Re: It's tight, but I've got it in!
Posted: 02 Nov 2020 13:11
Lovely Alan. ( You're our 2nd TVR owner too.....)
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It's tight, but I've got it in!
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Re: It's tight, but I've got it in!
Posted: 03 Nov 2020 12:50
Perhaps we should start a 'and my other classic is' series - I have an A40 Mk1 and a Panther Kallista 2.8i - just a bit different!
Re: It's tight, but I've got it in!
Posted: 03 Nov 2020 15:06
my cars tend to come from scrap yards.
behind the whitley under the blue tarpauline was a 1930 austin 7
this has now gone to a better home behind that is a small outhouse that at one time housed
a lathe and mill for reboring/remetaling austin 7 engines.
i like to learn how to do things
- countryman
- armstrong siddeley Hurricane 1948
- armstrong siddeley Whitley
this has now gone to a better home behind that is a small outhouse that at one time housed
a lathe and mill for reboring/remetaling austin 7 engines.
i like to learn how to do things
Re: It's tight, but I've got it in!
Posted: 03 Nov 2020 16:50
Re: It's tight, but I've got it in!
Posted: 03 Nov 2020 17:01
behind the whitley under the blue tarpauline was a 1930 austin 7
this has now gone to a better home, behind that is a small outhouse that at one time housed
a lathe and mill for reboring/remetaling austin 7 engines.
i like to learn how to do things
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Reboring/remetaling......that's what was done at one of the companies I worked at :- Coventry Boring & Metaling. I did the crank grinding, 1983-1999.....( still am doing, at Farndons now ). Did allsorts, Austins, Morris', Wolseleys, Rileys, Rolls Royces, Bentleys, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera..... Some of those early Rolls & Bentley 6 cylinder cranks were like a bit of "bent wire"....hollow from end to end. Put 'em on the straightener and could push/bend 'em eigth of an inch ! Lovely bit 'o kit though....EN40B nitrided.....chuffin 'ard ! ! !
The metaling was fascinating too, running the old white metal out, tinning the bearing halves, recasting them and boring them out in pairs to suit the size i'd grind the crank to. EG, i'd gring a pin to 1.999", and the bearing would be bored to 2.0". Great times, loved it.
this has now gone to a better home, behind that is a small outhouse that at one time housed
a lathe and mill for reboring/remetaling austin 7 engines.
i like to learn how to do things
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Reboring/remetaling......that's what was done at one of the companies I worked at :- Coventry Boring & Metaling. I did the crank grinding, 1983-1999.....( still am doing, at Farndons now ). Did allsorts, Austins, Morris', Wolseleys, Rileys, Rolls Royces, Bentleys, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera..... Some of those early Rolls & Bentley 6 cylinder cranks were like a bit of "bent wire"....hollow from end to end. Put 'em on the straightener and could push/bend 'em eigth of an inch ! Lovely bit 'o kit though....EN40B nitrided.....chuffin 'ard ! ! !
The metaling was fascinating too, running the old white metal out, tinning the bearing halves, recasting them and boring them out in pairs to suit the size i'd grind the crank to. EG, i'd gring a pin to 1.999", and the bearing would be bored to 2.0". Great times, loved it.