Stormin

Decided yesterday to clear the pond out a bit, as with this hot weather it  has dried up. It's not been done for a while and the reeds etc were starting to encroach further in from the sides.
 
  Monday morning saw seven loads taken away for disposal by that stalwart duo, Sears and Saxon. Called a halt at lunch time as the sun had come round and it got a tad warm.
 
 

 
 This morning three more loads before lunch and that will do.
 

 
Left some at one end to kind of hide my wood yard. Those below are were a willow is. Left for the wild life.

 
 Last load. I wouldn't have thought when I started there was going to be ten loads.

 
 Now to find a shady spot to relax in.
 
 
 
 

Hi all  some pictures of my Simar 35 after completing a engine rebuild it now starts first pull and plays sweet music to me and my Neighbours ha ha 
Nice weather here so a coat of owatroil oil was applied to finish hope you like 

Called in to see a friend of mine who's into vintage cars on Friday. As usual, after not seeing him for a while, another vehicle had been acquired. 1925 Renault pickup. He took me out for a little ride. LH drive and iffy brakes made traveling the lanes quite interesting.  
 
  This is not my photo but it is the same vehicle.
 

 

Called in to see a friend of mine who's into vintage cars on Friday. As usual, after not seeing him for a while, another vehicle had been acquired. 1925 Renault pickup. He took me out for a little ride. LH drive and iffy brakes made traveling the lanes quite interesting.  
 
  This is not my photo but it is the same vehicle.
 

 

Called in to see a friend of mine who's into vintage cars on Friday. As usual, after not seeing him for a while, another vehicle had been acquired. 1925 Renault pickup. He took me out for a little ride. LH drive and iffy brakes made traveling the lanes quite interesting.  
 
  This is not my photo but it is the same vehicle.
 

 

Called in to see a friend of mine who's into vintage cars on Friday. As usual, after not seeing him for a while, another vehicle had been acquired. 1925 Renault pickup. He took me out for a little ride. LH drive and iffy brakes made traveling the lanes quite interesting.  
 
  This is not my photo but it is the same vehicle.
 

 

Number plates fitted, New log book arrived, 

With the green side up, fold lines and the 4 screw holes were marked out..
 

 
 
A bit like this..
 

 
 
The two short folds were easy as they were straight folds.. My (now dismantled) metal folder couldn't handle the thickness of the steel, so the control panel cover (just realized, I've not actually told you that's what I was making, so I hope you'd guessed right?) was clamped to the lathe pulleys tilt thingy/ex Wheel Horse chassis using a length of solid square bar... Can a bar be square?
 

 
 
A bit of hitting stick action....
 

 
 
Soon had the edges bent around..
 

 
 
Bending the curved parts was not quite so violent for the steel, but it did take longer.... It also involved a "Bending stick"... One of these in fact..
 

 
 
Take this part slowly and don't try to bend too much down at once or the steel will kink..
Slot the "Bending stick" on and push down slowly.. This is the first bend..
 

 
 
Third (I think) bend..
 

 
 
And the almost finished bend..er bend
 

 
 
From this point on wards, I forgot to take any pic's of making the cover.. For some reason I took a pic of the heavy rain through the window instead
 

 
 
The finished control panel cover...  Mounting it to the lathe bench will come later..
 

 
 
Oh, here's part 2 of the vids.
 
 

Afternoon/morning all, a bit more of this build for you..
 
A slight change of direction here as for no particular reason I decided to crack on with getting the control panel mounted..
 
Here it is..
 

 
 
And the underside... HHmmm... how am I going to mount something with only 4 screw holes that are at the ends of the tube like sticky up bits
 

 
 
Well, here the bottom half of the answer..
 

 
 
The top half has a rather sturdy metal lamp shade on it!..
 

 
 
Not any longer
 

 
 
HHhhhmmmm... So I need to fix one bolt to 4 screw holes!! 
 
Anything is possible with a bit of cardboard
 

 

 

 
 
Marked out on a green steel shelf!
 

