WELCOME TO OUR ENGINE SHED
If your ever went train spotting you will know the term Engine Shed!
Well this is mine. After 40+ years of rebuilding engines you get to know a thing or two on how to set up a good engineering engine rebuilding workshop.
If you’ve noticed with our other shops – I like clean and tidy!
Clean and tidy workshops make clean and tidy engines!
It’s nice to have a workshop that’s sealed, doors that automatically shut and the place is as dust free as we can.
Here you can build a couple of engines and keep parts separately and have every tool you need to strip and rebuild them.
Tools! Ive got tools for tools and bags for bags and boxes for boxes, you just can’t have enough of them!
Tool reps turn up and I tell them ‘I can sell you tools I don’t need any more tools’ – he says – Im always buying that one tool to do that one job.
Ive tools Ive never used but they are there if I need them. If I miss place a tool there’s always back ups!
The tools on the walls are as much as you need to build a Lambretta. But I also do work for other engines, cars/bikes and some oddball stuff so I have a tool chest full of even more tools, imperial and metric!
Not only do we do engines here, we do our fork, hub and headset rebuilding – again all you need at hand.
Now Ive visited enough dealers to see how they work in shit, with parts all over, tools missing and scattered on the floor. Grinders next to open new engine rebuilds. I just don’t understand it, its easier to clean as you go or after a job than it is to try and find that 10mm in your pile of junk!
Without the tools you can’t do your job right, a good engineer looks after his tools!
Also on show is our Version 3 engine rebuild pivot stand, I’ve just done the drawings for the final version 4 – and we just may put that into production if theres enough call.
