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My machine was missing the mud scraper assembly which is sandwiched between the miller PTO drive shaft housing and miller cover. Fortunately the Charlie Moore Emporium of SIMAR Spares came to the rescue with a suitable replacement (Simar 0121). I made replacement springs (Simar 0122) for the scraper assembly. Even though the originals were perfectly usable, I decided to keep these for use as patterns should I ever need replacements. The scraper is held in place by a U-bolt (Simar 0123 & 4). I could not source an ‘off the shelf’ U-bolt of the correct size, so had a Blacksmith make it. The miller cover has a hinged casting at the front (Simar 0125), which sits on top of the scraper (Simar 0126). At the rear of the miller cover is the height adjustment bar (Simar 0127). Immediately below this is the depth regulating bar. Both retaining pins were Blacksmith made to dimensions supplied by Charlie taken from the drawing archive held at the Museum of English Rural Life, Reading. The rear dust boards were then hung from the miller cover (Simar 0128). The miller cover and both dust boards were also missing from my machine. The miller cover and upper dust board came from our very own club shop keeper, Steve Woollas. The lower dust cover was manufactured to dimensions once again supplied by Charlie from the MERL archives. I did have to compromise on the half round swage which was pressed into the outer edge of the original, similar to that which can be seen on the upper dust board. To have this panel pressed would have cost in the region of £350. The panel minus the swages cost £10!!!
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I have just been enquiring about the very same model. This info is much appreciated thanks.
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Made a new fishtail exhaust tailpipe by squeezing a piece of tube between two wedge shaped bits of timber. Didn’t quite get the wedge angle correct, so the pipe is longer than it should be (Simar 0111).
The Green locks for both wheel ratchets (Simar 0112) were fitted to the hubs using 10 x 65mm roll pins. The mounting lugs on the wheel hubs have slightly larger holes than the Green lock, so the roll pin grips the lock, but is free to turn in the wheel hub lugs (Simar 0113). The sprung plunger inside the Green locks locates into small indentations in the larger mounting lugs, holding it in either the locked or unlocked position (Simar 0114). To complete the wheel hubs, I added chains to the two gear selection pegs (Simar 0115). Each chain has a Karabiner clip at one end so it can be removed along with the peg when selecting the desired forward speed. The longer peg selects either low or high speed depending into which hub it is inserted. The shorter peg is a blank for the whichever hub doesn’t have the long peg in it.
The throttle control is held in place by a special stud (Simar 0116). As the original stud was badly corroded, I made a new one from a M6 x 40 allen head cap screw. The cap screw head was turned down to 5/16″ diameter and then threaded to 5/16″ BSCY (Simar 0117). The 5/16″ BSCY end screws into the base of the throttle control with the M6 portion of the stud passing through the handlebar tube (Simar 0118). A new throttle cable was made and threaded down the inside of the right hand handlebar and joined to the carburettor (Simar 0119). The control rods for forward (Red), reverse (Blue) and the miller (Green) were reattached to the steering column (Simar 0119 & 20) via a long cross shaft.Attachments:
