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Went to pick up a Wolseley 500 mower yesterday and picked up another Wolseley WD1 / 11 ( EN 12171 ) and a nice pair of cast wheels and axle off the same guy . The head / hopper was rusted on solid and my little blowlamp kept going out due to the depth of the tank to head killing the flame . The easy solution was to turn the Wolseley into a BBQ . I covered the bottom of the tank with ASDA wood pellet cat litter and let it run it's course latter -30 mins latter and off it came with a gentle pry with a 18" crowbar . Never tried this before ( using cat litter ) but have on occasion put a little petrol in cylinders and let it burn to free up stuck pistons . Tip for the cat litter wood pellets - Dry them out in the sun / oven otherwise they do not burn correctly and can be smokey and try to keep the water ways open to allow the air to feed the fire.

Then i reccomend a nice blue vinyl wrap then the owners can make a flag

Bolens are white. It's the better GT's that are red.

I personally place the sticker in position and apply a couple of strips of low tack masking tape over the sticker and onto the suface to afix to . ( i do this with anything from a 3" sticker to a 10" sign as i have a Chinese 600mm plotter as on occassion i make signs for people ) Then apply a light spray of 1 drop of washing up liquid in 500ml of water . Turn the sticker over ( use the masking tape as a hinge ) and peel back the backing away from the masking tape hinge to half way across the sticker . Fold the sticker back over slowly working down from the masking tape hinge laying the vinyl down and removing air bubbles as i go with a propriatory plastic squeegy , thpough a credit card etc can be used but are not as solid as the correct tool .Then once the backing is reached , peel it off as you work down using thy squeegy . If no masking tape is at hand just peel a little of the backing paper back and turn it over to make a buffer to keep the sticker from touching the surface till you have it positioned and gently press a little down to hold it before going the whole hog with the squeegy . Air bubbles are removed by use of a needle point and circular movement of a finger around the bubble working inwards . If you have corregated surfaces then warm the sticker with a hair dryer to get it soft so it will mould easier into the undulations . A " Stippler " ( Hard bristled brush ) aids this moulding process . The same goes for rounded edges etc , where the slight heating from a hairdryer allows for a much better adheasion over time ( no lifting along the curve line ) . For a better quality approach buy some low tack lifting paper and cover the whole sticker with it and use the top as masking tape and proceed from there . The extra covering of the low tack lifting tape eleviates any damage to printed stickers whilst squeegying them down . There are many companies who sell the lifting tape but i use MDP at - http://www.mdpsupplies.co.uk/ Check out their vehicle wrap and pimp up your Bolens They dont all have to be red ! . Their digital paper is also amazing as you can design and print your own stickers just how you want them using a std inkjet printer , i still see some i did around 6 years ago for advertising on shop doors . Though these need a lifting paper as a barrier when applying them , Print a sheet out and cover in lifting paper then cut out with scissors or knife .Peel off the backing paper and apply , once happy remove the top covering of lifting paper . I prefer the paper tapes for application work and the opaque plastic tapes for building up layers when prepping a sign using multiple colours as it is more easily viewable through. Hope this helps .

Hi Guy's, not much of an update as I've been away on holiday recharging the battery's and getting away from Nigel's singing An expansion/overflow tank was needed, the trouble was there was not the space to fit a battery and the original CX expansion tank.. So I made my own Yep, it's one of those paraffin engine cleaning things with the handle cut off that that you plug into an airline.. I have had it for 12 odd years and never used it, so I found a use for it Water in at the top, breather/overflow pipe on the right and with a bit of clear pipe put between the two things at the front I will be able to see the water level.. A battery box/tray was needed so I quickly knocked this one up.. The next morning I looked at it and thought it was just too small... Battery tray 2.0 is much better but it will have to wait until MT is back on the bench and I don't have to get on my knees to fit it in the gap between the swing arm and carbs. The time has come that I have been dreading... Sorting out this mess of a wiring loom and finding space to mount the coils, regulator etc.. Wish me luck!

The new bit of the rear frame has been sorted, I think your agree that "kick up" gives MadTrax an aggressive mean sort of look Of course as soon as the frame had enough strength put back in to take the weight of a person.. I just had to have a seat You know the saying of "A bad workman always blames he's tools".. Well in this case I can rightly blame my small Mig welder.. With the aid of a new welding mask and Nigel's 30+ year old heavy duty Mig I produced the best welds I have ever done This is the start of the lower rear engine mounts.. A couple of rear upper engine mounts.. MadTrax can now hold it's own weight up including engine