The kid
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- Joined
- Apr 25, 2012
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- Location
- Middle Tennessee
- Tractor
- 1965 135 gasser, 1967 135 diesel
Sometimes things happen. My 135 obviously at one time had been worked on my previous owners. The fan cooling shrowd was abit off center. I have been refurbishing mine for the past four months. I kept hearing a dinging noise comming from around a radiator and first thought I had a headlight harness wire hanging down and dinging the fan. I cut off the engine and couldn't find anything. I drive it back to the garage and look further. Seems the bottom of the fan showd has hitting the fan as I increased RPM's. I finally had to take the radiator off to make some adjustments to the shrowd. Now it clears. The problem is the fan is black along with the radiator and shinning a light I couldn't see how close the fan was too the shrown. Then I got to thinking about airplanes.
Propellors spin and if where painted black are invisible while spinning. So to be able to see the prop, they painted the tips yellow. I thought why can't I do this on my fan. I already had the radiator off. So I took some acrylic enamel and taped off the blades and gave each a shot of yellow. It looks like an airplane prop now but is very visible while running and a good reminder where not to put a finger. Your thoughts and safety tips. -kid
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Propellors spin and if where painted black are invisible while spinning. So to be able to see the prop, they painted the tips yellow. I thought why can't I do this on my fan. I already had the radiator off. So I took some acrylic enamel and taped off the blades and gave each a shot of yellow. It looks like an airplane prop now but is very visible while running and a good reminder where not to put a finger. Your thoughts and safety tips. -kid
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