10-12-2018, 10:02 PM
(10-12-2018, 09:55 PM)PStuart Giles Wrote: That's an interesting piece and a really interesting story too. With the amount of company time and material that probably went into that "Homer" it might have have been cheaper for the company to have bought the bloke a brand new block, or at least let him rebore his own on one of the probably numerous horizontal boring machines that would have been in place at the factory back then.
The workshop where I spent a lot of my apprenticeship had the benefit of a manager who wouldn't have been able to interpret a drawing if his life depended on it, so some of the "industrial printer components" I was machining from EN8 billet came out remarkably like bits for the 500 Triumph motorbike I used for work before I bought my A7 Special.
Nicely constructed, but doubt if it improved the block as I cannot see how it would have produced
a parallel bore.