Re: ARC VT100 repair and test.

Bret wrote

...
Most BMW tools are buildable with a lathe and an oxyacetylene torch.
...

Yes, but in the UK, having split your gearbox, drive shaft or bevel box, you
would find NOS parts unavailable because they are reserved for use by the
suppliers of reconditioned complete units as far as I could work out.

The position in the market of BMW is perhaps different here from mainland
Europe, North America or the Antipodes. Here they are reserved for
full-service-history-heated-garage-dry-summer-sundays-only old codgers. This is
because the crankshaft spins in the wrong plane and they confuse the functions
of drive and suspension. Consequently they don't go round corners properly. Good
with sidecars though, except for the engine access problem, and the weak
gearbox.

I want to build a BMW with a Hatz two cylinder, blower-air-cooled
(yeah, I know) diesel.

Has the power-to-weight ratio of diesel improved enough to be useful?

For years I wanted a racing sidecar, or "kneeler" as they were called, on the
grounds that passengers get less frightened if they've got something to do. They
don't seem to exist anymore (?), so that's another dream down the pan.

Stranger to the Ground, was Bach's last sane book.

Surprised he ever wrote anything worth reading. Perhaps he had a stroke or
something.

cheers, Ian


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