Thanks Wal. It was great to see the car there, and I really hope the field of NZ owned Can-Am cars continues to grow.
Thanks Wal. It was great to see the car there, and I really hope the field of NZ owned Can-Am cars continues to grow.
From the Southland Times today - click on the link below also updates on sidebars
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-tim...eap-of-history
Last edited by Kwaussie; 02-16-2013 at 10:06 AM.
the car is a thing of beauty. didn,t that car have a monocoque chassis
Last edited by rogered; 02-18-2013 at 10:31 AM.
Pretty Simple, plans on the net, I have it 'saved' somewhere, but so damn well I cant find at moment.
It was a vapour flux that came through the acetylene hose. A cast bottle as the third bottle on the set. No need to dip rod into flux powder.
Rick Diehl built PDL Mustang 2 with a fluxing torch made out of an old truck remote mounted oil filter. You put the acetylene in one side and a pipe near to the bottom of the filter body, which was filled with the liquid you bought, mixed it all up as a gas and it came out the other side and burnt with a lovely green flame. I have brazed with one and it's like night and day, you can see the crap being washed away as you are heating the work. Not having to re dip into flux is a big help as well.
of course the trick is, un coated rod ,clean metal, heat cherry red, drop and flow, its just that ease
Wal Willmott stretching the legs of the McBegg during the lunchtime demonstration - Classic Speedfest - Teretonga park 2013
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Wal Willmott stretching the legs of the McBegg during the lunchtime demonstration - Classic Speedfest - Teretonga park 2013
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Any remote oil filter will do the trick, the acetylene just bubbles through the flux on its way to the torch and you can run the weld continuously. Best to have a dedicated acetylene set with this set up though because the hoses etc become contaminated with the flux and there will always be some residual. Pretty hard on hoses too if I recall correctly.
I cannot add a lot to the gas fluxer info other than agree to what has been posted. I was lucky enough to pick up this commercially made unit second hand in Christchurch several years ago. It has a bypass valve at the top but so much flux remains in the system for such a long time, that yes you really need a dedicated system.
A friend in Auckland made a 'fluxer' that is just a auxilary oil filter unit complete with oil filter cartridge that he 1/3 fills with flux, then passes the gas through the in and out fittings. The filter 'wicks up' enough fluid that the passing gas comes out 'fluxed'. The flux is highly corrosive, and the filter has to be changed often.
When I first went to England in the early 60's 'Gas Fluxing' was the way everybody built their tubular space frame chassis ((in Italy they seemed to electric weld - badly - at that time).
Wishbones - gas fluxed - were then Cadmium plated.
In England last year I was surprised that gas fluxing was not allowed. Cadmium Plating of course was banned many years ago, and I tend toward Nickel nowdays.
Happy 76th Birthday to Wally Willmott
Wally in his youth
photo: Kirby Guyer
Last edited by Jerry Entin; 02-28-2017 at 02:29 AM.
Good work Jerry
I texted Walter this morning with birthday greetings. You may be interested to learn your old pal Howden and I took Wal to lunch last Monday down in Invercargill - where the sun shone, as it had since we'd arrived four days earlier!
Birthday boy Wally and Howden
We were heading off to lunch and dropped in on David Brown. Howden is leaning on the recreation of 'Big Ed' that he and Wal built originally in the mid 60s!
Wal,
inregard to above photo can you please contact Grant.
think you will be very interested.
cheers