A Mystery Roaring Twenties Refurb.......hopefully!

[Anglo Traction 1,016]

Well, perhaps just a subdued British 1920s refurb ! 

I'm hoping I'm not tempting fate here by starting this before I am confident it can be saved and bring back to working order, but I have reached a point where I am reasonably confident.

The intention is not just to keep this a mystery 'til near the end, but to document the challenges of working on what can only be described as an old garden sculpture that used to be a machine.

I reckon that this machine had a useful life of about 7- 10 years from early 1922. Thereafter, it was abandoned and left outside for at least 20 years with only the oil laden dirt to protect it.

It had later (in the mid 50s) been moved to inside an old van and stored there until it saw the light of day back in Sept 18. Always been in the original purchaser's family possession until then.

 

Being of the ilk that likes a challenge, this may be harder than I've been used to in the past. The engine is obsolete and I have no parts information for it, or the machine's frame.

I have acquired some excellent info on the engine and carburettor and has allowed me to progress with checking wear tolerances and set up.

I make no apologies for all the detail in the thread, as I hope it may be of use to anyone who also attempts to tackle an old Villiers engine etc.

 

Work began on the engine to see if it was salvageable. This is the Villiers MkV 269cc 2 stroke of 1922.

It is the engine version that was first to use the flywheel magneto patented around 1920 by Villiers. Very simple and effective at that time-

 

   

 

Known as the large flywheel type Magneto (8 1/2" dia or 216mm), the engine had undergone several revisions since it's inception in 1913.

Designed originally for motor bicycles, this one has a variable timing Armature back plate, but has no use for this machine's application, as the ignition timing is for TDC!.

Flywheel is matched to this Armature Plate having identical numbers stamped on them.

Condition of the engine externally was badly corroded Fins etc on most upper parts, as you will see in various pics.

Internally was pretty dirty and no evidence of ever having been de-carbonised as it had a very thick layer inside the piston. Obviously the rings were seized after about 80 years-

 

This engine, being very early 1922 was still fitted with 3 Rings. Later 1922 engines appear to have only 2 at the top?. Production of this engine ceased in September of '22' .

I had suspected the wear in this engine to be quite bad, as it was designed to be upright and not horiziontally mounted, but was surprised that it was reasonably good as cleaning progressed.

Years of oily dirt helped to keep the corrosion down in certain areas which can be seen in this pic-

 

Note:- the chain was fitted to provide restraint while undoing the Crankshaft nut to remove the Fan.

Once the engine was liberated from the frame, the internals were dismantled. Piston gudgeon (wrist pin) pin is the 'Drive In/Out' type and locked with Cotter/Spit pins.

With this removed I found serious wear to the pin and con rod 'Small End' bushing. The cause being no oil hole visible to allow lubrication!.

Having been blessed with access to a donor engine of the later type (2 piston rings), I obtained a good and little worn gudgeon pin, but had no option other than to make a new 'small end' bushing.

I put that to one side while further evaluation was made. Cylinder  and it's bore was cleaned and looked quite good considering and maybe just a hone required.

Despite virtually no scoring in the bore or the ring faces, the wear limit of the ring gap is excessive and really needs new ones and a hone. Piston is good.

Donor engine bore etc are poor condition.

 

Valuable information came by the way of old editions of 2 different books by motor cycle enthusiasts of the 30s onwards, namely  Cyril Grange & B.E Browning.

Between the two books, I was able to extract all the max wear tolerances and most procedures.

I did have a problem finding the best way to remove the large brass retaining disc/washer that retained the Armature Plate. It also appeared distorted or cup shaped -

 

 

I was also concerned about the wear marks from the Flywheel on the armature plate's face, just visible top L/R of pic above. 

Disc/washer was a press fit onto the Crankshaft, so I went carefully and used 2 small levers to evenly prize it away with the expectation of finding an oil seal of some type behind it,  only to find nothing!.

