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Heathersgill Vintage Rally. Carlisle Airport. 3rd May. (Sun) Details to follow or PM me for entry forms.

Heathergill Vintage Club Annual Ploughing Match. 22nd March. Sunday. Brisco. Nr Carlisle. Just off junction 42. Contact details to follow or send me a PM for entry form. Horticultural class. So bring your garden tractor or walk behind.

Looking good. For a John Deere.

Still got high winds up oop North. Quite a bit of flooding as well. No trees down though.

I'd soon sort them.

Spectacular! Did you go for a paddle?

Very nice.

Nice little winch, John. Good find.

I got one this morning. Again an eastern accent, but a male. Supposedly from Openreach about my internet. For some reason he didn't like something I said and hung up. Then there's the one's about my Amazon account. Funny that. I don't have one.

You should have grabbed it, wrung it's neck and popped it in the chimera.

Tally Ho!

I take it the BFH came into frequent use. That yellow is rather bright.

Relief is an understatement, Alan. Next job is to get the Black Horse ready for a ploughing match in March.

Trans flush and refilled. Also engine oil changed. When I came to adjust the governor, I found the arm was loose on the spindle. That was because the pinch bolt was not tight. When I came to tighten it, the nut fell off. Along with that end of the bolt. New bolt fitted and the governor works as it should. The tractor is already now to go to it's new home. Being collected some time next week. I'd like to thank those who have given me advice and support. Much appreciated.

The rectifiers arrived last night much to my surprise. Not supposed to be here 'till Monday at the earliest. Fitted one this morning and all is well. Ammeter showing a nice charge. Am I a happy bunny or what. It's been a right pain, but I now know a little bit more about electrics. All that's left now is to flush the trans and refill with fresh oil, change engine oil and a little adjustment to the governor.

Great work, Richard. I can understand why my mother said, she hardly saw my father when he was building his. Home from work, had his dinner, then disappeared into his shed. Supposedly over an 18 month period.

Thanks for that, Angus. I've put that in my documents for future reference.. The rectifiers I have are the 15amp ones. The tractor is one of the early C-125s. 1981. My own C-125, '82 model, doesn't have that type of rectifier. I've ordered two like the one Chris put photo's on earlier. I should get them sometime next week. Hopefully a new rectifier will end the saga. One thing that's come out of this is, I now know a bit more about electrics than I did.

Keeping the patina look then, Ewan.

Put everything back together this morning. Fired up the engines and tested for current from the replacement stator. Showing a nice 30amps. Checked across the battery terminals and did I see 14amps? No! I think I'll have to get another rectifier or two.

Nice set of hole punches, Chris. Dinning table got lots of little ringed grooves in it now?

I don't doubt it.

I forgot to mention the faulty p.t.o. safety switch. Another thing that had been bodged. Now relegated to the scrap bin.

That bit is Nigel, but it was still not charging. So I decided to have a look at the stator. Took off the engine cover etc. Undoing the screws holding the screen on, strange noises emanated from behind the flywheel. No need to guess what was making them. Removing the fly wheel revealed a sorry stator and magnets in a right state. If you'll pardon the pun. Bit of a mess and no wonder it wasn't charging. All is not lost though. A Raider 10 engine I rebuilt a while ago, has donated it's flywheel and stator. Tomorrow I'll reassemble things and hopefully all will be well.

I've done as you suggested, Angus and as I already knew the red wire is passing current. But good to check. I then swapped switches with my C-125. That proved the switch is OK. I then had an idea. I ran a new wire from switch to solenoid. Guess what? Cured the motor running problem. Wiring fault in the harness I guess. Why didn't I think of that in the first place? Still showing no charge on the ammeter so I'll check the charging system again. These things are sent to try us. And they don't try us by halves. BTW. Faulty electrics are the in thing round here. Power cut for over four hours last night and a short half hour one this morning. That makes something like seven in two months.