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Re: [Healeys] Healeys Digest, Vol 9, Issue 266

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Subject: Re: [Healeys] Healeys Digest, Vol 9, Issue 266
From: pensenwood@aol.com
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 08:23:26 -0400
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Roadsters have side curtains or side screens and converts have roll-up windows.

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> Today's Topics:
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>   1. Re: Convertible Top. (Bob Spidell)
>   2. Release Bearing Redux (Bob Spidell)
>   3. Re: Convertible Top. (Per Schoerner)
>   4. Re: Convertible Top. (Bob Spidell)
>   5. Re: Convertible Top. (Per Schoerner)
>   6. Fwd: Austin Healey badges (i erbs)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:27:15 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>
> To: Per Schoerner <per@schoerner.se>
> Cc: healeys <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Convertible Top.
> Message-ID:
>    <1428190355.6661877.1474914435154.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> So what is a BN2? It has an erectable hood, and it's most definitely fixed to 
> the car (by 6 bolts)? I always considered it a roadster, just like my dad's 
> Model A. 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> 
> 
> Gents 
> I think we have to get the definitions right. A convertible is a vehicle that 
> has a removable top, but the top is fixed to the car. Like the case is with 
> BJ7 and BJ8. The BT7 is a roadster, meaning that the top is removable, and is 
> not fixed to the vehicle. I suggest a simple Googling on this and you will 
> get the terms right. 
> 
> Best regards, Per 
> 
> Skickat fr?n min iPad 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:58:40 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>
> To: healeys <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Subject: [Healeys] Release Bearing Redux
> Message-ID:
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> 
> OK, found out the cheaper part from BP Northwest is 'PowerTune' brand, from 
> Taiwan. The one from Moss--which is over 4 times as much and I returned to 
> them--was AP brand, from England. Looks like it's one of those times you 
> spend the extra money. 
> 
> Bob 
> 
> -------------------------------- 
> Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 21:06:58 +0200
> From: Per Schoerner <per@schoerner.se>
> To: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>
> Cc: healeys <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Convertible Top.
> Message-ID: <BC9AC746-978F-46B2-B984-F79361301B54@schoerner.se>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> Bob
> That's too difficult, not fair ;-). Is the frame also fixed to the car? Sorry 
> for my ignorance, but BN2:s doesn't grow on trees over here. Admit that there 
> are a few around, but as I also always have seen them as roadsters I've never 
> thought about it.
> 
> Best regards, Per
> 
> Skickat fr?n min iPad
> 
>> 26 sep. 2016 kl. 20:27 skrev Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>:
>> 
>> So what is a BN2?  It has an erectable hood, and it's most definitely fixed 
>> to the car (by 6 bolts)?  I always considered it a roadster, just like my 
>> dad's Model A.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Gents
>> I think we have to get the definitions right. A convertible is a vehicle 
>> that has a removable top, but the top is fixed to the car. Like the case is 
>> with BJ7 and BJ8. The BT7 is a roadster, meaning that the top is removable, 
>> and is not fixed to the vehicle. I suggest a simple Googling on this and you 
>> will get the terms right.
>> 
>> Best regards, Per
>> 
>> Skickat fr?n min iPad
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:13:17 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>
> To: Per Schoerner <per@schoerner.se>
> Cc: healeys <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Convertible Top.
> Message-ID:
>    <1680524741.6696307.1474917197234.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> Yep, frame is bolted to the, uh, frame by 6 bolts--3 on either side--and is 
> 'erectable' (not a word, but you get the idea). Frame comes up easy with a 
> tug, then you spend the next half-hour buttoning it down. 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: "Per Schoerner" <per@schoerner.se> 
> To: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell@comcast.net> 
> Cc: "Charlie Schott" <schottc@knology.net>, "healeys" 
> <healeys@autox.team.net> 
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 12:06:58 PM 
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Convertible Top. 
> 
> Bob 
> That's too difficult, not fair ;-). Is the frame also fixed to the car? Sorry 
> for my ignorance, but BN2:s doesn't grow on trees over here. Admit that there 
> are a few around, but as I also always have seen them as roadsters I've never 
> thought about it. 
> 
> Best regards, Per 
> 
> Skickat fr?n min iPad 
> 
> 26 sep. 2016 kl. 20:27 skrev Bob Spidell < bspidell@comcast.net >: 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> So what is a BN2? It has an erectable hood, and it's most definitely fixed to 
> the car (by 6 bolts)? I always considered it a roadster, just like my dad's 
> Model A. 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> 
> 
> Gents 
> I think we have to get the definitions right. A convertible is a vehicle that 
> has a removable top, but the top is fixed to the car. Like the case is with 
> BJ7 and BJ8. The BT7 is a roadster, meaning that the top is removable, and is 
> not fixed to the vehicle. I suggest a simple Googling on this and you will 
> get the terms right. 
