[AT] Farmall carb

[Larry D. Goss]

But I don't think that brass/bronze material is actually sintered.  As
some others have said, it's a filter material that has been around
forever it seems like.  There area number of applications for it, but
one of the most common is the "drain" on carburetors.  I always think of
it in terms of the "Chore Boy" kitchen scrubbers that my mother used to
keep at the sink to scrub pots and pans with.

When owners inadvertently remove the filter material from the breather
plugs on the final drives of Power King tractors (which use the same
stuff) I tell them to replace it with coarse steel wool.  Of course,
steel wool isn't rustproof the way the brass/bronze material is, but it
functions the same way and if you're using it in a location that isn't
filtering a solvent, it lasts fairly well.

Larry

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
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Yeah Bob that's what I meant.  For some reason I just couldn't think how
to 
spell it at the moment.  That's why I put it in quotes.  Not that quotes
are 
correct for that but  ............

Charlie
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From: "Bob Seith" <seithr at denison.edu>
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Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:22 PM
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> Did you mean "sintered" bronze? I know what that is, but I'm not sure
it 
> would do anything special in this circumstance:
>
>
http://www.ggbearings.com/pdf/literature/datasheets/englisch/SinteredBro
nze_en.pdf
>
> Bob Seith
>
> charlie hill wrote:
>
>> I've seen those plugs on carbs before.  They look like a pipe plug
but 
>> have a "sentered" (sp) bronze center much like the filters on old 
>> Quadrajet Carbs.
>>
>> Charlie
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>>
>>> Check very closely. I do know that some updraft carbs have a porous
plug
>>> in this hole and will leak gas if flooded. I guess that this was one
way
>>> to help prevent flooding and help clear it if it did happen.
>>>
>>> Phil
>>>
>>>> Hi fellas,
>>>>   On this carb < http://home.adelphia.net/~jcullom/tractor/carb.jpg
>>>> >, why
>>>> would gas be leaking from
>>>> the bottom of the area where the arrow is (not the needle valve
screw)? 
>>>> Is
>>>> this a plug or a screw
>>>> that could be loose?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>>
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