engine stand

[Randall]

a 78 yr old friend let me have his fathers engine stand anyone else saw one like it?

[Tom Wesenberg]

I haven't but it sure looks like a nice gift.

I'm wondering what is going on with the flywheel flange on your crankshaft?

[Randall]

Its just a old cut off crank I bolt on it so my crank grinder can chuck it easy in his grinder and I also have a gearbox I can hook to it to spin it

[Randall]

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[Joe K]

OOf on that flange adaptor. How do you keep the crank center (the dimple) concentric with the flange.

My motor was found to have the center NOT concentric even with the outside of the flange. The crank grinder was having fits trying to grind - or what to grind to.

I ended up using the existing last journal as the index. I chucked the crank in my lathe with the last journal held in an end-rest. The flange seemed correct to that. The center, however, was 15 thousands out. So I used a tool (appropriately ground with relief to fit the conical hole) and re-cut the center to match the journal and flange.

THIS the crank grinder could deal with - well, there were other issues which I've covered elsewhere about how he bent the crank holding it between centers.

Nice block holder though. BEEFY. Much more of a holder than most of the stuff found on the marketplace today.

Joe K

[J and M Machine]

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Originally Posted by Joe K

OOf on that flange adaptor. How do you keep the crank center (the dimple) concentric with the flange.

My motor was found to have the center NOT concentric even with the outside of the flange. The crank grinder was having fits trying to grind - or what to grind to.

I ended up using the existing last journal as the index. I chucked the crank in my lathe with the last journal held in an end-rest. The flange seemed correct to that. The center, however, was 15 thousands out. So I used a tool (appropriately ground with relief to fit the conical hole) and re-cut the center to match the journal and flange.

THIS the crank grinder could deal with - well, there were other issues which I've covered elsewhere about how he bent the crank holding it between centers.

Nice block holder though. BEEFY. Much more of a holder than most of the stuff found on the marketplace today.

Joe K

Sounds like I wouldn't recommend having that guy grind cranks.
The Model A crankshaft needs to be indicated off of the front gear surface and the crankshaft flange at the rear. Not indicated off of a worn bearing surface.!

[Randall]

crank grinder centers on the small flange in front of oil slinger.

[Joe K]

Sounds like I wouldn't recommend having that guy grind cranks.

Heh. You probably know him as he was your competitor in Westboro, MA.

I don't think they're there anymore. Used to be near where Walmart is now on Route 9 in Westboro. In a small shop on the south side of the road at that intersection. Something-something Speed Equipment.

Or something like that.

Joe K

[J and M Machine]

http://www.fordbarn.com/forum/pictur...reid=25138Joe:

No one there anymore. No competitor to us.

[KR500]

A D Brochau was a company that made Model T Ford tools in the east. Doidn't know they were still at when the life of the A was in progress.