Tom

Hi all,
 
Got some of the collection out today, as you can tell I like variety
 

 

 

 
Enjoy
 
Tom

You will have to pop round sometime Iain and have a go, the vari-drive system is very cool. You can also have a play with the lathe!
 
Tom
Thanks Andrew, I'm certainly pleased with it. I think that's it for me for a while now, I really must stop!!
 
Tom
 
 
I just can't stop, it's an addiction
 
Tom

Hi all,
 
Got some of the collection out today, as you can tell I like variety
 

 

 

 
Enjoy
 
Tom

Hi all,
 
Got some of the collection out today, as you can tell I like variety
 

 

 

 
Enjoy
 
Tom

Hi all,
 
Got some of the collection out today, as you can tell I like variety
 

 

 

 
Enjoy
 
Tom

You will have to pop round sometime Iain and have a go, the vari-drive system is very cool. You can also have a play with the lathe!
 
Tom
Thanks Andrew, I'm certainly pleased with it. I think that's it for me for a while now, I really must stop!!
 
Tom
 
 
I just can't stop, it's an addiction
 
Tom

Hi all,
Picked another one up today, it was advertised as spares and to my surprise when I arrive it was being towed out of the shed by a wheel horse!! He said it just needed a battery so I stuck one on when I got home and some fresh fuel and off she went and I drove it off of the trailer, always a bonus




Tom

Hi all,
Picked another one up today, it was advertised as spares and to my surprise when I arrive it was being towed out of the shed by a wheel horse!! He said it just needed a battery so I stuck one on when I got home and some fresh fuel and off she went and I drove it off of the trailer, always a bonus




Tom

Hi all,
Picked another one up today, it was advertised as spares and to my surprise when I arrive it was being towed out of the shed by a wheel horse!! He said it just needed a battery so I stuck one on when I got home and some fresh fuel and off she went and I drove it off of the trailer, always a bonus




Tom

Hi all,
Picked another one up today, it was advertised as spares and to my surprise when I arrive it was being towed out of the shed by a wheel horse!! He said it just needed a battery so I stuck one on when I got home and some fresh fuel and off she went and I drove it off of the trailer, always a bonus




Tom

Hi all,
Picked another one up today, it was advertised as spares and to my surprise when I arrive it was being towed out of the shed by a wheel horse!! He said it just needed a battery so I stuck one on when I got home and some fresh fuel and off she went and I drove it off of the trailer, always a bonus




Tom

Hi all,
 
I'm sure many of you saw I have acquired a new lathe from Alan and John. I didn't intend on buying a lathe from them but after seeing it there and some light persuasion from Iain I agreed a price with Alan and John and brought it home. After some fiddling with the wiring I got the motor working. Both gearboxes were quite low with oil so I filled them up and the gearboxes sound much nicer now. I am very happy with it and it has already proved useful as my dad needed a pulley bored out and it did it no problem. John had soaked it in grease to prevent it from rusting which has kept it very well, although it has been a pain cleaning it up! 
 
This picture was of it at Johns:
 

 
Back in it's new home:
 

 

 
 
After a good clean up and I put some carpet in the storage area to tidy it up:
 

 

 

 

 
Tom
 
 

Hi all,
 
I'm sure many of you saw I have acquired a new lathe from Alan and John. I didn't intend on buying a lathe from them but after seeing it there and some light persuasion from Iain I agreed a price with Alan and John and brought it home. After some fiddling with the wiring I got the motor working. Both gearboxes were quite low with oil so I filled them up and the gearboxes sound much nicer now. I am very happy with it and it has already proved useful as my dad needed a pulley bored out and it did it no problem. John had soaked it in grease to prevent it from rusting which has kept it very well, although it has been a pain cleaning it up! 
 
This picture was of it at Johns:
 

 
Back in it's new home:
 

 

 
 
After a good clean up and I put some carpet in the storage area to tidy it up:
 

 

 

 

 
Tom
 
 

Hi all,
 
I'm sure many of you saw I have acquired a new lathe from Alan and John. I didn't intend on buying a lathe from them but after seeing it there and some light persuasion from Iain I agreed a price with Alan and John and brought it home. After some fiddling with the wiring I got the motor working. Both gearboxes were quite low with oil so I filled them up and the gearboxes sound much nicer now. I am very happy with it and it has already proved useful as my dad needed a pulley bored out and it did it no problem. John had soaked it in grease to prevent it from rusting which has kept it very well, although it has been a pain cleaning it up! 
 
