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Wanted a showboard for displaying my Wheelhorse's at shows and this is what i came up with. An old display board from work which I removed the stickers with a hair dryer, a coat of white paint and some spare decals that i had left over. Total outlay nothing and a bit of work and help putting the stickers on from Norm. A little different each side according to the stickers i had but really pleased with it.. Heres a couple of photos, what do you think ?

Looks good Chris, and Norm. Free too and no RED paint used.

Looks very posh Chris, top job !

Halfway through the day I decided to change the tractors around that I'm taking to Rural past times and change trailer as the one outside was a bit tacky. The one I wanted was right at the back of my well organised storeage shed so had to shuffle everything to get it out. By 4 pm I started to wander if i made the right decision not to mention the heavy rain we had. by 7.15 i had the Bolens and Raider 12 in the van with the posh trailer and everything thrown back in the shed.

But this is Grandad's new lawn tractor. It is an AL-KO, and I have to admit I don't know anything about them really It looks OK and it has a 12hm Briggs & Stratton with quite a bit of oomph. It seems like a decent machine and should be fine for Grandad's purposes. I think it's a shame they had to use plastic for the bonnet, I think there's way too much plastic used on lawn tractors these days, especially the kind that fades at a different rate to the painted metal, not sure if there is a way to fix that other than a complete repaint of everything.

Looks OK. As to the faded plastic, you could try giving it a good polish with something like Mer or T-Cut. You would need a special kind of paint to repaint it I would think.

Thats where that sign went Chris which I went past every day down the road

I think it looks reet gradely, Chris. But we knew it would.

Hi pmackellow Thanks for shifting photo

Hello Ray, Flywheel end is stated as the Front, choose your Engine and Type from the images below-

also seen at Biggar unknown rotavator, a Douglas Hoe and Gapper as well as a Lister push hoe I also took my perfect seed drill. We had fun especially when someone started said rotavator. anyone got any idea what make and model it is or age, the handle bars are chrome under the red paint

Here is a picture (which I'm sure I've posted before) showing the inside of the crankcase from a Turbair engine of mine that has ingested lots of the old filter in the past (not run by me), I should really investigate it further to see what condition the cylinder is in. David

No damage will happen to the coil or condenser from using the brass strip stop switch, it simply shorts out the primary winding of the coil to the engine casing, the primary windings consist of a small amount of turns of thick wire. Magneto coils usually fail on the secondary (high tension) windings, which consist of a lot of turns of very fine wire, failure is usually due to water ingress/insulation breakdown or corrosion of the wire (fails open circuit). Battery coils are a different matter all together, the primary windings can burn out if energised continuously. Too much oil will result in a very smoky engine and would likely need the spark-plug cleaned more often. O&R stopped recommending Outboard oil around 1964 to reduce the amount of carbon build up over time. The thing to worry about with modern oil is the additives in some of them, TC-W3 (NMMA trademark) is a marine certification standard (although that doesn't mean you can't use it for non-marine applications), you would probably get good advice from someone with lots of experience at a garden machinery repair shop, instead of big chain auto/car stores (where the sales staff often know nothing about the stuff they sell). The small bits of the filter foam can; get stuck in the feather valve preventing it from closing and cause premature wear/damage the bearings in the same way as dirt, grit or sand can. The oil in the fuel helps it stick to everything inside. It all depends on how much of the old foam got sucked inside and how far it got, which is difficult to tell without further examination, I don't know if anyone on here has managed to clean the old foam out without disassembly. I usually dissemble mine anyway, to make cleaning the parts easier, identify & replace any damaged or worn parts, renew gaskets and to clean & re-grease the bearings. I've not rebuilt any O&R's with a gearbox yet though, but there is a completely dissembled Chicken Power bike engine with gearbox still to do (was bought like that). David

Hi, I am really in to these Westwood Gazelle white grills, I have a Westwood W8 1978 Gazelle and I have never seen this early model of Gazelle!? Would love to see and read more about it. Thanks.