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Thats the lad, other tickets said he was 10 years old.

Martin P

Wandering around the Exhibition yesterday looking at the various models and tools etc I noticed several tools that had all been given second prize, reading the owners ticket I found the owner was ten years old and the quality of finisish was perfect, this caused me to look at all of the name plates and I found at least one other fifteen years old with tool on display. The youngsters are still out there and if my Daughter will allow my seven month old Grandson will one day join their ranks.

Martin P

I often wonder what people expect when visiting a show and like Nick, who I spent twenty minutes with catching up on our lives, found the Exhibition far exceeded what had been written here in some posts, there was certainly no fog in the food and drink tent and the tea's my mate and I had were perfectly adequate, I didnt try the cooked food as I take my own for Diabetic reasons but I have in the past and its always the same trailers every year since I've been going.

I bought all the bits and pieces I was looking for and more, my mate and I arrived at 10:00 and the parking was quick and efficient and we joined a long queue which within minutes disapeared.

An excellent day out only mard by the car I'd borrowed from another friend, mine is sick, that suddenly kept suffering from fuel starvation but it got us home.

Martin P

Bill,

If you dont already know if you send me the serial no and spec no I will be able to tell you its age. I own ten D's in various states of repair and have a few spare parts for them.

martin p

Bill,

The D is renowned with this problem, the head bolts rust and expand jamming the head on, there is no seal under the brass nuts and water can leak down, you can wedge the head off using hard wood wedges to create a gap to pass a saw blade to cut the studs, your going to need to replace the old ones anyway, the head gaskets are available as are the gaskets etc.

All the threads on the engine are Whitworth.

Martin P

I'm going Saturday with a friend, I emailed Tracey Tools last night to see if they would take two particular thread taps for me to collect and this morning I got a reply from a very nice gentleman who wrote ask for me I will have them ready, I'm really pleased with that.

Martin P

This morning it said unexpectedly switched off, your latest post popped up on my computer this afternoon so I've just had another look and it now says connection reset.

Martin P

Edited By martin perman on 13/10/2019 18:41:07

Jason,

Whats happened to the video.

Martin P

Me thinks the slideway gentleman has forgotten more than he learned whilst he worked, he didnt notice that he was adjusting the end gib strip screws in free space and then found it didnt lap in the centre

Martin P

Yesterday mr Brother, Sister in law and I stepped aboard a Charter train in Milton Keynes, pulled along by a 1965 Class 86, all the way up to Carlisle where a Jubilee class steam locomotive called Leander took over and took us along the Cumbrian Coast back to Carnforth where the Class 86 took over to give us a fast run back to MK where we alighted and the train finished in Euston. Today a friend and I took some engines to Potton Apple day where one of my engines failed and we dodged the showers until 16:00 when we came home.

Martin P

The lid seals from memory were leather but I now use cork sheet cut into the appropriate circle.

Martin P

Apparently between 1965 and 69/70

Martin P

I have a few but I have one very special 3lb lump hammer which goes everywhere I go and if one of my engines starts playing up I fetch the lump and lay it next to the engine and the problem goes away

Martin P

I should be up for some breakages after typing this, in 48 years of driving I've had twenty private and company vehicles from a hillman imp to a Vauxhall Vivaro and have never had one broken spring.

Martin P

I have taken a picture in portrait and loaded it into my folder and it has been dispayed in landscape, so how does that work.

Martin P

The date code will be two digits roughly in the middle of the base.

Martin P

I was supposed to be going to the museum to deliver some literature I've collected from the owners of Stationary engine magazine on the 12th and 13th October, the end of season event, family problems has stopped this.

Mention was made of the phone exchange, I helped remove and delivered a lot of the equipment from the Nene Valley railway signal box, it filled a complete large room and had to be removed to make space for the new equipment, what the railway didnt realise was the two replacement units were only two boxes 18" x 18" x 4" thick.

To move the old stuff took my Vauxhall Vivaro van and a 12' long twin axle trailer to shift it all to IF.

I hope to go for the 26th October museums at night event.

Martin P

Edited By martin perman on 22/09/2019 22:53:59

And a quick way to crack a cast manifold.

My Daughter and son in law have two cars, a nearly ten year old Focus (Family car) which is contract serviced by Ford and is tip top, my daughter has had it seven years, the second car is a 2001 Corsa B 1.0 ltr engine run around bought from my wifes sister for £100, it came with issues which got sorted. Yesterday SIL and me fitted a new auxilliary belt, with the manual at hand it took 2.5 hrs to change, jack up car, offside wheel off, remove plastic inner wings, remove filter airbox, MAF sensor, support engine on offside with trolley jack, remove off side engine mount, release tension on belt and lock with nail, remove belt, check bearings in idler pulley and reverse the above. SIL is a good lad and looks after his family but his mechanical skill in all departments are less than zero but he listens and watches so reassembly was quicker. Yesterday was also to take his mind off the fact that his younger sister, 38, passed away in a local Hospice from Breast Cancer Friday evening.

Martin P

Out of curiousity whats the can date, look at the base and you will see a number.

Martin P

This evening my wife and I were sat at Everton Rail Crossing watching the trains on the East Coast line and I happened to have the car roof open fully when I heard the distinct sound of a Harvards propeller blades when directly over us at about 500 ft a yellow Harvard in very close formation with Shuttleworths Lysander passed over us and circled around and moved away,

Martin P