Don’t give up Roger. The silent (lazy perhaps) majority need blokes like you. We can’t all be experts who have owned loads of Scotts for years and years and know everything there is to know about them. There are hundreds of people in this club, something that we should ALL bear in mind.
More power to you.
PS: I have a copy of Technicalities so it matters not on a personal level whether or not this thing gets done. Fact is we have the money now. We will all be gone in 40 or 50 years time and the money will still be sat in the bank.
I had a feeling that the Miller item was diferent but wasn’t sure if it could be bodged. To remove the screws, just drill the depth of the head starting with the smallest drill you have, increasing until you are drilling the same size as the screw shank. Do it carefully and the heads will spin off leaving the shanks sticking out of the distributer body. Then its down to WD40, patience and pliers. least the cap will be saved!
good luck
Contact Bob Tricket. He had the genuine item. A year ago they were £5 pounds each. Ignore the malicious rumours, he has always been honest and prompt with his delivery of parts to me. The real thing may last longer than the washing machine item, I don’t know!
Regards,
Chris Wastell
sorry for the delay, Roger.
You want a strip of steel approx 5inches long 15/16″ wide, 1/8″ thick. It has a stud fixed in the centre to take the biggest piece of rubber that will fit for the stop. Each end of the strip is drilled and fixed by the gearbox case bolt at front and back. This transmits the shock all over the place and dissipates it. I can do you a sketch if you like.
Good luck
Thanks for that info, Roger. I thought, myself that +80 seemed large but I have them here as large (literally)as life. The engine was alledgedly rebuilt by Silk when they were still on the go and then not fitted into a machine until I did so a year or so ago. I shall have to think hard about remedies. Naively I had held a small hope of a s/h piston to finish the summer with!
Hello Brian,
It’s the later type. I just need the bakalite knob for the top. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it has ‘webb’ embossed on the top?
cheers, chris
Well done Roger, Couldn’t agree more. My ’38 Flying Squirrel’s engine is standard, but if I were a rich man it certainly wouldn’t be! Each to his own though, after all Al’s got a Harley as well!
Good luck at Woodbridge,
Chris
26th June 2004 at 6:52 pm
in reply to: Thank’s#5184
Jeff. Did you ever get hold of a rear brake plate? Don’t get excited, afraid I haven’t got one, but have you tried the Brough Superior owners club? Brough certainly used compatible brake shoes on the front ,as one of our members kindly told me, thus ending a two year search. It could be worth a long shot for something that just needs a bit of alteration. Their spares man is v. helpful.
Sorry I took so long, but the new site had my limited brain power foxed for a while.
