Today I acquired...........

[Barking Mat]

do you know anyone who has actually managed to use stockings as a fan belt? I’ve never tried, but we went to an auto cross meeting on Hounslow Heath in about 1970 & it was really dusty so I tied a pair of my then girlfriends ( now wife)knickers over the trumpets on the twin SU’s. Before you ask, she didn’t have to remove them, she had a spare pair as we were there for the weekend

I've used my wifes tights in Marocco

I've also used eggs in broken radiators.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

I don't know that one but we had them back in the 80's when I was running old BL and Ford cars it was just a brass nipple with a barb each end to be pushed into the hollow belt once it had been cut to length.

Thank you.

I had fantasized a bit about a piece with two cones, each threaded, one lefthand, one righthand that cuts into the hose material, but that raises the question of length, because the connector may have to go around tight radii ...

do you know anyone who has actually managed to use stockings as a fan belt?

This story was common knowledge with us, which may as well be an urban myth , I was told it dozens of times, even in driving school.

It must have been in the early 1970s, I was in school, I remember a return trip home from the Baltic Sea, 1200 Beetle, it was dark and the alternator lamp came on.

A ladies stocking was used, but:
1) it didn't work very convincingly,
2) the Beetle engine has reserves when the fan isn't running and it's not too hot outside and
3) by the time we got home the battery was dead after all - the death of the battery was delayed by occasionally driving the alternator - the contol lamp went out or dim from time to time - and the fan will probably have been running along intemittently.

With a water cooled vehicle I wouldn't want to depend on it, but if nothing else is there ....


Carsten

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[Hood]

I've used my wifes tights in Marocco
...

Yes I quite believe that but the question was have you ever used them for a fan belt stand in?

 

[julianthegypsy]

I've used my wifes tights in Marocco

I've also used eggs in broken radiators.

I'm sure I've used pepper in a radiator...

 

[Farside]

I've also used eggs in broken radiators.

A half-handful of porridge worked for me, once.
I made sure to thoroughly flush the system out once I'd fitted a replacement rad, though.

 

[Cobbler]

I've worn my wifes tights in Marocco

There you are, put it right for you

 

[Mick Annick]

I've used my wifes tights in Marocco

I've also used eggs in broken radiators.

Yes, but what for?

 

[Barking Mat]

Yes, but what for?

Oh dear...

 

[bricol]

These are well worth keeping in the truck. Got me and the odd customer out of a muddle. Can stick it on any v pulley so works for diggers and all sorts.

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Trying to think when I last had a "fan" belt break.

And it was on a car I owned as a student - belt was probably as old as the car and I couldn't afford/didn't know enough to get a replacement.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Good thing, that.

In the offer is only a picture that can not be copied or enlarged, so the question: How is the connector designed?

Thanks

Carsten

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The connection is brass like push in fit.

Think back to the Lucas Brass bullet crimp connection.

I had one supplied by the garage on my Pug 104.

 

[Cobbler]

The one I saw, the belt was formed like a tube, with a small hole up through & the connector was like a double ended “fir tree” connector similar to an air line hose fitting so it pushed in & held.

 

[James1979]

As above really, most people have described it spot on.

Can’t remember the last one either @bricol but I’ve used them a lot for getting customers running again. Usually hydraulic pumps on machines and things. They don’t seem so keen on proper alignment and I think that wears the edges of the V. Timberwolf chippers are a pain for it.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Lucas Brass bullet crimp

Like these? But with two pointy ends?

like a double ended “fir tree” connector similar to an air line hose fitting

Something like that I had imagined, but instead of concentric rings with counter-rotating thread to make it a bit more compelling ....

most people have described it spot on.

Thank you all!


Carsten

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[James1979]

Bit like that. Like two Christmas trees end to end.

I’ll go out and photo mine later.

 

[JMS1972]

Some aluminium for casting (maybe, one day) and some tyres for my mates allotment. To hold down tarps.

We won't talk about how the tyres and wheels were damaged....

 

[Hood]

Oops

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Some aluminium for casting (maybe, one day) and some tyres for my mates allotment. To hold down tarps.

We won't talk about how the tyres and wheels were damaged....

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Speed freak!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Kayos]

Fed up with being on my knees with the family fleet,hoping to keep my back straighter.
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Where from? I have a cheap one and it's rubbish

 

[Red'n'Black]

Some aluminium for casting (maybe, one day) and some tyres for my mates allotment. To hold down tarps.

We won't talk about how the tyres and wheels were damaged....

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Must have been one helluva pothole!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Or a bit of speed.