Carb help

[T. Cotten]

Dear Tom, much of my reply was summarised from early Harley Shop Dopes. These advise use of the drills by hand, but also remind us not to bottom them out and damage the seat at the end of the idle passage. Dealer Accessory catalogs from the 1930s show the cleaning drills mounted in handles as part of a kit, presumably for sale to the careful bike owner.

When these were new, Steve,
They were not expected to last generations.

A crude field repair kit was not considered a threat to History, as a new carb could be gotten off the shelf if a hole got boogered. The kits probably stimulated sales.
Even repeated skillful attacks will eventually change the carb's tuning characteristics away from its original metering.

Modern cleaning methods, and a little common sense, will conserve our machines' performance.
Modern digestive fuels are cleaners in themselves, and implements of torture such as the drill kits should be viewed as novel memorabilia only.

....Cotten

[Rubone]

The kit as issued for WLAs. As Cotten says, use at your peril!
Robbie