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Thanks for your reply guys really appreciate it. I have found out it is indeed a tecumseh tvm140 which has recoil start and electric start. I’ve been pulling the engine out today. I’ve got a mtd lawnflite here from 1987 which ive rebuilt etc so going to see if the briggs marries up with the bolt holes on the w6, if so ill grab a briggs without tearing into this one but if not i will tear the engine apart and see what has failed. I’d like to put a 12hp in it but not sure as of yet. Do you reckon the crank will fit from a briggs then? Thanks

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Oh, also, starting straps… Do you guys make them yourselves or is there a supplier?!

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Hi Charlie, thanks for getting back so promptly! Good to hear my internet sleuthing was along the right lines. And documentation you have would be excellent, I’ll drop you a PM with my email address.

It is indeed the long pin that’s stuck, but not totally, when I first wheeled it off the trailer is was semi engaged in the drive hub which lead to a horrible notchy rolling effect and me fearing that the gearbox was trashed. But after tapping the pin in a little farther drive is now positive!

I suspect this machine has done a stint as a garden ornament as it’s had a good thick coat of green paint applied and not been used since, ie paint intact over semi-engaged drive pin, control rods etc!

Do you know which Lucas magneto is fitted? As an HT lead is the current hang up.

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Just to correct you on the history of Pattison as a company in 1901 they started out making shooting Galleries for fairs before making Horse boots for horses working on lawns,their first factory was Streatham SW16 London, and their first patent was in 1916 for the Pulviette sprinkler,taken later up by Lloyd’s of Letchworth.
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Hi.

Any chance to get some worshop manual Honda F80 Skywalker.t@gmail.com

We have one machine in finland… Someone had add battery and 12v cables straight to coils… I assume spark has been missing.?? . But still Spark missing.. Cant get it run.
Would like to make it original also.

Toni

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No you are not,asking price £10,000! You can always ask,he’s got another rare tractor on for £5,000 also a LDV motorcycle,rare for £20,000 I wonder if it comes with rust like the LDV vans,mine did not have rust,that had gone years ago,it just had a hole between my feet that you could see the road from, better than through the windscreen!

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Last night I was looking at some Colwoods for sale,there is one in Northern Ireland,rusty as hell and no tools for £80,buyer collects,does the idiot know there is a lock down and the item is not on the essential list.To ship that out of Ireland to the main land anywhere will cost £188 inc Vat on a pallet.There is another in Hull for £85,shipping again would be £166 inc Vat,
Just remember its not the price of the machine,its getting it back.
There is though a very early version that has been restored at some point,with a starting price of £200 which includes shipping to your door,Looking at the other 2 and even weighing the cost up of collecting in normal times,that sounds a really good deal,which ever way you look at it,collecting is always the hidden cost.
Its on Wallingfield perhaps one person looking outside the box

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The answer to why the Financial Times is pink,they needed to get the news out as cheap as possible and pink paper was the cheapest.
Funny you should pick me up on spelling,I would not spell it that way either,it’s my computer speller,it’s a bit like the predicted text on the phone,thought up by imberseals.
Regards
Andrew

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I used Vintage Brass Plates (https://www.vintagebrassplates.co.uk/) when restoring my SIMAR 56a. I did have originals for Chris to work from, but he would still be able to make a new one using your ‘dissolved’ plate to get the size and font correct, plus a decent photograph of a complete plate. If you are lucky, he may have made one in the past, so have the artwork already on file.

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I’m not quite understanding the cutter bar is tight down to the lower blade the drive arm sits too high though

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Iain mine has a large amount of slop in the blade drive slot and when I offer it up to any grass longer than a couple of inches the bar jumps out of the slot!

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Hi I’ve been searching for parts for my carb I believe 226/016 and have came up with nothing, ive had to clean up the carb best I can and find washers and make gaskets to fit. I’m waiting on some Solid silicone ‘Tube’ the correct diameter for the needle gland and I’ll drill a hole through the centre to suit.

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Yes sounds like a Lawn rider to me too
By any chance does the operator wear Lycra! As the lanes down here are full of them breaking all the rules of the lock down,bloody menaces coming in 3’s and 4’s all over the road.Nothing short of selfish

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Charlie thank you for your prompt reply with the details.
Ditton has been considerably developed in the last 60 years and there appears to be no record of Cavershaw House now.
The Monro is in need of considerable refurbishment and I currently do not have the facilities or opportunity to carry them out. Would ebay be the best way of finding somebody who would enjoy the restoration?

Geoff

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Nothing like feeling old!
In 1984 I became a Lecturer in Horticulture at a Technical College (now probably a University}Although there was YTS it was fround upon,as cheap labour and subjects taught were watered down,although it might sound controversial,the whole time frame and period has to be looked at in context, not out.The whole labour market had upheaval,councils cutting back,with no in house training.Large companies failing not to mention British Steel.
All organisations use to have their own accredited exams for their subjects,then suddenly from 1982,they all had to be unified to include the education system.I’m sure we all can remember the City & Guilds courses,the old Stage 1 & 2,They got changed to Phases,then some one thought up a better name NVQ’s! As we now know them by today NOT VERY QUALIFIED.
In 1984 I was asked to teach Ex Steelworkers who were hoping to change careers under the Treaty of Paris Agreement.
What this actually meant was to receive their full redundancy they had to retrain in certain subjects,which were Catering,Hairdressing,or Horticulture,the courses were called Iseps a form of City & Guilds
I had 14 ex steelworkers teaching them Horticulture plus one Student who I can still remember his name as Foster!
The main problem I had,was not that they were not interested, it was doing the basics,these poor guys had 20 to 30 years working in a Steelworks,and probably the only time they had wrote anything was signing for their wage packets.Needless to say teaching practice had to be re written.The good news though is I only lost 4 from natural wastage,1 to the local Hospital a crane driver who was a little over weight,he kept sitting on the classroom chairs and crushing them,one day got his leg caught and broke it.Nine passed and one of the nine came to run one of my businesses in London,then from their his own Nursery near Barnsley
Then there was Foster,they broke the mould there,what a lad.Never paid attention, in his own world bless him.
One day I asked a question.Why is the Financial Times Pink?
To everyone’s surprises Foster answered it Chapter and verse.My question to him,was how did you know that.
Well Sir my Dad is the Editor for the Telegraph!!!

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