This picture was of it at Johns:
 

 
Back in it's new home:
 

 

 
 
After a good clean up and I put some carpet in the storage area to tidy it up:
 

 

 

 

 
Tom
 
 

Hi all,
 
I'm sure many of you saw I have acquired a new lathe from Alan and John. I didn't intend on buying a lathe from them but after seeing it there and some light persuasion from Iain I agreed a price with Alan and John and brought it home. After some fiddling with the wiring I got the motor working. Both gearboxes were quite low with oil so I filled them up and the gearboxes sound much nicer now. I am very happy with it and it has already proved useful as my dad needed a pulley bored out and it did it no problem. John had soaked it in grease to prevent it from rusting which has kept it very well, although it has been a pain cleaning it up! 
 
This picture was of it at Johns:
 

 
Back in it's new home:
 

 

 
 
After a good clean up and I put some carpet in the storage area to tidy it up:
 

 

 

 

 
Tom
 
 

Hi all,
 
I'm sure many of you saw I have acquired a new lathe from Alan and John. I didn't intend on buying a lathe from them but after seeing it there and some light persuasion from Iain I agreed a price with Alan and John and brought it home. After some fiddling with the wiring I got the motor working. Both gearboxes were quite low with oil so I filled them up and the gearboxes sound much nicer now. I am very happy with it and it has already proved useful as my dad needed a pulley bored out and it did it no problem. John had soaked it in grease to prevent it from rusting which has kept it very well, although it has been a pain cleaning it up! 
 
This picture was of it at Johns:
 

 
Back in it's new home:
 

 

 
 
After a good clean up and I put some carpet in the storage area to tidy it up:
 

 

 

 

 
Tom
 
 

Hi all,
 
I'm sure many of you saw I have acquired a new lathe from Alan and John. I didn't intend on buying a lathe from them but after seeing it there and some light persuasion from Iain I agreed a price with Alan and John and brought it home. After some fiddling with the wiring I got the motor working. Both gearboxes were quite low with oil so I filled them up and the gearboxes sound much nicer now. I am very happy with it and it has already proved useful as my dad needed a pulley bored out and it did it no problem. John had soaked it in grease to prevent it from rusting which has kept it very well, although it has been a pain cleaning it up! 
 
This picture was of it at Johns:
 

 
Back in it's new home:
 

 

 
 
After a good clean up and I put some carpet in the storage area to tidy it up:
 

 

 

 

 
Tom
 
 

Hi,
 
I am unfortunately looking to sell my wheel horse 42" sickle bar, from what I understand it is a SMS-425. It is all free although it would benefit from a good oil up. The gearbox seems very good and it's all tight. You don't see these very often and they are quite a cool attachment in my opinion. The mule drive is missing but I have seen dimensions and plans on Redsquare to make them or they do appear on that well know auction site from time to time. It has all the original serial numbers and decals intact as you can see. I am located in Norfolk but I may be able to drop it off somewhere in my travels! I am looking for £225 or make me an offer, don't be shy I have pictured it on a Commando 7 which it seemed to fit well, I couldn't test it because I don't have the mule drive but it hooks up to the rear of the chassis, well that's how it seemed to go on I thought I'd try and picture it on a tractor to help you see what it will look like.
 

 

 

 

 

 
Tom
 

Another great adventure, it was a very long day and I'm sure all who were involved were feeling a bit tired today, well I was anyway! Many thanks to John and Alan once again for your great hospitality, it's always a pleasure talking and dealing with you. Also thanks to Chris for letting us use his Bolens to move the trailer about, it saved us a lot of work. Like Iain said, we always come away with much more than we were planning on but that's the great thing about visiting you guys, it's always worth while. I'm sure Alan's sales pitches are getting better every time too
 
A massive thanks to Iain and my dad also who have helped make all this happen and get the lathe into it's new home today, I'm looking forward to getting it back to it's former glory. With Iain's previous experience of moving lathes I think we made it look easy loading it up, apart from a panic when the engine crane decided to spill a load of oil  Unloading it was even easier though..
 

