Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

Try the Hall & Duck Trust.

I would suggest you search google for engineering companies in your area that do engine machining such as rebore.

Float probably burst due to rapid expansion of the air inside due to heat of boling water.

John, photos of the clutch lever on my series 2 machine showing it in both positions. As you can see there is plenty of slack when it is engaged. Note wear in clutch and lever will affect where point of engagement is and if it will lock in that position.

The clutch should lock in the disengaged position, ie pulled up. This is essential to enable safe starting as there is no other way to stop the tines, one of the bad points of the design. The levers and locking mechanism do wear with time and age.

If you have the old belt any good belt supplier should be able to match it to a stock item. If you do not have the old belt it should be possible to obtain one of the correct size if youtake the machine to a belt supplier where they can measure pulleys etc to calculate size required.

Your Howard is a 400

The Museum ofEnglish Rural Life (MERL) at Reading have the factory records.

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No changes as far as I am aware or can see. I always use th e’view new content’ option on the menu.

Latest issue is in post and should arrive soon if it has not already arrived.
Now available to download from The Cultivator page, (paid up members only).

Could it be a tag off a sack of seed eg grass seed?

Another source of control cable inner, outer, ferrules and nipples is motor cycle paerts suppliers. In the past I have used Feked.com

The DVLA can be very difficult to deal with when tryingto register an older vehicle.

A simple google search gave this site https://www.toro.com/en-gb

There is a good write up on the F190 in the 23rd Dec 1965 isue of Motor Cycle.

If you are trying to identify a machine you have why not post a photo on here and we will be able to identify it.

I see the plate says made in Lawrenceburg TN, USA. Have you tried the USA rather than Murray Europe?

It is also worth using a penetrating fluid such as Plus Gas rather than WD40.