Wandess Boring Bar

I have just bought a A Wandess Engine Boring Bar. I don't have any tooling and was hoping someone might have some drawings so I can make them?

There's a little bit in HERE if you've not seen it before.

Bill

Some 70 years ago, my elder brother was, for a short time, a Sales rep for Wandess Boring Bars.

So your machine is likely to be of some antiquity This was when he taught me to read a mic! I think that they came in more than one size, possibly three) and were intended to compete with Delapena, who were the generally accepted as the "norm".

Not long before retiring, I was involved in testing an engine which had bee been deliberately bored out to maximum oversize, using a Delapena machine, so they were still in use, until relatively recently.

Improvements in materials, machining processes, and oils have now made them almost obsolete for most newer vehicle engines.

Howard

Some years ago I used to use a Burma Boring Bar which also had an attachment for boring single cylinder motorcycle engines,nice piece of kit

Mick

Most of the modern engines are utter crap and built to a price not a quality! Very few modern engines can be rebored because they are either nikosil coated or the are too thin to rebore.

Edited By vintagengineer on 02/12/2017 17:51:38

My Volvo Se 40 has just passed 224000 miles & still runs great. It is perfectly Ok. I do not need to give it a rebore. When it gets to that state the rest of the car will be shot. So the engine cannot be that bad. Rather knocks a hole in your comment- as far as my car is concerned anyway!!!

224k miles for a Volvo is nothing. The 144 Volvos of the 1960's were designed to do in excess of 1000K miles before being rebuilt and the Mercedes 240D Taxi model used to regularly exceed this figure before any major work was needed.