Suggestion to all that have questions about heat treatment: Go to www.nass.org.uk and click on "GLOSSARY" to find short definitions of hundreds of commonly used terms (including Tuftriding and Nitriding) in the metals industry. The "bible" of the engineering world is the Metals Handbook, published b...

For the newer members of the List in particular... this latest duel of the pickle-jar-preservationists versus the Offy-block-and-beyond group (and all the in-between-ers).... heated up a little too fast, largely because of (I think) the earlier exchanges last June. Don't be discouraged. I just went ...

We live at 7200 feet... I wonder what experience anyone's has had with 1-3/4" SU's on a TC(I've got an old pair from my Austin Healey that I - God help me - dropped a Corvette engine into in 1960). Machining some adapters is no problem. Any thoughts about better breathing? Change in fuel/air ratio c...

Wish this "originality" thread would stop. I remember that several members dropped out the last time it blossomed, several of whom I consider some of the most informed and experienced (read: "most to offer"). A couple rejoined, but some didn't. While it can be amusing at first, it gets old pretty fa...

Woodworker's Supply (1-800-645-9292) 1108 North Glenn Road, Casper Wyoming 82601 has a variety of threaded inserts of the type Chuck Poe and Carl Fritz descibed. They list sizes for 8-32, 1/4-20, 5/16-18 and 3/8-16 machine screws (wood hole sizes 1/4", 3/8", 1/2" and 1/2" respectively). They also ha...

A friend of mine here in Ridgway, Colorado may be able to help. His name is John Billings; he is a master mold maker who manufactures the Grammy music awards that we see handed out on television. He has plating equipment that deposits silver via a silver nitrate deposition process (as opposed to ele...

Bill... I have TC 0667, as yet unrestored but drivable, should you need to verify component originality, but all of the responses you've already received are right on.

Austin