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Tachometer Repair
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 6:14 am
by Gene Gillam
Hi Listers,
Back at this old problem again. My tach just doesn't seem to want to cooperate - sometimes it moves, sometimes it doesn't. Thought it might be the cable ends being rounded off so I replaced it but that didn't change a thing - well, got me a prettier, shinier cable which was good - but the tach still works when it wants to (seldom). I'd had it "restored" about 8 or 9 years ago by Nisonger before II got around to putting it in the car, so I'm beginning to believe it was only a cosmetic restoration, not mechanical (and I thought you get what you paid for, guess not).
Is there someone here on the list that works on these - maybe Craig Seabrook (?) - that can examine it for me. The externals are beautiful - it's only the mechanism I need to get operational.
I remember a post from a couple of years back in which someone mentioned the "click of the tach" as it wound it's way up the dial - that's what I want to be able to hear.
Gene Gillam
1949 MG TC
Re: Tachometer Repair
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 7:32 am
by seabrook@en.com
Gene & Group,
Send me the tachometer & I will check it out & see what the problem is.
Craig Seabrook
Whitworth Shop
14444 Watt Road
Novelty, OH 44072
Gene Gillam wrote:
>
> Hi Listers,
>
> Back at this old problem again. My tach just doesn't seem to want to cooperate - sometimes it moves, sometimes it doesn't. Thought it might be the cable ends being rounded off so I replaced it but that didn't change a thing - well, got me a prettier, shinier cable which was good - but the tach still works when it wants to (seldom). I'd had it "restored" about 8 or 9 years ago by Nisonger before II got around to putting it in the car, so I'm beginning to believe it was only a cosmetic restorat
>
> Is there someone here on the list that works on these - maybe Craig Seabrook (?) - that can examine it for me. The externals are beautiful - it's only the mechanism I need to get operational.
>
> I remember a post from a couple of years back in which someone mentioned the "click of the tach" as it wound it's way up the dial - that's what I want to be able to hear.
>
> Gene Gillam
> 1949 MG TC
>
>
>
Re: Tachometer Repair
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 8:15 am
by i.thomson@talk21.com
Gene, I have occasionally had the Tach stick or start working erratically after a winter lay off. Like yours it was fully rebuilt some 12 years or so ago, and looks excellent. When this has happened in the past a light oiling (with v. good quality light oil) has fixed it. Good luck with yours.
Ian Thomson.
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> Hi Listers,
>
>Back at this old problem again. My tach just doesn't seem to want to cooperate - sometimes it moves, sometimes it doesn't. Thought it might be the cable ends being rounded off so I replaced it but that didn't change a thing - well, got me a prettier, shinier cable which was good - but the tach still works when it wants to (seldom). I'd had it "restored" about 8 or 9 years ago by Nisonger before II got around to putting it in the car, so I'm beginning to believe it was only a cosmetic restoration, not mechanical (and I thought you get what you paid for, guess not).
>
>Is there someone here on the list that works on these - maybe Craig Seabrook (?) - that can examine it for me. The externals are beautiful - it's only the mechanism I need to get operational.
>
>I remember a post from a couple of years back in which someone mentioned the "click of the tach" as it wound it's way up the dial - that's what I want to be able to hear.
>
>Gene Gillam
>1949 MG TC
>
>
>
>
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Re: Tachometer Repair
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 5:17 pm
by Gene Gillam
Thanks all who wrote about where to go to have it serviced. Going to send
it to Craig Seabrook (keeping it in our T-ABC family) to look at it for me,
but before Craig wrote I had called and spoken to Margaret Lucas of MO-MA.
What a nice person she was - and very knowledgeable about the tachs also -
she'd have gotten it if Craig hadn't spoken up.
Gene Gillam
1949 MG TC
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Re: Tachometer Repair
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 6:58 pm
by Diecuts@aol.com
Craig and list,
Any ideas on where to get a tach cable with a TA fitting on one end for the
tach and a TC fitting on the other end for a TC/TD gen tach reduction box?
Space limitations will not allow a TA tach reduction box(replacement TC
engine).
Cheers, Lee Jacobsen, Dearborn, MI TA2969 Tickford
Re: Tachometer Repair
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 8:01 pm
by John G. Bulcken IV
Hi Lee,
I am almost certain I have one of these and I will check. I am surprised
that a TA type will not fit though as the TB has the same dizzy as a TA and
originally had the TA type box with the same ratio for the XPAG as later
used with the TC.
Cheers,
John
TB#0398
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Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Tachometer Repair
> Craig and list,
>
> Any ideas on where to get a tach cable with a TA fitting on one end for
the
> tach and a TC fitting on the other end for a TC/TD gen tach reduction box?
> Space limitations will not allow a TA tach reduction box(replacement TC
> engine).
>
> Cheers, Lee Jacobsen, Dearborn, MI TA2969 Tickford
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>
Re: Tachometer Repair
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 8:21 pm
by FIGSMG@cs.com
In a message dated 4/30/02 8:16:06 AM Central Daylight Time,
anngene@bellsouth.net writes:
mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com >>
Try A P T Instruments Int'l, Inc at 9632 Humbolt Ave S in Bloomington, MN
55431 or phone 952/ 881-7095. I'm sure they can help as they have do so for
me many times.
Cheers Fig (Motoring Goodies)
Re: Tachometer Repair
Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 1:07 am
by somexuk
Lee,
Speedograph Richfield Ltd
Rolleston Drive
Arnold
Nottingham
NG5 7JR
UK
tel +44(0)115 926 4235
fax +44 (0)115 920 9912
web
http://www.speedograph-richfield.co.uk
e-mail
info@speedograph-richfiled.co.uk
contact Dave Musson
they make all their own cables up, standard and special and will make
if you send them just the ends as a pattern if your cable is shot
Alan Webster
TA 3239
--- In mg-tabc@y..., diecuts@a... wrote:
> Craig and list,
>
> Any ideas on where to get a tach cable with a TA fitting on one end
for the
> tach and a TC fitting on the other end for a TC/TD gen tach
reduction box?
> Space limitations will not allow a TA tach reduction box
(replacement TC
> engine).
>
> Cheers, Lee Jacobsen, Dearborn, MI TA2969 Tickford