JC Higgins 710.74031 Restoration

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  1. Bill Klock Canada SotM Winner

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    My first stove project of the year. This 710.74031 was sent to me by a guy in Mississippi who watches my YouTube channel. Someone had smurfed it up with blue paint, so I started by stripping it off with acetone and a mountain of paper towels, then into the e-tank it went. The tank was in pretty good shape, so I decided to preserve it in original condition.

    There don't seem to be many of these around. It's got the late-style AGM pump handle and since AGM was doing speckled paint on their products in 1960, I'm inclined to think this was made at that same time, just before King-Seeley shut them down. Thanks to BlueFlame, who posted some close-ups of the original paint on his.

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  2. ROBBO55

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    Nice work :thumbup: