You could take it back under warranty..............Just say it failed from porosity............
Not so far from the truth!, I was talking to Peter at Armours a few years ago, And he showed me a silencer that had been sent back as faulty, You could see where the bloke had tried to bash out the baffles, But for good will, They replaced it !. Cheers Bill.You could take it back under warranty..............Just say it failed from porosity............
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I doubt that the VOC spiral baffle silencer does replicate the original Carbjector silencer. I think that the spiral baffle should be the full diameter of the outer shell, as shown in the 1949 sectioned drawing. I fitted a VOC silencer as soon as they were available and took the bike to the local dyno. The engine had lost 4bhp compared with straight through absorption silencer. That evening I put the old silencer back on the bike and sectioned the new VOC one to see how it was made.
As John Emmanuel has raised his head here above the parapet on this it might not be too impolite to point out that John not only did wonders for the front fork geometry. I have seen the silencer that John made for himself. It has a larger diameter than the original but not so much that it looks out of place or causes trouble by grounding. John made his own spiral and the by drilling small holes around the outside of the silencer body was able to tack weld each course of the spiral in three places to the outside. Nothing moves or rattles. The weld marks cannot be seen as, like the ones where the front and rear hemispheres are welded on they are polished out. There might be more to this than the above but it is up to John to decide whether to tell everyone what was involved. Certainly, a lot of work.
Hello John, It's a small shop, Been going for many years, Very Old World, You would have a job to find the place !!, I went up and down the road for ages when I moved this way 11 years ago.From Armour's: "I have a stainless steel vincent silencer for the model ‘B’ on 1 5/8” inlet as it is S/S it has a pinch bolt on the inlet so does not require any detachable silencer clip."
After a number of emails with Armour's sales department, I have ordered one in Stainless Steel. I have also convinced them that they would sell better if they were on the website so they can be found and ordered! They informed me that they plan to do so in the near future.