For Practical Workers 



Curing a Noisy Automobile Hood 



MANY of the cheaper cars develop 

 an annoying series of noises after 

 they have been in use for a time, and 

 most of these may be entirely eliminated 

 by a little careful attention. The most 

 common cause, outside of the mechanical 

 depreciation, is looseness at the hood, 

 as this rubs against the hood-ledge on 



Diagram showing the use of rawhide to pre- 

 vent hood from rattling 



the radiator and dash, and produces 

 squeaking. The hood is liable to rub on 

 the filler-board between the frame and 

 hood side, as the frame distorts due to 

 highway irregularities, and if the hold- 

 down clips arc loose, the hood will rattle. 

 A very simple method of overcoming 

 this trouble is to remove the strip of 

 shoe-lace or light webbing ordinarih' 

 used on the hood-ledge and substitute 

 for it, a good, broad, rawhide belt-lacing. 

 The webbing is not heavy enough to 

 keep the hood away from the ledge and 

 soon flattens out. The rawhide is not 

 only thicker and broader, but it is more 

 enduring. In order to use the lacing, 

 the small holes in the ledge-strip must 



be enlarged, w^hich can be done very 

 easily by making a drill hole on each 

 side of them and then punching out the 

 metal with a chisel. 



Another good way to cure hood 

 rattle, which is unavoidable with thin 

 gage hoods, is to run a trunk-strap over 

 the hood as shown. This should have a 

 series of holes for the buckle at each 

 end, the buckles being carried by shorter 

 straps attached on each side of the car, 

 so the hood can be raised on either side 

 without entirely remo\ing the strap. 

 The strap is guided by clips riveted to 

 the hood, the straps carrying the 

 buckles being held down by clips 

 fastened to the filler-boards. Much 

 improvement can be made by inter- 

 posing a thin strip of rubber from an 

 old inner tube between the hood side 

 and filler-board as show^n. The springs 

 regularly furnished to seat the hold- 

 down clips can also be replaced with 

 stronger ones. — Victor Pagh. 



A Long-Handled Screwdriver 



ALONG-HANDLED screwdriver 

 can be constructed in a few 

 minutes w^ith a block of wood, a piece 

 of 3^" pipe and a dowel K>" x }// . A 

 slot is sawed in one end of the pipe to 

 prevent the screwdriver from turning. 

 The accompanying diagram illustrates 

 the construction. Any length screw- 

 driver may be constructed by the 

 variation of the length of pipe usrd. 



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A screwdriver of any length can be con- 

 structed with a block of wood, a piece of 

 pipe and a dowel 



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