THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG i, | 80 volts on the a plates of Radiotron FOR AUTO ELECTRICAL REPAIRS- See-F.- HALL The Auto Electrician--20 years' experience Storage Batteries recharged and repaired. - All work guaranteed. | 335 King Street - Telephone 939 WE ARE NOW BOOKING ORDERS FOR WINTER Automobile Painting FROST'S AUTOMOBILE PAINTING 200-305 QUEEN STREET. For Auto Repairs For all kinds of Automobile repair work, and where a real mechanic is needed, see us and have it done right. R. GREENLEES Angrove's Auto Sales, 146 Sydenham Street Phone 1282. Kingston Battery Service W. MILNE, PROPRIETOR. ALL MAKES OF STORAGE BATTERIES, STARTING MO- TORS, GENERATORS AND MAGNETOS REPAIRED : OUR PRICE FOR CHARGING BATTERIES PHONE 1925J. WE SERVE GOOD MEALS Good meals served to your liking. EVENING PARTIES given first class attention, THE VICTORIA CAFE 854 King Street. Sing Lee and Gan Lee, Props. Telephone 762. Dry Mixed Slab Wood Best qu.lity Summer fuel. Also Dry Body Hard Maple; cut to suit your stove. Prompt attention given to all orders. Chas. Bedore & Son 1 yew 274 NELSON STREET Ana make the brightest day of Phone 1746J. An adjustable lamp that can be on the table or attached to wall or bed is a great night vr he convenience that costg very litle money. Whatever fix- ures you need ean be supplied ly us---~we want you to allow us to show you around the place. GET IT REPAIRED Sewing Machines, Phenographs, Guns, Rifles repaired and refitted. Parts supplied. Saws fled, huives, scissors amd edge tools ground. Locks repaired. Keys fitted to all kinds of locks. All makes of Lawn Mowers sharpened and re paired. We can repair ine that is repairable. J. M. PATRICK 149 Sydesham Street, Kingston Phone 2056J. ERIC VI E423 74 PRINCESS: Sometimes a man gets his wife's x .Bometimes he can't get his Ss goat because he is it. Imagine being chased about the by a goat full of dynamite. book hurriedly read. be said. A page digested is better than a Words only Hive when worthy to a " ri Special Prices on Davenports, Chesterfields and Couches . Davenport Beds . . . $37.00, $45.00 and up Chesterfield Suites--5 pieces--Lamp, Table, 2 chairs and Chesterfield. : Worth $250.00, for .........$200.00 Extension Couches $10.50, $12.50, $13.50. Large size. ie largest and best line of Furniture i in the ity to choose from. : Questions of Mr. Clough in 'colgmn, space permitting. denired sncions stamped envelope. ALBERT L CLOUGH Charging The Battery By Idling The Engine Although Not A Recommended Procedure, It May Hare To Be Resorted To IF A BATTERY GIVES SIGNS of approaching exhaustion, the best procedure is to take it at once to a service station to have it freshened up, substituting for it one of the station's rental batteries, unfil it is ready for replacement. Of course, if one has a rectifier, charging a battery in the home garage, solves the problem in a convenient manner. But not very many motorists own rectifiers and some are not within easy reach of charging stations and. In such cases, charging by idle ope- ration of the engine ig the only practicable method. It should be done sometime when the engine is fully warmed in service. The cells should be supplied with distilled water, if necessary, the engine sterted and speeded up. by opening the hand throttie, to the point at which the ammeter shows a substantial charging current. Five or six hundred revolutions per minute of the engine may be required to cut the gen- erator into circuit and the charging rate, in the case of the average modern car, will increase somewhat up to about twice this engine speed, but it may not be wise to run the engine fast enough to secure the maximum generator current, on account of vibration and noise, which always suggest that considerable wear and tear is taking place. A moderate speed and a longer period of running, even at a reduced rate of charge, will usually be found advisable. The effect of even one hour's charging is noticeable upon the condition of a battery, that is not too far gone, although two or three hours of running will often be found necessary. If the car is in a garage when this operation is performed the doors should be left open and one should avoid prolonged breathing of the exhaust gases. If the throttle is properly set and the engine all right, there is no occasion for anyone remaining in the garage all the time. FUEL SUPPLY INADEQUATE ON | IS 30% ALCOHOL SUFFICIENT | F. H. L. asks: 1r I keep 309, of | alcohol in the cooling system of | my car all winter, can I dispense | with robes, etc, over the radiator except, of course, in extreme cold | weather? | Answer: We think you can, so | far as any danger of the radiator | or other parts being damaged, by | bursting, is concerned, as you would | seldom leave your car long exposed | to temperatures below zero. There | would probably be some formation Can you explain | of loose ice in the sclution at tem- why the ongine of my 1915 ------ peratures considerably above zero, car begins to spit and cough after however. Nevertheless, for reasons going a block or two up a very | other than protection of the system trouble on level road or slight! from damage, our feeling is that steep grade, while T have no such | some form of radiator cover or grades? 