And if it`s not the original end in there ?
New (?) Comet Engine Noise
- Thread starter Martyn Goodwin
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With a caged roller big end , the most common , Alpha etc , there is barely any movement discernible from side to side and certainly no up and down if the assembly is not damaged or worn . No more than the oil film allows because only a close working clearance exists , and to permit assembly . Sid .
There will be no difference in either case, because the support given by the rollers is approx. the same length, in fact the original is a bit longer. I`ll check out the actual dimensions tomorrow. A rough guess gives Alpha .562" total length of roller, standard Vincent .750 between the two outer spacers, but I`ll double check that. So you can see that the standard set up is less likely to tilt.
The figures I gave, tally up, but ultimately the side rock is controlled by the amount of end float of the rod on the pin.
What does `Where were you in 1954` have any bearing on that ? excuse the pun.
Funnily enough, I made my first part for a Vincent in 1954.
What does `Where were you in 1954` have any bearing on that ? excuse the pun.
Funnily enough, I made my first part for a Vincent in 1954.
What was the first bit you made, Trev?
The Toolmaker I was apprenticed with, had a wooden right leg, got himself a Rapide with chair, so the exercise was to make a hand change. Worked very well. until John, about two years later, had a problem with a long uphill sweeping left hand, and went off to the right, down a forty foot embankment. No chance. The stupid thing was that I should (could) have been in the chair that night, might have made a difference, might not.
By the way, that was in Portsmouth, where I lived in 1954, does that make any difference Sid ? Me being in Portsmouth in 1954.
So that would have made you, what 22 years of age, how many of us could afford a Vincent at that age ?
Of course I am only a 'mere stripling' compared with some of you guys but I bought my first Vincent when I was only 18 in 1957. By that stage Vincents had ceased production and prices had dropped. I was living and working 220 miles away from home, in digs and along with other residents having to buy food to eake out the rather meagre rations the lodgings provided. The price of the bike, a 1950 Rapide, was £150 from Comerfords of Thames Ditton. I was being paid about £360 a year and the bike was bought on credit paid over two years. I was, and still am, relatively poor so it was possible for the lower orders to buy a Vincent back then, albeit a second hand one. New ones had been a different matter a few years earlier.