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A quick fix that you can try is to lubricate the bush in the clutch drum – look inside the clutch carrier (it sticks out of the circular housing to the right of the engine) and you should find a key with a grease nipple sticking out of it. If you use a grease gun to push the grease in it travels along inside a drilling in the key, then out onto the keyway on the engine crankshaft and ends up on the bush for the clutch drum. It saves dismantling anything and is worth a try.

Of course, if that doesn’t cure it the engine revs may be too high or one of the clutch springs may have stretched. To inspect the springs take off the circular cover (held on with six screws) and shine a torch into the workings. Obviously, don’t do this with the engine running! What you’re looking for is movement or slackness in either of the clutch shoes that would cause them to drag on the drum when the engine is running.

Good luck!

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You are right, Andy, in that the modern oils simply don’t suit “our” type of 2-stroke engine. They shouldn’t be run on it every day, but the idea of storing them over winter with a small amount in the tank and carburettor is preferable to no fuel at all and having everything dry out and crack.

Certainly that’s what I’m going to try this year with the Trusty’s because I always have the battle in the Spring with stale petrol. I’ll let you know next year!

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You’re quite right, diesel dave. Our Countrystore in Marlborough has just started selling Stihl branded 2-stroke mix in 5 ltr cans- we’ve tried one out at Redditch and it is sold as having a shelf life of 2 years and no ethanol content.

This may be the way to go in future for laying up machinery for the winter. Run the tank empty then pour some of this in and run it; I should think it will work on 4-strokes as well because the mixture is only 50:1, so when you come to start it up in the Spring just fill the tank with straight petrol and it will dilute it even further.

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If it is anything like the display you arranged for Malvern then the visitors will be in for a rare treat. Good luck with the display and I hope the weather holds up for you.

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That always seems to be the case when “Government Officials” get involved in running otherwise profitable companies. In most cases their poor grasp of the marketplace is shown up in their atrocious decision making, and using this case as an example you can see where it ultimately leads.

Yet another one of their decisions was to abandon all research and development on manned fighter aircraft after the war on the assumption that we could defend ourselves adequately with missiles. Luckily the English Electric Lightning was too far advanced in development to scrap it so it went ahead and proved to be a world-beater of it’s time.

How many more projects have been stifled before they could come to fruition? TSR2 was another…..I could go on!

It will be good to see a collection of OTA and Singer tractors in one place again. I think their popularity is becoming stronger, and it will only increase if we take them to shows to publicise their story. Roll on November!

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It looks like I missed a good one this year, so I’ll make up for it next year! Looking forward to it already.

We can always rely on Dave Clark & Co to come up with some original ideas for competitions and the ladies’ class was one of these originals. I haven’t seen it done anywhere else, but I’m sure that’s going to change!

Keep up the good work!

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That’s what they have done in previous years, and the judges normally come and make themselves known to us on the club stand, but last year I was in Crocker Hall all day on the Saturday and never saw one person judging the main entries. One or two others commented along the same lines as well, so it wasn’t just me!

I wonder if there will be a themed horticultural section this year since we’ve heard nothing about it from anywhere.

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I’d be just as happy if there wasn’t any judging at all- after all, at best it’s one person’s opinion and that doesn’t always agree with everyone else’s. Besides, it tends to attract the “Pot Hunter” type of exhibitor who take one good machine around the shows in the hope that they can clean up with the prizes.

Anyway, the main reason for posting something tonight was to point out that the entries for the show are now officially closed.

I’ll see you there!

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They did miss out all of the horticultural section last year, Charlie. The only judging of horticultural machines was confined to the themed section, which is why the prizes were so thinly spread.

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The only involvement the club has in this show is in putting on the club stand in Crocker Hall 2. The display of horticultural machinery is something that is organised by the Newark Showground staff, so if they choose not to publicise it very much there isn’t a lot we can do.

It’s still a great show to attend and I would like to remind anyone who hasn’t booked in ( and would like to ) that entries close today. There’s still time if you haven’t done it yet!

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I’ve entered mine at Newark this November- are you tempted to bring yours? Entries close this Friday for anyone wishing to enter the biggest tractor show in the year.

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It just goes to show how much knowledge and information there is within the club. As many of you know, I’m in the mower trade and I’ve never even heard of this machinery manufacturer let alone seen any of it’s products.
Well done to you both for the correct identification. I bet Johnny Polish will be surprised when he reads this!

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…..and there was me, thinking you were going to infill the wooden frame with wattle and daub and try to pass it off as Tudor.

“Yes, Mr. Planning Officer, it was there before the house was built!”

Only joking, Charlie, I hope you get it finished before the weather breaks. Not much more to do now to get it weatherproof then you can reclaim your garage.

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I think that Alan is correct- because it is a “one-off” it is impossible to put a price on it. The only way to find out is to put it on the internet auction site and let people fight it out.

You could say that it’s worth £1,000 because you’ll never find another, but it is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it.

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He’s still around, he was at Tractorfest over the weekend. I’d keep trying or maybe send him a text.

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