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1927 Flying Squirrel exhaust

On the SOC board a topic was opened recently on the right exhaust for a 1927 Flying Squirrel. My Flyer is of the same year and currently has a more modern, Burgess style, exhaust fitted. A few years back I asked around for reference pictures of the right pot to be able to make a [...]

Silk pistons in an iron cylinder block…

After quite some thinking I decided I would really like my engine completely done before this season. So including the pistons and the rods… I contacted both Roger Moss and Richard Blackburn about this. With a bit of organising and distributing the work over them both I think it could just be done in time. [...]

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 [...]