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Thought you might. Bring a set to Newby.

That's cute.

I'm thinking, machine out the centre and weld in a sleeve to take a slightly wider bearing, held with circlips.

Went over to the widows across the green today, to cut her large expanse of grass as her Snapper ride on is in dock. Just got nicely going, when the cutter deck lost drive. The bearing in the v pulley has disintegrated. Luckily I had the one that came with the C-81 on the shelf, so I continued with that. Cheap, rubbish idea for the pulley in my estimation. Bearing integral with the pulley. Could be a mod coming up.

Found it.

Where is this article?

I bet it's a cracker though.

Brilliant!

Like the BRS wagon.

That's a neat little saw.

Barmy idea to say the least. Insurance for shows etc, is sensible, but for your own garden? How would it be policed?! Then what? Self propelled walk behind mowers?

You can get special rods for cast iron. Do the prep in the usual way, but warm up the cast iron before welding. That looks as if it would fit in the oven. When the wife's out of course.

I always fancied a Berkeley. That one in the last photo looks to maybe have a mini engine, due to the extended arches.

Oops! Crossed wires methinks. I was replying to Kevin.

Let's hope things continue as now.

Thanks Neil. A little dodgy I would think.

I had a Wolseley self propelled mower years ago. If I remember correctly it look very much like that one in the photo's. The engine went bang and I scrapped it. But. the complete rear axle is still up at the farm. I can check if you like?

What was their purpose, Neil?

Interesting to see where they were built. My father worked for Brockhouse at Crossens during W2 and just after. Never mentioned the tractors but he worked in the toolroom, then on the Indian Brave motorcycles.

If you left the axle as is, you could have three seats. Driver/pilot in the middle and a mug passenger each side.

Oh yes they have. See 'Why Not'.

That would be interesting to see in operation. You'll have to tap the customer up for a viewing and take a video/photo's.

Today, well yesterday afternoon actually, I decided to attack the C-81. The original fixed jet carb was cleaned up, cleaned out and re-assembled. The float bowl is the correct one as it is the same bowl as the C-120. Difference being the 120 had a gasket which I copied. Re fitted the cleaned up carb today and started up. Ran a bit better, but the throttle and choke had to be juggled. I wasn't happy with the throttle action. Rather stiff compared to the C-125s. So all that was removed, cleaned up and replaced. Not a lot of difference made. So back to starting it p and playing with the idle screw. At one point it stopped and refused to re start. This had me a little perplexed. That was until I looked in the petrol tank. I could see the bottom. Now with fuel in, off we went again. Things are better now but not as I would like. Still can't get a nice smooth idle, but it runs and drives ok at wider throttle openings. Another thing on the list is a quieter exhaust. This one is a bit too noisy for my liking.

That's an idea.