Slightly off message but in the sixties my brother asked me to get the welder where I worked in Jenkin and Pursers (Southampton) to weld two rocker mounts together for his Comet.
How bad must the the tunnel have been!
He later offered me the bike for £25- I turned him down!
The go to man in those days was Mike Creamer- did he used to work for Lawton and Wilsons the Vincent agents?
If it was around 1965 it was over the top I paid £15 for mineSlightly off message but in the sixties my brother asked me to get the welder where I worked in Jenkin and Pursers (Southampton) to weld two rocker mounts together for his Comet.
How bad must the the tunnel have been!
He later offered me the bike for £25- I turned him down!
The go to man in those days was Mike Creamer- did he used to work for Lawton and Wilsons the Vincent agents?
somewhere today someone is saying that about something we would not even push let alone ride and in forty eight years time...In 1969 i got mine given to me, 'Just take it out of my shed, I need the space' said the man I'd never met before..john
Brotherly love?-Wait till I see him!If it was around 1965 it was over the top I paid £15 for mine
I suspect you're right about the spring strip pressing against 'something in the tunnel', and perhaps that was a dome-headed screw, inserted in the floor of the tunnel through the feed bolt hole. It doesn't appear from the pictures that there is any significant taper on the steel 'slide', and the assembly must have been inserted 'as is', as the spring could not be located as shown once the bearing was in the tunnel. The bearing would be held against the roof of the tunnel, and restrained from otherwise creeping back towards the pushrod, by the feed bolt.OK who can enlighten me on this little gem. who produced this? I think it may be semi official it is extremley well made and dates from before 1960. and no I honestly have never seen one before.
Its obviously a modified ET26 and that item as we know is a good source of mods to prevent 'wobble in the tunnel' my take is that the rivited steel 'reed strip' is intended to keep pressure on someting in the tunnel which engages in that cross slot