- 1. [TR] modifying a reamer for carb shaft (score: 216)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:27:16 -0500
- Tool and die makers are skilled journeymen, who generally grind their own cutting tools and who are accustomed to making one-off tools. A tool and cutter grinder may be a semiskilled worker who basic
- /html/triumphs/2011-03/msg00504.html (10,014 bytes)
- 2. [TR] Triumphs Digest, Vol 5, Issue 96 (score: 204)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:47:09 -0500
- If the new cutting edges that you create with your dremel are not all the same length and angle, it will force the reamer to rotate eccentricly and create a hole that is larger than its nominal diame
- /html/triumphs/2011-03/msg00516.html (11,550 bytes)
- 3. [TR] Fw: Spitfire hard top (score: 204)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:26:23 -0500
- I was asked to forward this to the list, for those of you that might be interested. NFI on my part and I am not even sure how Dave got my name. Mike Hi Mike, I'm dave from over on Mark's Healey list.
- /html/triumphs/2011-03/msg00534.html (8,531 bytes)
- 4. [TR] Read drivers lever shock (damper) (score: 204)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 08:40:41 -0500
- I use Allen head cap screws too, on my 3A, although I have never had to install a nyloc nut. Mike --
- /html/triumphs/2011-05/msg00414.html (10,009 bytes)
- 5. [TR] What Is It? (score: 204)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 13:55:44 -0500
- I always liked the Alvis TD/TF series - very elegant cars. One of the teachers at my grammar school (= high school in USA) had what I think must have been a TA saloon. This was in the early sixties.
- /html/triumphs/2011-06/msg00613.html (11,134 bytes)
- 6. [TR] Rostyle (score: 204)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:03:47 -0600
- And, just to add to the soup, Ford used Rostyle wheels on things like Cortina GTs and (possibly) Cortina Lotuses. I have see them on Lotus Cortinas, too, but I don't know if they were OEM. Mike
- /html/triumphs/2011-11/msg00625.html (11,930 bytes)
- 7. [TR] Fluid recommendations (score: 204)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 16:43:02 -0600
- Hmmm - No! /Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/mmarr at notwires.com
- /html/triumphs/2011-12/msg00431.html (9,684 bytes)
- 8. [TR] brake/clutch bleeding kit recommendation (score: 204)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 13:20:32 -0600
- Being the traditionalist that I am I have to agree with Irv. I tried all the gizmos and not only did they not work, they were very poor company at Portillo's. Mike
- /html/triumphs/2012-03/msg00055.html (10,390 bytes)
- 9. [TR] brake/clutch bleeding kit recommendation (score: 204)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 11:54:31 -0600
- Irv must be extremely wise because he is no spring chicken. Mike :)
- /html/triumphs/2012-03/msg00091.html (9,643 bytes)
- 10. [TR] License Plate Brackets for TR3s? (score: 204)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:08:19 -0500
- Don: Its hard to tell without knowing its dimensions, but this could be a bracket for an English plate. They are somewhat longer than the US plate. Furthermore, it may be an aftermarket bracket, in t
- /html/triumphs/2012-04/msg00021.html (9,257 bytes)
- 11. [TR] TR (Two Ronnies) Humor (score: 192)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 16:50:11 -0600
- Unfortunately, one of the Ronnies died so only one is left, but he is just as hilarious as the pair of them. This is a classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI&feature=channel Michael Marr
- /html/triumphs/2011-01/msg00340.html (7,612 bytes)
- 12. [TR] TR (Two Ronnies) Humor (score: 192)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:49:32 -0600
- Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ A great sketch but it looks as though its loosely based on the Two Ronnies absolutely classic sketch called "Fork Handles." That's on YouTube a
- /html/triumphs/2011-01/msg00349.html (8,174 bytes)
- 13. [TR] modifying a reamer for carb shaft (score: 192)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:13:09 -0500
- In other words, you would pull the reamer through the holes rather than pushing. I would certainly not try to add the required cutting edge by hand, but a tool-maker could do it fairly easily, if you
- /html/triumphs/2011-03/msg00493.html (9,499 bytes)
- 14. [TR] Triumphs Digest, Vol 5, Issue 96 (score: 192)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:56:35 -0500
- My concern with modifying the reamer by hand is that you could make the reamer cut oversize, which kind of negates the whole purpose of using the reamer in the first place. But this is just my opinio
- /html/triumphs/2011-03/msg00508.html (9,545 bytes)
- 15. [TR] Triumphs Digest, Vol 5, Issue 96 (score: 192)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:17:10 -0500
- If the effective radius of the cutting edge of the reamer changes around the circumference, which it will do if the new cutting edges are ground by hand, it will force it to cut more on one side tha
- /html/triumphs/2011-03/msg00522.html (10,729 bytes)
- 16. [TR] Triumphs Digest, Vol 5, Issue 96 (score: 192)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:40:40 -0500
- The cutting edge of the reamer flutes is at 45 degrees to the axis. If the cutting edges are cut by hand, the cutting edges will not all be the same length and the average radius of the frustum form
- /html/triumphs/2011-03/msg00527.html (9,630 bytes)
- 17. [TR] Reamers (score: 192)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:45:11 -0500
- And I apologize too for extending the conversation probably one round more than it needed to be. Mike (back to lurk mode)
- /html/triumphs/2011-03/msg00537.html (7,765 bytes)
- 18. [TR] Recommendations for dark BRG paint codes? (score: 192)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:32:11 -0500
- BRG is in the eye of the beholder. Mike the end of every day, are there really that many people who give a toss what BRG either is - or isn't, and care enough to get it right? Probably very few. Chee
- /html/triumphs/2011-04/msg00432.html (10,323 bytes)
- 19. [TR] Cleaning Stainless Steel (score: 192)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:39:52 -0500
- "Shine your buttons with Brasso, Brasso, tuppence a tin. Buy it or nick it from Woolworth's, But I don't think they have any in." A couple of you, especially the English ones, will remember this lit
- /html/triumphs/2011-06/msg00678.html (8,646 bytes)
- 20. [TR] British Car Publication CDs (score: 192)
- Author: mmarr at notwires.com (Michael Marr)
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:48:56 -0400
- Reminds me of the sign I once saw in a bar: I am not a slow bartender; I am not a fast bartender; I am a half-fast bartender. Mike
- /html/triumphs/2011-06/msg01112.html (8,983 bytes)
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