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“flywheel”

Even more work coming my way…

Today I worked some more on the bike. Mainly taking it further to pieces so I can see what needs to be done. I also put the flywheel in the lathe with the stubs as described earlier. I cleaned the flywheel rim and then clocked it on the left, in the middle and on the [...]

The true purpose of the flywheel stubs…

After I posted about the flywheel stubs being on the short side yesterday I send Scottparts an email on this. Richard answered quickly and his reply showed once again that I am no engineer… He explained elaborately that the stubs were not intended to use in the the lathe to drive the flywheel through, but [...]

Disassembling the Squirrel engine… again…

With a lot of events coming up, I definitely had to get working on the Scott. The bike is in need of a complete engine overhaul. In fact it has been for a few years now. But it just gets postponed again and again. So I decided to proceed in steps: this Winter the main [...]

Flywheel stubs came in!

Today the flywheel stubs I ordered from Scottparts.co.uk came in! The stubs can be used to clamp a Scott flywheel firmly and straight in a lathe to be able to rework the sprocket seatings etc. I received a pair for my two speeder as well as for my Flyer. The latter are of a slightly [...]