Never had any oil seal fitted and no sign of leaks etc!!, all metal running fits. I reckon the cup shaped look of the washer was from strain of some kind and should be flat?.

At the same time, I had fears of the Lock Screw at the back of the Plate being totally seized, as it only has a screwdriver slot, or what was left of it-

 

 

I found the heftiest flat bladed lever I could use and to my surprise after a little of my releasing fluid, it unscrewed smoothly and the plate could be removed exposing the corrosion and rot-

 

 

The list of jobs was gradually increasing the more I delved, and the damage from it's last runs was appearing. 

I tested the HT Coil using ohms resistance just to endorse it was dead, found there was still continuity in the 2nd winding, but only had half of the normal resistance. Going new anyway.

modern version of this pre WW2 HT Coil is available, as well as the HT Lead, but not cheap.

 

So by this point, I knew what was needed, what could be done and obtained to get this running again.                                                 ......soon to be cont'd.

     

 

   

[Stormin 4,458]

 Methinks your a glutton for punishment, Richard. I'll be keeping an eye on your progress.

[Alan 1,273]

The start of another masterpiece.   I'll go better than Norm and will be watching with both eye's.

[Rayp 46]

Richard this was really informative and I look forward to seeing the completion of your miracle restoration!

[Stormin 4,458]

3 hours ago, Alan said:

 I'll go better than Norm and will be watching with both eye's.

 

Well you do need both.

[Anglo Traction 1,016]

Well, I hope it provides some reading entertainment for you Gents. Afraid a simple 'Oily Rag' refurb has escaped me again Norm.

 

The cylinder had to have the various bits removed from it. Luckily, the completely blocked Decompression Valve relented ok and the bypass tube plug in the head undid,

but the eroded exhaust flange nuts had to be cut and split-

    

 

While still dealing with the Cylinder bits, I had to start searching for somewhere to have new Rings made. A few hours interweb searching later, I'd found reference

to a restoration of a 1922 CWS Federal Motor bicycle. It had the same engine as this one and reference was made to an engineering firm that did all the work including making new Rings!.

So I fired off an enquiry and received a good reply with price estimates for each item of work, i.e, a cylinder hone  and 3 piston rings to fit.

 

Long story short, I built a strong protective box to transport the parts and to return them in it-

 

 

Disappointed to say the least after receiving an email saying 'all done' and sorry for the cost/charge as was more difficult than he expected!.

When it arrived, all they had done was to make one piston ring!.

They left the 2 old rings on which I sent for their pattern reference, did not hone the bore and charged double for one ring.

So with fingers burnt again (as some here will know) from remote commission work, despite endorsements, my faith in British engineering firms has diminished completely and will now only deal with 'face to face' arrangements.

No option but to proceed and have faith that the wear, although greater than stated limits, will be ok for it to run ok. The point being that it has been fully de carbonised and so loses some assistance the carbon can offer in compression retention.

 

Onward's we go, and started the servicing of the De-Comp valve. Solid with carbon and parts rusted away. Cleaned up and made new clamping screw for the lever pivot collar and pivot pin-

 

          

 

Valve seat and face cleaned up ok and only needed lapping with scrapings from p600 emery and 'T' cut. New valve nut, 1/16" cotter/split pin and will have new copper washer.

Lever pivot hole egg shaped, so bored it out larger and fitted a bronze bush (not in pic).

 

Next job was to obtain the correct type of bronze rod for the small end bushing................................... T B Cont'd

 

 

     

 

[Stormin 4,458]

  To say the least, that company isn't much cop. Can you not hone the bore yourself, Richard, or find someone local who can?

 

  BTW. Looked up Federal Motorcycle as I've never heard of them. Very interesting, as also CWS Federal Bicycles.

 

   Engine if fitted horizontally not off a motorcycle though. Pity!

[Anglo Traction 1,016]

23 hours ago, Stormin said:

   Can you not hone the bore yourself, Richard, or find someone local who can?  

 

No Norm, I would not dare to do a blind 2 stroke cylinder with large transfer ports. Don't have the gear.

