Listers,
All this discussion of the increasing number of blades on TR fans
through the years, leads me to wonder... is this the real reason the TR
series ended? Was there an engineering problem with the 32 blade fans on
the TR9s? The 64 blade unit on the TR10? The 128 blader on the '11?
Perhaps the front apron would drag on the ground at higher RPMs due to
the suction of all those blades. Maybe the suckers ripped off the front
of the engine and shot through the radiators. Or, the cars ran too cool
and underheated. At the rate they were sprouting blades, they were
looking at haundreds, even thousands just a few models in the future!
Hey, wasn't that about the time they invented the turbine engine?
Alan Myers
San Jose, Calif.
'62 TR4 #CT17602
Shawn Loseke wrote:
> That fan sounds like the early TR6 fan. Before they went to the orange
> 13
> blade.
>
> shawn
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> Original Text
> From: <Ct54531@aol.com>, on 9/17/98 9:38 AM:
> Listers:
>
> The frame is done on the 4A and it's about time to reassemble. From
> here
> on
> out, I will be undoubtedly be asking a thousand questions - some
> profound/some
> probably moronic or at least simplistic. But I can feel the excitement
>
> growing.
>
> I have a couple of minor questions but the thread on the 4 & 6 blade
> fans
> raised a question. I have a yellow plastic 8 bladed fan on the 4A.
> What the
> heck is it? This seems minor but so far, everything on this car
> appears to
> be
> original and every number on the Certificate matches. I don't plan to
> concours
> but I would like to keep the car as original as possible. Do the
> "extra" 2
> blades warrant their remaining?
>
> Paint: I apologize knowing that this comes up frequently and I should
> have
> written down the answer before but the car was/is New White (Code 19).
> What
> is
> the current paint code(s) available. I will be entirely repainting the
> car
> so
> it isn't a matter of matching what's on - just as close as possible to
> the
> original.
>
> I dissassembled the wheel/hub some time ago and now see that one of
> the
> stub
> axles has some oxidization on it. Is this a problem - it's not thick
> but....
> What will remove it (Blaster?)
>
> It's a little early for this one but I've been wondering. In Piggot's
> book,
> on
> page 71, he discusses tailights. Having a 1964 TR-4 as a parts car, I
> am in
> the fortunate position of having two sets - one of each type (circular
> vs
> vertical). In the caption to the picture at the top left of page 71,
> Piggot
> says the late TR-4 - and I assume subsequent 4A's - had the circular
> patter
> and earlier cars had the vertical. However, in the last paragraph on
> page
> 71,
> he says that "the rear tail light lens on the late TR4's, TR4a"s and
> TR5's
> has
> a vertical emobossed pattern, whereas the earlier TR4's had a lens
> with a
> circular 'swirl' pattern." Am I reading this correctly? Is this a
> contradiction and, if so, which is correct? (By the way, I am not one
> of
> those who live to find typo's but as long as I have both sets of
> lenses,
> I'd
> like to do it right.)
>
> Just the first of many as I put things back together.
>
> TIA
>
> JMac
> CT54531
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MZ
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