Just for fun...

pictures (or stories) of hideous injuries sustained by your ariel
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Paul Slootheer
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This is hard to believe, but did I ever show what happened to my former 1927 Model C camshaft? :lol:
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Paul Slootheer wrote:This is hard to believe, but did I ever show what happened to my former 1927 Model C camshaft? :lol:
Ouch, poor thing
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Paul,
so what caused it?
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Alan I don't have a clue, it just snapped off! :o
Maybe just fatique... due to it's age
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I am guessing that this was not the first time such a break had happened. Presumably the problem led to the strengthening of this part of the camshaft in subsequent years.
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