It should be done properly on a machine that limits the oscillating travel of the rotating (multi) stones at the right point and that the stones can't catch on the ports.

It should only really be done when the bore can be measured accurately to fit new rings so end clearance is minimal.

This bore surprisingly only had staining with no rust pitting or scoring, despite the engine being locked solid until my releasing fluid did the job and freed it up.

Thought I had a pic of the cleaned up bore, but can only find this one from after removing the cylinder-

 

 

I was really quite impressed with the smoothness of the cleaned up bore and struggled to find any wear lips or tram lines. I think the low skirt piston ring served to maintain even bore wear and prevented piston slap wear. The single replacement ring will have to bed in as is, but will be assisted with increase of Petroil ratio and 40 weight oil instead of 30 wt.

 

I was not happy with my attempts to clean the crank case out as much as possible without splitting the cases.

After several attempts to remove the drive sprocket from the Crank, I gave up.

It is worn, but serviceable for now and I could not position it in my 12 ton press to apply correct force properly without risk of strain or damage to it.

So I split the cases which showed the cleaning limit lines-

 

 

Just as well I split them, as the oil galleries to the Crank bushings were solidly blocked with carbon, as well as the surfaces .

Armed with a few old toothbrushes etc, it all cleaned up nicely and very smooth shiny surfaces at the contact points.

Next pic shows that this engine was designed to run with the cylinder vertically.

The recessed valleys each side above the shaft bushings collect and channel oil to the galleries for lubrication.

They can't do that so well when it's in a horizontal plane. The other point is that the crank case drain plug is rendered useless!.

Another observation is the design of a separate lubrication facility where oil is passed into the crankcase via a hollow mounting stud or bolt, you can see the recess around the bolt hole in lower left and right positions of the case halves in the pic below-

 

 The separate oil system is not used on this application, so uses premixed petrol and oil (petroil).

I checked the crankshaft end float before splitting the cases (0.0055" or 0.15mm), it's well within limits, so I measured the old washer (gasket) thickness and cut out a new one.

Quality brown paper was used with a thickness of 0.0045". Thought I'd stick to tradition and use shellac to dress the washer/gasket and bolted up the cases.

Left to set overnight, tweaked the bolts and checked the end float and got 0.006" . Real happy with that, so gave it some oil in the important bits.

 

Now that it was all clean, I could check the wear limits of the crank bushings. up, down, left and right movement on both sides using about 20 ft lbs (27.12 Nm) pressure.

Flywheel side was good with only around 0.005" in all points. Drive side was a bit excessive on the chain strain line (0.010") , but good up down and right.

Just as well as only option would be to make new one(s)......no thanks!.

 

Established the type of bronze I needed and ordered some PB104................................... TB Cont'd                                             .  

 

 

     

[Anglo Traction 1,016]

 

Having done some swatting up on machining this version of Phosphor Bronze (PB104) and looking for more endorsements that it is the correct stuff for the job, I went ahead.

The Gudgeon Pin obtained from the donor engine was a god send, as I had visions of having to make one and pay for the cylindrical grinding and polishing to size.

I went all over it with a micrometer, noting and marking sizes. I found a slight taper of 0.0002"(0.0051mm) end to end.

The most wear I found was 0.0006" (0.0152mm), so I aimed for closest fit possible to that. Strangely, the pin diameter is neither metric, or imperial and so worked to 0.4915" -

 

Started with 3/4" (19.05mm) dia stock rod. I knew the stuff was a bit 'sticky' when machining. Using 1 part cutting oil and 10 parts White spirit (mineral spirits I believe in U.S) 

I followed a set process of repeated shallow depth drilling, followed up by boring and progressively enlarging the bore to keep the friction heat down.  Stayed only warm to the touch throughout, so was happy with that.

Got to 31/64" (0.4843") leaving me about 0.0072" to finish. Moved the part still in the chuck over to the Mill and fitted to the rotary table for marking out and drilling the oil way-

 

You may see on the old bushing, a circle just below the oil way. Well I scribed the circle while it was still in the con rod due no hole visible.

