Don’t let the Loon spoil it ffs. Just skip over the opinionated stuff, and digest the real information. The disrespect in the silly posts is nothing to the awe the rest of us feel for the superb technicians and engineers who are, gradually, finishing the work that was abandoned on 1971.
- Can the cams be reground with a bit of a cone on them, to promote some follower rotation? Maybe this could be in a part of the profile where the contact loads are low by the base circle? A judicious stroke of the file…
- Cam followers are quite simple things. The ones Ihave seen are quite easy to machine from a billet. If they are in short supply, could more be made?
- The plate woth the holes in the wrong place could be made afresh. Laser profiling is cheap. If the engine os metric, it should be easy enough to guess what the nominal domensions should be. If some of the details need to be accurate, some machone shops can profile mill thin sheet, using a disposable backing pad. CAD drawings drive tje processes, and they are cheap also.
Bloody small keyboards. Back on ttje office tomorrww;-).