It’s that time of year... bloody freezing, and in the garage, every item of metal transmits that cold from your fingertips to your bones! But we grumble not, just add more layers of clothing, thermal undergarments, and stoke up the log burner, which is also used to warm up engine casings. You always need to warm casings first, before fitting bearings, but nothing gets them ‘spit sizzling hot’ like a log burner! For the engines that are having rebuilds within the chassis, I simply use the heat gun, you just must make sure that the heat is spread slowly and evenly before the bearing is plopped into place, and that’s exactly what we had to do on a customer’s TS1-225 this month…
It’s never as cheap or simple as you think
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly jobs can escalate. This month a chap brought his TS1-225
