Thanks Wal. It was great to see the car there, and I really hope the field of NZ owned Can-Am cars continues to grow.
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Thanks Wal. It was great to see the car there, and I really hope the field of NZ owned Can-Am cars continues to grow.
From the Southland Times today - click on the link below also updates on sidebars
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-tim...eap-of-history
the car is a thing of beauty. didn,t that car have a monocoque chassis
Pretty Simple, plans on the net, I have it 'saved' somewhere, but so damn well I cant find at moment.:)
It was a vapour flux that came through the acetylene hose. A cast bottle as the third bottle on the set. No need to dip rod into flux powder.
Rick Diehl built PDL Mustang 2 with a fluxing torch made out of an old truck remote mounted oil filter. You put the acetylene in one side and a pipe near to the bottom of the filter body, which was filled with the liquid you bought, mixed it all up as a gas and it came out the other side and burnt with a lovely green flame. I have brazed with one and it's like night and day, you can see the crap being washed away as you are heating the work. Not having to re dip into flux is a big help as well.
of course the trick is, un coated rod ,clean metal, heat cherry red, drop and flow, its just that ease
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Wal Willmott stretching the legs of the McBegg during the lunchtime demonstration - Classic Speedfest - Teretonga park 2013
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Wal Willmott stretching the legs of the McBegg during the lunchtime demonstration - Classic Speedfest - Teretonga park 2013
Any remote oil filter will do the trick, the acetylene just bubbles through the flux on its way to the torch and you can run the weld continuously. Best to have a dedicated acetylene set with this set up though because the hoses etc become contaminated with the flux and there will always be some residual. Pretty hard on hoses too if I recall correctly.
I cannot add a lot to the gas fluxer info other than agree to what has been posted. I was lucky enough to pick up this commercially made unit second hand in Christchurch several years ago. It has a bypass valve at the top but so much flux remains in the system for such a long time, that yes you really need a dedicated system.
A friend in Auckland made a 'fluxer' that is just a auxilary oil filter unit complete with oil filter cartridge that he 1/3 fills with flux, then passes the gas through the in and out fittings. The filter 'wicks up' enough fluid that the passing gas comes out 'fluxed'. The flux is highly corrosive, and the filter has to be changed often.
When I first went to England in the early 60's 'Gas Fluxing' was the way everybody built their tubular space frame chassis ((in Italy they seemed to electric weld - badly - at that time).
Wishbones - gas fluxed - were then Cadmium plated.
In England last year I was surprised that gas fluxing was not allowed. Cadmium Plating of course was banned many years ago, and I tend toward Nickel nowdays.
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Happy 76th Birthday to Wally Willmott
Wally in his youth
photo: Kirby Guyer
Thats a really coo photo Jerry. Thanks for posting.
Good work Jerry
I texted Walter this morning with birthday greetings. You may be interested to learn your old pal Howden and I took Wal to lunch last Monday down in Invercargill - where the sun shone, as it had since we'd arrived four days earlier!
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Birthday boy Wally and Howden
We were heading off to lunch and dropped in on David Brown. Howden is leaning on the recreation of 'Big Ed' that he and Wal built originally in the mid 60s!
Wal,
inregard to above photo can you please contact Grant.
think you will be very interested.
cheers
I don't know what the strange combination of camera/settings/light/film have confluenced together in these pics from Teretonga 1970, but the soft hue is really quite remarkable. There have been a few others from the same set on TRS over the last couple of years including two Begg FM2s sitting side by side, Ron Grable in the pits and a few pics from the left hander at the end of the main straight. Very nice.
Bert Hawthorne's Lexington Brabham and Gordon Edwards' Rorstan mini in the pit road ?
Barry Keen driving at Pukekohe 1968 GP meeting in January
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If your talking about the pics from the 'Ian Peak' collection IIRC these went thru conversion from slides to disc etc.... its a long time ago but I think we occasionally commented on some movies/slide shows that Ian put on at monthly ESCC meetings that some car colours needed a double take to identify, possibly a fact of life for film quality available back in the day!
Film quality 'back in the day' shouldn't really be an issue! Although some makes were preferred to others, I have a colour transparency of my parents taken at their wedding back in about 1941, where the colour is excellent.
The company dad worked for, for over 40 years as Production manager, were Commercial, Industrial & School's photographers, with several branches throughout the UK. He did extensive testing on films used and they settled on Ilford for black and white and Kodak for colour film and colour slides. When automatic machines first came in for colour processing, he would insist on a test strip then manually correct each negative by adjusting the yellow, magenta and cyan, until he got a picture quality he was happy with.
I did my own back to back testing in the mid 1960s and Ilford colour film wasn't a patch on Kodak. A few years later, and early Fuji film was also dreadful. There was a lot of cheap film around in the 1970s in the UK when there was a boom in photolabs offering a 'free' replacement film with your processing. Often the film quality wasn't too clever.
Film colours can also fade, so when scanning, there is often an option to compensate for dust, fading, graining and even backlight. I suspect that many of the pics posted on this site, and others, could be enhanced considerably - but it can extra take time and care of course. Using Photoshop to get rid of scratches or dust spots after scanning can take even longer.
No :cool:
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Was thinking about Phillips yesterday though, Kwaussie. Came out to the first Bay Park Formula A meeting with the Lola T140, came back and drove the Begg, then came back again and drove a Titan FF. All with a fairly low profile.
Found the Begg FM2s as well. I don't know Ian Peak, but these are magic. There was a pretty good lineup of talent that season as well.
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My fault buddy, poor punctuation. I am still in touch with Ron, who remembers his Tasman days with great affection. He was pretty much a hero of mine with his performance at Bay Park in December '68.
All good stuff!
Is the new McBegg doing much racing in 2017?
I'm getting older and memory's failing but the only Osca car I remember that was built using racing car components, (in those days) was a Datsun 180b owned by --------------? (I'll remember soon, or Rod McElrea knows).
The car had the front and rear suspension, transaxle, and Chev engine with crossover Crower inlet manifold and Lucas mechanical injection (which I set up/tuned on the car) out of a F5000 McLaren (I think). Maybe it was from the Begg!
I remember being very concerned about all that engine weight being supported by the nice shiny (and weak) tubular wishbones from the single seater!
Sadly the owner was killed in a testing acident when the clevis pin fell out of the brake pedal.
PK.
It was Kelvin Cameron, IIRC ( and like you Paul I get a bit of delay in the memory now n again :) ).Wish I still had all the old OSCA newsletters, its probably in them. Would not have been from a 5000 car Keith Laney had? Steves pic below it has Cameron on W/screen
This is from the John Brewer Collection posted elsewhere on here. Is this the car parked next to the Camaro?
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That sounds like the car built from the ex Pederson M18.