suffered from a blownup crankshaft and tossed a bunch
of fillings all over the place and no availability of parts...
the idea of a new and better engineered engine that could
run cooler and longer is of interest to me as well.
milos
> 1a. Re: [modmicros] Re: Engine conversion
> Posted by: "Dave Douglass"
davidpdouglass@...
davidpdouglass
> Date: Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:48 am ((PST))
> Bill
> I have a very good friend her in Maine that owns his own machineshop with cad cam capabilities that would
> consider manufacturing crank parts. He recently cast aluminium housings from scratch and machined all the
> internal parts for a guy who wanted to reproduce some sort of Indian motorcycle distributor. This guy is an
> engineer for Fairchild and probably made the controler in your cellphone - he does the machine work on the
> side. Now when I say on the side its not like he is a small operation he makes everything from custom tools
> for jewlers to a new spindle for a catapiler tractor that was 6 or 8 " in diameter. His war vintage lathe is
> 18' long and his cad cam machine rivals what you see on teh motorcycle shows not to mention the autofeed lathe
> that was making these little decorative knobs three a minute from 12' long stock and there were thousands in
> this bin....
> Let me know if there is any interest in talking with him about it...my guess is it would be an upfront cost to
> drw the parts and produce a couple of test pieces....
> Dave