 
 
Out with the grinder..
 

 
 
A slight thump to finish it off..
 

 
 
"Be gone, you sharp edges"!
 

 
 
MMMmmmmm... Shiny
 

How how does my new toy perform?   Not bad at all
 

 
 
It still needed a bit of hitting..
 

 
 
And wiggling!
 

 
 
Back to the back and time to sort out this hinge problem..
 

 
 
A quick bit of marking out.
 

 
 
Small drill..
 

 
 
A bigger drill...
 

 
 
Don't you just hate it when this happens?
 

 
 
So I finished it by hand with a step drill... very handy things
 

 
 
A bit of trimming and a couple more holes and with it bolted on the hinge repair was done...  Now I know this is steel on steel, but as I don't have to change "speeds by belt" that often there will be very little ware..
 

 
 
Whilst I was down that way, I bolted the "belt tension arm" back in place.
 

 
 
The "beltey tiltey bit was fitted on.. Sorry about the naff pic.
 

 
 
And this little collar stops it from moving side to side.
 

 
 
Loads more to come, so tune back at some point for more..

Hi all, it's about time I put this lathe re-power thread up. I first mentioned it a long time ago in this This Thread .
For some reason I did not take any photo's of the build, so all the pic's you see have been grabbed for video footage, which means sometimes the pic's are not as sharp as they could be... sorry..
 
Before I moved out of my old workshop, i stripped down the treadmill leaving only the parts I needed...
 
The motor and all the wiring/circuit boards..
 

 
 
And the control panel..
 

 
 
A closer look at the motor. 1.25 HP, but 180 volts DC which means I have to use the electrical gubbings that powered it in the treadmill..
 

 
 
So the question is... How do I get power from this little ribbed pulley...
 

 
 
To this big pulley on the lathe
 

 
 
First lets make a mock motor with direction of travel, as it's much lighter than trying to hold the real thing in place..
 

 
 
The easiest place to mount it would be on the wall above the lathe, but making something to tension a drive belt could be awkward!
 

 
 
Also mounting the "speed change pulleys" would be fun as it would have to sit somewhere in the catch tray.. Somewhere about here..
 

 
 
Despite the amount of space it would take up behind the lathe, I decided to go with the mounting system I made for the lathe years ago.
Here's a view from the back when the lathe and I were still at the nursery workshop..
 
Thankfully I can make it a bit less "hangin out da back" or else I'd have to cut a hole through the wall in my new Workshack!
 

 
 
It used to pivot on the back of the bench on this steel rod.
 

 
 
The trouble was I'd cut one of the hinge brackets off to make the lathe bench easier to move to my new Workshack!
 

 
 
Never mind. let's lighten it a bit and cut off an unneeded bit in the saw..
 

 
 
One broken blade later...
 

 
 
But after some more of this..
 

 
 
It finally came off.
 

 
 
Leaving this odd small bit of box sticking out..
 

 
 
Sooo, out a new tool came
 

 

It's doing grand, Alan. Credit to your rebuild. Trailer work is it's main use. Starts up no problem and runs sweet.

It's doing grand, Alan. Credit to your rebuild. Trailer work is it's main use. Starts up no problem and runs sweet.

The field opposite my humble abode, owned by one of those digester companies, has not been used for a couple of years. A farmer is renting it to graze sheep in. But first it needs fencing, ploughing and re-seeding. Also down one side trees and bushes needed cutting back. That was done a couple of days ago with a machine. 
   I've got permission to salvage any wood, But I have to be quick about it. So into the field this morning about 10. Got three loads before lunch and one after and it nearly killed me. Didn't help with everything being piled up. Bit of a fight getting to the good stuff. What's that saying? Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid day sun. 72F. I should know better at my age.
  Four loads like the one below.
 

 
The box on the back of the Sears is just the right size for chainsaw etc.
 

 
The wood did fight back a bit.

 
  Still more to collect.

After a bit of searching now have Road legal number plates.

