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tautech:

--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 13, 2022, 11:54:11 am ---I keep getting distracted... I only really logged on to post that the seller of the bench grinder (assetclear) issued a pretty much instant full refund and apology without ebay getting involved.

I also get to keep the grinder, though it'll for sure not be getting used as such, at least on the right hand stub. Maybe a polishing wheel on that side, and maybe I can find a decent stone for the left hand stub, which does run true but the stones that came with are both warped.

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Get a wire wheel for it and you can thank me later as you'll end up using it more than if it had just stones on it.
AVGresponding:

--- Quote from: tautech on July 13, 2022, 11:56:46 am ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 13, 2022, 11:54:11 am ---I keep getting distracted... I only really logged on to post that the seller of the bench grinder (assetclear) issued a pretty much instant full refund and apology without ebay getting involved.

I also get to keep the grinder, though it'll for sure not be getting used as such, at least on the right hand stub. Maybe a polishing wheel on that side, and maybe I can find a decent stone for the left hand stub, which does run true but the stones that came with are both warped.

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Get a wire wheel for it and you can thank me later as you'll end up using it more than if it had just stones on it.

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Yeah, that's another thing I'd considered. No big deal to do both, it doesn't take long to swap a wheel after all.
mnementh:

--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 13, 2022, 11:41:55 am ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 13, 2022, 11:32:22 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 13, 2022, 08:06:59 am ---Yep. Rocking the 0.99L 3 cyl here  :-DD

Sounds like a V8 if you stick kangaroo juice in it.
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I think you've been drinking too much of the kangaroo juice. Nothing sound like a V-8 except a V-8. ;)

I have no problem with folks keeping the heavy metal of yesteryear alive... I'll always be a motorhead, and there still is no replacement for displacement. But this is a different world; these toys of yesteryear have to be treated as toys, not as a way of life if we are to survive as a species. We cannot afford for those lovely beasts to be anybody's "daily driver" any longer.

mnem


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Aaaaand this has always been utter nonsense. This is why Colin Chapman's designs blew all the primitive displacement based ones into the weeds.

The only thing adding displacement is good for is going fast in a straight line. For anything else, weight reduction is the real answer. Hence how Mini Coopers could beat 7-litre+ yank tanks in the early days of touring cars.
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And it's equally arguable that your line of reasoning is just wankers spankin' it because they can't get their hands on a real car.

Anything you can do to a tiny engine you can do to a big engine and get even more power. Simple physics.

You don't have a right to judge how people like to play, or their choice of toys... don't be a dick, man.

mnem
 :horse:
mnementh:

--- Quote from: tautech on July 13, 2022, 11:56:46 am ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 13, 2022, 11:54:11 am ---I keep getting distracted... I only really logged on to post that the seller of the bench grinder (assetclear) issued a pretty much instant full refund and apology without ebay getting involved.

I also get to keep the grinder, though it'll for sure not be getting used as such, at least on the right hand stub. Maybe a polishing wheel on that side, and maybe I can find a decent stone for the left hand stub, which does run true but the stones that came with are both warped.

--- End quote ---
Get a wire wheel for it and you can thank me later as you'll end up using it more than if it had just stones on it.
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1000x this. My shop isn't complete without a grinder that has coarse rope wire wheel on one side for heavy debriding and a medium terrier-hair-bristle wheel on the other for cleaning threads and bolt heads. Then another grinder or two for actual grinding wheels.  :-DD

mnem
*sigh* Delta 10" drill press on CL for $75... and I'm tapped out*
AVGresponding:

--- Quote from: mnementh on July 13, 2022, 12:05:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 13, 2022, 11:41:55 am ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 13, 2022, 11:32:22 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 13, 2022, 08:06:59 am ---Yep. Rocking the 0.99L 3 cyl here  :-DD

Sounds like a V8 if you stick kangaroo juice in it.
--- End quote ---

I think you've been drinking too much of the kangaroo juice. Nothing sound like a V-8 except a V-8. ;)

I have no problem with folks keeping the heavy metal of yesteryear alive... I'll always be a motorhead, and there still is no replacement for displacement. But this is a different world; these toys of yesteryear have to be treated as toys, not as a way of life if we are to survive as a species. We cannot afford for those lovely beasts to be anybody's "daily driver" any longer.

mnem


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Aaaaand this has always been utter nonsense. This is why Colin Chapman's designs blew all the primitive displacement based ones into the weeds.

The only thing adding displacement is good for is going fast in a straight line. For anything else, weight reduction is the real answer. Hence how Mini Coopers could beat 7-litre+ yank tanks in the early days of touring cars.
--- End quote ---

And it's equally arguable that your line of reasoning is just wankers spankin' it because they can't get their hands on a real car.

Anything you can do to a tiny engine you can do to a big engine and get even more power. Simple physics.

You don't have a right to judge how people like to play, or their choice of toys... don't be a dick, man.

mnem
 :horse:

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You're completely missing the point, not sure if deliberately or not, but w/e.

The Point: Weight reduction improves EVERY aspect of a car's performance. Putting a bigger engine in it, or for that matter keeping the same engine and increasing the power by boring/stroking it, ONLY improves (assuming you have the traction and gearing headroom) straight line acceleration and top speed. That is simple physics.

I have not at any point criticised or judged other people's method or means of playing, that's entirely in your head. I put it to you that it is not I that is "being a dick".
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