'The carburetor and fuel | shield cannot properly be dispensed line have been inspected and found | with in winter nor indeed in any apparently all right. but the warmest portion of the Answer: We believe this car has | year. Starting is so much easier, gravity fuel feed from a tank under | gasoline economy so much higher the front seat. Tt is just possible and oil dilution so much less, when that the air-vent hole in the filler | engine temperature is kept as high cap has become nearly plugged up,| as practicable, by shielding the so that not enough air can enter to! radiator, that some form of engine- replace the large amount of gaso-| heat conserving provision is of line consumed in overcoming se- | great advantage. You realize, .of vere grades. You better see that | course, that covering the radiator the air-vent is free. Can it be pos- | and hood has no permanent effect sible that the carburetor float does | in protecting from freezing, but not work freely, to renew the sup- { only defers the time at which the ply in the fuel bowl, when the "%| water reaches the outside air tem- C. D. F. asks: {8s Inclined at quite an angle? It| perature. is conceivable, but very unlikely that the car may be down at the rear, on account of the settlement of the rear springs, enough to re- duce the head under which fuel flows to such an extent that, on very steep up grades, the carbure- tor receives but little gasoline, especially when the tank is only partly full, 1 Brown And The "Black Plague' Carbonization Is An Evil That Is Somewhat Controllable AS HIS CAR CLANKED ITS WAY into the service station on high- gear, (he never changed until the stalling point was reached), and the engine gave a few convulsive and odorous kicks after the ignition was off, Brown caustically remarked: "This blooming coke oven you sold me for an engine Is all plugged up again with carbon, and is knock- ing its head off, like it has done every thousand miles since you stung me with it. Suppose you'll have to give it another scraping, although I need it like thunder, today." "We'll do the scraping job if you say so, Mr. Brown," said Ed, the repair foreman, "but if you need it bad, let us give it the oxygen and you can have it in an hour," to which suggestion Brown gladly agreed. "Of course we like your carbon cleaning work," continued foreman, "but we don't want to take your money for un- necessary jobs. These engines don't generally carbonize like this one and there must be something wrong with yours. Let's take a peek. She sounds and smells awful rich. Yes, I thought we could cut her gas down a lot and still have her run right. Try that adjustment and see if she toot snappler than before. It's a safe guess she'll keep clean longer now. Oh, spark intensifiers! Plugs been getting oily? She's about due for a new set of rings. Bring her in sometime and we'll stop that pump- ing. What, taking all cold air this weather? You want all the heat you can get to vaporize this bum gas and keep it from baking onto the piston heads. What kind of ofl are you using, Slipperine? That's a new one to me. Why don't you switch to one of the standard brands and see if it doesn't carbonize less? No hoodcover! The water must be running pretty cold and this makes a wet mixture in the cylinders, that cooks onto the pistons and valve heads. Let us put a shutter front on your radiator. You'll tke it." Brown stood for this oration all right and soon drove his car away, with the carbon burned out, making an appointment for the shutterfront and piston'ring work on the next Tuesday. After that, it was a long time before he showed up again and when he did Ed, who had read Brown's odometer while working on the car, noted that 5000 miles had been reeled off in the interval. "How's the carbon, Mr. Brown," was Ed's greeting. "Not bad," said Brown, "but you better sweeten her up a little with the oxygen." ANOTHER CASE OF GENERATOR COMMUTATOR SHIMMYING GIVES TROUBLE W. C. B. writes: For the first 600 miles, the geherator of my y, car gave no trouble, but s| lately I have had difficulty with it, apparently from oll en the com- mutator, so that it is necessary to sandpaper the commutator off nearly every morning to make the generator build up. How can I overcome this? . Answer: The rotating disc or throw-off ring, on the shaft be- tween the drive pinion and the armature, ought to keep ofl from reaching the commutator and usually does so In ears of this make. Are