A good friend

[Gordon R]

A good friend is building a kit car based on a Triumph Herald   - a Fairthorpe no less. He turns up when he has got stuck or something is broken. 

A couple of weeks ago, he turned up with a distributor - rotor seized, advance weights seized, vacuum advance stuck, cap corroded, HT lead holes badly corroded, rusted up just about everything. The photos are when the outside was cleaned up a bit, but before and after internals sorted. Now passes current and moving freely. It would be nice if he brought me parts that weren't seized, broken or corroded. It won't happen.

Edited May 10, 2023 by Gordon R

[ditchman]

people used to bring me alsorts of csrp like that...................it was my bread an butter....loved doing stuff like that and seeing to look on peoples faces when they got it back 

[jall25]

Good skills Gordon 👍

[snow white]

I haven’t seen one of them for years I had a Peugeot that had two sets of points in it I took it to a garage to put new points in it came out worse than when it went in so I brought a dwell angle meter and set to doing it myself with the help of my trusted strobe light I soon had it working 

[Walker570]

Nice job Gordon.

[Gordon R]

A lot of Coca Cola went into removing rust - freeing up seized bits.

When he brought it, I said he should throw it in the bin and get another. His answer is always the same - "I'm from Yorkshire and don't like spending money". I thought I would give it a whirl and then scrap it, but it became a bit of a challenge. I thought I could unseize the bits, but wasn't confident that it would move as freely as it needed to.

I hate the small fiddly stuff.

[davewh100]

nice job Gordon 

[Old Boggy]

21 hours ago, Gordon R said:

A lot of Coca Cola went into removing rust - freeing up seized bits.

When he brought it, I said he should throw it in the bin and get another. His answer is always the same - "I'm from Yorkshire and don't like spending money". I thought I would give it a whirl and then scrap it, but it became a bit of a challenge. I thought I could unseize the bits, but wasn't confident that it would move as freely as it needed to.

I hate the small fiddly stuff.

Gordon, you sound like a good friend as is my pal Stour boy on here. He is a whizz at repairing anything and has helped me out on several occasions and also has inspired me to repair stuff myself.

OB

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, well done Gordon, 👍 looks like one I had on my old mini 🤔

Just now, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, well done Gordon, 👍 looks like one I had on my old mini 🤔

Alas I have no workshop anymore or I would be in there tinkering 🙄🤔😁

Edited May 11, 2023 by oldypigeonpopper

[harrycatcat1]

On 09/05/2023 at 23:41, Gordon R said:

A good friend is building a kit car based on a Triumph Herald   - a Fairthorpe no less. He turns up when he has got stuck or something is broken. 

A couple of weeks ago, he turned up with a distributor - rotor seized, advance weights seized, vacuum advance stuck, cap corroded, HT lead holes badly corroded, rusted up just about everything. The photos are when the outside was cleaned up a bit, but before and after internals sorted. Now passes current and moving freely. It would be nice if he brought me parts that weren't seized, broken or corroded. It won't happen.

Very well done 👏 

Years ago, I think it was a mini the points used to "jump" and I used to be able to guess setting the points and rocking it back and forwards to get it on the edge of the cam. 

[Gordon R]

harrycatcat1 - done that many times, before wisely investing in a dwell meter.