Hello again,
>It's not my experience but one of a member of our club, who is a mechanic
>specialised in LBC, and has (well ?) restored many Spitfires.
>he told me that inside the J Type O/D (Spitfire 1500), there was two different
>types of freewheel, one forged and one machined. As you may know the job of a
>freewheel is to be able to rotate only in one direction, and not to slip in the
>other direction... But he say one of the two types (I think the later) would be
>of poor quality, making the transmission slipping...
>It's the first time I've heard that, it seems strange to me as I know how it's
>made and how it works (I rebuilded myself 3 Ovd's D-Type, sorry not enough
>English words in my pen to explain everything)
>Of course if it's true it's very interesting.. Any experiences in that
>direction
>?
That's exactly what I was trying to say earlier, but I referred to it as a
bearing, and yes, I'm pretty sure John Kipping said it was the later type that
was the crap one.
Cheers Francois,
Rich
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