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[Retroman]

The  Minty Lamb site is still not back up and running

 

Its was a really valuable site for comparing and selecting SU Carb needles

 

http://www.mintylamb.co.uk/suneedle/

 

Anyone have a contact / know who ran it ?

 

 

[nicklouse]

best bet is to spend a tenner in WinSU as minty has been down for such a long time and porting should not take this long, shame really.

[Bobbins]

Is this the information you're after ... https://www.7ent.com...tor-needle.html

[Retroman]

Cheers Bobbins, I have a lot of the standard applications, and some for modified,

 

The Minty Lamb site was one where you could compare needles as graphs and it was buck she [free] which was a bonus

 

I am going to have to try the WinSu site Nick recommends

[nicklouse]

It ain’t a site but a program. You can down load a free version and I think you will want the full version.

[Spider]

I've tried the WinSU Program and found it pretty good. The suggested needles haven't been 'spot on' but very very close. I've certainly no complaints.

[dotmatrix]

As above. WinSu is a good program but comparing needles is Better on that website

Edited by dotmatrix, 07 September 2018 - 06:14 AM.

[timmy850]

There is another site here which gives all the dimensions of needles. It's not as visual as the minty lamb website however. You can copy the codes into excel and plot them yourself

http://www.teglerizer.com/suneedledb/

[Spider]

I just recalled another;-

 

http://mk1-performan...zip/needles.zip

 

You'll also need another program - Office Libre - to make this work. I haven't tried it only for not being able to successfully getting Office Libre to load up, however, the principal upon which this program compares needles is probably better than Minty Lamb.

[Retroman]

Cheers guys I will have a gander

[Mini Manannán]

I just recalled another;-

 

http://mk1-performan...zip/needles.zip

 

You'll also need another program - Office Libre - to make this work. I haven't tried it only for not being able to successfully getting Office Libre to load up, however, the principal upon which this program compares needles is probably better than Minty Lamb.

 

 

Cheers for that Chris, I'll try to get that running later

[Dusky]

Still works . Use the internet archive.

https://web.archive....uk:80/suneedle/

And select a date where it was working.

[Mini Manannán]

Still works . Use the internet archive.

https://web.archive....uk:80/suneedle/

And select a date where it was working.

 

I can't get that to work Dusky?  I get to choose a type of needle (HIF44) and a few needles but no chart comes up?

 

I've been trying to get the Office Libre spreadsheet working and so far, so good.  

 

 

I'm working nights at the mo and I'm too tired, I've run out of brains!  I assume it's getting richer towards the top right but it measures the needles' areas: If the needle's area goes up the mixture is weaker n'est pas?

[Spider]

Yeah, I too couldn't get Minty Lamb to work via the Wayback Machine. I think the original site wasn't a 'dormant' data base, but an inter-active computer program, and as now there's no actual live computer at the other end, it won't work. Nice try though.

 

Nice work there Tim, it does all look good. Ian has some notes in the 'ReadMeFirst' Tab. Apart from including just about every conceivable SU Needle Profile, I think he has also included a few others too, like the Hitachi's (as used on some Datsuns), Strombergs and some others. Ian has written this so rather than working by needle profile diameters, it works on Open Surface Area, ie, when the needle is at point X in a Y sized jet, there will be Z area available for fuel flow.

[Mini Manannán]

 Ian has written this so rather than working by needle profile diameters, it works on Open Surface Area, ie, when the needle is at point X in a Y sized jet, there will be Z area available for fuel flow.

 

That's the bit that threw me!  Should've looked up 'annular' - I was thinking of the area of the needle not the area of the hole,  I've got the picture now

 

Now to get my head round the Advanced tab, I may be some time...