[charlie]

This link shows the principle

[charlie]

Adrian welcome to the forum. Most flame guns run on paraffin and use methylated spirits to heat up the burner. First you will need to put paraffin in the main fuel tank, then with the fuel valve turned off pump the tank up to create pressure. The meths is used to heat the burner sufficiently to vapourise the paraffin, if the burner is not hot enough you will get a jet of burning paraffin rather than a good strong hot flame when the fuel valve is opened. I do not have instructions for the Vulcan so cannot give exact details.

[charlie]

Looks very good, looking forward to seeing a full report in The Cultivator, hope someone has sent something to Alan.

[charlie]

MERL have in their collection drawings for the Monro Tiller and other Monro products. These were donated by the VHGMC. Other club members have also donated Mayfield information and I will be donating the old Monro publicity films I have.

[charlie]

Have a look on the Survivors section of the website and look up 2 wheeled Trusty where you will find a list of known surviving tractors and their dates. This will give a rough guide, Geoff will be able to give a more accurate date.

[charlie]

A simple way of forcing people to buy new engines and or machines, make spares unavailable. As you ay progress!!!??? Add to that a degree of built in shorter life like so many household ‘white’ goods, arghhhh.

[charlie]

Not used Villiers Service so cannot comment, but I have used Villiers Parts and had good service.

[charlie]

Another possibility is a very well modified machine using the engine and bonnet from a production machine with the rest home made.

[charlie]

An ideal oil would be Castrol Classic XL or Morris Lubricants Golden Film SAE30 classic oil.

[charlie]

All paid up members can of course download the latest copy from The Cultivator pages of the website.

[charlie]

Of course neither the Yanmar or Mitsi and their ploughs are eligible for the vintage class but interesting to see.

[charlie]

A good question and having a quick look at the series 1 gearbox casing I cannot see an obvious route. The instruction book indicates that oil will overflow from worm gear casing to main gearbox. To be safe I fill the main gearbox via the dipstick hole, a slow process, then fill worm gear via the filler. Later series 2 machines and all series 3 machines had a simple pump to pump oil upto the worm gears from the main box, each had its own dipstick.

[charlie]

The Howard Gem is worth saving, in working order they are a very capable machine.

[charlie]

There is always a good display of horticultural machines at this show, see June 2011 issue of The Cultivator for a report on that years show, so your comment that they are not interested is not true.

[charlie]

Very interesting, almost certainly from somewhere in Europe the bonnet lines look familiar but I can’t think what.

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