This little bronze worm wheel, part of a 40 year old engine, failed last week.
Allow not just for inflation, but for the company existing now mainly as a spares supplier, & they quite likely only turn over single figure numbers per annum of this sort of thing.
Guesses?
Tim
100 quid give or take the odd groat.
Tom
Given that my dad was on £12 10s pw in the early 60's and an equivalent wage would be £25 000 now, then £150 would be quite reasonable!
Mark Rand RTFM
mainly
figure
Well when I bought a very similar one for my Pedrazoli Mecbrown cold cut off saw it cost £174 plus carriage plus the VAT . I was amazed that they still had them as the saw is late 1960's
AWEM
£3.51, as they blew 1" of dust off the package on the back of the top shelf and found NOS items
Peter
The RPI was 12.6 in 1960 and is 206 now, a 16 fold increase. Allowing just for inflation it should be about £60. Actually on cnc machines nowadays you could knock those out for a fraction of that and maybe the company hasn't allowed for only selling one a year. So the question is do I guess silly expensive or silly cheap? I'll say £40.
£37.50
Come on then. Spill the beans.
£240 ++ Or so I'm told, luckily I didn't have to fund it, even temporarily.
This is the engine:-
This is a later version:-
I expect a new gear could have been made, even as a one-off, for less than that subject to finding someone with the right equipment & right size hob to do it, but not on a next-day delivery basis, plus there's always an element of doubt when working from a (knackered) sample rather than from a drawing.
Tim
right
there's
Fun looking engine, surely THAT'S not on a canal, or do they water ski behind narrow boats ? - or at least not a UK canal !
AWEM
Pro-stock narrowboats?
Mark Rand RTFM
Now if you had only asked me first ---------------- there you go another lost sale and mine were only £239.99 each ;-) Go on then what is the T8 driving? Just for interest, there is a T4 going into an old Tug at R.W. Davies at Saul soon. Replacing a big Mann Diesel.IIRC. BTW I am looking for an HR3 or something similar for a colleague currently building a 70 ft NB. If you know of anything please let me know.
-- Richard
Nb "Pound Eater" Parkend G+S "Governments are like Nappies, they should be changed often." (For the same reason)
I've got an HRW3 in bits, basically sound, no gearbox, open to offers.
Tim
A 200-ton capacity tank barge
Tim
Another thought, I have a Dorman 2DL looking for a home. This would make a very nice engine for a large NB, 30 bhp @ 1000 rpm, but there would be a fair bit of work to do in marinising etc. Open to offers, it's a bit in the way at present!
Tim
Hi, Just registered to ask about the Dorman 2DL. Where is it located an
what condition is it in. Is it a 2DL1,11 or 111.
Simon
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I had to think for a bit as to what the connection was
I wouldn't have a clue as to whether it's a I, II or III. Didn't know there were such things!
Near Warrington, Ches. Not run for a year or so, but believed to be in decent order.
Tim
Another RCgroups victim!
:-)
He'll grow out of it....:-)
Cheers Trevor Jones
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