I'm gathering parts to put my 1934 engine back together after I stripped it to see if I can get my spare crank in, after the flywheel came loose summer before last. When I originally rebuilt the engine, I was advised to use a Bradford CA camshaft by a couple of people here and it certainly went well! It always had a noisy tappet, so I thought I'd try and sort that while it's apart.
I have just received another camshaft from JCS, but followers are 'out of stock'. I used the prewar followers last time, but revisiting some of the posts here, it's advised to use Bradford followers as well as a the cam. Paul B checked for me and said the part number for the CA/CB camshaft are the same, but I don't know if the followers are, or if I need CA's.
If anyone has a spares set of decent followers, I'd be very happy to pay for them!
Many thanks
Barry
Bradford CA/CB cam followers
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Re: Bradford CA/CB cam followers
Hi Barry, you might want to try some cam followers from a stationary engine. I bet these are the same as yours? Jowett's were known for keeping things ' as previously' and not introducing changes that were not really necessary. Chris Spencer might well have some, as I think he has a spare stationary engine he was trying to find a new home for?
All the best, David
All the best, David
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Re: Bradford CA/CB cam followers
Thanks David
You're probably right and I'm guessing anything post war is going to have the same cam and followers. So far I've drawn a blank, so I'm happy to take a scrap engine if someone has one.
You're probably right and I'm guessing anything post war is going to have the same cam and followers. So far I've drawn a blank, so I'm happy to take a scrap engine if someone has one.
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Re: Bradford CA/CB cam followers
Hi Barry, I suggest the first person to approach would be Chris Spencer? He is the registar for stationary engines, and may well have some spares? Anyway, he will probably know where there are some of these engines, possibly lying hidded beneath the bench?
I can remember calling into Charlie Dodd's depot in Dartford, Kent, back in the late 1960's, where he had a massive trove of Jowett spares. In a deep valley on his site, he had two long Nissen Huts, absolutely stuffed with Jowett spares. One of the huts had its roof sagging, and Charlie had built a tower inside for support, made up of new boxed Javelin/Jupiter piston sets, streatching from the floor to the roof! There was a gap, roofed-over, between the two ends of the Nissen Huts, and this was choked with new Jowett stationary engines, stacked one on top of another. There must have been at least 20 there, just the seperate engines, with no attachements, radiators or frames, and they looked brand new!
From the gate to the site, a path led down into the valley, and alongside this path were bare Jupiter chassis's, just resting on the sides of the path.
I wonder what happened to this site, and how did so many Jowett spares end up in this remote part of Kent? I guess Charlie had been involved in the final clearance of Jowett spares from Yorkshire? Much later, a team of us from Severnside were involved in clearing Jowett spares from two poly tunnels in Yorkshire, that housed the S/H spares that JCS, at that time, had decided should be on their way to the scrapyard, as JCS had run out of space. We rescued what was considered useful, which then formed the basis of the Severnside spares. What remained has now been kindly collected.by Chris Spencer and now resides back in JCS, so it's achieved a full circle!
I hope you are successful in your search for the stationary engine spares?
All the best, David
I can remember calling into Charlie Dodd's depot in Dartford, Kent, back in the late 1960's, where he had a massive trove of Jowett spares. In a deep valley on his site, he had two long Nissen Huts, absolutely stuffed with Jowett spares. One of the huts had its roof sagging, and Charlie had built a tower inside for support, made up of new boxed Javelin/Jupiter piston sets, streatching from the floor to the roof! There was a gap, roofed-over, between the two ends of the Nissen Huts, and this was choked with new Jowett stationary engines, stacked one on top of another. There must have been at least 20 there, just the seperate engines, with no attachements, radiators or frames, and they looked brand new!
From the gate to the site, a path led down into the valley, and alongside this path were bare Jupiter chassis's, just resting on the sides of the path.
I wonder what happened to this site, and how did so many Jowett spares end up in this remote part of Kent? I guess Charlie had been involved in the final clearance of Jowett spares from Yorkshire? Much later, a team of us from Severnside were involved in clearing Jowett spares from two poly tunnels in Yorkshire, that housed the S/H spares that JCS, at that time, had decided should be on their way to the scrapyard, as JCS had run out of space. We rescued what was considered useful, which then formed the basis of the Severnside spares. What remained has now been kindly collected.by Chris Spencer and now resides back in JCS, so it's achieved a full circle!
I hope you are successful in your search for the stationary engine spares?
All the best, David