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  • #14886
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    Thanks for the kind words- it’s a good job that Tony Hoyland sent me a summary of what they were going to put in the mag to publicise the Newark Show because it was completely wrong, so I put pen to paper to set the record straight.

    If there are any more newsworthy articles from around the different areas then Tony Hoyland would love more news features from the club world. If you don’t feel brave enough to have a go, you can always send me an idea of what you want to say and I’ll put it together.

    See you at Newark.

    #14853
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    You can buy a kit off that well known auction site to do this. The product is from America (where they’ve had this crappy petrol for some time) and it’s called SLOSH. I used it on the Norton engine rebuild in the Project section and it comes with a bottle of cleaning agent that you swill around before putting in the sealant.

    It goes off to a hard finish like Araldite and seems to be OK so far, just make sure that you roll a piece of card into a tube and put it in the outlet hole so that the threads don’t get too gunjed up with it. If they do just run a tap through to clean it out.

    Expect to pay about £30 for a kit. I hope that helps.

    #14840
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    To fit a Merry Tiller to the rear cross member of a Series 1 Land Rover, perchance???

    #14685
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    I thought it looked American. Thanks for the reply, I hope everything is still going fine with you in Wales.

    #14673
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    What’s the small rotavator with a Briggs & Stratton engine on, photo No. 521? I can read ROTO-….. and I can safely say that it’s a new one on me. American by any chance…..?

    #14593
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    OK, here’s the answer:-

    The customer of mine who owns the bits originally rescued them from an old watermill. If you bolt them all together they make a spiral chute that was used to take the flour sacks from the filling station to the loading bay. Of course they would have been nice and shiny in those days, and the idea of the spiral was to save space and prevent the sacks from gaining too much momentum before they reached the bottom.

    I suppose you could always make them into a suit of armour to escape the taxman but the thought never occurred to me; I may mention it to my customer who owns them!

    I’m running out of strange things to test your knowledge with, how about some other member having a go at posting a mystery object?

    #14590
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    Sorry, but a bit warmer in your guess.

    #14583
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    24 hours to go before the big reveal- does anyone want to chance their arm for one last time?

    #14582
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    I haven’t ploughed for two years and it was taking an awful lot of concentration! We were going as fast as we could, with a late start we wanted to be finished early as well so that we didn’t have a drive back in the dark.

    See you at Newark.

    #14581
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    Very Well Done, Charlie!

    #14471
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    Dave Weeley together with his friends and relations must have worked extremely hard to put on such a good working weekend over the past couple of days. The display alone must have taken the best part of a day to lay out, besides marking out the field for the working events as well.

    If you have never been I would recommend that you put it in the calendar for next year; you won’t regret it. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves, but I didn’t take any on the Sunday because I was ploughing in the match; I’ll leave that for someone else to fill in the gaps.

    I will definitely say again, though, my plough and plough seat are definitely NOT for sale, despite rumours that Ivan had put about!

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    #14470
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    And I can vouch for the fact that it chafes a bit as well!

    Steve’s a little wide of the mark with his discovery, unfortunately, although it does count as one of his more imaginative works of fiction! If you don’t believe me, just look at the old forum!

    I will leave this on for a few days longer and give the answer mid-week if nobody has worked it out.

    #14449
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    What you have is a Trusty Earthquake which would normally have had a Villiers 20 or 25 fitted originally. The engine that you have fitted is a much larger one and I’ve come across one other like it- it was called a Villiers 4/44, which is also mirrored in the serial number. It appears to originate from 1965 if you compare it to the others in the “Survivors” listing.

    Not all carburettors had a choke for starting, some had a “tickler” on top of the float chamber so that you could hold the float down and flood the carb with fuel. If you could show some photo’s of the front of the engine we may be able to give you an idea how to start it.

    Best of luck with it!

    #14446
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    Damn and blast, I’ve been rumbled! At this rate I’ll have to sell another Jag to pay the taxman!

    #14443
    trusty220
    Keymaster

    I can see that I’m going to have to give you a clue.

    You are right in your guess that they all fit together to form something bigger- each piece that you see is only part of the whole device.

    Cryptic enough for you?

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