VICKERS MK6B's resto

[colin jones]

After going through the bits and pieces, I found a few bits of the jigsaw puzzle. And before anyone says couldn't I weld them back on, the answer is no. The pieces are very thin and laminated but they certainly tell me what shape the bottom of the transmission should be.

[Howard]

Oh.
My.
Lawd.
Mr Jones, I dips me lid.

[Lynn Eades]

And me Howard.

[colin jones]

Howard/Lynn, I wouldn't go dipping the old lid yet as it might turn out to be a very time consuming anchor
Today I machined up the bearing aligning plates and rods.

[colin jones]

I will make a self aligning spacer for the two rods so all the gears will be pretty spot on if all goes well.

[Mike Cecil]

Hi Colin,

This may have some relevance/be an option to your gear-casing problem.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-2...ix-car/8310958

Mike

[David Dunlop]

Interesting post, Mike.

I was wondering the same thing. A Technical College nearby had an open house a few years ago and showed off a brand new CNC Machine they had, along with a Lasar Scanner. The scanner could only handle objects about shoe box sized, but very detailed and the data was fed directly to a milling machine that cut a perfect clone of the original object scanned.

Using the scan data for a plastic sand mold of engine block size is brilliant!

David