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Rebuilding, buying & selling bronze era Stromberg Carburetors as well as most other brands of the teens & twenties.
Modern needle & seat conversions for all bronze Strombergs, Kingston 4 Ball, Zenith & others.
Vintage - Antique - Classic
Stromberg Model OF for Model T Ford, RF for Model T Ford,
LF for Model T Ford, LB-1, LB-2, OE-1, OE-2, OS-1, OS-2, OX-2, MX-2, MX-3 & others including U & J, Kingston 4 & 5 ball,
Zenith, Rayfield AND MANY MORE!
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Stan Howe
Brass Carburetors
4433 Red Fox Dr
Helena, Mt 59602
USA
406-949-3448 cell
email: stanhowemt@aol.com
email: stanhowemt@aol.com
June 23, 2017
New arrivals, special interest and rare carbs are on the SPECIAL CARBS FOR SALE tab, click it to see what I have.
You can call me at 406-949-3448 or email me at stanhowemt@aol.com. I try to answer every call as it comes in but you may have to leave me a message. I will call you back as soon as possible and answer emails as soon as I can get a minute or two to do so.
Thank you for the support of this little one old man business.
Thanks, Stan Howe
As of June 30, 2017 I will be making some changes in my carburetor business. I will not be taking in any new repair work to be completed before November 1, 2017. I need to get caught up in the shop -- and have many other business and personal interests that also need my attention.
After about 15 years of this, I still like doing the rebuilding and turning a piece of brass into a functioning part of an antique automobile, truck or tractor. However, this is not a modern repair shop where there are parts on the shelf. This is a restoration service which sometimes requires me to spend hours and hours to make one small part or tearing down half a dozen parts carbs to find one needed part. It is very time consuming. I also test run and adjust virtually every carburetor to make sure it will work as expected when delivered.
I can not and do not promise any return dates. You can request that I get your work done when you want it but that means someone else is waiting for theirs.
If you need a carb rebuilt be aware that it will not be back on your schedule, it will be back when I can get it done. I am still working on a back log from 2016 and earlier.
In 2016 I got 16 carburetors in from a museum and 7 others for rebuild in one week. I have carburetors in museums and collections all over the world but make them wait like everybody else.
At this point I am caught up to where I have about 15 or 20 to get done and in the mail and I will be pretty much caught up. I may or may not accept any more work at that point. I am old, getting older every day and every year and like most people, I am not as healthy 40 years ago when I was 35 and could work all day and night day after day. I also have three other businesses including owning one of Montana's largest auction companies and have a couple girls and a college age boy I am helping raise. They and their activities interest me and I will continue to attend their school activities, play music together and spend time with them doing other things -- helping them rebuild their 1948 CJ2A Jeep, teaching them to drive, etc.
I do not know of anyone else who does this work on brass carburetors so have no where else to send you.
Also, be aware that I no longer work on ANY Model T Ford carburetors newer than the Holley G. I do work on the early Holleys for pre-T and early T Fords, Kingston ball types and the Holley G's. I started this business pretty much by accident when I bought a Model T with a Stromberg OF that leaked like a sieve but ran well. I fixed it, sold the car, bought another OF, fixed it etc. I have now done well over 1,000 of those and will continue to buy, rebuild and sell those as I have time. (As some of you may know, I spent over 40 years following in my father and grandfathers' footsteps as a violin repairman and maker. Another grandfather was a jeweler and they were all farmers so I grew up working on anything that needed fixing.)
In mid July I hope to have a list of carburetors for sale from my extensive inventory and collection. I have several hundred carburetors in stock as well as one of the more extensive Model T Ford Accessory Carburetor collections. Pretty much everything is for sale.
If you wish to be notified send me an email at stanhowemt@aol.com and I will notify you when it is available.
If you have a carburetor here and do not wish to wait any longer let me know and I will either get it done and to you or send it back with your payment. But do not call me, especially when you are drunk on a Sunday afternoon and start ranting at me. I will not tolerate that. Period. A recent episode of that was the impetus for this change in my business and this notification.
Thank you for 15 years of business. However, please do not send me any carburetor without calling or emailing me and making sure we are on the same page for return times and that there will be extra charges for missing major parts, badly damaged castings, etc. I also will no longer spend half a day disassembling a rusted, corroded, dented carburetor with missing and damaged parts and then have you tell me "The wife won't let me spend that much money on it, just send it back and I'll fix it myself" and expect me to deliver it to your son that happens to be in Helena on a Sunday morning so you don't have to pay return shipping. The law of the west is to check your purse before you order a round for the house. That is what it will be here from now on. I deal with customers and have plenty of work from people who are willing to pay for my time and expertise, I don't need that kind of people wasting my time.
