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Clubroom => Tech Talk => Topic started by: pancho on August 02, 2011, 10:18:23 am

Title: timing disc
Post by: pancho on August 02, 2011, 10:18:23 am

When I lived at Villawood 1954 there was a place we called 'the aero dump' at Leightonfield [5minutes on my pushy]. It was a paddock full of old ww2 'planes being slowly scrapmetaled and they let us wander around the junk.When I started with bikes with engines I remembered seeing a lot of dials out of magnetic compasses so I went and grabbed a dozen or so for timing discs. They were made of brass and engraved in 1,5,&10 degree points. They were about 10 inches dia. and just needed a 3/4" hole in the centre to fit the end of my Matcho crankshaft.
  Perfect! Trouble is I gave them all away over the years except one and now its lost!.
  Maybe some of you old farts from MDMCC might still have one.
 cheers pancho.

Title: Re: timing disc
Post by: ba-02-xr on August 02, 2011, 07:46:52 pm

If tou get stuck slip down to the newsagent & buy a plastic one.