Stripped thread on exhaust stub

[John Roberts]

Mr. Ron,

Thanks for that. Bostik, you say, now that's something to go on, I can look it up on the web.

I'm intrigued though when you say that the thread insert was bored out by the machinist, um... are we talking about the same thing here, I mean, the thread I'm having grief with is on the OUTside of the exhaust stub on the head, whereas on the inlet side there is a short length of pipe threaded INto the head. I can see that there is indeed an internal thread in the head here and am wondering if this is the one you had bored out. Sorry if I'm being obtuse- it HAS been known!

Say- How come there seems to be such a high concentration of Hubbers in BC, then? (A hive of Hubbers? A horde? A host? How about a Hubbub of Hubbers, perhaps?) There's yourself, Grant & Susan, Timo, somebody else in Nanaimo (spelling?)(I think he's the guy that enjoyed his trip up to Whistler in a recent thread) and a few others whose names come up from time to time. Been there once in Feb '99, not TOO cold (Vancouver side, anyway) but wet.

Was most impressed with the Fraser Canyon. One of the photos I took of one of your miles-long trains lugging along in falling snow down at the bottom on the other side of the canyon (it might have been just a little way down from Hell's Gate- now there's a name.) When I first got the photos back from the lab I was disappointed, it was all dull and washed out with no contrast at all and it took me a couple of years to appreciate it. Thing was, that's exactly how it was at the time, it was cold, miserable, with little colour, and there was this bloody monster of a train growling its way up the canyon on a ledge cut into the rock at the side of the canyon in the snow. Impressive, or what?

Many thanks,

John