nigel

This part is very nearly ready for welding up and riveting now I've finished making the copper rivets and shaping the friction linings. Gives me 19.5 sq ins(126sq cms) of contact, so plenty of grip.
 
The bar with the springs will serve to keep the "Shoes' open and apply equal pressure when shoes are closed onto the PTO by 'over centre' lever lock and cable operation-
 

 
Regards
 

Thanks guys,
                      Enjoyed making the shroud and working it out as I went along. Done with that now and the engine sports a N.O.S Lodge C3 Plug-
 

 
Be a while before nexrt update,  have to plan for the chassis layout etc.
 
 

Outstanding work again

Just about finished the copperwork on the Cowling now which should now provide more efficient removal of heat and keep the intake side cooler-
 

 

 
Carb side additional shroud will be riveted on, as the full shroud can be fitted and removed ok. The plate on the exhaust side will have to be detachable.

Well I got ian to lathe me up another governer rod, and it was a bastard to fit but we got there in the end, we got it running properly and I rode it around at rural pastimes ,it ran ok, I have now sold it on and it’s gone west to wales, I know the new owner has spent many hours working on it since and hopefully he will be posting here at some point

Hi Nigel, Good to hear from you and hope all's well. Quite enjoy doing the beating of copper. Just about ready to stitch the cowl/plates together with rivets now that I've nearly sorted the Plug access hole-
 
 
 
Meanwhile, I had to come up with a fixing point I'd mentioned to secure the lower part of the cowl.
Decided on a split housing so that it can be easily assembled/removed. Machined 2 blocks of Duralumin to identical size, then drilled/tapped to bolt them together.
Excellent machining qualities of this metal made it a rather enjoyable job-
 
 
 
I was then able to machine the inner diameters to fit the flange it clamps to and clears the crank bearing and shaft by a few thousands of an inch (0.05mm).
 It will also have a greased felt wiper washer inside to prevent dirt/water ingress-
 

 
This now gives me a platform to fix the cowl and hold it securely-
 

 
Have lots of swarf to clean off the machines now!.
Regards
 
 

I used to do a bit of copper bashing using old hot water cylinders as source material, I made a few buckets and bits and bobs, it’s not as easy as it looks but once again your work is top notch 👍

Bashing copper seems to be going ok so far. Part way through doming the top to fit the cylinder head. This is to utilise the 1/4"bsf threaded hole in the top to secure it-
 

 
There will also be a fixing that uses the flange of the crankcase at the shaft bearing output side -
 

 
Fuel tank caps will be more difficult to form
 
 

Happy Christmas to all the surviving members of MOM

Happy Christmas to all the surviving members of MOM

Happy Christmas to all the surviving members of MOM

Look on eBay plenty of Chinese carbs for all hondas on there

All the Best, Nigel. 

Many Happy Returns Nigel, 🎁 Hope you have a great day 🎂🍾🍺🕺🏼💃🎉🎈
And many more of them. 👍👍
Doug.

This weekend has been the Hethersgill Vintage Clubs annual rally. Because of covid we have not been able to run it for three years. So it's been like a fresh start.
  Friday I took my farmer mates caravan through to the site, while he followed with cattle trailer with signage, table, chairs and my Sears/Roper GT16. We then erected the auction tent. I later returned home to load my car with stuff I was taking for the auction a long with a small 3X4ft trailer.
  Saturday was mainly spent booking in early arrivals and things for the auction, plus setting up the car display area. After a whisky laced coffee in the caravan and retired to bed in the back of the car. Number 3 grandson bedded down in his car along side. His first time away with me and at the rally. He did very well helping out here and there.
  Up early Sunday and soon was time to start booking in the car entries. Three of us were doing this but I kept getting dragged away to sort out some other peoples problems. Ten o'clock and the gate opened for the public. 
  The show finished around 4pm and it was time to start packing stuff away and helping load things that people had bought at the auction. I got a nice little trailer. Quite pleased with it. Also a cast iron Bamfords seat of some farm equipment. That will turn into a garden seat similar to one we already have. I hadn't given any thought as to how I was getting the trailer home. But Lewis phoned his eldest brother and he came and collect it along with the Sears and delivered it to my place. Eventually I arrived home about 8pm. had a bite to eat then unloaded the car. Well and truly tired. Bed by 10am and didn't wake till 6pm.
  Today back to the site and helped finish clearing up. Took the newly purchased trailer and brought a couple of tractor tyres my mate had bought.
 So below are some photo's for your perusal. 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
This belongs to a friend of mine who has quite  collection of vintage bicycles and some cars. Great fun to drive.

 

 
This is the pickup he brought it in. 1920's Citroen. 

 

 

 
That all for now. I do have a few more that failed to load. I'll try later.
 

Hi all our first outing this year was at Hethersgill vintage Rally at Carlisle Airport on Sunday the 1st  May
And what great day it turned out the Weather was wet when we left Edinburgh but improved as we went over the border and once set up we were very shortly basking in full sun and to complete the day we came home with 1 2 3 prizes .
Altogether a great day out and what away to start 2022 some pics here of our line up        

Chris rang me yesterday, he’s sounding real positive and looking forward to rural pastimes

Spoke to Chris this morning. He can now walk without an aid and go up stairs. Has to have a nurse with him though, as his balance is not perfect. Hospital has a cafe up stairs and serves tea and cake.
  They are going to put a seat in his shower at home with hand rails. Also a rail going up the stairs. So he may be home sooner than thought. 

Spoke to him today he’s doing ok won’t be out of hostpital until may though

Aye us Southerners do apparently !
 
Chris is still in Haywards Heath Hospital and his therapy sessions are continuing, sounds like he is making progress
 
Keep going Mr Showman !
 
 

Oh yes! Chris likes his tea. On the hour, every hour. 

Phoned him on Thursday.   Said he was being well looked after.   Good food and plenty of tea.  Looking forward to getting home though.  

Spoke to Chris this afternoon. Sounds in good spirits. He's had speech therapy and is talking better. Still got that strange southern accent though. He can now bend his left arm more and tough his face. Starts physio' tomorrow. Long way to go though but he's in the best of places at Heywood Heath.
  His friend Steve drives Pam to see him and his son Steve calls in to see her after work. So both are being looked after.

I spoke to him a couple of days ago, he’s definitely on the mend 

Well I thought I would revive this topic, I ended up buying this from Harry ( I was robbed ) after it sat for 4 years in a container, it took me 3 days to get it running after changing all fuel pipes and wiring flushing tanks etc, when it did finally go it started revving and kept revving faster and faster until I could not stop it, my mate hid behind a digger as I jammed a lever on the governer to try and stop it which it didn’t ,then real disaster happend the governer snapped off, I ended up pulling the fuel line off and it stopped, now I have a major problem of getting the governer out of the engine, 🙄