So I was cleaning up this head,, I had just finished crack testing it,, and I noticed that there was all this dirt stuffed done two of the stud holes... I thought ""thats strange, I don't remember this one being dropped in the dirt"", so I started poking it out with a screw driver, I noticed that there was something in there... I thought,,, thats a bug? So out came the tweesers, I pulled out a spider, and another one, and another one and another one... I didn't bother counting them,, but there has gotta be 20 of them.... brrrrrrryikeess

Nothing like a good wasp nest eh..
I had one in the end of my Mk1 S crank after it laid in the dirt under a house (not mine) for 14 years.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Spider head, spider head, does whatever a spider head does

Is it an 8 port



I hate spiders, i would have put it on a crate on the lawn and blasted it with the pressure cleaner

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Cool, I like the funky Green ones

freakin tell me about it... I'm used to spiders and snakes and stuff,,, but still, I was tempted to just drop the bastard in my sooper doooper home made caustic tank and cook the little rangers.

I reckon its gotta be a wasp nest. They love the spiders I have noticed so they are always welcome in my shed,,,,,,,........, kinda,,, I just couldn't believe how many were stuffed in the two stud holes!! It would have taken some effort I reckon.

I was gana make some crack about how 5 port heads really bite so now I'm going to just by brand new 8 ports... I was trying to work something out but I thought it would just sound cheesy,,, so thanks for doing it for me Tombo

oh yeah,,, the funky green ones that look like lollies,,, (don't eat them ),,, I think they are some kind of Orb spider of something.. is there a zooligist in the house?

Had a wasp nest in my bench grinder between the wheel and the shroud, turned the grinder on an it did nothing but smoke, little buggers locked it up solid

Mud wasps are the biggest pain in a shed , it's amazing how small a hole they can use and just how many spiders they can cram into them stuffed with eggs .

Hop you gave the head a good blast out with compressed air PK , who knows where else the little buggers built , plenty of little holes in a head for them ...

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Thanks Sports850,

I was gana hot and cold tank it before doing any work on it (after I get the guides out),,, so I hope wasps, baby wasps and spiders like caustic soda and phosphoric acid!! Mwaha ha ha ha ha ha....

lol. burn baby burn .

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Thats funny i had the same thing happen to me today i went to clean up my 1275 LS motor starting poking around in the head a notice one of the inlet ports was half full of wasps nests, bluddy wasps they get every where.

Dan

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Cheers Dan

FIRST COMES THE MONEY, THEN COMES THE POWER, THEN COMES THE WOMEN.!!

can you say.... "charcole spiders"? I droped it in the casutic today, there was more stuff in there... wasn't much left of it but it was deffinantly organic,, and floating...

crulety to insects i say,,,

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.