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MG Midget and Sprite Technical - HS2 jet removal

How can I remove the jet tube washer from the float? I removed the brass nut, pulled the “flexible” plastic tube and then I see a washer in the float chamber. How do I remove this washer without destructing anything?

Flip
Flip Brühl

Hello Flip,

If you mean what I think you mean it should come out like this. Behind the brass nut is a rubber sealing ring which may have perished/hardened. You may need an O ring pick to get it out.

Adrian




AdrianR

Adrian,

Yes! Thank you for the Photo and your advice this is the one! I succeeded. The rubber was very hard it crumbled.

Flip


Flip Brühl

Ok, not the tool I had in mind but success is success!

Adrian
AdrianR

I think there are many people in the UK who would like to see HS2 removed....I'll fetch my coat....
Oggers

Why Oggers?

Flip
Flip Brühl

You obviously don't follow Oggers' train of thought Flip .... I'll get my coat too!
C Mee

Fkip,
HS2 is one of the most demanding and exciting transport projects in Europe. It's a high speed rail line to link London with the north. As is normal in Britain it's controversial with equally vocal groups of people for and against.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2
David Smith

It knocks a whole 10 minutes off a train journey for a cost of 27 billion and counting.....
Oggers

No, 10 minutes is simply wrong.
It's 24 minutes faster London to Birmingham. It more than halves Birmingham to Leeds, over 1 hour faster.
But that's not the point; rail usage is increasing year on year, it doubled between 1995 and 2015. At this rate Euston will be full by 2025. HS2 trebles Euston's throughput, all to the North and beyond.
To give an example of the expected benefits to northern business, Sheffield Council fought tooth and nail to have the line routed through their city centre, estimating it will bring 6500 new jobs to them.
David Smith

I think that was a good summary from both sides.

Now what about Brexit ...

. . . I'll get my coat (and CE / CA marks).
Nigel Atkins

David

Make the most of what you have first before spending money the UK simply does not have. Your argument is aking to bolting a turbo onto a midget when the timing, valve clearances, carb set-up are all wrong.

It is a vanity project, nothing nore. Improvements to the present network would yield far better value for money.
Oggers

The reason passenger numbers keep increasing year on year is almost entirely due to increases in commuting. People cannot afford to live where the work is, move out, and become rail commuters. The solution is to move the employment opportunities out of the SE and provide them where the workforce lives. All the evidence elsewhere in the world is that when improved transport links are created, the result is ever greater concentration of investment at the main hub centre. It doesn't encourage development at the outlying places linked, but has the exact opposite effect. The result is even more commuting which no one does for pleasure, and greater environmental impact and the deterioration of life quality is inevitable.
GuyW

Oggers, no argument from me, I have no view on HS2 one way or the other, I was quoting facts.
Flip - see, I did say it was controversial ;-)
David Smith

Oggers, Agreed. The south west route from London to Wales has recently been electrified. But it doesn't compare to a proper HST system. Track not smooth enough, new Hitachi trains which I don't find that comfortable and electrification is stopping at Cardiff (line goes to Swansea) and is not electrified into Bristol Temple Meads so the trains are still diesel/ electric.
Bill Bretherton

As a steam enthusiast, I would return steam locomotives to the rail network! - for similar reasons to why we all drive old cars...
Oggers

Here in Holland we do have hundreds of miles of new rail tracks for high speed trains. They are there already for several years. The safety software does not work. The politicians are unable to take a decicion (it cost a lot of money) so the high speed train goes over the high speed track with les than 100 mph...

Flip
Flip Brühl

Flip - Good Lord - do you seriously expect politicians to make a decision? They are not there to govern the country you know....
Oggers

I've travelled all over the Netherlands by train and for what it's worth I think the Dutch public transport system is fabulous.

Edit: perhaps, being British, I set a low bar?
Greybeard

Grey

Especially if talking about Scotrail! You would need to be an expert limbo dancer to get under that particular low bar.
Oggers

This thread was discussed between 30/01/2019 and 03/02/2019

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