Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

To return to the subject at hand. Repeated applications of home-made penetrating oil in all orifices, gas torch until sizzling then cooling, spindle in soft jaws, spanner on petrol cock body, turning…. “Click!”. The threads in the body need cleaning up, they’re stiff, the spindle threads seem to have suffered. Don’t know what the thread is,…[Read more]

Hi, it’a a bog standard petrol tap as in the example pictured. The turning buttom has fallen off (not a problem, I can make one). The hollow nut around the spindle unscrews, there’s a rubber “O” ring under, nothing else to be seen. The spindle will not rurn.

Looking at the machine, the left handle might come off fairly easily. However, for trnsport, I turned the whole thing onto its side, and left both handles sticking out of the right hand back door of my van (yes, the floor became slightly lubricated with oil from the machine).

Thank you, that is interesting. I assume it’s a later example if it has that engine.

I’ll be able to have a closer look when I pick it up, assuming I can get it in my little van.

This:

I had thought of making a new lining, but the material is another issue. It would have to be something that is not going to wear the steel outer cone, and is pliable enough to bend. Don’t know what was originally used.

£100 to £150….

OK, I put it all back together, and it does not seem to be slipping. I see that relined cone clutches are £200 to £150ish!

The light dawns (I think). The pitted piece is the corroded end of end of a long inner race for the bearing (INA NK37/30 Needle Roller Bearing). Unfortunately I’ve just put it all back together so can’t measure it. If anyone knows, a note here would be excellent 🙂

Might be a horse-drawn harrow, that someone’s attached to something rather more powerful, with consequences as seen?

Coo! Who’d a’ thunk it! Thanks for the info!

OK, it’s got the two-seal setup.

A 27mm socket made an ideal “special tool” to use for pressing.

The inner seemed to have been installed rather clumsily (from new I guess) being rather distorted, the metal insert being dented on its face; the outer was considerably worn, the inside diameter being 0.063 larger than the inner seal’s inner…[Read more]

A good thing I checked – they’re 1 34/4″. The same question I guess still stands, about whether or not to get two oil seals per side, plus another question: What size are the imperial ones?

Wmtbearings have an imperial seal, saying: “This seal is 1.3/4 = 44.45mm”, but don’t say whether it’s one per side or two, or whether single lip or double.…[Read more]

I agree. I have to say I feel a bit gloomy about it, but it might be possible to get it usable in some way. These seem rare, although they do not seem to sell for much. I had another look. The coffin-shaped box has largely disintegrated, and a few rusty tools and semi-oily chains and sprockets and things can be seen under it. There’s a (rusty!)…[Read more]