Early sediment bowl for B

 

 

I got one of these when I got my Potato B, and I just found another one for B#119. I've never seen one on a tractor at a show, and was wondering if they were fairly common. Does anyone else have one on their tractor?

 

 

 

It don't look much better today.... Thanks for the picture, I'll find mine one of these days. I have to get a hard drive switched out of a dead computer...

 

Chuck,

 

I do not know how long they used them. When I got the one on the Potato B, it was filled with black tar gas... I cleaned it all up and set it aside to use on the tractor, once I got to working on it. When I got B#119 (also not much to look at, even worse than the Potato B),

I thought it would be cool to put the tractor back to original, like Gary Arneson and Ken Aggen did with B#751. I have been scrounging parts from all over, and have almost everything I need to get started. I found this one when I was giving Ed Torbert all the money in my pocket one day. It was in a cigar box in his shed, he had put it there because he had not seen one like it, and was asking me if I knew if it was original. Now Ed is a good guy, and he finds all kinds of things with all the B's, C's and CA's he knocks in the head. He let's me know when he finds something I might want. The trade-off is that I always leave his place with empty pockets!  LOL.

 

It is good to hear that they are not all that rare, because maybe I can eventually get a few more of them for my early B's. Some parts are just dang hard to find....

 

I did get a carb that was the Zenith 8561A model used on the first non-Waukesha B's, it has the cast iron choke lever. That was off eBay, I got outbid the first time it was listed, but the high bidder put a "protective bid" in that was higher than he really wanted to pay. So, I got it on the re-listing auction. Ed had a nice set of tires and rims, although he was short a couple of the early wheel clamps. (I had some on the junk tractor that we got out on our great Ohio adventure.) He also had a good non-pressurized radiator and some misc stuff to take my last couple of bucks. LOL

 

I got a good Gemmer steering gear, a cherry early gas tank and an original spring/horsehair seat, that needs recovered.

 

Gary, Brett, Ken and I are still chasing an original early B padded seatback. So far, nothing. The first 12,000 B's could have had that seat back, doesn't somebody have one stashed in the back of a barn somewhere?  Sorry for rambling.....