[6pack] Fw: Bushing.

[Tony Gordon]

John

My twopennyworth .... this is a very small mountain (or maybe a bump) being 
made from a
 tiny molehill  .... in the Triumph community, there are a very few people
 who have the technical ability and the machining capability to make
 mechanical improvement items.  As much as they are not large in number, as
 far as I can see, they very often share their thoughts and designs with the
 great and good, and, as a result, are then are often asked to make their
 creations for others without the ability or resources.

 I really enjoy machining items for my car, but I do not have any interest 
in
 manufacturing for sales or for others, and in fact, when it is easier and
 cheaper for me to go to someone else, like Rick Patton for his super fan
 eliminator kit ... which he sells for less than I could make it, I do so.
 But as a hobbyist, who has made a lot of things for the Triumph community, 
I
 share ... my design for the "Beast" hub puller has been made by lots of
 others ... great!  I have done nothing more that shared my experience with
 like minded folks.  I don't want anything back ... and since my email has
 changed from that on the plans, I don't even get "thank you's" any more.

 This isn't nanotechnology or designer drugs, it simple bits of metal that 
we
 have fashioned to fix a problem ... sharing is part of the process.  If
 someone ever thought they would be able to run a business on the making of
 small bits for the Triumph community, I fear they are sorely mistaken, and
 given that the number of us with easy access to mills and lathes is very
 small, this is a storm in a teacup.

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 Tony Gordon
 72 TR6
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(ps ... I really would like the dimensions!)

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>> OK girls,
>> I came home from my office and whittled out a set of the controversial 
>> bushing.  Here is my theory.  ALL existing "kits' (by the way, copies of 
>> each other) are hard to install and require dis assembly of the throttle 
>> linkage.  Mine, does not require taking ANYTHING apart. You pull the 
>> cotter pin out of the end of the shaft under the dash board,  then slide 
>> the new bushing into the hole and over the shaft.  Then slide the other 
>> bushing into the hole at the drivers side.
>>
>> Assemble the shaft collar  loosely over the shaft and slide the other 
>> bushing into the hole the nylon bushing fell out of. Push the collar up 
>> to the bushing and position it to hold the entire assembly semi tight. 
>> Then tighten the two allen screws.  Walla you are done. Total time about 
>> 10 minutes.
>>
>> If anyone wants one, I might make a set. But I don't want to copy 
>> someone's  kit.  How long till someone wants to sell these?
>>
>> John Horton