I regret that I can no longer spend hours on the phone or answering emails every day giving advice on carburetors - rebuilding - etc. I will also no longer be buying much inventory. Send me an email with photos if you wish but I may not be able to answer it as soon as you wish.
Stan Howe, Helena, Montana.
Stanhowemt@aol.com 406-949-3448
Below is from earlier in 2017.
I am back in the shop and working every day, rebuilding and selling carburetors. I got a lot done over the winter but am ALWAYS behind. I am working on the back log of repairs and for the most part, try to get them out in the order they came in. This time of year I am getting a lot of work in so it will be some time before you get your carb back if you send it in. I try to get orders out for carbs that are sold as soon as possible but have NO stock of rebuilts on the shelf ready to go, all the ones I rebuilt over the winter have already sold and either are gone or will be within a few weeks. After about 15 years of this, I still like doing the rebuilding and turning a piece of brass into a functioning part of an antique automobile, truck or tractor. However, this is not a modern repair shop where there are parts on the shelf. This is a restoration service which sometimes requires me to spend hours and hours to make one small part or tearing down half a dozen parts carbs to find one needed part. It is very time consuming. I also test run and adjust virtually every carburetor to make sure it will work as expected when delivered.
I can not and do not promise any return dates. You can request that I get your work done when you want it but that means someone else is waiting for theirs.
If you need a carb rebuilt be aware that it will not be back on your schedule, it will be back when I can get it done. I am still working on a back log from 2016 and earlier.
In 2016 I got 16 carburetors in from a museum and 7 others for rebuild in one week. I have carburetors in museums and collections all over the world but make them wait like everybody else.
At this point I am caught up to where I have about 15 or 20 to get done and in the mail and I will be pretty much caught up. I may or may not accept any more work at that point. I am old, getting older every day and every year and like most people, I am not as healthy 40 years ago when I was 35 and could work all day and night day after day. I also have three other businesses including owning one of Montana's largest auction companies and have a couple girls and a college age boy I am helping raise. They and their activities interest me and I will continue to attend their school activities, play music together and spend time with them doing other things -- helping them rebuild their 1948 CJ2A Jeep, teaching them to drive, etc.
I do not know of anyone else who does this work on brass carburetors so have no where else to send you.
Also, be aware that I no longer work on ANY Model T Ford carburetors newer than the Holley G. I do work on the early Holleys for pre-T and early T Fords, Kingston ball types and the Holley G's. I started this business pretty much by accident when I bought a Model T with a Stromberg OF that leaked like a sieve but ran well. I fixed it, sold the car, bought another OF, fixed it etc. I have now done well over 1,000 of those and will continue to buy, rebuild and sell those as I have time. (As some of you may know, I spent over 40 years following in my father and grandfathers' footsteps as a violin repairman and maker. Another grandfather was a jeweler and they were all farmers so I grew up working on anything that needed fixing.)
In mid July I hope to have a list of carburetors for sale from my extensive inventory and collection. I have several hundred carburetors in stock as well as one of the more extensive Model T Ford Accessory Carburetor collections. Pretty much everything is for sale.
If you wish to be notified send me an email at stanhowemt@aol.com and I will notify you when it is available.
If you have a carburetor here and do not wish to wait any longer let me know and I will either get it done and to you or send it back with your payment. But do not call me, especially when you are drunk on a Sunday afternoon and start ranting at me. I will not tolerate that. Period. A recent episode of that was the impetus for this change in my business and this notification.
Thank you for 15 years of business. However, please do not send me any carburetor without calling or emailing me and making sure we are on the same page for return times and that there will be extra charges for missing major parts, badly damaged castings, etc. I also will no longer spend half a day disassembling a rusted, corroded, dented carburetor with missing and damaged parts and then have you tell me "The wife won't let me spend that much money on it, just send it back and I'll fix it myself" and expect me to deliver it to your son that happens to be in Helena on a Sunday morning so you don't have to pay return shipping. The law of the west is to check your purse before you order a round for the house. That is what it will be here from now on. I deal with customers and have plenty of work from people who are willing to pay for my time and expertise, I don't need that kind of people wasting my time.
I regret that I can no longer spend hours on the phone or answering emails every day giving advice on carburetors - rebuilding - etc. I will also no longer be buying much inventory. Send me an email with photos if you wish but I may not be able to answer it as soon as you wish.
Stan Howe, Helena, Montana.
Stanhowemt@aol.com 406-949-3448
Below is from earlier in 2017.
New arrivals, special interest and rare carbs are on the SPECIAL CARBS FOR SALE tab, click it to see what I have.
You can call me at 406-949-3448 or email me at stanhowemt@aol.com. I try to answer every call as it comes in but you may have to leave me a message. I will call you back as soon as possible and answer emails as soon as I can get a minute or two to do so.
Thank you for the support of this little one old man business.
Thanks, Stan Howe
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