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Still learning,still researching, all advice highly appreciated
Iain
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Loads of good advice. Many thanks
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Cheers Stuart, more food for thought.
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Neil
just checking, sometimes these ads are shall we say optimistic! I dont want a DA that works for 2 mins then have to wait 10 to be able to use it again.......thats what i have now
Cheers
Iain
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Hi Neil, what tools do you run on your compressor?
Cheers
Iain
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Thanks for the suggestions and advice gents.
CFM requirements,I will check the tools.
Old compressor is Circa 1972, so its done very well!
Cheers
Iain
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Need to replace my ancient and very tired compressor. It cant keep pace with spraying, DA or die grinder. Very frustrating
Required to paint ( Cellulose) power air tools, including die grinder, DA etc.
Any advice very welcome, budget is to be sensible!
Cheers
Iain
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For all the critical appraisal it still seems to be attracting some good money!
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Lets hope the new owner is sympathetic to the old girls needs.
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Ian
any chance of a pdf of your article? I rejoined TRReg later that year.
Many thanks
Iain
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Very interesting. Not the prettiest of cars but unique and with a Welsake Cross Flow head...how many of those exist I wonder?
Did it have Vanguard engine given that the TR2 came later?
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Aaaah apologies got it! Must check the ones I replaced recently are actually tight
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Is the rivet actually too long in the shaft?
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Brilliant, photo's please
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Agreed has to go to a sympathetic home. Very tempting!
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Hi Austin
post a picture (again) of exactly what you are trying to bond. Something like Innotech ( used for sticking door skins and wings to modern stuff) may well be the answer. We (my sons and I)have used it very successfully to bond the complete rear end to a Sebring Sprite replica. (Effectively the whole outer boot and wings to the inner wings floor etc.. I can assure you it is never going anywhere!
Product is Innotech Adheseal, comes in a tube like silicon so easy to apply.
Iain
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Viv, paint inside the ingine sounds pretty unusual,however I will report back in the next week or so.What happens if it peels?
Cheers iain
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Edwin you have done a fantastic job
Iain
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Hi Alec
thanks for clarifying that.
Alan R
To be really clear here, all Racestoration did was machine and balance the crank with the fly wheel, they have "NEVER" (and nor has anyone else) seen the block for engineering works. It still got its original cam bearings in it!!!! (Bugger that will put the mockers on them
!)Notice the cam bearing plug is aluminium and unpainted, the lower gallery plug(?) is green. Also the bolts around the rear seal have green heads albeit a bit chipped.
The marks pre date the green paint......I wonder if any other works engines have these marks?
Iain
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.......could be black by tonight then!
No its not quite Shamrock Green, close but not quite
As you can see its pretty vibrant in good light, unlike the BMC(waskmymoutoutwithsoapandwater!)s*&^ that I used on the outside all those years ago!
Alec - Pogo does this colour look similar to the block you had/have?
Iain
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Interesting post chaps
Don the engine is absolutely the original TS24009E. Font looks identical to the other very original TR2 engine I have here for reference
Stuart, I will come clean, the 8 Bolt attachment is due to the Crank/Rods/Flywheel being sorted by Racestorations back in the 80's.
Qualcast paint colour is pretty much it Viv, I wondered where I had seen it before! Its not metallic just a vivid green, quite unpleasant actually
Being a works car is I suppose its possible it got rebuilt more than once, it was the first ever 2138cc engine( started life on the production line as 1991cc) as Ken Richardsons development car ,so perhaps it went green sometime in its use? (The paint is immaculate for the rear of an engine!)
Anybody notice the funny weld marks on the right, three short lines and a T, what are they about?
Iain
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When I rebuilt my car 30 odd years ago I painted the engine green....why I could not remember.
Having just removed the engine and gearbox I now know why......
the original paint on the rear is green.
Was this common? I have never seen another TR engine in green, but maybe I haven't looked at enough?
Does anyone know the colour name or reference?
Iain
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Great replies to my question guys, appreciated.
As for paint, I go with Stuart, Bondaprimer every time. I used it on cleaned panels on the TR over 35 years ago, the top coat has got chipped and revealed the red bondaprimer but no rust....cant ask for more its as tough as old boots.
Iain
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Hi Dan
car looks superb.
Re the thermostat sender, I had the same fears this weekend, I need to remove it and it had been in there for 35 years unmoved! ( I know I put it in
)I followed the advice found here on the forum, removed the housing and propped it so that I could fill around the sender with Phosphoric acid, kept change the solution every 12 hours and scratching the loose corrosion away......at the same time I was using a penetrating oil on the threads of the holding nut. After 48 hours and a little heat on the casing (not too much to send the gauge of the clock) the nut came out, then gently rocked the sender bulb to break the last bit of crude and out it came. Relief
!Good Luck
Iain
chrome or painted wires ?
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Neither!