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We went to this one day show at Blindley Heath in Surrey today for a look, basically its a country show similar to Heathfield show and the Smallholders show. There were some old machines there, here's what I caught on camera

Evening chaps, today's progress for you.. The expansion bottle is now fitted in the only place it could go.. It's a bit tight in there! The bottom of the bottle may look rather close to the prop shaft but the is a good inch gap between the two. The carb tube air filter thingy now has a couple of tabs to bolt it to the hood stand.. The carbs now have extra support which they never did on the SilverWing but did on earlier models! The battery box is now mounted although I need to add a little extra bracing.. The battery comes out through the top. And playing around with hood hinges..

It was our local gathering at the weekend - we hoped for better weather than last year - and was rewarded with a good setup day on friday. Followed by lousy weather all evening and saturday Heres a few pics

are i did spot a mayfield lurking in some brambles may be they should be reunited alan and sold together

I had some time this morning while I was waiting for someone so I re-read this post and did a little digging on the leaking axle. Looking at the parts manual I believe the oil seal required is Bolens part number 118-5426 which I believe translates to SKF part number 17270. This oil seal should be on the self or available within a couple of days from any UK SKF stockist for about £10 including taxes. Would be worth checking the Bolens part number to make sure I have identified the correct part, cause I am getting old Despite the silly prices we have to pay for anything in the UK I think this is still cheaper (and certainly quicker) than buying from the US and importing. Hope this helps Iain

Does anyone else? I've just"sold" my howard 300 on there, and the winning bidders just left me an answer phone message saying that he thought the line sold strictly as a non runner meant it was a runner?!?! It's not the first time this has happened on there either. Perhaps I should go back to school and take English again because I'm buggered if I can think of any other way to describe it! Any other thoughts where I can sell some of my machines as I'm getting desperate for space.

The biggest problem with eBay is that the crooks have found out that eBay is their friend, not yours. eBay does not really care if the seller is selling fraudulent items as long as they get a cut and if need be they will pull money from sly sellers account as a form of tribute to doing business on eBay, but they rarely kick a bad seller off. It is virtually impossible to give bad feedback to a "power" seller or one that does a certain level of sales. I just leave positive feed back in the form of "worst seller on ebay-crook". Ebay favors the seller always, but will refund the buyer if it needs to, out of the sellers account. However many times the seller wants the buyer to pay for return shipping, In other words, pay to get his money back, eBay gets a cut of the shipping too. I've done okay, but I've had to "school" eBay and a few sellers.

Just as well someone knows.

Hi all, I have been a bit distracted with my new wheel horse however the 312-8 had it's service and went back into the tractor shed. I haven't really used it for about 3 weeks but it started right up however wouldn't run without some choke, I'm presuming there is some dirt in the carb or something. I actually got it out to test a trailer I quickly banged together. It was an old wheel barrow that was destined for the scrap yard but after a bit of cutting and welding we had a trailer with a drawbar. It's a nice size to haul wood down to the house with! Tom

im sure thats an autogardener plough

Right then, back to the Operation. When we last posted, the Forklift was still on the trailer as were the makings of the crate. This morning I went out to unload everything and put the crate to a place where I could still get to it later for assembly. Now one thing to consider is that the forklift has very little ground clearance and with the weight box on the back having a long overhang, it doesn't take much to high center it. That means that you have to be a bit creative to get it on and off a trailer. Fortunately my North lot has a drainage ditch that is just perfect. I just back the trailer down the ditch and the tailgate is now level with the road :D I also found that a byproduct of taking the forklift with me when I picked ut the crate was that the crate was resting just fine of the forks. So, unloading the crate was just a matter of lifting the forks so that it cleared the trailer sides, driving off the trailer, and Bob's your Uncle. I'd like to be able to claim that I planned that, but it was just pure happenstance. Pics of how the unloading went.