Hello again friends,

I have had my B21F flywheel mildly lightened by the Machining Department at a local " Technical Trades School". I think the 20 years old girl, a near graduate, who did the job, supervised by two teachers, did very well. Cost: a $7 US donation to the class fund...

Tomorrow morning at 8:00, they are supposed to resurface the flywheel on a huge (to me) Italian lathe, using a finishing "knife". The machine is 3' wide x 5' high x 8' long. I now remember reading that resurfacing flywheels was not really a job for lathes. Does this apply to all lathes or just the smaller ones ?

Also, they mentionned they would leave the clutch-alignment dowel-pins in and skim down the flywheel-surface to the dowel pins. They measured that .005" would have to come off. I didn't think of asking why they would leave the dowel pins in. They mentionned that their way of doing the procedure would not interfere with the good operation of the clutch.

What do you think of their plan generally?

The people at that school have been great, the cost is too and the young woman doing the work is really enjoying it. I don't want to mess-up the good vibes with uninformed interventions on my part.

Many thanks...