It was not until I removed the bushing that I found the oil way there. So either it was originally fitted like that, or it moved round ?.

Anyway. after drilling the hole, it was back to the lathe with it to finish the bore to size and turn the outer diameter to a press fit-

 

     

 

Put shallow helical groove in the bore for oil distribution, then parted off and finished ready for fitting-

 

 

A bit of relief to get that part out of the way, so continued to chip away at various bits. Tank Cap was plugged, fuel tap was seized up and clogged.

Also has a filter in the lower section. All cleaned ready.

The back of the Armature Plate lightly cleaned to keep the age look and proceeded to make the rusted, rotted parts. Spring wire HT cap retainer and the armature plate lever. Both Oil blackened and heat treated. New HT Lead and ready now to fit the piston-

 

 

You may also notice the Lock Screw for the armature plate looks a bit better now.

The black markings on the piston are not wear or damage. I believe they are fine grinding marks from when it was either being prepped as a casting ready for machining, or after machining to allow for some skirt clearance and oil retention.

Carefully checked and marked the parts for correct orientation and order of assembly, starting with the small end bushing and avoiding any strain on the con rod and bearings-

 

 

That bushing should not move in a hurry now!.

And with another 'pre fit' check, the ceremonial oiling and fitting of the piston -

 

....................tbc

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Stormin 4,458]

  Coming along nicely, Richard.

 

  I've just noticed the piston crown. I've worked on a few two strokes, but never come across a piston like that. Or with a ring at the bottom.

[Cub Cadet 613]

Nice work Richard!

[Rayp 46]

You should be working on the Space Programme with your miniscule accuracy and attention to detail.  The casting looks like new - how did you get it to that standard?

[Anglo Traction 1,016]

On 2/7/2019 at 7:47 AM, Stormin said:

    I've just noticed the piston crown. I've worked on a few two strokes, but never come across a piston like that. Or with a ring at the bottom.

 

Called a deflector piston. Pretty heavy as well. weighs in at 520 grams without the Pin. Villiers used them a lot up to about 1934. then went flat top on most 2 stroke motorcycle engines when they modified the size and layout of the porting.

Still used deflectors on the 79 Mk1 & 98cc Midget Mk's 2 & 3 engines which ended up in mowers etc like in my Yellow Mower challenge Atco-

 

The Skirt ring must have been discontinued in this 269cc MkV during 1922, as the donor engine later of the same year had the same piston, but unmachined for the fitting of that ring.

 

 

19 hours ago, Cub Cadet said:

Nice work Richard!

 

Thanks Ewan, It's making a pleasant change trying to save something that just under a hundred years old.

 

Main parts of the power unit are back together now and feels nice with the movement-

 

 

Working on the ignition bits now, but broke off to play with the all important starting handle. Pretty badly rusted up, but was able to dismantle into it's constituent parts.

The top 3 parts in this pic, where the free turning hand grip tube was seized (frozen) onto the handle.  The lower part is one of the control arms which needs attention-

 

 

I had to carefully cut the old piece of tubing off, as it was solid and beyond saving. Searched for a substitute and found some stainless tubing that would just about fit.

Being sold in 100mm lengths, I asked  if I could have a piece 101.6mm (4 inches) and it arrived within 24hrs exactly 4 " long !!. Impressed.

Went for stainless, as I reckoned the original was bright nickel plated steel. This will look ok. Initial clean up and prep required me to machine about 3 thousands of an

inch off the 2 faces for the tube to fit on smoothly. Parts to finish and assemble. Even the Cotter Pin was nickel plated, but needed a new nut-

 

    

 

Got some more machining to do before I finish the igntion bits.......tbc.  

 

    

 

 

[Anglo Traction 1,016]

On 2/10/2019 at 12:39 PM, Rayp said:

You should be working on the Space Programme with your miniscule accuracy and attention to detail.  The casting looks like new - how did you get it to that standard?

