VICKERS MK6B's resto

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by James P

Sweet mother of god ..... Without a doubt this is right up there with the top five restorations posted here.

Good lord, point me to the other four!

[colin jones]

Thankyou gentlemen for you comments but again it is nothing more than fabrication and there is plenty here that are, and have done great work that would far exceed what I have done.
Grant, you are correct about cooling fins but David did answer what I considered during the fabrication. As I am only using 3mm plate is would be near impossible for me to keep it straight and I didn't think that what I have done would hinder the cooling effect very much and I think that the thinner gauge plate should compensate (I hope)
James I guess it was a case of have a go or don't use the original engine and seeing that I have made the trans box it didn't seem to much to think about. I will be pretty nervous on the first start up though. That part I will have to video

[George Moore]

Originally Posted by colin jones

Thankyou gentlemen for you comments but again it is nothing more than fabrication and there is plenty here that are, and have done great work that would far exceed what I have done.
Grant, you are correct about cooling fins but David did answer what I considered during the fabrication. As I am only using 3mm plate is would be near impossible for me to keep it straight and I didn't think that what I have done would hinder the cooling effect very much and I think that the thinner gauge plate should compensate (I hope)
James I guess it was a case of have a go or don't use the original engine and seeing that I have made the trans box it didn't seem to much to think about. I will be pretty nervous on the first start up though. That part I will have to video

Please do video the start up....it is going to be amazing.
Colin my only thought, the "riser section" is thin plate, and I wonder if some form of longitudinal stiffening may be required, the original having been a cast item was stiffer.....I can only recall re-building an engine years ago (nothing like this though)....I had not noticed the sump had a "small" dent. As I had been working on until late, it was night time when I fired it up.....the noise of the con rods hitting the sump woke the whole neighbourhood....dogs barking and babies crying.....wasn't very popular !!!

[Perry Kitson]

Colin,

Absolutely fantastic work! I only wish I lived down the road from you so I could come over and "skin a few knuckles " with you on the project.

[colin jones]

George, I don't think the 3mm plate will be an issue as the original alloy was only about 5-6mm and certainly not as strong as steel and the riser is only 100mm in height but as this is the first engine component I have built, I'll call it an educated guess . I will make sure that I don't do my initial start up late at night
Perry, Canada not far at all if you say it quickly and I've probably skun enough knuckles for the both of us and a few more .
On another note, I was talking to Jack Neville on the phone yesterday and it came up about tools and things we have that make our job easy so I thought I would share this with everyone and perhaps others might have helpful things in return.
It's always a pain in the centre section between your feet and head with extension chords or the drill is just not quite long enough or you are constantly changing power tools in the socket. It just stuck one day through sheer frustration of chords under my feet and no where to put my drill and grinder to I made a tool tree and it was the best thing I have ever done to ease frustration and having one solid work area on wheels. I need one power lead that I plug into my power board and all my power tools are plugged in all the time and some where to hang or hook them so they are not on my work area. and not in the way.
Just food for thought

[James P]

To funny, I can relate about the power lines and air hoses going everywhere but where you need them. I mounted my blasting cabinet on wheels so I can move it about and reconfigure the garage as needed.

[RichardT10829]

OUTSTANDING !

And that Gentlemen is how he does that !