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<blockquote data-quote="david bowen" data-source="post: 32125" data-attributes="member: 799"><p>After a few weeks was moved to Mick (Paddy) Creamers fly wheel assemble the wheels were sent from no 2 factory completed with shafts ,first op. press big end pin into drive side with the aid of a Harbour hand press, tighten pin nut with a torque spanner .place wheel in small jig in a vice pin up assemble B/E with spacers and needle rollers Paddy could put on up to twenty in on go between his thumb and index finger with the aid of oil and a gentle squeeze. con rods were weighed into pairs, then place timing side wheel on to B/E pin, put into jig under press pushed home nut pulled tight with torgue spanner the complete assemble then placed on centres readings taken on bearing area with clock gauge marked with chalk and then the tapped on a lead block to true most cases about .0005 some times a wheel was taken of and replaced if it would not true, Rods B/E pins and rollers coded black, white, and red,there was a code sheet that had to be followed, to build assemble Mick Creamer some years later left Vincents and went to work for Lawton and Wilson who were Vincent dealers in South of England, when he left them he bought a few Rapides which he made into Creamer Black Shadows how many I do not know,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="david bowen, post: 32125, member: 799"] After a few weeks was moved to Mick (Paddy) Creamers fly wheel assemble the wheels were sent from no 2 factory completed with shafts ,first op. press big end pin into drive side with the aid of a Harbour hand press, tighten pin nut with a torque spanner .place wheel in small jig in a vice pin up assemble B/E with spacers and needle rollers Paddy could put on up to twenty in on go between his thumb and index finger with the aid of oil and a gentle squeeze. con rods were weighed into pairs, then place timing side wheel on to B/E pin, put into jig under press pushed home nut pulled tight with torgue spanner the complete assemble then placed on centres readings taken on bearing area with clock gauge marked with chalk and then the tapped on a lead block to true most cases about .0005 some times a wheel was taken of and replaced if it would not true, Rods B/E pins and rollers coded black, white, and red,there was a code sheet that had to be followed, to build assemble Mick Creamer some years later left Vincents and went to work for Lawton and Wilson who were Vincent dealers in South of England, when he left them he bought a few Rapides which he made into Creamer Black Shadows how many I do not know, [/QUOTE]
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