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Im getting wheels blasted tomorrow and gonna be painting them white, The chassis is solid, wheels are good, rear mud gaurd is solid, foot plates are good, the only things that are quite bad are what id call the dash tower (1st picture) and the bonnet so i am on the look out for these items but im going to continue with everything else in the mean time.

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Started to put together a storage chest for the government issue sprayer plus parts based roughly on the one Spayerman has. Bear in mind I am not a carpenter!! I still have work to do on the interior.

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No i didnt think i did to bad it looks not to bad but pictures will explain what i have found some might not have bought it but i like a good challange so here goes:

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Well the brake spring is on its way from Hugh Page… somewhen…

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Looking forward to seeing the progress of this one, not a bad buy at £50…

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I will look forward to some more photos, but for that money it looks alright. Well done.

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I thought you sent an email with a number password to get me into the new site.

I must be my age and the fact that my missus is in OZ and I am multi-tasking.

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where

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Spell(ing!) checker, there IS ONE!!!

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Still got a couple of those root pruning blades grafted onto file handles – good scrapers for under deck cleaning etc!

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thanks that a good start to the restoration.

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Possibly totally irrelevant but my Dennis “hates” NGK plugs. Will run once with a new one but then no more. A while back there was a post on this forum ,from I think Charlie, explaining that on old KLGs etc the centre ceramic insulator was glazed and “self cleaning” where as on modern plugs it is not and in “our” applications is prone to fouling and shorting out the spark.
May be worth looking in auto jumbles etc for some old plugs. At present I’m running the Dennis on a “replica” plug from Villiers Services (don’t confuse with Villiers Parts) and it has run well on it all season. Would give you a link but their site seems to be down.

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Thanks chaps. As the KLG M80 has a reach of 1/2″, my NGK AB-8 should be fine. The plug is brand new, so the Wico A magneto is probably in need of attention. My engine is definitely the Type 1. Would be interested to know what you industrial manual states about the timing Geoff, as I have set the engine up based on the info in the motorcycle manual, which may not be strictly correct.

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the man has just sent me down another leg from wales seems he imported some spares from the usa when he brought these in if you look close you will see the hub had been half snapped for years i think this has had a hard life in its past (smilely face) oh buy the way we could do with a spell checker on this site

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Could not see a delete /detach function charlie, but not a problem…

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