The first Rolling Chassis components
Despite the pandemic limiting travel, we have the perfect start to the year, with news that the first of many components needed for the rolling chassis have been cast. The photos show the Hornblocks after casting, heat treatment and initial fettling and cleaning, kindly supplied by William Cook Cast Products. Further work to remove surplus material required during the casting process will be removed followed by non destructive testing and dimensional inspection to verify the integrity of each component prior to release for final machining and fitting.
The Hornblock castings. The reason there are eight and not six is that a spare duplicate pair of hornblocks has been cast courtesy of William Cook and these will be used for preliminary set up trials and returned to them at some point.