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Offline rudydubya

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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2018, 06:33:19 AM »
Beautiful work Robbie.  Following along quietly.

Regards,
Rudy

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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2018, 11:14:35 PM »
I admire anyone taking on a project like this.  Maybe I might someday too, when I get brave enough.  :-\ your work looks great too me.  :ThumbsUp:
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Offline wirralcnc

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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #17 on: May 30, 2018, 03:53:27 PM »
Made a start on the rods. Machined the big end caps to profile and drilled clearance holes for 2x56 cap screws.
Second photo is the two blanks bolted together ready for machining.

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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #18 on: May 30, 2018, 04:28:25 PM »
That's going to reduce to a nice large pile of chips.

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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #19 on: May 31, 2018, 06:16:51 PM »
Set the blank up and reamed for the big and little ends. Then using a 0.015" slitting disc cut them into individual  rod blanks. Had to use 0.015" as there wasn't much material between each blank.

Next step a simple jig to mount them and machine all over.

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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #20 on: May 31, 2018, 08:29:20 PM »
Nice looking operation on the rods. It makes making multiple parts much easier when you can do a lot of the operations and then just cut them off.
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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #21 on: June 01, 2018, 07:09:17 PM »
After making a quick jig. Nothing more than a block with two silversteel pins fitted on the same pitch as the rod blanks. Each blank is held down with 2 brass ba nuts. Rods require machining second side and deburr. But good progress today.

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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #22 on: June 22, 2018, 06:48:52 PM »
Some more progress. Bellhousing set up. A 4" blank 1.25" thick.
All one side milled. Another 2-3 setups to get it finished.

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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #23 on: June 22, 2018, 08:57:06 PM »
Nice progress and good to see that you are still posting  :ThumbsUp:

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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #24 on: June 22, 2018, 11:16:02 PM »
Robbie,
The six looks great.
Art
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Offline michelko

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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #25 on: June 23, 2018, 11:24:48 AM »
Hi very nice build. Do you have some Information About the carb? Dimensions?

Thanks in Advance.

Michael

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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #26 on: June 23, 2018, 01:05:17 PM »
Great build so far! Look forward on your building.

Alex
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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #27 on: July 26, 2018, 10:26:09 PM »
Not had loads of time recently. Work commitments. Family. Annual wkend to Silverstone for the f1.

Have made some progress. Cylinder liners fitted/honed. Crankcase milled requires some blending and holes tapping. Tappet cover machined and timing cover.

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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #28 on: July 26, 2018, 10:33:37 PM »
Very nice workmanship.
I always like that 'machined all over' look.

Mike
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Offline zeeprogrammer

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Re: George britnell straight 6 progress
« Reply #29 on: July 27, 2018, 12:33:27 AM »
I somehow missed this thread completely. Very nice work!  :ThumbsUp:
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