Restoring a Marston OA
Moderators: John@sos, charlesp, Charles uk, RickUK, Petergalileo
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
So good to see a serious restoration, brilliant thread.
-
- Posts: 2838
- Joined: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:42 pm
- Location: Surrey
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
Making a new HT lead, modern copper cored HT lead is now 7mm diameter and shiny PVC.
I use a bit of heat shrink to increase the size to about 0.34".
The larger size fits the old coil pickup, and heat shrink look more like the original rubber HT lead.
New solder on end, and good to go.
H-A
I use a bit of heat shrink to increase the size to about 0.34".
The larger size fits the old coil pickup, and heat shrink look more like the original rubber HT lead.
New solder on end, and good to go.
H-A
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
I'll make a sparky out of you yet!
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
Very cool thread and workmanship!
Regards,
Spiro
Regards,
Spiro
www.vintageoutboardsaustralia.blogspot.com
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
The green spark plug co is a great supplier of all sorts of HT leads, connectors etc. should anybody be looking. They also do cloth wrapped HT leads.
http://www.gsparkplug.com/
http://www.gsparkplug.com/
-
- Posts: 2838
- Joined: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:42 pm
- Location: Surrey
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
No it won'tHorsley-Anarak wrote:Will heat it up to get the end off, as it is a hard shape to hold to bore out, will come apart if I get it red hot.H-A
Back to the lathe.
H-A
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
Oooops.....
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
Yikes, obviously not soldered or brazed then
-
- Posts: 2838
- Joined: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:42 pm
- Location: Surrey
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
No it looks like it is brazed, just think some rust is holding it together.Oyster 49 wrote:Yikes, obviously not soldered or brazed then
Did not want to distort the angle bit, so will bore it out.
You can see the braze here.
H-A
-
- Posts: 2838
- Joined: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:42 pm
- Location: Surrey
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
Found out why It would not come apart, it was nailed together, with an iron nail.
So bored it out, made up an ali mandrel so I could use the tailstock to align it in the 4 jaw.
Nice to be able to see the braze when it is bored out.
H-A
So bored it out, made up an ali mandrel so I could use the tailstock to align it in the 4 jaw.
Nice to be able to see the braze when it is bored out.
H-A
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
Clever bit of packing
-
- Posts: 2838
- Joined: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:42 pm
- Location: Surrey
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
One of the packing pieces only cost 2p.Oyster 49 wrote:Clever bit of packing
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
Did you know that pre 1992 2p and 1p are made of bronze making then worth 60% more than their face value....
-
- Posts: 2838
- Joined: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:42 pm
- Location: Surrey
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
Yes I had heard that, not sure my local scrapman would take them.
-
- Posts: 2838
- Joined: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:42 pm
- Location: Surrey
Re: Restoring a Marston OA
can make gifs on my new phone