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Show REPAIRS THAT LESSEN COSTS t Experts Can Make Big Saving Sav-ing in Expense for Motor Mo-tor Car Owners , B iFAwni i: rortsrencosr, Editor of Motor. 1 American motor car owners are throwing away millions of dollars every ev-ery ear. Thu: Statt tuont sounds radical, radi-cal, but It is literally true Here is tlo explanation: Car owners ! -stanlly throw away damaged pai ls and put in new ones. In many cases such parts could be repaired and mad., as y, , as new le. il.o fikMHnl r : I:iiinn Of today. If this I: not literally llirow-inr. llirow-inr. away money, then we want to be ' corrected, 1 Let ii" elucidate 0 little. The met.il workers of this c untry with the passing pass-ing years have acquired an almost uncanny un-canny skill In making repairs of all sorts to metal pa. In years gone by when ft crank case, through freeilitc or" other idls- haPi had a piece cracked out, it B promptly thrown into the junk n ap land the car owner paid for a new I crank case. Today tho expert welder will tako a crank case with a piece broken oul and weld It Into plao again and the repair win be strong than tho original part. Just to point the moral, a weld of this kind Will cost not more Mian $4u A m-w cranic case will run as high as $200. Crumpled fenders, a mishap the I u almost an everyday occurrence In city driving, can be smoothed out and i -stored to absolute perfection by the mctul workers of today. Tho cost for doipp this Will iu t run over flu or o against two or three times that for a new fender. When a wire wheel has been bent lopsided in some serious hump, tho car owner might consider that Its days of usefulness are over and consign con-sign It to the dust heap. He would be wrong. If he will lake U to a stamping concern, the wheel can be pressed back Into perfect shi.pe, good for the rest of the car's lifetime, provided pro-vided no other smash comes to crumple. crum-ple. It up again. Tnc cost of straightening straight-ening u wire wheel tn this way will he about $7 or $S, while a new . keel will cost somewhere In the neighborhood neighbor-hood of $20. It often happens that brackets on the framework of the car. which must support heavy loads, arc gradually worn, so that they will no lorger do their duty safely. It Is easy to throw the bracket away and have a new one fitted, but It costs money. For the frugal car owner how much better It Is to have some metal brazed into the bracket holes, which have ,,en w.rn out of shape by long service and then have new holes cut In the new mora, of the correct size. This operation can be performed for less than $15 and the cost of hew brackets would be at least $50. W'c could 'o on mentioning specific speci-fic reoalrs almost without end, but enough has been said to point the moral. To the car owner we say: "Do not throw away any damaged part until un-til you have consulted your garasrerran or repair station to make sure th . cannot be repaired, at a great sav.ng in cost to you." no |