From:Mark Hill e-mail:hillm@canton.edu
Subject:RE: RE: Cutting Cutter8 Date:Thu Mar 3 07:58:34 2011
Response to:3350
Its funny Barry,

Some of the cases are real good and some are crazy. When they have been beat up a little with time and abuse it can get wild trying to sort them out. A friend and master craftsmen called me the other day to tell me he had lost the day, 8 hours(made all new bearings) trying to install the cam in his deluxe a perfect case that had never been welded. He wants to run .003 clearance not the ratty.009 he found with the old cam bearings. So he will buy a piece of Thompson shafting build a bar and rebore the # two cam bearing housing using 1 and 3 as a pilot 8 more hours ? When given the chance most people will do what is easy rather than what is right. You can put around a meet and look the part putting it out on the road is a different game. I love these motors, boy they can be a handfull. Check out this pic It is of the main before it was cut back into place. you should have seen the cool Blacksmith repair that kept the old girl in service. It was really clever.
Mark





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Hey Mark, Reading all this I am beginning to think of Iganz as the "father of
planned obsolescence" sounds like the old Hens were built to be disposable like
a Bic lighter! Makes sense when the cops were your biggest customer. BB

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Its 90 now and the mainshaft is 2 and 5/8ths inches from the tripple gear center
to center. Ahh, that's not where Schwinn put it but he should have. Time to go to
the lathe and make some bushings. All the geometry has been corrected. I
wonder if the cam is parallel to the crankshaft? Hmmmmm...... Blue printing is
fun. I have to get some of the peel of shims.