Ian,
It was nice to meet you, even though fairly briefly. The chap I was talking to is an engine collector, and does me some nice favours.
The problems with the flywheels came about because some of the polishing soap got ingrained into the bead blasted area, but it should soon be sorted.
Ralph does look rather daunting, but once you have spoken to him, you realise that he is just a very likeable person, and being of the younger generation, he needs as much assistance as possible to 'bring him on'. Ralph, you made a very lasting good impression.
I am sure, in the future we will be able to organise things a little better, and get to spend some quality time as a group of like minded people.
There were so many people from the site there on the Saturday, and I only managed to say hello to 50% of them.
And now a bit for our American friends.
It might seem silly to yourselves that we can't all be at the show. But it is so difficult and expensive to travel in the UK I will try to show you how much.
I live 94 miles from the showground. It cost me for the return journey over £20 ($40) in fuel alone (and my car is very economical at about 50MPG). Most of my journey was motorways (I think you call them freeways), it took me 2 1/4 hours to cover the 94 miles, and that was on a slack day, if it was a Friday, I expect to add almost an hour to that time. So really, unless you live within fairly easy striking distance, it can be a rather expensive and time consuming exercise. If you came say from the London area, your travelling time one way would most probably be around 5 to 6 hours, and costs around the £50 mark, if not more. So even though we don't live very far from anywhere compared to yourselves, the costs and times involved can be rather treacherous.
John
I looked at the link from John... I couldn't say I understood even and quarter of what was said, 
