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What do you think about the different putty products you can buy?

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Thank you very much for your input everyone

Very interesting.

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Hi Andy, the term original is what it says, there is no term about it, its like scoring a goal, if it goes in the net then its a goal, if you miss it is not a goal.
When we restore machines, its back to how they were in a new state, as for parts if they are missing then we make them, we are always in the foundry picking up new castings. This is the problem with a lot of modern collectors, its ok purchasing a machine that is 50 years plus old but dont expect the parts to be sat on a dealers shelf waiting to be fitted!
Then there is the modern couch collector who thinks restoration is coating bare metal and flaky paint, with an oily rag, saying they are preserving for the future, there will be no future if the parts are warn. Or is it the case they are scared to strip it, but dont want to show their inadequateness in life!

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It is your machine, it up to you, but normally it is to restore to the quality and looks when it was new, which is original condition,unfortunetly the saying original condition has been corrupted by a faction of vintage collectors to mean red rust covered in oil! To be left to the next generation to do the correct thing. When in fact all they are displaying is their ignorance to those in our movement to strive to save our history correctly

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Only ever seen Beta in canal boats but we could add Poulan (spelling ?)

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Re David Bliss’s post regarding Homelite two stroke generators. There’s a James Condon with a YouTube channel where he repairs and restores generators. He recently tackled a Homelite two stroke, possibly of WW2 vintage, with the same style of fuel lift pump that David shows in his post. The lift pump was in rather a sorry state but James managed to repair it, resulting in a running motor making power.

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We seem to have forgotten Lister and Petter !

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Hi, just acquired one of these machines and think that the chain adjuster is not complete. Does anyone have a picture of inside the chain case so I can see if anything is missing. Will post pics if required.
Thanks Mark

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Without too much head scratching. Loncin, Olsen and Rice, Lauson ,Subaru. In the USA there are several of what are loosely referred to as Honda Clones – several basic engines with different brand names and different colours, such as Predator which is the house brand of the Harbor Freight chain of stores similar to Machine Mart over here.
The shame is that as far as I know we no longer have a home grown mower / industrial engine manufacture such as Villiers, Norman or Sturmy Archer. Unless we count Perkins or Cummins.
Angus

PS Ruggerini !!

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I can remember the “ good tool “ story as well !
While on the JLO theme I can remember seeing at a show a Hayter 21 or Osprey fitted with a big vertical shaft JLO. Not sure whether it was an aftermarket conversion or a Hayter option for bank work.

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Yes they were Bosch magnetos. There was a special tool that screwed into the centre of the flywheel to pull it off the crank. Annoyingly the points gap had to be set with the flywheel in place as the cam was part of it. The “ windows” in the flywheel provided to give access fot feeler gauge and screwdriver, never seemed to be in just the right place.
Back in the 80s we were servicing lots of contractor and golf course machines so to make the job easier I cut the centre from a scrap flywheel to provide a dummy cam before refitting the flywheel – still got the puller and my dummy cam.

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The cutting width is 19 inch. I wondered about the cowling being apparently aluminium so it appears it is a GT2 JLO model. Now I just have to get it going, does it have the usual points and condenser under the flywheel?

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Amazing, thank you.
I remember seeing one in a customer’s shed but no recollection of seeing it in action or being exhibited at any annual show such as Motspur Park or Windsor.

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Just to add to the jig saw, JLO were eventually acquired by Tecumseh! Quite a lot of their larger engines were to be found on generator / welder sets and at full chat really sang.
The Bing carbs on the GT2s were rather prone to throttle spindle / governor wear and I only used my last rebuild kit two or three years ago – might still have a spare spindle.

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