Peter,
just cottoned on, you're referring to Bob Gill?
It made me sad, the chain of events when he died.
I went to get some bits one day and Gillspeed wasn't there anymore.
Apparently some silent partner or someone or other just pulled the plug on
the business.
They were the best, he was very helpful with all things spridget.
He once made my brother a cunning flywheel remover,which now I think of it
would probably help in getting that bolt out of the end of the crank...
And they were just around the corner..
Andy
>From: "Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott" <toobmany@bigpond.com>
>Reply-To: "Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott" <toobmany@bigpond.com>
>CC: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Front Wheel Bearings...
>Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 19:26:38 +1000
>
>I would ask im but he died three years ago. I should also have said he was
>ex-GM. He left GM in the late 70's to run a successful Sprite parts,
>repairs and performance tuning business, where he died in harness. I
>should also have said that my friends car was a standard road bugeye on
>standard road radials. On our cars we've never run anything but road
>tyres, the widest being 165/70.
>
>I'm no engineer but I would have thought that a force on the spindle would
>be countered by an equal and opposite reaction on the spacer converting the
>shear force on an unsupported spindle to tension on a supported one. I
>would have thought that the spindle would be stronger in tension than in
>shear and that's why I stand by what I (and Bob) said.
>
>Peter
>
>
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>From: David Ramsey <dwramsey@worldnet.att.net>
>To: Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott <toobmany@bigpond.com>
>Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Front Wheel Bearings...
>Date: Monday, 10 May 1999 6:49
>
>Please ask your GM engineer why placing the axle in a state of tension
>reduces the bending moment stresses? Also why placing the hardned bearing
>races in a state of compression with a spacer adds strength to the system?
>This goes against everything I learned in strenghts of materials or in
>Mechanics of Materials, 3rd Ed Gere/Timoshenko. If anything an axle in
>tension has less resistance to bending moment stresses! Racers have broken
>axles for years, thats why they buy the high strenght axles, it has nothing
>to do with if they have spacers or not. The repeated high bending moment
>stresses that they place on the axles with big sticky tires is why they
>break. By the way I have run timken tapered cone rolller bearings with no
>spacer in my street bug-i for many years with no problems. Sorry guys,
>just had to say it!
> Crash
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