Help with a Commercial Luger

[Ron Wood]

Rube Goldberg would be proud! (How many of you are old enough to understand that comment? )
Ron

[Doubs]

Originally Posted by Ron Wood

Rube Goldberg would be proud! (How many of you are old enough to understand that comment? )
Ron

My father made Rube Goldberg look like an amature when it came to jury rigged concoctions. He kept things running years past the time when most people would have long ago junked them.

When I lived at home, it was my job to dump the wash water after Mom did the clothes. I carried two 5 gallon buckets up a flight of stairs and maybe 100 feet across the yard to dump them; four or five trips each time.

When I left home, Pop ran a garden hose out of the basement window that was attached to a submersible pump. He rigged a cutoff switch that stopped the pump when the water level reached a certain point. The switch was made of a wood base, a float, contact points etc. A counter balance weight was the cylinder from a cap pistol suspended by string. It worked and he used it for years.

[G.T.]

My dad was born in 1917 in a small South Dakota farm town... real small! He grew up thru the depression and they didn't have any electricity on the farm at the time. He rigged up a windmill to an old auto generator from a junk car and ran two copper rods thru the roof to a bulb so thay had lights when ever the wind blew, and that's all the time in SD!
Only problem is when it blew too hard, the generator would over produce and burn out the bulb? His solution was to install a hinge in the back rails of the windmill and install a big coil extension spring in the front. If the wind blew too hard, the windmill would lean back and sluff off energy by becoming inefficient.. a primitive regulator...
They were the only ones in the county that had lights! I miss him.... best, til....lat'r....GT...