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Identify Model A Ford Horn Motors

There were 5 kinds of Model A Horns for 1928-1931. Most of the time they can be identified by the brand stamped into the motor base. They can also be identified by the motor frame width and the armature shaft diameter.

Stewart Warner

11/8" frame and 1/4" shaft

Caution: the nut on the end of the armature is a left handed thread

Sparton

3/4" frame and 1/4" shaft

 

GMI

1" frame and 5/16" shaft. The brush holder is unlike any other brand

EA

3/4" frame and 1/4" shaft

Ames

11/8" frame and 5/16" shaft

 
 
   
   

32 Ford

Bullet shaped cover

 

 

32 Ford

Note the different hole pattern in the 32 on the left. The 32 Horn sits on a bracket on the fender unlike the Model A which hangs from the headlight bar. If a 32 horn is installed on a Model A, the drain hole for the motor will be on the top rather than the bottom.

 

 

 

 

Supposedly edible akebia fruit.
Akebia fruit is supposedly edible.  Hmmm. It is edible but there is not much to it.  The jelly around the numerous seeds is sweet and milky but it is 95% black seeds and 5% jelly.  It reminds me of trying to eat maypop fruit (passiflora incarnata).  Yes they are edible but green grass is also edible.  I think I was hoodwinked by the specialty fruit nursery I bought it from.  Since I'd never tasted it I had to depend on their description of edible.  It is an attractive vine with tropical looking fruit but the average person wouldn't eat it.  Sort of like trying to eat "cold hardy" citrus.

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