Manchester Ship Canal RGS

[berger]

hi john all the best with the health, the shaft is rrt2 and not a very good picture i will do another few and post them once i have removed the goo where i wrapped electrical tape on it that held a key for the shaft. the 17t gear on it is from a std box layshaft to match the dogs in the rrt2 gearbox mainshaft gear. it has been machined down by mwas to match the original 19t gear so it mates up with the ball race in the sandwich case. i will get pics sorted tomorrow .

[berger]

hi john pics of rrt2 shaft and gears for lower first gear, you might just be able to see raised part of the shaft where the needle roller in the sleeve gear runs.

[Colsbeeza]

Andrew, I seem to remember that you posted a photo of the Mersey RGS just after it was pulled out still covered in barnacles etc. I cannot find it, but that would be great to put alongside the RGS today.
Col

[CheeserBeezer]

Here are a few......!
There are other photos on this thread. https://www.a7a10.net/forum/index.php?topic=16757.msg143819#msg143819

[Colsbeeza]

Thanks Andrew, I might have been dreaming. The picture had large chains around it.
Col

[CheeserBeezer]

Thanks Andrew, I might have been dreaming. The picture had large chains around it.
Col

That wouldn't be one of mine!

[Rex]

The original pics of when it was hauled ashore certainly had large ship's anchor chains in them.

[CheeserBeezer]

The original pics of when it was hauled ashore certainly had large ship's anchor chains in them.

Not pictures I'm aware of.

[Rex]

I'm assuming that the pics accompanied a magazine article? RC maybe?
Unless it was another bike dragged from the sea and restored?
Definitely the bike was pictured in a pile of dredged-up scrap and pictured very large chains in the pic.

[CheeserBeezer]

I'm assuming that the pics accompanied a magazine article? RC maybe?
Unless it was another bike dragged from the sea and restored?
Definitely the bike was pictured in a pile of dredged-up scrap and pictured very large chains in the pic.

That would be a different bike. The lads who first found the bike retrieved it off the canal bank in Frodsham, Cheshire, and brought it home in the boot of a Morris Minor. The bike had been lifted up by a dredger's bucket, so no chains involved! This would be in about 1980. I don't think they took any photos and nobody has told me of any magazine article featuring the bike before I restored it. I have seen pictures of various bikes dragged from rivers and canals over the years but none of those photos were of my bike. Don't forget, 1980 was pre digital cameras and smartphones.

[Rex]

Fair enough.