simply fantastic! Very well done again (video and work). Your choice of music was great too (as always). What a big difference between the two different models of speedometers. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health.
Fantastic video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
And thank YOU for watching :D
On a pedantic note, the oval speedo was in use from '27 through spring of 1930. I have one on my '30 phaeton.
your humour and sense of timing is exquisite....🤣
Thanx :D
I tried the link to the documents you show early in the video but it does not seem to work. Can you respond here with the address? Thank you!
Update.. I found the website, but it is not working for me. Anyway you could send me a copy of those pages you showed in your video? Thanks!!
Update: was finally able to get into the website and got the info I needed.thanks for the link! Valuable info!
Wow, Double the Werke this week....😀 Great workmanship as always.
An old speedometer is definitely easier to repair than one with a microcontroller and all those small ants inside.
Good job with the numbers.
Wow! a metric speedo? Cool! I wondered about that. You're only going to get a 1927-1930 Model A up to 120 MILES per hour downhill in a hurricane!
It's really interesting how Ford's "evolution" policy of gradual improvements happened for almost every part of the car from the speedo to the generator, always in the direction of simplicity.
As always, your patience amazes me. Working on an almost 100 year old casting is not for the faint of heart!
Yup, they were sold for the european Fords - most were built in Denmark and Germany, and I bet the russian GAZ-A's would have a kilometre speedo, too.
The ongoing improvements were also part of the reason I chose to get a 1930 "A" for myself - the saying "Never buy a car that just entered the market" was and will always be true :D
@@AstraWerke
👍👌👏 Definitely true!
Best regards luck and health.
Well Done !!!
Excelente tus trabajos, estaría muy bueno si podés poner la opción de traducción a otros idiomas como muchos canales,así entendemos los que hablamos solo Español, gracias
That’s ok, I don’t speak German very well. Yo do remarkably. Great speedo tutorial.
re: cleaning the speedo of old lubricant and debris and losing the lettering.
Solvents do not simply run from weak-to-strong.
Sometimes you need the right solvent, not a more powerful one.
For example, when removing price labels (from second hand books) or brand labels (from wine bottles for re-use), I normally find that alcohol (Methylated spirits in the UK, "denat alcohol in the USA") doesn't do any good, but white spirit ("paint thinner", or "mineral spirits") cuts through very quickly.
There "might" be a solvent that will clean up nicely WITHOUT dissolving the letters.
I feel that maybe sewing machine oil might do the trick. Anything remotely "aggressive" is probably too much for the old decals. Even sweaty hands are sometimes enough to dissolve them.
@@AstraWerke Wow. That's pretty darn sensitive.
@@paulwomack5866 Well, it was the cheapest car you could buy at the time...
Turn Tag,main herr.
Wo its die link?
immer eine klasse arbeit. wenn ich das machen würde, danach ginge nichts mehr...😁
Wenn der Kilometerstand nicht steigt, muss man schon keinen Schmierdienst mehr machen ;P
good work and presentation, I just sprayedmine with possum pee, forced it till it smoothed out. I envy your calm and mellow process.
Since possums are hard to come by in our neighborhood, I opted for the disassemble-and-clean strategy ;P
I had to repair mine also, the zinc-alloy around the main shaft has swollen over the time.
It truly is a funny stuff. Most things wear out and get sloppy - and all of a sudden, these things go ahead and bind op on ya
Good job! That speedo looks mint!
Clearly, a defective microphone problem at the conclusion. The mosfet capacitor needs cleaning and lubricants. Bon Jour, mon ami!
4:58, did I hear some Vice Grip Garage lingo? lol
A feller might have snuck some words in there ;P
How many hours did this repair take in real time?
Good question - I fiddled around with it for probably around two weeks on and off, but if you took out all the screw-ups (especially the multiple re-ordering of them decals) and had the spare parts ready, it could easily done on a single day.
@@AstraWerke Haha why would you take the screw-ups out of the equation? If I try this myself, I'm definitely going to screw up a few times.
Guten Tag, mein herr.
Wo ist die link?
Welcher Link?
Das papier
@@romjone4801 Wenn Sie die Anleitung meinen, hier:
www.modelahouse.com/tech/speedometer/fischer.html
Das Alte Deutsche Musik habe Ich doch sehr gern! Und das Video wurde sehr gut gemacht....Kongratuliere!
And even if this looks like fiddly work, just try on a digital one...
17:05 I know the struggle :)
Did you say "this is probably the fastest sirhdt wvston tnsyxg"? 🤣
That's what I've been trying to tell ya all along!
@@AstraWerke 😄