The kit of castings
The parcel as seen on the right arrived
as planned on Wednesday 29th September weighing in at about 28kgs.
The comment from my wife was "that is
a very heavy parcel".
In the parcel, as shown below, was a
carefully wrapped manual.
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| The manual was sealed with a sticker
warning "These drawings allow the original purchaser to build one model.
Drawings may not be sold copied or stored in any format".
A glace through shows a great deal of
detail and several pages on the ignition system, a section on Assembly drawings
but no detailed instructions as to how to assemble
the engine or order of assembly, a section on DETAILED DRAWINGS.
Having built the engine part by part
the assembly would have been much easier if a set of instructions
which would have given to order of assembly would have been very
helpful..
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| The next layer down revealed two
aluminium castings a billet of caste iron and a billet of aluminium and a
caste iron casting. |
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| Lower down were the two
fly wheels |
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| When they were all removed from the
box there was still some un wrapping see below. |
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Inside the larger casting were the
following:-
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Three piston rings (an extra to the casting
order)
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An NGK CM-6 10mm spark plug (an extra
to the casting order)
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The upper bearing brackets
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A Brass Rocket casting
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| Inside the smaller casting were the
set of gears (an extra to the casting order) but note the small gear
do not have a centre hole drilled and the largest gear is
much thicker
than the drawings suggest it should be.. |
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| Of course this is not all
the parts required to make the engine but are those in the casting set the
remainder will be made from standard stock materials.
The next stage is to carefully look at
all the drawings and decide where to start the construction.
According to the paperwork there are
90 separate and different parts but some parts have as many as 17 similar
parts for instance washers and nuts. |
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