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A bit more progress today. Managed to get the belt pulley on, also the belt guard and decal. The simple cantilever clutch was connected back up, with the operating lever getting a coat of paint. The final job for today was the depth foot, which was missing when purchased but there was one on the doner machine.

Thankyou Norman, it's still not quite finished yet but it's getting there. Hopefully will get back on with my Sachs gem next week.

heres a photo.

Looks superb, when's your next project arriving? Lol

Went to work early this morning and fiered the engine up. Started on only the second pull after being rebuilt about three years ago and not touched since. Was going to upload a video but my internet is so slow. It gave an estimated time of 18 hours for a video just over a minute in length.

Sorry I now see what you mean, but I do tend to slap the filler on like paint, lol.

Do you mean the filler?

Managed to make a bit more progress today, sorry for the poor quality photos, as I only had my phone with me.

Heres a couple of more shots from today, seemed to run out of time to get any more.

Heres a few shots from today. As can be seen I had a little accident in the auction and somehow ended up buying a Howard Yeoman. .

If you spot me, come and say Hello. I'll be by Pike a lot of the show.

Heres a few shots until my memory card got over full of the set up day.

Yes it was eefing cold last year. So bad that I wasn't going to do it this year, but my gem is going in the Severn hall this time. Looking at the forecast it's supposed to be a lot warmer this year, just might be very wet.

Much more organised than me. Haven't got anything ready yet! Looks like I'll be busy Friday morning.

Engine has now been trial fitted and the exhaust has had a coat of VHT silver.

After work today I painted the 16 separate blades , handles and depth foot etc.

As stated above, I managed to a couple of years ago obtain a scrap machine. This has donated the front wheel, depth foot and a slightly better fuel top. Also on it was a narrow set of blades and a set of side shields. These will be kept to one side for a while until I have time to restore them as well.

In the post this morning was a set of decals from Titch at Machinery Decals. Once again the quality is first rate.

Made a bit more progress today. You may of noticed that the rear wheels look like they are off a golf trolley or similar. Looking at the brochure I noticed that they looked very similar to Landmaster Wheels so I purchased a set off ebay and painted them up. They have been in store for a few years, so today I dug them out and am going to have to give the tyres a clean up, but apart from that they are nearly ready to fit.

Hi, ive now obtained a single wheel for the front by buying a scrap machine. To free the engine off shouldn't be to bad as the cylinder head unbolts on these early engines. Once removed I would then fill the barrel with freeing oil for a few weeks before trying to move the piston either by tapping down or by trying a bit of gentle pressure on the flywheel nut.

I knew you would! Lol. Are you going to have to smuggle it into the spare bedroom once finished?

Even though the two engines are made by different companies all parts are totally interchangeable, and identical in every way.In fact wackerneuson still use a slightly modified version of this engine today called the WM80.

Thanks pat, as I said I've resurrected this project to mainly give me practice at spraying again. Am particuarly aware that with having a bonnet the Sachs gem is going to have a bigger surface area than most to show up the flaws. The deadline for the Sachs is October but I've also got to get another one finished before then as well,plus a very busy full time job, plus a family life, plus.... Got to admit this Hako is making a nice change to the sheer enormity of a gem.

My Wacker plate and trench rammer use the same engine.

This morning after checking the forecast for the coming week I went to my worked and sprayed the top coat. This will be left to dry for a few days. In the meantime I will start painting all the black bits. I purposely am not going to go over the top, as I would like to put this machine to work, once its finished.