Alan

Did a bit more on my barrow attachment today. Top edges rolled over and just tacked together to check panel fit.
 

Bonnet fits on 2 pegs so you have to spread the bonnet to get it on, and it cracked one of the repairs that I had done 😡

A lot closer to two more finished toys Chris. 
 

Meet Oscar my new border terrier
 
 

Both bonnets all welded up  and cleaned up, I’m so pleased with them I thought they were scrap at  the beginning.
Big thanks to my son Steve for his help.

Bonnet No2 gave me some grief as the blue paint wouldn’t move with paint stripper so i had to use a hot air gun and scraper and finally going over with a drill and sanding pad.
This afternoon Steve came down and got the new tin all cut and clamped  ready for welding. Looking good.

Quick little fabrication project. I repurposed this 3 wheeled walker thing that my grandad got his brother as a joke present . 
 

 

 
I didn't use any of the original tubing as it was quicker to use square stuff we already had. 
 

 
The bottle sits low down over the back wheels for stability.
 

 
The old adjustment knobs were used to attach the chain, works well.
 

 
For the novelty factor I used the handles  makes it easy to push around.
 

 

 
All finished, its proved very useful so fair when moving it between workshops! I might add some bars on the sides later to hold the welder and plasma cutter on properly. Works well enough without them though 

Next part of the rebuild was to fabricate a couple of parts. One of them was the part that the hood fastens to. 
 
This is the only picture I could find of this part so a bit of guess work was needed.
 

 

 
I made up a bit of a template to test fitting first.
 

 

 

 
Heres what I came up with. 
 
On the picture it looked like there was a piece of round bar welded on as a bit of a strengthener so I welded that on later.
 
Fortunately I had the original choke and throttle controls so fabricated the brackets for these from the photo.
 

 
 
 
 

 

 
All sorted out, looks just like to original so i'm happy with that
 

 
 
Last job was to make a battery tray, it didn't have one originally but Its more secure.
 

 

With hair.

Thanks Alan at least it will have the original look

Looks better already Chris. 

Got some shed time working on the red bonnet, I finished sanding off the last of the red paint and my son came down with the mig welder and offered to weld it up for me.
I went off to make the tea while he welded it up.
All done and I started grinding it up but its not finished yet, I don’t want to cock it up so I’ll wait for him to come back tomorrow but I’m well pleased with the progress. 

Engine in
 
 

Following a recent offer of a free Westwood Gemini, I've stripped it down to it's bare bones and managed to get it back to a reasonable condition.
I needed to purchase some new parts like ignition coil, HT lead and new NGK spark plug. Starter recoil assembly with rope and handle and  new engine gaskets of course (in particular the correct thickness head gasket). The cylinder head was de-coked, cylinder bore de-glazed, inlet and exh valves lapped in and valve clearances adjusted to spec. Ignition timing reset by finding true TDC with a dial gauge and degree disc on the crankshaft. Zenith carb cleaned inside and out with carb cleaner and jets cleaned with compressed air. Similar for the fuel tank with a new fuel pipe fitted. The 'gloop' in the chaincase was removed as far as possible and refilled with new oil. Unfortunately, the chaincase is sealed for life though I would have liked to get inside and give it a proper clean and renew the axle shaft seals. Everything torque tightened where I could find the figures and finally primed and painted in rattle can engine enamel. Stickers from Titch at Machinery Decals, which are great. It started 2nd pull and the carb adjusted once warmed-up. Looking forward to using it when I get my allotment. Photos below...

Here's the completed machine...

Found some metal off an old washing machine casing luckily with the edge folded up, just needs cleaning up and cutting to  size.

Hi all, thanks for the positive responses. Certainly a different way of working when producing scale models without plans or castings etc. Everything takes longer and a lot of thinking.
Managed to reach a point of trial fitting the spray bar parts today  which I've been working on for a while-

 
I stripped the chrome off of a 60s car aerial section which was the right size in hard straight brass (5/32" or <4mm). 
I failed with reproducing the flanged connecting pipe, as it should be straight and I had to 'dog leg' it to line up.
Probably as a result from having to work from a basic drawing for sizes of a similar make of cart. Still, it's a reasonable representation until I can get to M.E.R.L to inspect the company's  original drawings.
The retaining brackets were an excercise in miniature milling and retained with 12ba coach bolts/nuts-
  
 
Time to start drilling loads of tiny holes............I may be some time !.
Regards  
 

Brilliant work as usual Richard.   

Got  both of the fuel tank brackets finished and in primer today only thing left to do is flush the rust out of the tanks.
Had a look at the two bonnets , I’ve kept moving them down the list as i new they were bad but getting to  the point where I need to do  something with them, not sure what yet I don’t think I’ll sand blast them yet.

Got tanked up today, found some off cuts of metal in stock so I’ve made two fuel tank brackets 
Think the photos show the process.

one or two new finds a Mk 1 Allen Scythe, a Gloster seed drill with a Hawker Siddlie name plate some I have had for a while Andrews lawn edger, a horticultor cultivator plus a few others

Sorry for your loss Nigel.  

Sorry for your loss Nigel.  

Had to put my faithful old friend down today had her from new 16 years, your be sadly missed
 
 

The C125 went to it's new home this morning with it's happy owner. 
 
 After we'd unloaded the trailer of logs he'd brought me. So I'm happy too.

Bit more done