Shop Work Page #3




This webpage shows the current jobs
being worked on in the shop.
Hope you enjoy the activity.



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Here in these (4) photos I am making a new intake valve face. In photo #1 I am drilling a hole in the new valve for the valve stem. Photo #2 is of reaming the hole for the valve stem. Photo #3 is of cutting off the new intake valve face. Photo #4 is of the new valve face and stem welded together and all the surfaces trued up...


This photo shows grinding the intake valve in the Kwik Way valve grinding machine...


In these next (3) photos you can see the valve seat being cut. Photo #1 shows the intake valve housing set up on a mandrel in the lathe. Photo #2 shows the new seat all cut. Photo #3 shows the seat and intake valve being lapped in...


These next (3) photos are of the ignitor for the 8 HP Gearless Olds that needs to be rebuilt...


Photo #1 shows making a new trip arm support guide for the ignitor. In the photo the part is being cut-off. Photo #2 shows the existing support guide which is worn out and badly pitted...


This photo shows the ignitor all disassembled and the main body of the ignitor sand blasted...


In photo #1 you can see how badly worn the pivot point shaft is. It even has been brazed and remachined at one point in time. Photo #2 is of making the new pivot point shaft...


In photo #1 I am reaming out the hole in the brass ignitor housing the new pivot shaft will go into. Photo #2 shows the ignitor fitted over the new pivot point shaft. Photo #3 shows the newly machined seat where the pivot point shaft will seal under compression...


Photos #1 & #2 show the 45 deg. angle machined on the pivot point shaft for mateing with the seat on the ignitor. Photo #3 shows the pivot point shaft cut-offed, faced, and mounted in the ignitor housing...


Here in these next (6) photos you can see the steps taken to make the stationary point shaft for the ignitor. Photo #1 shows the existing stationary shaft which was made from a 1/4-20 bolt with a washer brazed onto the shaft for a stop. As you can see from the photos I made the stationary shaft from a solid piece of bar stock. Photo #6 shows the finished stationary shaft in the center of the photo...


In this photo you can see the ignitor housing with the (2) new shafts in position with no points yet...


Its hard to see in this photo, but the finger that the point will mount to on the pivot shaft is threaded into the main body and then I also welded it on the back side which you can see here. This way nothing can come loose in the combustion chamber...


Photo #1 shows the pivot point shaft all completed with a point I made all attched. Photo #2 shows the stationary point shaft with a machined flat and a drilled hole for attaching the point. Photo #3 shows the (2) point shafts all completed and assemblied in the ignitor housing...


In these next (4) photos you can see the isolator for the stationary ignitor point being made out of phenolic. Its a thermal-set type of material with a cloth laminated into it. In photo #1 you can see a hole drilled in the center and one end faced off. Photo #2 shows the OD turned down and the isolator ready for cut-off. Photo #3 shows the isolator cut to length, deburred, and on the stationary point shaft. Photo #4 shows the ignitor assemblied and almost all completed...


Here in these (2) photos the rebuilt ignitor is almost all completed. The only thing left is to press the support guide pin into the ignitor housing...


This photo is of the carburetor assembly. I installed a new brass pickup tube in the bottom of the carburetor housing and also recut the seat for the needle valve. Also in the photo you can see the needle valve tapper turned and polished to a new point...


Photo #1 shows the support guide pin all completed with the slot all milled out and a cross hole drilled on top. Photo #2 shows the ignitor all completed and ready for installation back on the engine...


In these (2) photos you can see all the rebuilt parts mounted onto the 8 HP Gearless Olds. The engine is owned by Phil Antonio of Arcade, NY...


These (2) photos show a couple of parts I made for a local engine friend so he can finish up his current restoration. Photo #1 shows a troth type cut out being done on the horizontal mill. photo #2 shows the part that will become the slide that will slide back and forth in the troth...


I have started to work on boring a 15 HP Innes cylinder for a friend of mine. In photo #1 you can see the cylinder up on the table of the Lucas horizontal boring mill. Photo #2 is another shot of the cylinder from the head end. Photo #3 shows the pitting in the cylinder bore. The cylinder needs to be indicated and set up...




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