Skilled Hackery

[Railcarmover]

Rebushed the distributor body and when cleaning and reassembling I found this.It appears someone had broken the cam and took the time to braze it up and hand machine a repair.The quality of the job is spot on,and rotor is snug in the notch once it bottoms.Given this engine sat for over fifty years Id bet distributor cams were available and cheap..way less than the time this obviously skilled individual took to do such a repair.

[Larry Jenkins]

Old fart looking for something productive to do. Money was no object.. Older folk know what I mean. 85+

[Joop]

I think that the person who did this wanted the rotor to have a better fit!

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by Joop

I think that the person who did this wanted the rotor to have a better fit!

Joop,
"Maybe" he fixed it so he could go to town on Saturday, to get a NEW one
Bill W.

[todd3131]

Back when the guy working on the car was a mechanic not. Technician or parts replacer

[Railcarmover]

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Originally Posted by todd3131

Back when the guy working on the car was a mechanic not. Technician or parts replacer

I started out as a mechanic,then about 20 years ago they started calling me a technician..I really didnt care,but then it dawned on me,titles mean money!!! so I claimed I was a technician and demanded a raise...the tool pushing screw I worked for gave me the same dry look as always,told me to up my game..BTW,I do respect the cat who brazed the cam,he mastered heat control and flowed the brass perfectly,and obviously turned it to size..not gonna run it though,that's now a conversation piece for the shop..

[Ted Duke]

Yep,
He were a country boy!

[vulture]

Awesome the good old days when folks fixed things !

[Terry, NJ]

I like this kind of thing! Yeah, he probably was a country boy! He probably had fixed a lot of other things in his life that way too. It's people like that who made this country great! Somebody tell Donald Trump, It's these kind of people that make the country great! I won't say that creativity is dead, it isn't! But these "Snowflakes" sure don't have much! Stop and think about it, Most of the improvements in cars came from the racetracks, not the mechanical laboritories. Just guys who wanted to go faster than all the rest. Anybody want a good example of that need look no further than Kalashnikov, who was a tank mechanic in the Red Army in ww2 (Granted, a lot of it came from the German G43/44)
Terry

[Railcarmover]

Tank mechanics on both sides of that conflict...German or Russian used ingenuity and canniblization,their lives depended on it...the Russians also had a bunch of AA's in the pool,that probably made their lives easier..