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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Well, it all turned out alright in the end.........I think.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>There is a big workshop about 100 yards from my house. They fix big heavy duty stuff....combines, tractors etc. (They were fixing up a fascinating thing when I went round..a massive power driven auger for drilling pilings. Two sections, wheeled and tracked......bit like a WW2 armoured half track). (Did you know that the Czech made half track used by the Wehrmacht in WW2 was so similar in profile to the one manufactured in the USA and used solely, I think, by the Americans that all soldiers on both sides tended to shoot at every half track they saw. Just in case as it were!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Anyhow, end of digressions. When I asked “Could you put a blob of weld on the thin section?”, they suggested that they simply put the manifold on a totally flat section of thick metal and simply hammer the thing down at the corner so it sits flat on the gasket. BIG man with a fairly big hammer and a good eye...2 minutes. Job done, as we say. No charge, refused to take a penny.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Why didn’t I think of that!?!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> J & L Armour [mailto:joea6@bigpond.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 27, 2015 10:48<br><b>To:</b> Simon Lachlan<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] Stainless exhaust manifold repair<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'>Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'>Make a special washer using a length of round the dia of existing washer and drill a hole down the centre for the stud. One side to be thick for the thin flange and the other side thin for the thick flange.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'>Simple tools required, hacksaw, file, 4inch grinder and drill.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'>I have a machined set similar to this. Do not know where they came from<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'>Joe<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>