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However, to get things rolling I have started on the build and it seemed that the first action should be to keep Jo happy, so I decided that the cylinder block assembly with steam chest and cover should be held together with studs and nuts, and I trust that she approves.
A nice looking engine Mike, will look forward to watching your progress on it. How did you manage to wrestle the castings away from Jo? Bill
If they are in the business of selling castings then one would think a decent set of drawings would boost sales which must be good business sense, selling the castings with the old poor drawings will tend to put people off not encourage them to buy. Its a shame that when they aquired the rights they also seem to have also gained the Clarkson reputation for undersize and chilled castings as part of the package Unfortunately hemmingway's engines are not really suitable for a beginner and it is these beginners that would most benefit from correct drawings
I am not so negative as you are JB about the excellent service that Blackgates provide How many Casting sets have you actually purchased from Blackgates?
You say they will replace old castings does that Mean Mike can get his chilled trunkguides replaced and what about the undersize bed castings?
If the two bed castings were replaced with something else a very nice engine could start to emerge
The idea started on ME where 4 bearings was being questioned so the "argument" was about that, I just said it would not take much for anyone with a set to convert to 2 bearings. What is in those couple of photos is the minimum amount of work that even a relative beginner could carry out.But as you say if you are going to pay £250 for the set and then throw some away it will be cheaper to start from scratch which you could probably do for £100-125.Anyway must go now as someone sent me some more equipment to try out and I get to keep it