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The two pulleys appear to be the same size - but have different features …

Twin belt pulleys …

Had to turn the pulleys for the water pump … making these from Alu rod …

2 sizes …

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Aftermarket to the rescue ?

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Excellent - i do recall that hardtop but i assumed you were using the 24th scale kit w the new tooling … my bad …

One of my favorite racing E types - what will use for the coupe roof ??

I know that the Maser needs some love - but the Lotus refuses to leave the bench - the set up on the mill vice described in the Maser post was used to drill .016 holes into a section of .040 nickel silver tube - this section of tubing will be parted in the middle - and i’ll have two steering wheel columns … now back to the lathe for the instr dash gauge rings …

Using a .016 end mill - this is what i came up with - 16th br thin wall is just large enough to accept 6 segments of sm diameter plug wire - i’ll use .011 - each bank has a tube of six because this is a twin plug engine …

I’ve limited air conditioned shop space - and summer won’t be leaving S Fl for another month - so i’ve set up my Sherline milling machine to finish machining the hubs - and i realized that i should take the opportunity to do some partz for the Maser - the engine will have some machined parts - the sp plug wire looms are made fr brass tube - 1/16th thin wall - and i’m experimenting with ways to secure the tubing to my machine vice to drill the plug holes - i glued a 2 inch section of Evergreen siding sheet to the top of the vice and carved/filed a couple of channels - the idea is that the tubing can be secured into the channels on the white plastic part rather than clamping in the vice - which mite deform the thin wall tubing …

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Then i place the chuck back on the lathe and part the hub - repeating this four times -

At this point i remove the chuck fr the lathe and attach it to an indexer on a sherline mill - to make six dimples on the face of the hub

The headstock on the Sherline swivels w the removal of a setting bar at the base - allowing a 30 degree angled cut - spec is probably closer to 45 degrees but my cross slide is the old “shorty” w limited travel - sherline makes a longer slide - $$ - maybe some day …

Most Girling Brake assemblies in this era used 10.5 in discs - sometimes paired with 9.5 in discs for the fronts - so I’m cutting discs in both sizes - in scale i’m using 10.5 mm and 9.5 mm - thats close enough …

One of the features of the 25 that this photo gives us a good look at is the brake hub assembly …

The publisher reversed the photo negative - poor Mr Tipler either missed this or never got a chance to check the final draft - oops - in the age of the I ph - the reader can make his own photo correction …

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Air Trax is / was fr Finland ? Cool …

Thanks TS - the steering wheel is slightly offset because the steering colomn jogs left to grab the steering rack in between the brake and clutch pedals - but true enlightenment aludes you … anyone else ?

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unfortunately - I did not get to photograph this one whilst undressed ... one that got away ... - but I've got a few more if you need them ...