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sbwhart:
I was planning on getting more done today than I actually achieved, due to a little unexpected excitement, when backing the car out, to go on the weekly shop, there was an unexpected jolt and the front of the car dropped, the cast iron drain cover had broken and the wheel dropped into the hole, luckily the car came out without any damage, but the cover was so much scrap iron, so the best part of the day was spent finding and collecting a replacement cover of the right size. Not cast iron but a mild steal pressing with a pollypropolean base, looks real flimsy but rated at 5 tonne :scratch:.

Any casters out their want some cast iron.

This is what I got done, found a better bit of black mild steel plate than the gray stuff I showed nearer to size and not as thick, cut it roughly to size and squared it up then, with it sitting on some washers to raise it off the table, set too and milled some radiuses, on the RT.

Bit more work on the mill then by rack of eye and with a selection of files got it to this nice shape.

And on the engine it's a bit long but I can soon cut it down to size when I've got the bearing housing fixed to it.

Stew

AdeV:
Did you manage to fish all the bits of cast iron out Stew? I imagine it's nicely aged, and those old drain covers were thick as thieves. Should be good for a few pistons at the very least...?

sbwhart:

--- Quote ---Did you manage to fish all the bits of cast iron out Stew? I imagine it's nicely aged, and those old drain covers were thick as thieves. Should be good for a few pistons at the very least...?
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No Ade

That was the first thing I did after I checked the car out, sized it up for useful bits its far too thin to get anything useful out of :( :-

It must be over 50 years old, thats how old the house is, so as you say well weathered I think thats why it broke it developed a crack after the cold weather we had last winter, should have changed it as soon as I spotted the crack, but you know how it is.

Stew

klank:
Stew
Thats is real metal artistry - impressive.

Best wishes and respects

Peter

saw:
Lokking good :clap: :clap:

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