- 1. Re: BN1 speed (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:45:28 -0800
- Driving back to college from trips to the movies in Pomona CA, in my new BN2 in 1956, on what is now I-10 and was then called 'the freeway', on several occasions I hit a speedometer 100 mph. Top up a
- /html/healeys/2005-12/msg00269.html (7,913 bytes)
- 2. Re: POR15 -rust question / alternatives (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:05:20 -0800
- I think ATF is basically just a light weight (SAE 5 or 0?) oil. It makes a good basis for gun oil. But I don't know of any reason that it would be better than any other motor oil for automotive anti
- /html/healeys/2005-12/msg00385.html (8,476 bytes)
- 3. Re: Merry Christmas to the List (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:37:15 -0800
- OK, Greg and Healey Listees, here's another gift free to the first list responder, same fine print as Greg's: "Austin Healey Owners Workshop Manual" Autobooks #726 by Kenneth Ball. covers six cylinde
- /html/healeys/2005-12/msg00512.html (8,072 bytes)
- 4. Re: Paintless dent repair (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:40:18 -0800
- aluminum behaves in the same general way as steel, only faster. (how's that for a generalization?) it bends, stretches and can be shrunk by the same basic techniques. see the Tin Man, Kent White's, v
- /html/healeys/2005-11/msg00007.html (7,631 bytes)
- 5. Re: what grade aluminum (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:18:14 -0800
- While 6061-T6 alloy is very weldable it has some characteristics that would make me hesitant to use it to repair a Healey shroud. Its use in aircraft is due to these same characteristics. The article
- /html/healeys/2005-11/msg00103.html (9,230 bytes)
- 6. Re: what grade aluminum (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 08:48:29 -0800
- Larry Varleys incredibly useful website is one of the articles is on the TIG welding of the Austin-Healey shrouds. In it they describe the alloy used. -Roland
- /html/healeys/2005-11/msg00127.html (7,762 bytes)
- 7. Re: what grade aluminum (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:45:33 -0800
- 3103 wasn't in my Alcoa book from 1958. 3003 aluminum in O grade is fairly similar in strength and elongation to 1100 aluminum. So if given a choice between marrying 6061 or 3003 aluminum to a Healey
- /html/healeys/2005-11/msg00139.html (8,366 bytes)
- 8. Re: My Web Site (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:26:42 -0800
- Many, many thanks to you and to Jack for the BJ8 photo series (and all the labor that was recorded therein). I was the 9th or 10th viewer on some of the photos (25th plus on others). Too bad for tho
- /html/healeys/2005-11/msg00158.html (7,261 bytes)
- 9. Advertising... was: Re: Hardtop parts / CHEAP SHOT (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:56:17 -0700
- I am not an ethicist, as John apparently is. However I truly do not see any problem with any supplier (hobbiest or commercial) posting a list response to a request for a Healey part with a message to
- /html/healeys/2005-10/msg00588.html (9,175 bytes)
- 10. awaiting restoration since when? (was Re: White 100 spotted) (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 13:03:04 -0700
- Well, our '53 BN1 has been awaiting restoration since 1964. I don't know if that is a record. Of course we have only owned it since 1997. It has been stripped and rebuilt with the exception that the
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00133.html (7,748 bytes)
- 11. Re: 4K for a restored BN1? (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:21:05 -0700
- And a Buy it Now price of $6500. and only pre approved bidders' bids accepted? How can you doubt that it is on the up-and-up? -Roland BN1
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00170.html (7,673 bytes)
- 12. Re: Austin Healey Improvements (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:53:20 -0700
- Besides NAPA, any shop that supplies air cooled VW parts and dune buggies will stock the Facet pump in an appropriate low pressure -- some times cheaper than NAPA but maybe not cheaper than JCWhitney
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00348.html (7,632 bytes)
- 13. Re: Socket for rear axle nut, was: RE: Rear Wheel Bearings (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:23:36 -0700
- I would second (or third) Steve's recommendation. I used a 12 point Harbor Freight 3/4" drive socket and wrapped the nut with a strip of copper shim material (beer can aluminum would work, too). I ju
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00561.html (9,024 bytes)
- 14. Re: Repair Videos (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:27:28 -0700
- If you mean the Tin Man. He sells his own videos. And a whole lot try www.tinmantech.com/ He can show you how to shrink metal, weld aluminum with a torch, and some more trades as well. -Roland a happ
- /html/healeys/2005-08/msg00213.html (7,286 bytes)
- 15. Re: Side cover gaskets (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:37:28 -0700
- Cheap rubber gaskets like those supplied with gas tank sending units tend to spread and distort when clamped in place. Result -- at least for me -- leaks. Cork gaskets don't distort the same way, and
- /html/healeys/2005-08/msg00581.html (7,306 bytes)
- 16. Re: Ice Cream Social Reports (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:05:22 -0700
- So, Perry, what is your latest favorite concoction? Everything's up to date in Solana Beach and we have a Cold Stone Creamery here, too. -Roland
- /html/healeys/2005-08/msg00755.html (7,782 bytes)
- 17. Re: Austin? (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:28:10 -0700
- Go to Google and do an "Images" search. You might enter Austin A40 to start the search. See if one of 'em matches 'your' car. Google has billions of photos. -Roland
- /html/healeys/2005-07/msg00276.html (7,683 bytes)
- 18. Re: Oil stabilizer (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:23:36 -0700
- Poured straight into the steering gearbox it allows one to put off rebuilding/repair for another season or two. The stuff won't leak out past a worn bushing or shaft quite as fast as lighter oils, bu
- /html/healeys/2005-07/msg00478.html (6,601 bytes)
- 19. Re: Door seals (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 21:07:33 -0700
- empirical testing shows that 3 Rs get to the correct website. 2 Rs get nowhere. So much for catalog preefruding. -Roland
- /html/healeys/2005-07/msg00670.html (7,260 bytes)
- 20. Re: Like the car in front... (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:50:09 -0700
- But they couldn't spell 'Healey' correctly. At least they got Jim Smith's name right. -Roland BN1 #724
- /html/healeys/2005-06/msg00410.html (7,085 bytes)
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