I picked up a Sun Tach early 60's Tach at a yard sale for $5.00 still in the box with all hardware,instructions and the original decal, some little hottie 16-17 yrs old was selling that day!!!! It will adorn the cowl of my 1959 Chasis Research TE-440 front engine dragster!
Do you remember what it went for? I paid $60 for this one and it came with a junk s/w sender... Either way, if I use it I am going to convert it to modern electric...
no I deleted it off my watch list because it was six volt. it was definately a sun sender that it came with. right in the description the guy stated what he pulled it out of so you would have known if it was the one.
There was one that was listed on ebay not too long ago (they didn't know what it was from either) and it went for $255.00 or so...and it wasn't nearly as nice. Nice score. I found the link... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1940s-1950s-SUN-BAKELITE-5000-RPM-TACH-W-ACCY-LIGHT_W0QQitemZ260019756912QQcmdZViewItem
Ryan, looks like F-G1D Corsair tach to me. dont have a link but i DO have some stills i took at oshkosh a few years ago i can look and see if i can find to scan in
Here is the one Don speaks of... 5000 rpm tach with a 6V - 8Cyl "EB" sender. This was mounted on the dash of a 46 Ford truck. We also found a second one, identical, that was in a 52 Ford truck...sender and all. I doubt they were aircraft, being they both has 6V 8cyl senders. I am still curious as to when they were made...I would guess late 40's early 50's. Neal
thanks for the pics... atleast I have an idea for a column mount now... I don't know why really, but I don't think this is an aircraft tach either... I've never known sun to make aeronotic equip.
Digging around the interweb, I don't see any instance of SUN making aircraft instruments - but it sure does look like somethng from a ****pit. The designer had to have been inspired by aircraft gauges.
that wouldn't happen to have been the one I saw on ebay would it?? sure looks the same and the description is quite familiar
The Sun gauge looks like something out of one of those big Sun diagnostics machines that everyone had back in the day. The old Dodge dealership next to my shop had a bunch of those old Sun machines in it before they closed down.
Souldn't be, I took those pics on the workbench in my shop. I did post them on an earlier thread about tachs...maybe someone lifted them for a "fake" auction? Do you have a link to the one on ebay? I'm curious... Neal
nope, auction ended and I don't have it in my watch list anymore. he had the same description of it though. I posted what I remembered about the ebay auction ealier in this thread and it pretty much matched your post.
Correct... Everything that I used that was Old military... was 24 Volt... Jeeps, Deuce/halves, APU's and Generators...! But wasn't there a resistor going to the instrument panels???
wouldn't matter. the tach sending unit is 6 volts. it takes the voltage from the coil which would be 24 volts
Ryan take a look at this one still has a few days to go. Rare Vintage Tachometer Item number: 290078324319
Ryan, here is a picture of a sun tach, that is in a post-war Bell Auto Parts catalog. I'am pretty sure its an Army/Navy surplus item because on the next page they offer an oil pressure gauge, seat belts, goggles, 6-volt battery, a stop watch, fuel shut off valve, all advertized as Navy surplus.....Ed
that's the same tach as the one listed here on ebay: this one is an actual 24v aircraft tach for a four popper. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Airc...tegoryZ26439QQihZ009QQitemZ190076908387QQrdZ1
Ryan, the catalog dosen't have anything on it, as far as what year, but i know its from 1946 to 48. My Father and Mother took a week trip in 1948 and went to the LA area to pickup a flathead engine from Bobby Meeks at Edelbrocks. All of these old catalogs came from that road trip, so I'am guessing 1948, i also have a 1948 SoCal catalog, that has a bunch of army/navy surplus stuff forsale...Ed
Hey Ryan, If you look in TRK/Issue #8, there is one in **** Lewis' '40 Ford. I have his number if you need it. The guy is the guru of early speed equipment around my area. Spike
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