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RE: Master Cylinder Query

To: "'triumphs@autox.team.net'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Master Cylinder Query
From: Alan Williamson SBSC <awillmsn@sbsc.siemens.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:15:22 -0000
Cc: JIM_WALLACE@HP-Canada-om1.om.hp.com

        >Alan,
        >I went through this too, but took another route. There are
companies in N.A. 
        >that will bore out the cylinder and put in a brass sleeve; it's
about 0.032" 
        >thick and will never pit, although they recommend against using
DOT5, but I 
        >don't know why.
        >Perhaps there are some outfits on your side of the Atlantic that do
this. Just 
        >for the sake of comparison, I got mine done at Whitepost
Restorations 
        >(http://www.whitepost.com) in the US, and they charged $50 US per
bore (I got 
        >both cylinders done, and they're both single bore, so it cost me
$100 US. If a 
        >cylinder were a two circuit, stepped bore type, that one MC would
cost $100).
        >Regards,
        >Jim Wallace
        >Ottawa, Canada

        Thanks Jim ( and to all the others who responded ),
                This sounds like a great solution.  However I don't know of
anyone in the UK that offers this service.  Do any UK based listees know of
anyone in the UK that bores and sleeves M/C's? 

        Thanks again,
        Alan Williamson

        1967 TR4A

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