 

Only too aware Ray that running clearances in engines need to be as recommended to avoid nasty noises and disintegration. Just a matter of cleaning the old dry oily dirt

off with scrapers and soft wire brushes, then finishing with a bit of soft scouring pad. It's not super polished, as I don't want it looking new.

 

Starting handle in the previous post is reassembled, greased the tubing/handle before pressing back on. ready for painting.

Returned to checking out the ignition bits to see what was needed. Having obtained the HT Coil and Lead, I started on the Points Box and when I opened it up,

I found it surprisingly tidy-

 

 

Clearly, towards the end of it's working life, it was opened up quite a lot judging by the scratches on the bright, heavy nickel plated lid. 

Repairs had been attempted by the use of hard (red) sealing wax to act as insulation under the screw head. The small insulating bushings were originally made of 'Ebonite',

a hard vulcanised rubber shaped under high pressures. These had broken and cracked under the screws, but the spacer bushings underneath the plate were ok.

I set about making new flanged bushings that would fit with the engine's age, and I remembered I had a rod of 'Tufnol' from the 50s that was my Father's.

Good stuff this, but never machined it, so did some checking up first. Also found this Ad from the mid 1930s-

 

 

This stuff was being made before the company was formed and is used on the 'Heel' of the breaker points on this engine (which may need replacing).

The rod is surprisingly close tolerance in diameter ( 0.001" under 1/2") and dead straight. This version is known as 'Carp'.

Fine woven cotton fabric tightly rolled, soaked in resin and pressed until set. Cut a piece off, set it in the Baby lathe and turned down to outer diameter-

 

   

Clearance drilled for 4BA Screws, then turned down each one to 1/4" (6.35mm) and parted off. I used white spirit as a lubricant and helped reduce

the dust level (mask and vacuum used).  Cleaned up the part machined cast brass Points box. 

The wires are all still good. Finished bushes seen here and re-using the original spacers-

 

   

 

The worn breaker heel (circled in the above) on the original points arm can be fabricated from this tufnol if I find the wear is too great for points adjustment.

The arm and both contacts have so little wear, that I only had to lightly mirror polish the Platinum faces. Virtually no pitting, which tells me that the condenser

was working as it should when last run. I plan to get this running with all these parts initially. 

 

Will attempt some repairs to the enamelled badge that fits in the Flywheel cover. Also need to repair the worn slots in the lightly cleaned up cover-

 

       

 

   

 

[Stormin 4,458]

  Not seen Tufnol for years. Used it quiet a lot in my early toolmaking days in jigs and fixtures.

[Anglo Traction 1,016]

On 2/14/2019 at 5:44 PM, Stormin said:

  Not seen Tufnol for years. Used it quite a lot in my early toolmaking days in jigs and fixtures.

 

I was surprised it is still a significantly popular material, primarily due to it's durable stability.

 

Having shoved the engine to the back of the bench with a lightly cleaned Flywheel cover fitted after tapping out a few dents-

 

 

I moved on to tackling the Clutch. This is the very first Villiers version of a unit that fitted directly onto the output side of the crankshaft.

It was called the 'Villiers Free Engine Clutch' designed to allow Motor bicycles to be push started (no kick starts then) and then draw in the clutch to allow the rider to bring the machine to a halt and mount before pulling away smoothly/coming to a halt with the engine still running.

I had a real challenge finding anything on this unit until I found a sectional image of it, but with no nomenclature-

  

 

It was a start, but I had much trepidation about attempting to dismantle it  without at least some info. I found only a brief reference to it in the books I had.

After much searching, I actually found where the above pic was taken from.

Some guy had taken it from an earlier publication (1st or 2nd edition) of 'The book of the Villiers Engine' by Cyril Grange .

It described the whole thing, operation, dismantling and assembly in detail .

Obsolete since the early 30s, I was on a 'no hoper' with spares.

So I set to and began stripping it out. Major job trying apply forces to undo the Bell cover (N) despite having Knurling to show it was only hand tightened.

