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Paul, just as a point of reference, when I used stock rods in my race car,
I would lighten the rods (and pistons, and use lighter 'gudgeon' pins). I
don't recall the exact figures, but I'm sure I was able to reduce the total
weight of the reciprocating mass by about 15%.
On the other subject, I worked for Cummins Engine Co. for 21 years, and
frequently travelled to their UK manufacturing plants (Darlington,
Daventry, Huddersfield and Shotts, Scotland). Many were the times that I
was asked by a well meaning young lady at the check-in desk of a hotel,
'What time do you want to be knocked up?'. It took me by surprise at
first!
My last job at Cummins was at a turbocharger plant here in Madison, IN
(where I still live) which was part of the Holset organization. Holset,
headquartered in Huddersfield, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cummins. I
was the controller and had 4 ladies working for me in the Finance office.
One day our plant manager (newly arrived from Huddersfield) came out into
the Finance office and asked if any of the ladies had a 'rubber'. All he
got was red faces, until he explained that in England a rubber is what we
would call an eraser! Funny how the same language can have such different
meanings. e.g. hood vrs top, boot vrs trunk, bonnet vrs hood, spanner vrs
wrench, etc., etc.
Hi Jack
Many thanks for taking the trouble to weigh said parts. The similar twin
cam assembly I have weighs 2030 gms - I found that quite unbelievably
heavy. My father Ken always said every aspect of the twin cams was too
heavy!! I think I'll take the assembly apart and weigh the piston and con
rod separately just for interest.
It's quite amusing how British and American words get changed or have
double meanings. I have a habit, when in the States of ringing down to
reception in hotels and asking the lady to 'knock me up' at am (meaning an
alarm call). In England to be knocked up means either to be exhausted or
awoken from sleep ( ladies will use this term quite unguardedly with no
fear of embarrassment). 'Knockers' (besides the other connotation) were
people at the turn of the century in England who went round houses near
steelworks, mines or industrial areas etc., to knock on doors to wake the
workers up. At the turn of the century in England, and for some years
after, a worker who was 20 minutes late could be jailed for one year
(statutory penalty).
The term 'gudgeon' derives from the French word 'goujon' and through
various changes became gudgeon. The derivation of the word relates to
several types of pivot points probably the earliest of which were used for
mounting church bells. The French derivation relates to the sockets on the
stern-board of boats or ships in which a pin held the rudder blade. In the
Oxford dictionary a gudgeon is described as 'any of various kinds of pivot
working a wheel or bell or the tubular part of a hinge into which the pin
fits to effect the joint.'
Best wishes
Paul
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