Originally Posted by Adriel

Glad then I made the choice I did and will stick with it.




With the Squareback, yes, knew the part number logic and go hunt up parts, however, sometimes spend so much time hunting down deals, was money really saved?

Because of the way I am, I'll search out things anyway, I might as well look for things I'll use .


Seems to me you know more than I do! I look at all those capacitors, resistors, transformers, and such and find it intimidating. However, I don't find FI intimidating.

I bet you're far better educated than I ~ I know a lot of things but the principle thing I learned as I educated myself is : I know so damn little .

A vibrator is a crude transformer that boosts the volts to operate the plates in a vacuum tube .

Vacuum tubes have heaters (like the coils in a light bulb) that use low vehicle voltage and then plates that require far more than 12 volts DC so the old tech solution was a vibrator, sort of like the ignition buzz box on a "T" Model Ford in the teens and twenties .

I hope you never have to fool with a tube radio

fuel injection differs, I know somewhat how to keep older BOSCH D-Jetronic F.I. running O.K. and the BOSCH CIS (?) system that uses an airbox and clock wheel is (IMO) a good robust system that's easily peaked and tweaked, of course it's also dead easy to screw it up so badly the engine stops running altogether....

See I don't even know what or where these vibrators are, certainly don't know how to convert to solid state. Does this change affect the sound?


NO - vibrators only increase the voltage .

Yes, unless something crumbles from age. I do enjoy this, just didn't think of electronics in the same way, good point.




What needs to be adjusted on a radio?

O.K., WAY above my pay grade here, I hope I don't make a hash of this: an AM radio receives signals and them internally amplifies them, the circuitry to do this works in a combination of coils, the tubes and soon so when you change a part you're supposed to 'trim' it so everything works in unison and you get clear sound, not static .

That's incredibly simplistic but I hope it gives you an idea .

I remember in the 1960's when I fooled around with WWII surplus aircraft radios, mostly "ARC5"s ~ they were pretty simple and could be converted to ham radio (IIRC) by fooling with them and in one old radio tech magazine there was a fascinating article about making the trim adjustments by laying a small light bulb on top of the coils and adjusting them until they reached the proper brightness ~ again this is like 1/10th of the total thing you have to do, I was young and broke and until the 1970's brandy new ARC5 radios were maybe $10, often far less .

Don't be too impressed with my effort, look in the build threads to see what a real craftsman can do .

I'm just a Journeyman mechanic who likes to tinker and learn .




Or maybe the variety needs to be with the two of you.

Yes, that too ~ I've never been one who needs a constant rotation of partners, either we match up or I move on, no big thing .

I had to let a few rich Ladies go because I knew I'd get bored no matter how much they wanted to support me .


What a bummer! Just think if someone had not gotten greedy, there be one more 36HP case available.

As to the other 36HP engines and parts, why have these if the 113 is the last project?

Well ;

Remember I was a vintage VW enthusiast long before anyone cared about the early models so I naturally took home all the things everyone else tossed out, I used them for decades and after I stopped driving air cooled VW's I sold parts at swap meets for a few years and made some good $ and never gouged anyone . then I bough this one last Beetle and began digging in the dusty ad squirrel poop covered boxes in the garage and Lo ! pretty much everything I needed was in there, little bits and bobs that (for me) make all the difference . I even found some late 1950's wiper assemblies that I scavenged tiny little N.L.A. parts from when I spent two days re working the entire wipers, linkage and all, they now work as-new again .


Exactly!




Seems then the answer is to pull the whole driveline, as anything else be doing it half measure. I wish I was back in Sandy Eggo, I come up and lend a hand.

See now, that's what keeps me from getting started ~ I have one partially disassembled vintage LBC back there, it was supposed to be a major brake job but the 'might as wells' took over and ran away, the engine and tranny have been out for a few years now and I'd hate to kill this old Beetle the same way .


I was being literal... I didn't think to look for tools at antique and thrift shops, be an opportunity to get out of the house, once the pandemic is over.




Times like this I am glad I pursued academics over women. Though now for some reason the older I get the more I want to settle down and have a great partner, a life long companion.


Women are good , just don't let yourself get too caught in in the switches ~ I used to have a beautiful psycho-B*tch girlfriend the sex was the best Id ever had and we had the same strange childhoods so we saw eye to eye on most things but when we wound up on the front page of the newspaper I realized it was time to step off .

If life doesn't go on, there is a problem... As to things owning me, that's why I had questioned saving things for someone that may never exist.