How many power packs is that now? Four? What next?
it's 5 actually, this one, a solite, a beaver 1and2 and a compact 2,once finished I'm going to press on with the period breakers for them, then who knows.... Originally it was only meant to be one power pack, but I accidentally bought the others, I hope to get a video of them all running up on YouTube soon.
Be nice to see your machines at a show sometime. And you of course.
I'm going to see what I can do for next year. I haven't done any shows scince Tractor World in 2011 because a few weeks later Keri(my wife) told me she was pregnant. Now the little un is 3 and a half so I should be able to start doing some again. It will also be nice to start seeing forum members again, rather than just taping away to them.
Try meetens for the red filters, they had some last time I asked, also they still had some of the oil bath type but the base of the carb and clips is different to the red type, so you would need to obtain these as well to convert. The b10/2 could also be had with the oil bath filter. The b 10/1 and b 10/2 are all but identical. The b 10 had a ball float instead of the black plunger type, but otherwise was the same as the other 2.
I used an acid alloy wheel cleaner, then a powerful(bores through Tarmac) hot pressure washer, followed up with an etch areosole aluminium finish paint, looks almost identical to original and seems to withstand the temperature of the engine running.
JCB Beaver II Hydraulic power pack.
in Step by Step restoration
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Yesterday I masked up the engine so I could spray up the hydraulic tank. The load lever
has a little ball on the end that nearly allways get knocked off, when I checked with JCB
they wanted a stupid amount for a new one, however I spotted one on ebay for a fiver
that was identical apart being tapped to M8, so I simply drilled it out to 1/2" and bonded
it in place.
All I need to do now is to sort out the engine support bar then build up the hydraulics
which Ive got most of the missing parts on a scrap machine to help keep the costs down.