{"id":692,"date":"2025-11-16T17:29:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T22:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/?p=692"},"modified":"2025-11-16T17:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T22:29:49","slug":"engine-barrell-re-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/16\/engine-barrell-re-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine Barrell re-skin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1024x608.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1024x608.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image.png 1086w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I\u2019ve <em>finally<\/em> gathered every last bit needed to rebuild the top end again\u2014miracles do happen, apparently\u2014but the barrel\u2019s still sitting there looking like it lost a fight with time itself. I was hoping to give it a good going-over with the brass wire wheel, but of course the fins are packed tighter than a Scotsman\u2019s wallet, so that\u2019s not happening any time soon.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/bsa-61-b40-to-do-list\/\">BSA \u201961 B40 To-Do List (&amp; Assembly Diagrams) | BSA B40 350 Star<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One of the lads from the CVMG passed along a contact at Monarch Rebuilding in London, so I\u2019ll be giving them a ring on Monday to see if they can work their magic. Here\u2019s hoping they don\u2019t laugh me off the phone. Vapor blasting seems to be the way to go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Been tied up with other nonsense lately anyway. And just to keep life interesting, I had to drag out the snowblower this past week for its first shakedown of the season\u2014we got a proper dump of snow. Didn\u2019t last long, mind you\u2026 we\u2019re back to grass again. But it was a nice wee reality check\u2026 or a slap in the face, depending on how optimistic you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve finally gathered every last bit needed to rebuild the top end again\u2014miracles do happen, apparently\u2014but the barrel\u2019s still sitting there looking like it lost a fight with time itself. I was hoping to give it a good going-over with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/16\/engine-barrell-re-skin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}