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The vintage club I belong to had a tour of a local car restoration company
Interesting workshop tour
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It's an open crank engine
Those are the oilers
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Talking about such things, something interesting I found while learning the ropes on my 1928 Norton ES2.
It's crank/conrod/piston lubrication is a halfway house between total loss (on the dirt road) and recirculation (like wot's on our Commandos).
The lovely pie-crust oil tank has nothing but fresh oil in it. It feeds an oil pump, driven by the inlet cam, which has a little glass window in it.
Through the window you can see the adjustable drip-drip-drip of the oil. I currently have it set at two drips per minute.
There is a dipstick into the crank to check oil, which should be about 120ml at start of the trip.
The drip-drip should be enough to compensate for oil burned on the piston (blow-by, etc) and any other losses
If you finish your trip and there is more oil that at the start, then slow down the drip-drip and vice-versa.
You clever blokes probably already knew this, but it fascinated me.
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Nice subject Baz - Thanks for posting. Now I must go clean my shop and make it look like the one you’ve shown… lol
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I should have taken some photos in the machine shop
The owner said they start at 8am and tidy up for 20 minutes each morning
Not at the end of the day
Seemed strange to me but it works for them
They have 12 staff
10 are restorer's and 2 are full time machinist's
No CNC machines and nothing production made
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