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Agriline sell Howard Orange paint. I bought a litre a couple of years ago, it cost about £18.00 then.

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Coming on nicely. How I envy you your workshop ! We have no rear access and only a small shed so, I have to content myself with things small enough to carry through the house !

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Progress has been slowly getting on. The bonnet has had the crack welded up and ive reshaped the front as well as I could, now the longwinded task of filling it.
The injector has come back from being refurbished, not bad at £65 with the carriage.
All the paint has been stripped off the gearbox and handles, just got to wait for it to warm up outside so I can wire brush it.
Also ive now had the factory records back on this one, it was apparently built on 10/03/1962 and dispatched to W.Wood Ltd in Horsham on 16/03/1962. The records also confirm that the engine is the original one.

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Thanks for that ted20, the images on google show a rainbow so its difficult to know which to choose. I doubt very much there were the assortment of colours then that there is now, so I think I’ll keep it simple.

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Hi, I received your pm to my old account that I can no longer reply to. I’ll have a dig through my brochures on the weekend and see what I can turn up.

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Hi, as Darren said Howard rotavator Orange is a British standard colour. I always use Vapormatic Howard orange.

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BS592 is the colour code……

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Mr Postie delivered my replacement ratchet springs yesterday…. The company who made them specialise in small batch production. I sent an original rusty spring as a template and a ratchet/pawl assembly for them to ‘test fit’ the replacement to. Really pleased with what they sent back……

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The original fuel tank was rather rusty inside, after it had soaked in some rust eating acid it had become a sieve…… So I etch primed it just to prevent flash rust forming. I then soldered up the 13 holes! Filled the worst of the dents and primed it again. It’s now been treated with a good dose of POR15…. It will do as a ‘spare’ tank, as I have numerous machines with this type fitted!

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Not received mine yet……… 🙁

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Hi oldcodger mine when bought was very light green same as Terex machines but have been told they were yellow with red drive wheels

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Our copy arrived yesterday, proper job Mr ‘aggle !!

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Arrived today always a good read down the allotment.Looking foward to lotmead this year 8th and 9th of July, one for the diary..

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Thanks, that’s useful to know. Looks like your supplier’s nearest branch is Aldershot or Newbury but hopefully the product is available nearer to me.

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I know the engine is the excellent Italian made Aspera 4 stroke.Im sure they had a cast iron / sleeved cylinder bore and proper valve guides fitted.

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