On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> The SU may have been the only carburetor in the world at the time with
> leather parts.
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> Jim
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> > The SU's on the 145 weren't totally foreign to me after staring for a
> while
> > at a Haynes image or two.
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I take it back!

Never got that in depth.

Leather gaskets?

Like this? From here:  http://www.minimania.com/ArticleV.cfm?DisplayID=1458

"Originally the carb was fitted with a leather bellows where the dashpot now
resides on the latest incarnation. They required regular application of
glycerin to maintain their suppleness, and proved very effective given
materials technology at the time. Kid goatskin was used, manufactured by
Herbert's wife, Mabel (well, what did you expect?) from their home - a
cottage industry none-the-less! Again, old accounts show Mrs Skinner
provided these bellows right up to 1928. Although in later years they would
have been as service parts rather than production."

Neil.
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Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"

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