[SEL] Wolseley R update-hold thumbs!

[Jerry Evans]

Hi Guys,
         Hold thumbs for me tomorrow. The 1928 Wolseley R is almost ready 
for a test startup.

         For those who missed earlier posts on this engine:

         It is a 6 H.P. Wolseley Type R that followed me home in December 
last year. It had no flywheels when found and being only one of two engines 
of this type (that I know of) in South Africa there was no chance of 
finding a set lying around. I was lucky enough to obtain a set of Lister 
616 spoked flywheels and my friend, Justin Ludewig has made an excellent 
job of making them fit. This will all be documented on a webpage when the 
engine is finished so I will not go into details now. Suffice to say that I 
think that the engine looks a 1000 times better with these spoked flywheels 
than the original Wolseley solid flywheels - he's now a damned handsome bugger.

         In fact Justin has done 99.9% of the restoration of this engine so 
I cannot claim credit. I think he has done an excellent job.

         I'm not going to go into details of the work required and done - 
webpage will follow soon. Once we have it running well them I will start to 
clean it up and paint it as well as make a nice trolley for it.

         I've put a sneak preview pic here:
<http://www.oldengine.org/members/evans/karoo/9Sept06.jpg>

         The fuel tank & cooling water connections are temporary and I have 
to make a temporary exhaust tomorrow morning just for the startup. The 
grinding marks on the barrel (cylinder) are where we welded up a crack 
caused by frost.

Keep the revs up (or down)
Jerry Evans
Near Johannesburg in Sunny South Africa.
Tel. (016) 365-5787
Visit our website for old engines in South Africa.
www.oldengine.org/members/evans  

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