Yesterday evening Richard send me an email with the good news that the engine will most probably be send today! He finished pegging the pistons and gapping the rings. See the beautiful endresult on the left. He also ground the gudgeon pins to size and made and fitted the bronze endpads. From the pictures I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