 

 
Thanks again to all who helped and no doubt I'll be returning
 
Tom

Another great adventure, it was a very long day and I'm sure all who were involved were feeling a bit tired today, well I was anyway! Many thanks to John and Alan once again for your great hospitality, it's always a pleasure talking and dealing with you. Also thanks to Chris for letting us use his Bolens to move the trailer about, it saved us a lot of work. Like Iain said, we always come away with much more than we were planning on but that's the great thing about visiting you guys, it's always worth while. I'm sure Alan's sales pitches are getting better every time too
 
A massive thanks to Iain and my dad also who have helped make all this happen and get the lathe into it's new home today, I'm looking forward to getting it back to it's former glory. With Iain's previous experience of moving lathes I think we made it look easy loading it up, apart from a panic when the engine crane decided to spill a load of oil  Unloading it was even easier though..
 

 

 
Thanks again to all who helped and no doubt I'll be returning
 
Tom

That is so mean looking Ian!! You have created a monster I look forward to seeing a video of in action, don't rush it, you want to get it right!
 
Tom

Hi,
 
Had an afternoon on the Cub today. I wanted to see if the engine ran OK and there was no major problems so I hooked up a coil and tried it. Well I say I did, it looked like someone had tried to do it before. Cleaned the carb and off she went, and I've got proof
 
http://i1363.photobucket.com/albums/r713/whtom/th_510BD656-0C65-4948-AA57-A3219A31E413.mp4
 
The engine runs well for it's age in my opinion. It hunts a bit but I have a NOS carb for it which I am tempted to stick on, I'm also going to fit new points, condenser, magneto coil, fuel sediment bowl and fuel lines. A birthday really I had a drive well and it all seemed really good. The only problem seemed to be the steering which was very tight, I thought it was the steering box which worried me as I was hoping I was going to get away without taking it out and rebuilding it for now. I jacked the front up and it turned out to be the spindles were very stiff, I had great difficulty in getting them out! After eventually getting them out I soaked them in the parts cleaner and it sanded everything down, re-greased and they were 1000x better. 
 

 
I put it back together had a quick drive and it is so much better, I am very happy with it now. Now just to get some bits for it, tempted to take this to Rural past times..
 
Tom

I knew the lure of the yellow and white would get you in the end Ian !!

Hi,
 
Had an afternoon on the Cub today. I wanted to see if the engine ran OK and there was no major problems so I hooked up a coil and tried it. Well I say I did, it looked like someone had tried to do it before. Cleaned the carb and off she went, and I've got proof
 
http://i1363.photobucket.com/albums/r713/whtom/th_510BD656-0C65-4948-AA57-A3219A31E413.mp4
 
The engine runs well for it's age in my opinion. It hunts a bit but I have a NOS carb for it which I am tempted to stick on, I'm also going to fit new points, condenser, magneto coil, fuel sediment bowl and fuel lines. A birthday really I had a drive well and it all seemed really good. The only problem seemed to be the steering which was very tight, I thought it was the steering box which worried me as I was hoping I was going to get away without taking it out and rebuilding it for now. I jacked the front up and it turned out to be the spindles were very stiff, I had great difficulty in getting them out! After eventually getting them out I soaked them in the parts cleaner and it sanded everything down, re-greased and they were 1000x better. 
 

 
I put it back together had a quick drive and it is so much better, I am very happy with it now. Now just to get some bits for it, tempted to take this to Rural past times..
 
Tom

Hi,
 
Had an afternoon on the Cub today. I wanted to see if the engine ran OK and there was no major problems so I hooked up a coil and tried it. Well I say I did, it looked like someone had tried to do it before. Cleaned the carb and off she went, and I've got proof
 
http://i1363.photobucket.com/albums/r713/whtom/th_510BD656-0C65-4948-AA57-A3219A31E413.mp4
 
The engine runs well for it's age in my opinion. It hunts a bit but I have a NOS carb for it which I am tempted to stick on, I'm also going to fit new points, condenser, magneto coil, fuel sediment bowl and fuel lines. A birthday really I had a drive well and it all seemed really good. The only problem seemed to be the steering which was very tight, I thought it was the steering box which worried me as I was hoping I was going to get away without taking it out and rebuilding it for now. I jacked the front up and it turned out to be the spindles were very stiff, I had great difficulty in getting them out! After eventually getting them out I soaked them in the parts cleaner and it sanded everything down, re-greased and they were 1000x better. 
 

 
I put it back together had a quick drive and it is so much better, I am very happy with it now. Now just to get some bits for it, tempted to take this to Rural past times..
 
Tom