Vintage Jeep Pedal Car Plans.

From the 1948 edition of Popular Mechanics, the original plans used an automobile starter motor and a war surplus hydraulic transmission.

This is a project on my wish list – in fact I happen to have two electric motors salvaged from a pair of kids scooters. I was thinking I could use one on each wheel. It would have the advantage of not needing a differential drive, and more power, until I realised that one of the motors would have to be running backwards.

There is a fair amount of metalwork in this example, so I would replace the chassis with a timber frame.

For the hydraulic transmission, I would salvage one from a ride-on mower.

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Making a Wooden Smoothing Plane

This is a photo of my home made wooden smoothing plan. It may not look pretty, but it does work.

A little while ago my trusty Stanley smoothing plane, which used to belong to my grandfather, fell off it’s perch and broke in half. A sad day indeed.

So I decided to make a new wooden one using the blade and capping parts, if that is what they are know as.

I found a fair few ideas on how to go about it, most of them involved machines that I don’t have, so I had to change the designs a little.

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