you sure that the pres- sure of the brushes Is as great as Lit should be? If they have worn down a great deal, they may not be making positive enough contact. If very soft brushes are used, they seem to blacken the commutator, sige $85 = may slightly harder quality would give you better results, We don't know any better means to exclude oil than that which the anyfacturey have provided. pewrsl tora to (he mototet Jol be snvoersé by If an immediate answer is sirens | "FEW DONT FOR RADIO FANS Don handle (he reve tubes | | Dow't make the drastic error of | amplifier tubes UV-201--60 volts | will be found quite sufficient. | through tube expect Don't burn out a vacuum carelessness and | Your dealer to exchange it for an- Don't use excessive plate voltage on power tubes if you want long life. Don't energize the filaments of all the tubes in a cascade circuit at once, unless the circuit has been | nsed before. Don't take one tube out of a cas- | | cade eircuit in which the filaments | are in parallel--it causes a rise in | current in the remaining Qlaments and may burn them out. Cut off all | power first. Don't try to use Radio Corpora- | tion radio frequency intervalve transformers with other tubes than Radiotrons--you may not be able | to make them function properly. | Don't expect your loud speaker | to work properly if you have a set | of phones connected to your dector | eircuit. Don't be anxious to produce sound with very great volume--it isn't necessary. Don't expect to get the best re- sults if you use an amplifier tube for a dector, or vice versa. Don't forget that vacuum tubes cost from twenty to thirty times as much as ordinary incandescent lamps--they deserve a little respect. Don't expect to have a loud speaker operate for a detector tube ---you'll be disappointed. At least i ope stage of radlo-frequency ampli- | fication is generally necessary. MOTOR NOTES OF INTEREST. Ethyl gas, a new automobile fuel, characteristic light which distinguishes nary gasoline, wine it from mobile camps accommodate 643 015 motorists during 1922, as com- pared with 213 camps with 412 tourists in 1922, A harber shop on wheels is the | latest venture in Los Angeles, Cal. The barber in a motorcycle side car calls for the business man at his suburban home, and gives him a shave while enroute to hig office, wer Automobiles are not | on the island of Bermuda. The | reason given is that the inhabitants | feel that horse drawn vehicles are fast enough, and that the beauties of their island might be too rapidly exhausted if tourists used cars. Automobile accidents in Chicago last year, of which there were 31,- 604, resulted in a loss of $13,609,- 078. This year's total will be great- ly in excess of that number. Flint, Mich., has 54 plants manu- facturing complete automobiles and trucks. There are twice this number of subsidiary companies furnishing parts for the complete production. Figures show that there are em- ployed in these plants, producing { automobiles and trucks, 183,210 peo- | ple. now sold on the market, has a | color, | ord! | Throughout Colorado] 247 mee! p14,-| permitted | OneGallon of "Maple Leaf" denatured Alcohol and one gallon of water makes two gallons of Non-freezing mixture that WILL NOT FREEZE at 30° below Zero, and the cost is considerably less than the Car-wrecking Calcium Chloride, Alkaline; Saline or other pre- pared Anti-Freeze solutions of unknown, probably dangerous, ingredients. Correct Winter driving preparations when "Maple Leaf" denatured Alcohol is used, are as follows: Do not run car with radiator cove: or cardboard in front, Allow a free flow of air te the fan at all times, Then with Maple Leaf ® Brand devatwed Alcohol n your radiator--your car completely protected, Empty and flush the radiator and cooling system and see that there are no leaks. Tighten or renew the hose connections. Tighten the gaskets. Put fan and belt in good order and renew belt if necessary. "FLAT RATE SERVICE Bring your car in, or send for us to call and get fit. will give you a flat rate for overhauling it or repairing it. First class mechanics. Special Compressed Air Oil Spray- We er for removing squeeks, and the Greasing Rack, are some ofy the features, Service day or night (repairing and washing). BLUE GARAGES, Limited Phone 567. ' Monarch Storage Batteries Manufactured in Kingston by Kingston labor. With Kingston Capital and Kingston Brains. IS KINGSTON EFFICIENT ? Show your faith in local industries and utilize SRome-made products. Bot The Monarch Battery Co. Limited 275 ONTARIO STREET, KINGSTON, ONT, PHONES 836-837. a Two-door friendliness with four-door facility «Three-foot doors-- Unusuallyroomy,com- fortableand beautiful -- Detachable upholstery ~Sleep in the tonneau . while camping--Use- ful in a variety of ways -- Costs little more than an open model --Look at it today. € 'a A _ EE le...