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REF the County seahorse when i worked ar Doe’s we looked sfter one of these belonged to [AWRE atomic weapon’s research establishment] on fouloness island and wash used at one time to recover fired shell’s from the mudflat’s,a pig to work on. REF the sub i took a photo of that year’s ago i was with an aircraft recovery group and it had been reported that a ME 109 had crashed off off bowness jetty [built during the war to unload oil tanker’s] we never found anything and as for the mud if one stopped moving it started to suck one down so yes very dodgy i don’t think there is anything on the sub worth having.

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Sounds like a similar bit of kit!
Will pm you re the bottom blade.

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Yes Angus, it was a vertical lathe, about 15ft tall! He told me it weighed about 50 tonnes. Angus,
I have a question for you, Im going to need a new bottom blade for the Atco, its 355mm long by 55mm width, flat profile with 7 holes in it. The closest I can find is 359×50 and is for a Commodore….. would this be ok if I cant find the correct one? Do you know what the part number would be for my machine and who/where I might get one from???

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Here’s wishing everyone a merry christmas, and a happy new year.

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Thanks Paul, hope to get it ready for the spring.

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Many years ago we had a local garage owner who attended a lot of government disposal sales and traded in all sorts of machine tools etc. At the rear of his garage there was this enormous vertical lathe/broaching/milling machine that was encased in a scaffolding and tarpaulin shelter as it was too big to fit in the building. The story goes that when Chatham Naval Dockyard was closing down he bought this bit of kit for a song and the Navy then discovered that it was the only thing that could carry out some machining operation on a particular type of gun turret slewing mechanism. He then became a sub-contractor carrying out all that work for the Navy and recouped many times his initial outlay. Sounds as though your man cutting the teeth on that gear wheel has something similar!

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Thats a nice piece of kit, worth saving !!

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Interesting the putting together bit Clive, I remember seeing some were on the net, assembly instructions for the F 28.
No you don’t see F300s now or the F28s, One problem with older Hondas you can’t get parts to keep them running, so a lot will be scraped. I see on a parts list the shaft you mentioned is marked obsolete, mind you the price was still on it £98 00 so that would make anyone think if it’s worth doing. I see there’s quite a few parts still evaluable for the G150 engine apart from an exhaust, but that shouldn’t be to much of a problem. Is yours the earlier 2 speed or the model F400 that’s got two speed and reverse. When I used the F28 I was surprised what power the 67cc engine had. This G 150 is 144cc / 3.5 hp must up to the gob, I hope to find out.

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Same to you and Sandra Ivan,see you at Tractor World !!

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Thanks Nigel,hope you are having a good day

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I will add, that was a new casting, taken from a broken one, and machining costs. Still very expensive!

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a place in hastings does those belts paul

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AND A MARRY XLMASS FLOM SAANTAA,HIC HIC HIC,TO ALL

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REMEMBER LIFE IS MEASURED NOT BY THE BREATH’S WE TAKE,
BUT BY THE MOMENT’S THAT TAKE OUR BREATH.

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Thanks for your words of wisdom gents, I do have a split pulley in the shed which might do the job, I will have a look when next out there…

I am familiar with this sort of belt as a larger version is used on some veteran motorcycles…

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I will check my dates, to see if I can bring a Howard or 2…. Its just down the road from me!

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