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notchboy
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 Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 10:02 am Post subject: Re: Hazet Assistent |
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| SplitBusVanatic wrote: |
| It it strange that there is a half a bottom divider in that picture above. |
Look at the pics to the right of it. The bottom looks like a bucket or something is in there with the seat removed. Im sure rsbadura will know. Maybe a battery tester.
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SplitBusVanatic
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 11:40 am Post subject: Re: Hazet Assistent |
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| Well spotted. I see that now indeed. Interesting. |
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70bus 
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 11:44 am Post subject: Re: Hazet Assistent |
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I personally enjoy how Hazet posed him like those paintings of Christ gesturing with his hand down to left. Hazet will heal your car!
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rsbadura
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 4:43 pm Post subject: Re: Hazet Assistent |
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Hello everyone,
| SplitBusVanatic wrote: |
| It it strange that there is a half a bottom divider in that picture above. |
I found this half devider in a lot of sketches as the patent of 1953, the instruction leaflet, the 1954 catalog drawings and probably only one blurry photo from a trade fair (page 228), in a VW brochure listet as VW 1169 with the Hazet catalog drawing... , these new (around 2000) advertising coffee can and metal sign (origin of these classic like drawing is currently unknown).
but no one have seen this in real life - all today known and photos can be found on the Internet of the 160 have a full size divider. The divider from column to column also gives the whole thing much more stability for heavy loads - a good improvement. I also asked these questions in a German forum with HAZET employees more than one year ago - without any result. Maybe just a rejected prototype/pre-production solution - or only some of them with this?!?
At mine the devider was missing - there were also no scratches or evidence of a half divider - but a full early and also rare divider fits perfect on both sides - that's why I restored my 160 with a full size divider - I can still cut it off if I get more info 
I continue to watch classifieds and forums on the topic... but these Hazet 160 in any condition are very rare. If you see one of these, let me know...
| notchboy wrote: |
| ... Maybe a battery tester. |
the Hazet 802 battery service box appeared a few years later in 1958.
The 161/162 as the successor to the 160 appeared already in 1955.
There was no set of the 160 or 500 A (a 160 with VW tool set) that includes something big, that requires a half divider.
In a 1954 Hazet catalog page 32 drawing you see the standard included tools of the set a (later order number 2140-5) 500 g hammer and (later 1950-4) rubber soft-faced hammer in the free space, on the side of the divider a grease can and the (later 2160) oil can... the same drawing as at the middle at the right side of the metal sign from around 2000 - only the lamp was a little bit modified/rotated.
regards,
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Wout
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| Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2024 4:17 pm Post subject: Re: Hazet Assistent |
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Made a few repro Hazet stools. Ad in the classifieds.
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