Member postings for Simon Wass

Its only been 4 days and questions are being asked about my lack of response, so here goes.

I don't go online much as I'm short on time, I can get email at work and have seen the replies as alerts but can't use forums on a work pc. I can only login at home and this is my 1st opportunity.

Most of the replies fail to appreciate the Bentley, it is an engine that demands a high level of appearence as well as its running condition, the part needs to be perfect. A skim would weaken it, blasting may help but it would need further metal removal to clean up the finish from blasting. Can't do any hot work, its completely finished and all mating parts are also finished. Electrolytic cleaning leaves black marks? We're already at the black mark stage, I hoped someone would be able to help with the idea of plating. Plated then emery polish in lathe to simulate finely turned finish? I can't find much info online about plating damaged parts.

From what dad has been saying I think he's simply going to make another crankcase, no one would ever be happy making a Bentley and having a major part flawed in any way. I don't think he ever wanted to make a show winner but I know he has standards and he's not happy.

Hello.

My father is building a Bentley BR2 on and off. Its been a while since he did anything to the engine and has found the main crankcase is rusted due to the embryo crank beside it 'sweating'. The crank is really rusty. The bits were all in a box in the bedroom, all were lightly oiled and wrapped in workshop tissue paper.

The rust covers 1/4 of the front of the crankcase and its not looking good, awful actually considering the hours of work.

The rust is now slightly pitted black scale, can this whole part be recovered? Nickel plating maybe? Fortunately its only the one part affected, the thrust box is ok and so is the cambox and nose. We don't think a skim is worthwhile or safe as the part was finished size.

Cheers,

Simon