Tried to release spring pressure on the plates by adjusting the cable tension, but overdid it and the cable pulled out of the aged nipple inside.

Succeeded with same process as the Flywheel removal and used 'Sisal rope' with a tourniquet and injected some oil where upon all came apart.

Multi layers of alternate steel and Bronze plates transfer the drive loads (7 of each) some are damaged and broken (not clear how?) -

 

All removed and retained in their respective positions for cleaning and inspection, so they all go back the same way.

A broken and bent plate was clearly put back and used like it, as wear is visible. Lot of work to make new ones, so will flatten and repair them as needed-

 

 

Bronze plates are the 'Drivers' and steel ones are 'Driven'. I had dearly wanted to strip the Counter shaft completely,

but it is impossible to release the Clutch body and it's retaining nut from the tapered end of the shaft-

 

 

So I am having to work around the assembled shaft parts in situ for now. Maybe when/if it has been run for a while, it may ease up?.

Cleaned all the constituent parts and quite impressed with the design. Felt Oil seal is rotted where the cable lead out exits, but will try and insert a new one-

 

 

 

Cable adjuster spanner flats are rusted to nearly round,  so made a new one with lock nut-

 

  

 

Aged it by oil staining and roughing it up with a few burrs

 

 

Confident I can get this bit working as it should, so onto the next bits 

  

  

 

[Stormin 4,458]

 Nice work Richard.   Can hardly wait to see what it's off.

 

BTW. My father had 'The Book of The Villiers Engine.' When I was 19 it was loaned to an apprentice, where we worked at the time. The dipstick left it in a pub and it had gone when he went to retrieve it.

[Anglo Traction 1,016]

On 2/18/2019 at 4:39 PM, Stormin said:

 Nice work Richard.   Can hardly wait to see what it's off.

 

Thanks Norm. I won't keep the mystery for too long now, as I will need to start on the frame etc soon. I'm sure some visitors/Members will know what it is.

On 2/18/2019 at 4:39 PM, Stormin said:

BTW. My father had 'The Book of The Villiers Engine.

 

Cyril Grange's book was a significant reference for many years. first published in 1929 and the ninth edition in 1954 (mine's the latter). I have the 2nd edition (I think) as an 'E' book which revealed the clutch info.  

  Brief update-

Working through the power unit and associated parts, I started checking out the Fuel Tank. An irreplaceable item for this machine, so I was pleased to find it bone dry inside. A thin layer of dried up petrified fuel/oil was able to be scratched away from the inner surface. I went to my 'Scope on a Rope'  to check it out. Images are not great quality as copies, but gave me a good view-

  

 

So I started to check the outside soldered joints and the level of rust penetration to ensure no perforations-

 

 

Nothing that can't be put right cosmetically and with only 2 small/shallow dents in one end and the dents/marks where it is fixed to the frame.

Only thing to repair is the outlet boss, where the Tap/filter must have been hit at some time and bent/cracked the old lead soldered joint-

 

  

 

Tinned Steel plate is not very thick, but certainly the plating helped keep the bad rust at bay and happy with the initial external clean up-

 

 

So started on inside using pea sized shingle dry to start with and does it well -

 

 

Will do several more 'shakes' with this, then when I've sealed and repaired the external bits, I'll change to fluids with the shingle and a final washout.

The tank is 1/2 imperial gallon (2.27 ltrs). Fuel pipe is 1/4" copper pipe which I will need to replace (to save repairs and cleaning)......tbc

 

 

   

[Alan 1,273]

On 2/18/2019 at 4:39 PM, Stormin said:

 Nice work Richard.   Can hardly wait to see what it's off.

 

Ditto Norm.  What is it. ?    Has to be another masterpiece of some sort.

 

[Anglo Traction 1,016]

Brief update. Wasn't happy that the outlet bushing in the tank would solder properly, so I removed it to clean it up and re solder it-

 

 

Prepped and painted a few parts, tank and straps finished. A lot of work involved to reach this stage.

