Brian Rupnow's latest activity

After a grand chase thru the "used stuff for sale" adds, I found a sandblaster cabinet with fold up glass lid and "some of the hoses"...

My wife has an antique gravy boat which has some gold tracery in the trim. I made the mistake of trying to heat up some gravy that was...

Some of the internet items I have read about powder painting suggest that everything to be powder painted should be sandblasted first...

Jason--I may be having a total mind fart here, but I've been messing around with cam angles all afternoon and I simply can not see how...

I couldn't let the entire day go by without doing something.----So----I milled grooves in the cylinder heads to clear the pushrods. You...

Sid--There is one hobby shop in Barrie. I will ask them on Monday.---Brian

Thanks Scott--No work today---All my aches and pains have caught up to me today, and I'm hobbling around like somebody's old granny. I...

Today, it didn't take too much to wear me out. I drilled and tapped the engine sub base to hold a condenser for my ignition, drilled and...

Yesterday, my powder paint supplies from Eastwood in California arrived. Everything I ordered is there, very well packed in a cardboard...

Today was kind of a write off type day. I went for my last physio appointment and was told that I had "progressed nicely" and didn't...

Gordon---thank you so much. I will use that timing diagram to set my cams.---Brian

I have reached a point on this engine, where mechanically it is finished and ready to run. I still have to sort out the distributor but...

Without a word of exaggeration, Permatex Form a Gasket is the most evil **** I have ever worked with. It does the job, but it's on my...

I remove the burrs before running the engine. All the pictures I have posted are in progress " shots of the build.--Brian

Gordon---Thank you.--And---speaking of timing---I want this engine to turn clockwise when viewed from the "non carburetor side". (This...