This Week in Wheeler's Workshop

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I'm 57 with dodgy everything. Just got some nasty chest pains carrying my trolley jack into my shed, so can add to the list now. 

[Lazydocker]

I'm 57 with dodgy everything. Just got some nasty chest pains carrying my trolley jack into my shed, so can add to the list now. 

57? Christ on a bike, you had a hard paper round

 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I'm 57 with dodgy everything. Just got some nasty chest pains carrying my trolley jack into my shed, so can add to the list now. 

57? Christ on a bike, you had a hard paper round life:D

 

Theres no denying it. 

[Lincs Robert]

I,m 72 with a dodgy right arm.

Age is no problem, but you really need both arms!

[Doctor Gollum]

I,m 72 with a dodgy right arm.

Age is no problem, but you really need both arms!

I can immediately think of two people here who might beg to differ...

[Lincs Robert]

I,m 72 with a dodgy right arm.

Age is no problem, but you really need both arms!

I can immediately think of two people here who might beg to differ...

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[Nick W]

I,m 72 with a dodgy right arm.

Age is no problem, but you really need both arms!

I can immediately think of two people here who might beg to differ...

Are they ringers too? 
It's possible to ring one handed(it's possible to ring two bells at once, but very few people can do it), but I would suggest that most who do didn't learn that way.

[Lincs Robert]

I,m 72 with a dodgy right arm.

Age is no problem, but you really need both arms!

I can immediately think of two people here who might beg to differ...

Are they ringers too? 
It's possible to ring one handed(it's possible to ring two bells at once, but very few people can do it), but I would suggest that most who do didn't learn that way.

I know someone who does this on a regular basis- frightens the hell out of me!
There was an episode of Midsomer which featured a ringing competition- ringers getting killed all round, in the end the winning team was a team of 3 people ringing 6 bells! The episode was called "ring our your dead".

I'm not sure what DG means & hope he will enlighten us .......

[Doctor Gollum]

Webby and Elite lover have a pair of hands between them

Had forgotten that you were discussing campagnology  

[STEMO]

Didn't know about Elite Lover, but you've got to take your hat off to young Webby. He just gets on with things, he's a good lad.

FFS....Don't tell him I said that. 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Wot he said. ^ 

[Nick W]

I've been doing a lot of ringing recently so my workshop time has consisted of not making a clock


But Richard's MGF project needs to move along, so he's bought some bits. These consist of three more displacers to repair/recharge, and because its got a head gasket issue we're going to upgrade it from the stock 118hp spec.


So, we have the head, cams, ECU and bigger throttle body off a 135hp car:





These are supposed to benefit from matching the inlet ports to the manifold, and the impression on the gasket confirms that: stock ports:





and marked out:





About 20minutes with the die grinder:





I also removed the step in the short turn near the valve seats as best I could. Once I've got some stones for the Dremel, I'll open up the holes for the water jacket too.


Finally for today, I cleaned up each valve in the lathe using some emery cloth and 400grit (no longer)sticky DA discs:





I left my drill at work and I'm NOT lapping 16 valves by hand, so that can wait until Tuesday.


The last headwork I did was on a Lycoming engine; these K-series parts are tiny

[aaronjb]

But Richard's MGF project needs to move along, so he's bought some bits. These consist of three more displacers to repair/recharge, and because its got a head gasket issue we're going to upgrade it from the stock 118hp spec.

Surprise!

Lathe envy, btw. Lathe envy. I bet your Warco has a lot less play in it than my Myfords

[Nick W]

Lathe envy, btw. Lathe envy. I bet your Warco has a lot less play in it than my Myfords

I only bought it 3 1/2 years ago to replace a mini-lathe, so that had better be the case
The 5" centre height, 30mm spindle bore, 1100w variable speed motor and power cross-slide(which is particularly good for parting off) make it a lot more usable. Well worth the £1100 it cost, I wish I had space to upgrade the mini mill.

[aaronjb]

I know that's not particularly expensive for a lathe, but it's still the total cost of both my Myfords combined That said, I'd get more use out of a single, expensive lathe than I would my Myfords, I suspect - especially one, which has pretty catastrophic play in the compound slide which leads to the tooling (esp. if carbide) 'digging' in on facing operations with interesting results!

Perhaps I should chop them both in (still a healthy market) for one newer one..

I'd still love an old Bridgeport, though