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Also made a minor change to the Spark plug cap, The insulated rubber was fouling the fuel tank. The cap has been removed and the metal connector with hole fitted, Also took the brass stop tab from the donor machines engine and fitted it to this one,

Another part ticked off the list today, think its from a Fordson Dexta. The centre of the seat was completely rotten so had to be cut out and repaired. Still need to get a centre bolt and seat spring.

You didn't leave them much food Alan, they lost a bit of weight

They were still alive and well when we locked them in the caravan with the plucker all those years ago. Now look at them.

Here's a couple we did for dinner

A mate came round for a cupper this afternoon so we thought we would give the chicken machine a run. Its a 1933 Comb Plucking Machine powered by a Stuart Turner 2 stroke engine and came out of an old caravan at Johns place after 25 years of storage

Just in case the swatches of pink aren't large enough, I thought I would present a life size model for you Andrew, he he. http://kansascity.craigslist.org/grd/5270389050.html

I was going to part this out, but it is going to be repowered with a kohler single when I find an engine, in the meantime I will be using this as a builder tractor, my good 16hp Kohler K341 from the other D160 will go on this machine along with a nice deck, the rear PTO will go on the AG tractor with the three point, and when I find another engine I'll have three D160's Oh Yeah!

Also found one of the rotor blades was snapped off. Decided to have a go at replicating a replacement. Firstly, I welded together two narrow straight blades from an old set of mountfield rotors. I used a flap disc to clean up the welds, I then scored around an original blade and roughly cut out the new blade. I then formed the curved mounting part and finished the welding. Once cleaned up I drilled the mounting holes and fitted the blades. Think it turned out quite good?

Here is the original clutch lever from this machine, its seized with rust and pretty rough...... I took a couple of pictures in the daylight today, the paint doesn't look too bright under natural light

I hope you don't regret saying that, Andrew.

Quite a bit of progress today, the gearbox is reassembled, brackets reattached awaiting its wheels! A few pictures of where I'm up to........

A little progress over the last couple of days. Not the ideal weather for painting, but having a drying cabinet helps. Two coats of primer applied by brush in the mornings, with afternoons drying in swmbo's greenhouse.

Not had much time this week. But have managed to move things along a bit. The fuel tank has been stripped, repaired and primed. The gearbox is now stripped down, cleaned, de-burred the gears and the outer case is now in primer ready for its top coat. The rest of metal work is at the blasters. Have even managed to order the steel tube and a decent tube bender to reproduce the 'missing' handle bars, couldn't believe what a local company were asking just to supply and bend a bit of tubing!