Now have new warning lamps

Howard Dragon awakening from a long sleep after having a fuel pump transplant engine back on and bolted down one side panel re-fitted work stopped due to losing fuel pipe which can only be fitted with side panel removed

Today Heathersgill Vitage Club held a charity tractor run, in memory of the founder and club chairman, who died a year ago. We were expecting thirty or so tractors. We actually had seventy. The weather stay fine and the sun came out just in time for the run. Run over country lanes, some very narrow, it covered 30 miles.
  I was marshalling at a junction near the end and managed to get a few photo's.
 
  The start at Longtown Auction Mart. Cumbria UK. It wasn't confined to just vintage tractors as you can see.

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Today Heathersgill Vitage Club held a charity tractor run, in memory of the founder and club chairman, who died a year ago. We were expecting thirty or so tractors. We actually had seventy. The weather stay fine and the sun came out just in time for the run. Run over country lanes, some very narrow, it covered 30 miles.
  I was marshalling at a junction near the end and managed to get a few photo's.
 
  The start at Longtown Auction Mart. Cumbria UK. It wasn't confined to just vintage tractors as you can see.

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

That’ll warm you up, at least twice!

The field opposite has not been used for a couple of years. There is a drainage ditch running through it and two years ago the banks were cleared of tree's and bushes. Those were just pushed to one side and left. I got a few loads of firewood out of it last year.
  Last night a contractor I know, was cutting back the undergrowth round the edges, ready for fencers to come. The farmer who is going to rent it is going to reseed it and graze sheep in it.  This uncovered some more timber I could not get at. This morning before it got too hot, I went in with chainsaw, Sears and trailer. Half an hour and I had a full load.

 
Maybe some more later as the fencers clear more undergrowth.

Thanks Alan, it's good to be back.. I'm not sure how crazy my builds will be, only smaller stuff these days.. But still fun to make
 
 
 
Thanks Norm, yeah it has been a while, life has/had been on hold since Covid popped up!
 
 
 
Hi Ray, don't be envious, have a go yourself..  I'm self taught, no training what so ever... Liking a challenge helps as well

Brilliant job, Ian.   And good to hear from you.

I came across these pictures today have you seen them before? One of my Turf Trax was originally a bank mower.

.........If anything.........That was the issue I was asked to sort out recently. A heavy bronze carb fitted to a small water cooled 1/2hp engine from 1923 and had been adapted to fit onto an early 1930s Lawnmower!!.-
 

 
I actually found a Manual and parts list for the engine, but of course not one single available spare part. Failed to find anyone else online familiar with, or who had a similar ''N' type engine made by Stuart Turner.
Several bits missing according to the parts list diagram and one item had fortunately been acquired from ebay...the all important Float Bowl (screw on) Lid.
So I had to make and find the bits etc, so as it had not run for god knows how long, it was dismantled-
 
 
 
Certainly overdue for a clean and repair. The small clip under the spring (bottom middle of above pic) should be fixed by solder to the float. It holds the needle at correct height.........duly fixed.
Established that the large hollow brass nut (top left above) which acts as a sediment bowl should have a screened filter and a spring within. items (on left of next image) 4044/4045-
 

 
The bits had to fit within these parts-
 

 
So after a search for materials, a bit of lathe time and some soldering, I had the 'makins' of the necessaries-
 
 
 
The 'Stove Pipe' top hat filter body was silver soldered together, so that I could soft solder the mesh to the bottom and sides. But not before it was subjected to some careful milling to put some 1/4"wide slots into the side wall.
Appears to be some distortion in the image below which makes the filter body look crooked, but assure it is not.
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I was lucky to find in my stock, a suitable spring to apply pressure to the filter and keep it all in contact with it's seat. That filter/sediment body nut is 1 inch A/F.
So all done and ready to bolt on. Now super clean inside and favoured the patina to polish on a motor of this age-
 

 
Oh and yes, I have the task of getting this thing running/working, along with another pile of broken rusty bits......I may be some time!.
Regards 
 
 

Brilliant job, Ian.   And good to hear from you.