flandersflyer
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There were a chekko lathe recently on eBay ...I nearly bought it That were down Norfolk I don't think it sold I've also got that small drills big brother...I'll bung a pic or three in when I get time
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It was a mildly sexist comment I were making ☺😯☺
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nice to see a rollorbox wasn`t involved
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run some solder across the whole of the contact area theres enough cross sectional area available here to stiffen it all up...
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my latest acquisition:
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I`v got a Lister SR1 with quite a bit of discolouration on the bore it also had a broken ring....and there was a bit of rough where the gudgeon pin was....(sat in a farmers field for 20 odd years) I just wiped it all out by hand with some 1000 grade & oil in a crosshatch pattern discolouration is still there and there`s a bit of pitting where the rough was but it'll live to fight another day its all about how you feel it'll cope.....then just go with it...
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MAPP gas will braize that....
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HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY To my Albion Chassis No. 361A
flandersflyer replied to lynx42 Rick Cove's topic in Pre WW2 vehicles
fantastic!! don't you just love it... -
may be of interest to Steve http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/hootflipflopandfly/m.html?item=252402495424&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 local to him as well (Leicester)
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but it demonstrates the demise....and subsequent resurrection of the vehicle....does it not I think it OK to manufacture and use new looking components...where needed. To artificially `age` something in order to `blend in` would be fakery... just a thought mind you...
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OK Nice work your doing ben
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How are you getting the 3 phase? is it coming in from the DNO or are you artificially creating L2 & L3 with capacitors?
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Just wanted to say to the Devon team to keep at it....definite progress being made and great to see I`m currently on with a few projects of my own...nothing military...just some Petter & Lister diesels that I`m restoring I may start a thread on em in non-topics
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restoration CVR(T) 65247 invades the USA
flandersflyer replied to teletech's topic in Blogs of MV restorations
my old granddad once told me theres much to be said about garden fences: "they say nowt, mind their own business and get on with what their supposed to be doing" theres much to be said for a good fence. -
yep. plenty of water on it during cutting...at a slow, steady speed with a steady pressure applied during cutting L. S. STARRETT make what I consider to be the best holesaws....I use em regularly to cut out holes for downlights (I`m an electrical contractor) DART are good n all..
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this is where a MAG drill/rotabroach would have been better Steve
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place i once worked at had Churchill cylindrical grinders ..with a few Lumbsden surface flashers and a Prince crank grinder.. getting on but all good machines
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i suppose steaming them into the correct radius..(a bit like they used to do to get Lincrusta round corners) would do it..
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this wont be the problem Electrolytic corrosion may well be though...in time...
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German build wooden reproduktion of British tank
flandersflyer replied to Gradez's topic in Pre WW2 vehicles
it could have been used for Artillery recognition (a silhouette).. or for flyers.. -
interesting site: http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel/ward/front.htm
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how was the original boss fitted?
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what gets me is the amount of intricate work involved to manufacture these machines... not really appropriate to war production is it (i know they will have used jigs & turrets/capstans etc)...but...
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or he could just do what i`v said at #47: http://www.anaglypta.co.uk/our-papers/brand/original rather than go down expensive and time consuming guff...
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they may have used a bit of lincrusta.....
