Kevin wrote:
>It's full name is 'Finnegans Hammerite' but actually it's made by:
>
> Hunting Lubricants & Specialist Products Ltd
> PO Box 67
> LEEDS
> LS1 1LS
> England.
>
>It's available in most car accessory & DIY shops in the UK.
>
>The other corrosion protection product that is very popular here in the UK
>is 'Waxoyl'. This is a solvent based wax product that you spray into box
>sections, the inside of doors etc. The solvent evaporates (eventually!)
>leaving a water-repellant coating.
>
>There are other 'more professional' products available such as 'Tufcote
>Dynol' (I think that's what it's called) & the Dinitrol range:
>
> RC800 Rust convertor
> 3125 Protection wax
> 3654 " "
> 4941 Underbody wax (black)
>
>Do you have these kind of products in the US?
>
>As you can see, here in England we expend most of our effort in making sure
>that our lbc's (I really like that name!) don't fall apart due to the lousy,
>damp climate whereas over there you seem to expend most of your effort in
>fitting Datsun engines & outrageous carburettors! Is this because you can't
>get the original parts or is it a cultural thing?
>
Kevin...
The only product you mention that I know to be available in the US is Waxoyl.
Even though I am
fortunate enough to live where it's fairly dry, I succumb to the therory that
"there's no such thing as a
rust free MG". Now, I'm a fair mechanic, but body and fender work, expecially
rust repair is out of
my line. So I worry about it.
I'm posting this to the MG list in hopes that others out there can tell me if
any of the products you
mention are available here.
As far as "Fitting Datsun engines & outrageous carburettors" are concerned:
Being strickly an MGist,
the only engine conversions I really think are legitimate is the MGB - Rover V8
conversion. It's
tollerable, when building specials, to use some other type of power unit I
suppose but using Non-lbc
engines in lbc's is not for me. So I don't understand it either. As far as
outrageous carburettors go,
well, this falls into the same catagory as high lift - long duration camshafts,
larger dia. - high
compression pistons, free flow performance exaust systems and other go fast
goodies. Being an MG
driver for well over 30 years I fully understand the quest to improve
reliability and performance this
way.
Thanks for the information. I appreciate it.
Dick :>)
Have MG will travel
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