HINTS FOR THE GARAGE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6866, 22 March 1929, Page 10

HINTS FOR THE GARAGE

FITTING DP THE INTERIOR. Car owners who are lucky enough to have "uvago accommodation at their own homes are to be envied (remaik.i an English correspondent). Not only from the expense standpoint, but also from the ability they have to carry out several little running repairs, which in the case of a man who keeps his car at a public garage, arc left to the p»0prietor to execute, dues lie score. Many men, having built gaiages ot their own, use them simply and solely to Louse their cars. Well, you will say, this is what they arc intended to do. Quito so. but there arc several little things which can be done with a view to improving them that need cost pro.ctieallv nothing except the. expenditure or a 'little time and energy. Shelves can be rigged up at the one end using the wood obtained . rore old packing cases. On tl.c bench, if tho Invnrr is lucky enough to have one, one often sees a conglomeration of used parts nuts, bolts, screws, wasuers, split-pins, spare sparking plugs, perhaps a brake, lining or two-all mixed up 1 iu glorious confusion. The vest) is when in an emergency a nut or bolt is required, the, whole heap has to be scratched over until the particular item is found. Yet almost every day old of all descriptions—are relegated to cocoa tins, mustard tins—in fact, ti s the dust-bin. A few oi them, mutably labelled, can be used to store nuts, bolts,'screws, washers, and mixed parts. ' For owners of small cars who build I b,garages to take the little bus onlv and not allow for any indoor tinkering, a good plan is to■ fi*.l*o stout battens of wood along the floor to act as a track, ten? .>ng entry and exit. They should bo fixed to the floor in such a way that th. wheel's are outside them, and u t owner is at all doubtful ns to bis ability to stow at the right, moment, two “‘chocks ” i. 0., blocks of wood, min be iiged at the end of the “rails. ‘in anv case, great care must j - taken with regard to ventilation. Iho golden rule, of course, is Ncvci keep the engine running in a confined space,” but if it has to bo stinted m the garage to trace some defect, sec that there is plenty of ventilation keep the doors open, as the exhaust oases are highly puieonous in an enclosed space.