Pre-war engine on an engine stand.

[Tony Fearn]

Bonsoir Paul, et je vous remercient de votre question très bien considérée.

I spoke to the chap leading the motoring department about this very subject.

I was rather concerned that because the engine casing is aluminium, the engine might not have been safe on the stand when everything was attached.

However, he suggested that I fabricate an angle-iron, U-shaped jig which could be attached to the engine stand plate and the enging casing so that there were a couple more places where extra bolts could be fitted to strengthen the whole shebang.

I finished the U-jig last night and brought it home, but as yet haven't had time to do the final 'fettling'.

I intend to photo the finished product and put photos within this post when all is finally settled.

Drummond. I was very glad to see your last post. I was rather upset that I'd put some of you to a great deal of trouble (viz. Mike's and other's replies) by not getting the basics 'perfect'. But I agree that JowettTalk is the place to iron out all the problems and queries.

Thanks again to all concerned,

Tony.

[Tony Fearn]

Hello again.

I've finished the adaptor plate for the engine stand, and as promised I've posted a few pictures.

You will see that I've also added another support as the bottom two holes of the engine stand plate were not being used. Ignore the numerous holes in the bottom plate of the support as it was just a bit of thick scrap metal that was in the garage and was just about the correct size.

I know the bottom support plate looks odd, and that it should bolt up tightly to the engine stand plate, but my fabrication skills aren't too brilliant. Never the less, the fact that it's 'out a bit' is useful because I can alter the height of the support end by tightening the bolts on the bottom plate.

If it had been tight then there wouldn't have been much leeway to do this!

Think back to the Physics lesson about levers ( -ish).

Hope the photos are of some use. The stand itself was around £33 so it's a useful, inexpensive addition to the garage paraphernalia.

Tony.










P.S. Just remembered, - the stands at my nightschool have had a couple of metal strips welded to the back of the bottom section of the stand, at an angle, to stop it being able to tip backwards when the engine's on it.

I haven't done this yet, but will do next week.

[Drummond Black]

Tony, Looks very good. AND MORE SECURE than your first idea. A very useful jig.

[AlanBartlett]

Hi Tony,

Do you have any diagrams of the jig you made up?

Alan

[Jack]

Tony, why have you named your engine "Justin"?

I thought we had a lot of engines, but to have so many you need to start naming them?

Jack.

[Tony Fearn]

Alan,
No I haven't kept any of the sketches, they would not have been of much use. They were very rough and ready, with not a little of the 'rack o' th' eye and twist of t' gob' mentality! (That's just for George)

Jack,
I bought this engine at Beaulieu many years ago (for a paltry sum) from a chap called 'Justin'. When I dismantled it, I identified the parts in their respective tins and boxes starting with the generic name 'Justin'.

This holds together all the parts for this engine, and distinguishes it from a number of others.

Tony.

P.S. This post has had an amazing 2,021 views. Quite remarkable.

[The Bradford man]

The stand looks good.
Must do something simlar for dads one.
We got it him one for his birthday and Hes never used it due to it wont fit bradford engines etc.