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Paul Slootheer
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Interesting tale. Allways nice when objects come to you with a certain story!
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Lovely story, I suspect that none of us passes a skip without looking inside. We were once having a big clear out at Draganfly and had a skip in the yard that was being slowly filled with rubbish and scrap parts. It was very slow because as soon as we threw something in, someone, mainly Bruce, would take it out again!
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Paul Slootheer wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2024 1:10 pm To be honest, I suspect deep down in all of us there’s a hoarder hiding…
I'm afraid of that, so I always check for unnecessary parts during the Christmas holidays and either put them up for sale or offer them to a scrapyard. 
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Hah we are all guilty of having too much stored away
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Back to the build.
Picked up the other (better) cilinder, new Std. liner, valves and guides.
Surface skimmed, yummie!
Good for another 70+ years, Now I can get on with the fun
Picked up the other (better) cilinder, new Std. liner, valves and guides.
Surface skimmed, yummie!
Good for another 70+ years, Now I can get on with the fun
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Re: VB build
Ah, that so beautiful. Perhaps you should use it as a paperweight rather than get it dirty on a bike.
That said, (and I hesitate to offer advice to m'Learned Friend) you have cleaned out the hole behind the exhaust port that's just below the 4th fin down from the top, haven't you. It easily fills with dirt and dead spiders. On my barrels it's about 5.5mm diameter and I've opened it out to 6.5mm (1/4 inch in proper units) using a masonry drill carefully. (I've found the latter necessary 'cos of the sand in the metal from its initial casting.) This cooling hole isn't on other sidevalves that I know and if you fit a VH cam, well, you need all the cooling you can get.
This hole isn't on the BSA M20 and long ago and far away when I was a teenager and knew all the answers to everything I fitted Gold Star racing cams into my M20. With an empty silence it would CRUISE at 60 - but not for long before the exhaust valve failed.
Regards from MikeN.
That said, (and I hesitate to offer advice to m'Learned Friend) you have cleaned out the hole behind the exhaust port that's just below the 4th fin down from the top, haven't you. It easily fills with dirt and dead spiders. On my barrels it's about 5.5mm diameter and I've opened it out to 6.5mm (1/4 inch in proper units) using a masonry drill carefully. (I've found the latter necessary 'cos of the sand in the metal from its initial casting.) This cooling hole isn't on other sidevalves that I know and if you fit a VH cam, well, you need all the cooling you can get.
This hole isn't on the BSA M20 and long ago and far away when I was a teenager and knew all the answers to everything I fitted Gold Star racing cams into my M20. With an empty silence it would CRUISE at 60 - but not for long before the exhaust valve failed.
Regards from MikeN.
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Vincent.vanGinneke
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I think I have been there and done that
But I'll double check !
Answer to earlier post by Paul,
This (other) 'De Ridder' WNG frame did not came via Carlo Jusche but was found on the attic of a farm in the Northeastlowland
in Dutch : Noordoostpolder
But I'll double check !
Answer to earlier post by Paul,
This (other) 'De Ridder' WNG frame did not came via Carlo Jusche but was found on the attic of a farm in the Northeastlowland
in Dutch : Noordoostpolder
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