The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-27
PRACTICAUTIES
OF AUTOMOBILES
Questions Asked at Show Are
Answered in Summary
From Dealers.
GOOD HINTS TO FOLLOW
HOW TO CARE FOR PARTS or
DIFFERENT CARS.

Every man and woman, or at least
every motor car owner who goes 10 tlIe
big show at the Auditorium, has some
questions to ask concerning the care o.
their cars A few of the more practical
points on which Information Is desired
have been summarized by the auto DEAL
ers and are herewith presented:
1t is occasionally necessary TO III IN d
stud or remove IL from some part OF the
motor car mechanism. If pliers be USED
they either damage the thread or the
plain part of the stud. II the stud De
tight and has to be removed, II IS oIJeh
impossible to do this by means or piers
a better way is 10 use a PAIR OF lock
nuts vyhich are run on the top side OF JIe
stud thread and locked up together, two
wrerches being used for this purpose. IT
the stud has TO be removed the bottom nut
Is then turned by the wrench IN a dlfec-
ton counter clOckwise when looking on
the top of the stud. If the stud has TO be
frightened the top nut must be turned IN
the clockwise direction. Another method
that may be employed when liking STUDS
in place Is TO use q rather deep nut with
81 SCI screw: run a few threads of the
set screw into the nut. and then II the
nut be screwed on the top OF the stud ana
held by a wrench while the screw IS run
down to lock il, the stud may be run into
place by operating the set screw in
ClOckwise direction.
Protection from the Wind.
To those who are troubled by the drum
ing fast, and who do not want 10 adopt
the ear rolls and helmet of the racing
cracks. the following may be useful, eS-
pecially if required at short notice Pro
cure a piece of rubber hose about three
fourths of an inch I'm diameter and five
inches long. which cut in two. At one
end of each piece a slit should be made
with a sharp knife, through which the
band of the goggles should be passed so
as to hold the hose firmly. This device
effectually prevents the drumming effect
of the wind upon the ear, in the same
way as the ear rolls on racing helmets,
while It has the twO-fOld advantage of
cleanliness and indestructtDiity.
To Clean Drip-feed Glasses.
The internal surfaces of Sighted
glasses, which enclose plain drip feeds.
frequently become covered and rendered
opaque by a coating of gummy oil, which
entirely pTecludes the observation of the
dTipS. Under such circumstances, or
course, oil may be feeding too fast or too
slowly. either of which is Objectionable.
Now. to remove the short lengths Of glass
tubes is not always possible or, If posi-
bic, desirable, and the surface seldom
show any inclination to cleanse them
selves after they have once coated, but
il will be found that this coating can be
dispersed bv holding a lighted match or
heated piece of metal close enough to
the tube TO warm il up nicely, but not, Of
course. close enough to crack it. On the
other hand. sufficient heat can be gen
Grated in the substance of the tube by
passing a piece of thick string round the
tube and pulling it quickly backward and
forwards,
Rain and the Distributor.
If engine troubles suddenly develop dur
ing a rainstOTm. or while travelling over
muddy roads. il is very probable that
water or mud is short circuiting the sec
onCary current. This is especially liable
TO happen on a distributor system which
is not well protected from splash. and
thorough cleaning viii remedy the tTOu-
BILE al least temporarily.
To Obtain Gasoline.
Many cars have no vent tap for the