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RE: All Alloy Cup progress - AllAlloyCup - 04-06-2019
Hi Chris
Thanks for the photo of VX 3635.
Not sure what the lettering on this radiator says?
The Austin script was usually centred on GE Cups, Stadiums and Saloons as far as I know
Perhaps not on GE Brooklands Super Sports?
Regards
Bill G
RE: All Alloy Cup progress - Mike Costigan - 04-06-2019
It's not a Gordon England! It's Francis Boyd Carpenter in one of his own BC Specials (the radiator lettering is 'BCS')
RE: All Alloy Cup progress - AllAlloyCup - 04-06-2019
Did I say it was a Brooklands :-) ?
Bill G
RE: All Alloy Cup progress - Hedd_Jones - 04-06-2019
the cowl on my remains is steel, and there is no cracking from the lamp mounting holes. Is your cowl brass or steel Bill?. I'd be tempted to make some strengtheners for the holes if it were brass, perhaps some sort of bridge plate behind the core.
RE: All Alloy Cup progress - Ruairidh Dunford - 04-06-2019
I think that GE surrounds were steel, originally, Hedd.
Two strengthening straps were fitted behind the rad core too.
RE: All Alloy Cup progress - AllAlloyCup - 04-06-2019
Hi Hedd
This cowl is from an early 3-piece Chummy bonnet
I believe , as it has small tabs on the sides, I’ve been told.
It was steel, but now there’s more copper than steel, plus its heavy nickel coating.
It’s now twice the weight of the original!
I’ve made one cross piece behind the core to link the headlamps
and am currently making wedge spacers to get
The headlamps to point forward, instead of being cross eyed!
I’ll make a second cross piece once the radiator and it’s cowl
are fitted to the ends of the flitch plates. I’m not sure if
this lower strap links the flitches and /or the cow horns?
The lower strap is not too clear from the photo of the Fred Dash engine compartment
on Ruairidh’s GE Register pages.
The headlamps are going to have a large pressed escutcheon to spread the load on the outer side of the shell and spread on the inside by the strengthening strap, plus the wedged washers .
It will need some care as I don’t want to stress or bend the plated shell by straps
the wrong length.
My flitches are made in alloy so I might make a custom strap that bolts
both the flitches and the hefty cow horns.
Will post a photo of what I end up doing.
Hope this encourages you to get going on your Cup!
Regards
Bill G
RE: All Alloy Cup progress - Hedd_Jones - 04-06-2019
Bill. I have just finished scraping one of the main bearings on my traction engine after a lubrication incident (lack of). The most attention the cup gets is when I walk underneath it
RE: All Alloy Cup progress - AllAlloyCup - 04-06-2019
Hi Hedd
It’s one of those projects that’s hanging over you then!
Bill G
Ps hope you get steaming soon.
The last time ( only time!) I drove a traction engine
I took a wing off a parked Morris Minor!
RE: All Alloy Cup progress - AllAlloyCup - 06-06-2019
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Small but good steps today, Neil’s oxyacetylene sorted out my
Downpipe and it now fits straight on at the manifold and at the silencer.
After a lot of grinding , of metal and teeth, I fabricated 4 wedged washers
To give the headlamps a chance of pointing forward.
These CAV lamps have no adjustment at the stalk unlike
Lucas ones.
The’re held together with an upper cross strap, still to figure out the
bottom one.
The radiator and lamps are pretty well ready to bolt on to the flitches .
I’ve made an alloy channel to act as a rain collector
Under the bonnet top hinge and it also braces the radiator
assembly vis a vis the scuttle
By next week it could be running with petrol in the tank and water
in the radiator. Is Fernox a good idea?
I’ve an alloy cylinder head?
Regards
Bill G
RE: All Alloy Cup progress - JonE - 06-06-2019
its looking very anthropomorphic..
I bought some of this after various recommendations I've seen on old forum and elsewhere.
https://www.mrcentralheating.co.uk/fernox-alphi-11-antifreeze-protector-5-litre?utm_source=google_shopping&gclid=Cj0KEQjw8-LnBRCyxtfMl-Cbu48BEiQA6eUMGhpjdN_84MimcoRyZCVF1Il5RYDOs1N8cOB2ZylQ2EEaAh6K8P8HAQ