Also one of the control levers finished, where I had to make a new limit strap and rivets, as it was too rusted (see 3rd pic in post #13) -

 

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Tank and straps have had a coat of fuel proof lacquer to protect it and I'll give it a final 'shake up' with stones, kerosene/redex to swill the residues out.

I've got 2 tank lids, one original and one a few years younger with it's own measure for the correct oil to petrol ratio !.

Fuel line will be done near the frame completion stage.

Shaft bearings next and look's like I'll have to make several fixings including 'Butterfly' Wingnuts as several of the originals have had the wings broken off,  now unobtainable.

tbc

   

 

 

[Cub Cadet 613]

Looking great! 

[Anglo Traction 1,016]

Behind schedule with the Plummer Block (pillow) bearings, lots of cleaning out. Meanwhile, I looked at the frame items etc that were borderline scrap or broken.

Well , when you're presented with these examples, you wonder how you're going to replace them?, then try and repair-

 

 

The Eye Bolts look handmade or Smithy'd and what I would call Agricultural engineering, as opposed to Precision engineering.

The bolts were saved with careful work loosening off and straightening, plus, I was able to cut off the overlong rotted sections.

The channel formed washers on the small eye bolts were virtually rotted away, so I had to think about making replacements.

The problem with broken brass Butterfly wingnuts was solved by finding a  stronger 1/4" whitworth steel one .

Making the special washers mentioned were shaped more or less using an old toolmaker's clamp and shown with a partially formed washer bottom right-

 

 

A bit of normalising heat and manipulating them to shape produced these washers that should pass as identical to original when fitted/painted-

 

 

Another job of saving scrap was the Clutch Lever. I'll post an image of what it was like later when the identity of the machine is revealed.

New pivot pin and cable pinch screw had to be made. The two clamp screws  were rotten, and so I replaced them with nickel plated ones of the  same age

that came from the drive unit of an old wind up gramophone.

Presumed the lever was nickel plated originally, but just coated with Caliper Paint now-

 

 

Should make better progress now and media blasting parts now available. Should be done with one of the shafts and bearings over the weekend......tbc

  

 

[Stormin 4,458]

On ‎2‎/‎21‎/‎2019 at 6:13 PM, Anglo Traction said:

 

 

Will do several more 'shakes' with this,

   

 

  I just looked at that photo again, Richard. I had a vision of you shaking the tank and dancing round the garden to the Konga tune.

[mattblack 76]

3 hours ago, Anglo Traction said:

 ...borderline scrap...

 

You sir, are the master of understatement 

[Anglo Traction 1,016]

On 3/1/2019 at 7:57 PM, Stormin said:

 

  I had a vision of you shaking the tank and dancing round the garden to the Konga tune.

 

 It's tiring enough shaking it about without prancing around with as well Norm. ............Maracas! .

 

On 3/1/2019 at 9:20 PM, mattblack said:

 

You sir, are the master of understatement 

 

Yes, I do tend to understate.  I admit I don't seem to learn when to give up either ............onwards I go............

 

Finished one of the Shafts. Bearings etc were a mess inside-

 

 

Combination of dirt and dried grease. Good thing was no rust.

Cleaned up all the bits and had a need to bond them into their housings using loctite 638 while fitted to a 1 inch dummy shaft (25.4mm).

The makers must have drilled one of the Housings (left) in error as 3 of the holes are not tapped. Helped with I.D ing though.

Oil seal plates that carry the felt seals are matched to the housings. Seals are still good ! -

 

 

 

It was good that the bearings are still usable. 97 year old SKF RL8 double row self aligning cleaned out after a lot of work.

Packed them out with some Graphite based CV Joint grease I had laying around.

Quality of the housing castings are not that great, one on the right is full of blow holes

 

 

 

After cleaning up the sprocket and making 2 new Keys, parts were painted and assembled when dry. Finished this one now-  

 

 

Next shaft will not be so easy......tbc