We all do occasionally have one of those days that nothing seems to work… Well I just had TWO this weekend working on the Squirrel… With the wife and kids gone for two days, I finally had some time to work on the Scott. I planned to finish the two speed gear, finish and fit [...]
Yesterday I started with the high gear sprocket. This is fitted on a sleeve together with the magneto sprocket. The whole sleeve slides over the gear drum and is riveted in place. The HG sprocket has a boss on it which the new one obviously did not have. So I had to make a spacer [...]
Last Tuesday my new sprockets came in! Of course I opened the box immediately… and found out that here also something had gone wrong… There is that curse again… I should have a scary movie made of this! The new magneto sprocket had been made in 1/2 x 5/16 instead of 1/2 x 1/8. No [...]
With my wife and the kids gone today I had all the time I needed to have a go at the roller bearing conversion I posted about yesterday. In fact I had already started on this earlier this week but as my lathe was not working properly I had to do some maintenance first. This [...]
While disassembling the two speed gear of my Scott, I noticed that the cup and cone bearing on the low gear side, on which the whole assembly runs, were shot. Most probably due to the same lack of oil I wrote about earlier… As new cups and cones are becoming hard to find nowadays I [...]