> 
> Best regards, Per 
> 
> Skickat fr?n min iPad 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 21:22:52 +0200
> From: Per Schoerner <per@schoerner.se>
> To: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>
> Cc: healeys <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Convertible Top.
> Message-ID: <C65A2686-1DA9-491D-930A-AFFF33A329E2@schoerner.se>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> Hi
> Perhaps we should redefine the term then, by saying a convertible is a 
> vehicle with a top that is fixed to the body AND quick and easy to erect. 
> That would make the BN2 a roadster again, wouldn't it. 
> But I wonder what the rest of the world would think of this idea ?
> 
> Per
> 
> Skickat fr?n min iPad
> 
>> 26 sep. 2016 kl. 21:13 skrev Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>:
>> 
>> Yep, frame is bolted to the, uh, frame by 6 bolts--3 on either side--and is 
>> 'erectable' (not a word, but you get the idea).  Frame comes up easy with a 
>> tug, then you spend the next half-hour buttoning it down.
>> 
>> From: "Per Schoerner" <per@schoerner.se>
>> To: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell@comcast.net>
>> Cc: "Charlie Schott" <schottc@knology.net>, "healeys" 
>> <healeys@autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 12:06:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Convertible Top.
>> 
>> Bob
>> That's too difficult, not fair ;-). Is the frame also fixed to the car? 
>> Sorry for my ignorance, but BN2:s doesn't grow on trees over here. Admit 
>> that there are a few around, but as I also always have seen them as 
>> roadsters I've never thought about it.
>> 
>> Best regards, Per
>> 
>> Skickat fr?n min iPad
>> 
>> 26 sep. 2016 kl. 20:27 skrev Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>:
>> 
>> So what is a BN2?  It has an erectable hood, and it's most definitely fixed 
>> to the car (by 6 bolts)?  I always considered it a roadster, just like my 
>> dad's Model A.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Gents
>> I think we have to get the definitions right. A convertible is a vehicle 
>> that has a removable top, but the top is fixed to the car. Like the case is 
>> with BJ7 and BJ8. The BT7 is a roadster, meaning that the top is removable, 
>> and is not fixed to the vehicle. I suggest a simple Googling on this and you 
>> will get the terms right.
>> 
>> Best regards, Per
>> 
>> Skickat fr?n min iPad
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 12:44:15 -0700
> From: i erbs <eyera3000@gmail.com>
> To: Ahealey help <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Subject: [Healeys] Fwd: Austin Healey badges
> Message-ID:
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> 
> FYI
>> From Pamela David Enamels
> 
> *Who have been very responsive to emails*
> Ira Erbs
> Portland,OR
>      _______                                  _______
>     (______ \____1959 BN4____/ _______)
>         (_________________________)
>          BT7 engine and disk brakes
> *Aerodynamics are for people who can?t build engines.* ? *Enzo Ferrari*
> Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Pamela David Enamels <enameller@googlemail.com>
> Date: Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 6:31 AM
> Subject: Austin Healey badges
> To: i erbs <eyera3000@gmail.com>
> 
> 
> Dear Ira,
> Apologies for the delay in getting back to you but i was waiting to finish
> a Austin Healey rocker cover badge so that i could send you a photo of it.
> This is the only AH badge that we can make. It has opaque red in it as this
> was original.
> The AH MkI, MII and MkIII all have the transparent glass in them but we can
> only restore these (with transparent glass), for technical reasons we are
> unable make new ones.
> I have attached 3 photos of a restoration of a MKII badge.
> Please note that there are lots of reflections of the camera and me in the
> badges.
> I have also attached other pictures showing some of the variety that we are
> able to make.
> My website is lacking, and i can always forward photos of the 1000
> different badges, chassis and sill plates that people are specifically
> interested in.
> I do appreciate your offer to help with the website but it would take me
> longer to explain stud positions, curvature, plating finish, dimensions
> etc. than doing it myself.
> This is not the type of business that you can just phone the job centre and
> get someone to help.
> 2 years ago i had a 1 year queue  of work. The end of the long queue is now
> the end of April (but it is possible to queue jump some badges).
> I will get round to the website but now is not the time.
> *It is essential that no badges are sent to us without contacting us first*
> so that we can tell people how to avoid *customs charges*.
> Please do not hesitate to contact me for any more information.
> Best Regards
> Derron
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