Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[trampintransit]

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I've never understood how to post images!!
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'60 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire
'80 Reliant Scimitar
'47 Jaguar MKIV --- in bits!!!!

[trampintransit]

[img]http://s357.photobucket.com/user/Guy_Satchwell/media/IMG_20180705_161929_zpsif0eqmzt.jpg.html[/img]
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'60 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire
'80 Reliant Scimitar
'47 Jaguar MKIV --- in bits!!!!

[badhuis]

Nearly there! When answering or creating a post to this forum, you see there are options above the rectangular in which you write. One of them is Img in a little square. Press that and [Img] appears. Press that square again and [/Img] appears. Now you have to copy the link to Photobucket in between.

On your Photobucket picture page, there are options on the right (called Photo Hosting Links. Triple click the Direct link so that the complete link is highlighted and press control-c. Then, in the OldClassicCar post, paste the contents between the [img][/img].

The Direct link should read like this: http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo18/Guy_Satchwell/IMG_20180705_161929_zpsif0eqmzt.jpg

Between the Img squares it will translate to this:

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a car stops being fun when it becomes an investment

[trampintransit]

Ah ..I'm only hitting it once ...right..got it.....

Anyway ..the torrent of silence that follows the picture becoming visible to all rather enforces my impression that I have something pretty bloody rare here!!!
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'60 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire
'80 Reliant Scimitar
'47 Jaguar MKIV --- in bits!!!!

[Peter_L]

Electric Motor Cooling Fans. One advantage is they come un-bored.

http://ac04.cccom.com/Jenkins-Replacement-Fans-C452.aspx?SID=24&ClearCache=1

[trampintransit]

Cheers for that...but even then, they wouldn't fit...look at the pic of the original...it's got a notch in each blade to fit the curve down in the aperture of the heater box...chances of getting that right without causing an out of balance fan would be pretty remote...well for my skill levels anyway!
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'60 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire
'80 Reliant Scimitar
'47 Jaguar MKIV --- in bits!!!!

[peter scott]

Are the blades meant to be notched or is it just that they have been hitting something that shouldn't touch them?

Peter
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1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon

[trampintransit]

Dificult to show, but they do appear to be notched deliberatly to fit the down curve in the hole..the notch is part of the moulding...I THINK!!!!


Anyway ...I've now gone for the computer fan option....I'll keep you in the loop
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'60 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire
'80 Reliant Scimitar
'47 Jaguar MKIV --- in bits!!!!

[Peter_L]

[trampintransit]

Actually...good point ...perhaps the locking ring or whatever failed and the fan migrated it's way up the motor spindle, cutting that groove in the blades...good point ..ach well ..either way ...that's not how it's going back together now!!!
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'60 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire
'80 Reliant Scimitar
'47 Jaguar MKIV --- in bits!!!!

[trampintransit]

Pretty crude repair for the moment, but it'll do until the car's off the road for winter and I've more time. The only real problem is that the case is corroded and I've only bound it in aluminium tape...but ..it at least demonstrates that the computer fan theory is viable. It seem to push plenty of air and is quiet and pulls about 1.5W !

The original problem seem to have come about because whoever reupholstered the car stuffed so much foam into the bottom of the rear bench that it simply blocked the inlet for the fan ( The heater simply recirculates air from under the seat and pushed it out at your ankles and up to a rear screen demist via ducts under the floor and up through the boot panel. So clearly the intake was blocked, the fan's just got hotter and hotter and in conjunction with clearly having slipped up the shaft ( hence the notches ) it's just melted and jammed. The motor has subsequently just rusted to a point of non viable repair.

So, dead cheap fix that can't be seen so I'm happy. Further conversations with other folk seem to confirm the rarity of this heater box...like I say...serves me right for having an Armstrong Siddeley!!
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'60 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire
'80 Reliant Scimitar
'47 Jaguar MKIV --- in bits!!!!