[AT] F-12 - Karl Ohmsted CD - other list stuff

[John B]

Karl is still out in the desert at Ridgecrest and doing well. I generally run across him and Monika at the Tulare show in April. I believe he is still active on the Farmall list, but dropped off the main tractor list when he got tired of some of the periodic bickering that was happening on the list.

John Boehm
Woodland, CA
Visit my web site at http://vintagetractors.com




--- On Sun, 7/27/08, Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net> wrote:

> From: Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
> Subject: Re: [AT] F-12 - Karl Ohmsted CD - other list stuff
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 7:53 AM
> Farmer wrote:
> 
> > I have changed computers too many times since I last 
> > heard from him and have lost his email address.
> 
> Karl's e-mail address might be olmstead at ridgenet.net. 
> That was right a couple of years ago, I believe.
> 
> > I miss his reports, he always did a good job with them
> 
> > and was always doing something interesting.
> 
> No doubt he's one of the best.  I recall a long series
> describing getting some great big old crawler running
> again, through patient and simple tinkering, after assorted
> "experts" had given up on it.  Always fun to read
> about whatever he was working on.
> 
> > We used to have another expert along such lines Neil
> > (I won't even try to spell his last name but
> I'll bet 
> > George Willer knows how) who we lost permanently some
> > time ago.
> 
> Farmer, that was Neil Yerigan, and he was indeed a
> gentleman and a source of terrific information on magnetos
> and tractor electrics in general.  He'd written a
> little paperback book called How to Restore Tractor
> Magnetos, a $20 book now listed by amazon.com used-book
> sellers for $175 to $200.  Back when I had that Super M in
> the late 90s he patiently walked me through a bunch of
> diagnostics and troubleshooting on the generator and
> regulator.  Probably just about re-wrote his
> basic-electrics chapter for me, over the course of several
> e-mails.
> 
> On the subject of list members who've left us, does
> anyone know what became of Hank Wessell?  I recall he had
> some health problems several years ago and have not heard
> from him in quite a long time, so I fear he may have passed
> on.  Another gentleman, generous with what he knew.
> 
> Other forums get a lot of traffic these days, and I'm
> on some of them too, but this one remains the most
> gentlemanly.  I don't mind the off-topic posts here. 
> On another forum I'm on, which has a separate
> "coffee shop" forum for more or less any subject,
> a lot of the threads turn into political rants and can
> become unfriendly.  I may not read all the messages here
> but I mighty rarely regret it when I do.
> 
> Dean Vinson
> Dayton, Ohio
> www.vinsonfarm.net
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