Member postings for ronan walsh

Not only a v6, but converted to overhead cams AND fuel injection. Amazing work by someone. As to the complaints that this is not model engineering, i like many on here have no interest in model making , but have a home workshop, the choice is to be a member here or one of the industry forums. Also there have been recently a good series of articles in the magazine about building motorcycle specials, so this thread is not that far off topic , is it ? Why not have a forum dedidcated to "home workshop" engineering work, separate to model making ?

Yes i have seen them somewhere else too. They are available , just a matter of tracking one down. I would say its something a small springmaking company could make for you anyway. It would be a pity to scrap a machine thats given so long a service for something so small.

Rob, if you go to toolco.co.uk and select fobco spares , they have the return springs there, if they are in stock or not is another matter.

If you go onto alibres website and click "international resellers" , you can pick your country and it will tell you who they are, afaik you can then buy the software from them on a cd rather then the very process of downloading off the web. I contacted my reseller who is actually very close to where i live, they sell a range of software of all types and are very tech savvy and were able to help me with a glitch when i downloaded the 30 day trail.

Siemans allow free downloads of their 2d cad programme called solidedge 2d. I did use their 3d solid modelling software in college, very similar in some ways to solidworks, but hugely expensive to get a licence for. Alibre design or geomatic or whatever its called now is very good for the price, probabily ideal for the home user.

http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/solid-edge/free2d/

The soluble oil used to "crack" or go off and stink the place out and i was worried about this when i decided to use the suds system in my tom senior. I went to the local engineers suppliers and asked for a small (5 litre) container of soluble oil and asked if there was a possiblility that it would go off, he assured me it wouldn't. A year later its still fine, no nasty pongs and you do get longer from cutting tools, then by using them dry.

Sadly the problem with power hacksaws in industry is they get zero respect. someone has a job to do, they want to get the stock cut as quickly as possible to start machining or fabrication. They , in my experience, end up stuck in an untidy dirty corner and just used and abused , and apart from an occasional new blade, very little maintenance.

It sounds like a three phase motor that some one has "converted" to single phase by putting a capacitor across two of the legs.

Someone who does amazing motorcycle engine projects, and in a home workshop is allen millyard. Below is a link to a page about his build of a 5 litre v-twin. He has previously made a 2 litre v-8 splicing together two kawasaki z-1's.

http://thekneeslider.com/allen-millyard-builds-a-5-liter-v-twin/

Triumph sent an engine to one of the engineering departments of GEC to see if their experts could tame the vibration, they could and did make a triumph 650 twin engine that you could balance a coin on its edge while it ran. Sadly the engineering was too expensive for triumph to encorporate into the production machines.

A great insight into all things british bike is hughie hancox's excellent book "Tales of triumph and the meriden factory"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Triumph-Motorcycles-Meriden-Factory/dp/1901295672/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412794579&sr=1-2

Actually yes i have, but seeing as they were so scarce and expensive thats an easy thing to do !

Triples ehh ? I have the old lump below adoring one of my tool chests. The plan is to put it into a featherbed frame i have, when money and space allow. The twins were good up until they hit about 30 bhp, edward turner thought it a bad idea to even take them out to 650cc's. If you are lucky enough to be able to try an early thunderbird or golden flash, and then sample a late 60's 650 twin , the difference should be extremely noticable. I have a mid 50's BSA a10 golden flash which were built in a low state of tune, and its a very pleasant machine, where as my late 60's triumph 500 is in a much higher state of tune and is a bit tiresome to ride far.

The british bike industry went from one of the most innovative and inventive pre-war to knocking out the usual same old singles and twins post war.

Thanks JasonB, i'll email them tomorrow and see if they have what i want.

Its amazing , but the british bike industry made a good few models of v-twin's in large capacities before the second world war, but only vincent made one after (maybe jap engines too ?). Bsa made a 1,000cc v-twin and it was marketed as a workhorse used to drag massive tradesmens sidecars about. The parallel twin was a developmental dead end compared to the better balanced v-twins.

Can anyone tell me a steel stockists in the uk that would stock 17-4ph stainless steel ? I know there are stockists that want to sell you steel by the lorry load, but i only want a small amount.

Is the heating function a separate system within the air con unit ? Is the heater just a simple electric element and nothing to do with the air conditioning ?

Someone on here recently bought a precision vice for their mill just like the one in the link below at the top of the page. Not too expensive and seem to be able to open very widely for holding large work. I am considering buying one for myself.

http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue/Workholding/Machine-Vices

Maybe have a minimum number of posts before a forum member can place a for sale advert ?