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Iain, I can only take credit for relaying information given to me. Proper credit should go to a fine, fine young gentleman named Ben Wagner of Old Paths Equipment. He is superaben over on the GTTalk forums. http://oldpathsequipment.com/ He's an "Old Iron" lover and is the fella the did the refurbish on my Bolens 1886 forklift, and is now doing one on my HDT1000.

I agree. Bolens had a nerve to even think they had the better machine.

Howdo all, well I started the morning working on the brake caliper mountings on Why Not, but the got slightly distracted! Would you look at all that space!! I could fit the GT and 3 more Wh's in The extra space was made by moving a pile of wood and my tool chest, and also by turning the bench around that Why Not is on... The reason for the space making.. You can just see it in front of the window.. Yep, that's right.. The lathe I was selling is no longer for sale So.. Why the change of heart? The big problem I had with it was/is the shaft at the bottom with the pulleys in has some serious play.. Way too much to make it usable.. But this morning I was looking at it thinking I should really give driving the lathe straight from the motor a whirl.. So with the very worn drive chain removed, I threw a belt on to see how it went.. Not the best of photo's but the lathe can take some quite serious deep cuts, far deeper than my old Southbend lathe.. Quite a nice finish on this bit of bar as well.. So the plan is to use this lathe (a TW Monoturn) for taking the bulk of material off any turning that needs to be done and then finishing the details off on the Southbend.. I will be fitting a cooling system as the bigger the slices the more the metal gets hot...

Not too much to report on the G14. I have made the replacement engine spacers but then found that I do not have any bolts of the correct length so that is on hold waiting for the postie. I have pulled the carb off in preparation for a quick rebuild, pulled the hood off to straighten the hinge area and also replaced more missing fixings. I noticed that I had another Tecumseh engines tractor in the workshop so I couldn't resist popping the hood to check the engine serial number. The tractor is a Bolens G10 but the engine ID tag on a HH100 is partial hidden behind the carb. I managed to get my phone behind the carb and take a picture. Using the formula kindly supplied by OldBuzzard is looks like a 1973 engine made on the 284th day, which suggest that this G10 is a 1974 machine. This is really additive. Iain

Bolens called them "Allied Manufacturers". The made attachments that were 'approved' by Bolens to be sold with their tractors. In some cased they were 'universal attachments, like the towable sprayer pictured above, and others were designed to use the Bolens mounting system and PTO drive system. I actually have 2 big 4" binders full of brochures, literature manuals, parts lists, and even some communications between Bolens and the manufactures. It apparently came for the head of the Allied Manufactures department at Bolens. There are letters and bulletins in it signed by at least two different heads of the department.

it was such a shame that today there was a lesson on when i wanted to use the sand blaster so only one half of one split wheel. but at least that is done, and i got the two tubes in the two front tyres so i can test fit them. james