Archive index   Go to the Archive index

Dear Ed,

I read with interest the experience John Powell has had with his serviced Winged Wheel cylinder barrel.

It may be of interest that two types of barrel exist for these "whizzers":

  1. The early type had a cast iron cylinder head and relied on a ground or lapped seal with the barrel.
  2. The later type had an aluminium cylinder head and relied on a cast iron ring inserted in a machined groove in head as a seal.

The first and second types of barrel/heads cannot be interchanged.  The early cast iron head/barrel is in my opinion the best as it eliminated the head distortion of later type.

I have an early and later type myself.

Regards,
Ted Giles

First published, April 2001

Archive index   Go to the Archive index

This website will be closing on 1st October 2026 and the content deleted, if you want to archive it archive.org may be able to help.
Please do not call Plusnet as we hold no information about the ownership of this website to help.