Now I am sure: the rebuild of the Squirrel is cursed! Why? Well yesterday I received the new laser cut licenseplateholder for the Squirrel and yes, you have guessed right, this was not done properly… I asked to have it bend 90 degrees at the top and this has not been done right leaving the [...]
Another phonecall came in last week from Richard. And it was not full of good news… After half a day of brazing the RH cylinder Richard discovered a crack in the spigot. This only became visible when the block was hot… The crack is at a difficult place to braze and leaves the cylinderblock in [...]
Well, it is a good thing that I am not a superstitious person… Otherwise I would have given up long ago with all the setbacks I am having with the Scott. Today I could add another one to the growing list… I received back the rear brake shoes that I had send of to be [...]
Today Richard Blackburn rang me with the not so good news that reboring my LH side cylinder did in fact not completely clean up the distortion cause by the brazing of the ports. You can see the distortion on the pictures. It is at the 7 o’clock position where it is thin, and then at [...]
Last week I got an update from Richard Blackburn who has been working hard on my engine. The cylinder block is about half way now. He brazed up the crack between the two cylinders and he also brazed up all the ports I wanted shut in one cylinder. Doing so the cylinder had become slightly [...]
