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Bicycle pedal spindles are generally 15mm across the flats with a 9/16" x 20 right or left thread.

My tool kit for modern vehicles and bikes comprises 8mm through to 17mm (others as well, eg 19 and 23) and they all get regular use.

I still have the Whit and AF kit of course.

Edited By Old Elan on 28/10/2016 14:14:55

I looked at a spare switch that I have. The number on it is 1PA46/3128 3 71 but searching the Santon site and Google produced no results. I guess 3 phase, 1971.

The Boxford spares list states a Santon SBC 137 KA 1 for single and 3 for 3 phase but these also don't turn up any search results. (If they were still available, at £153!)

Sorry, not very helpful!

Edited By Old Elan on 24/10/2016 16:55:16

Planning a production run, Richard?

I could do with a few more...

The original design was by a C (G?) R H Simpson and described by Gearge Gentry in ME 1935 and 6.

I presume the Dick Stockings design is the latest but Horley would be able to tell you that.

Seems to be plenty of staying on this one but it appears to differ from the boiler drawings I have for the Stockings design.:- Just looked a bit closer at the drawing and I see it is the same. The staying is at 1" pitch with additional support round the fire hole.

Edited By Old Elan on 12/10/2016 13:24:08

Edited By Old Elan on 12/10/2016 13:34:16

With a name like Harrison, I would have thought it was obvious which to get......!

If I wasn't a Boxford man that's what I would go for.

McGard are a German firm. Take a good quality picture of the offending nut, send it to them with make and model and in a couple of days you will have a replacement. Seems that make most of the security nuts/bolts for european manufacturers.

What's more, they are not expensive.

http://www.mcgard.de/en/automotive/wheel-locks.html

I posted this question on the Boxford Yahoo group but have had no feedback to date.

Recently I have seen a photograph of a four 'eared' cross slide handle. For the life of me I cannot remember where.

I am interested in having something similar so, any information on the photo's whereabouts and/or drawings for the same would be very helpful.

Roy

I always fancied the GWR dock tank 1100 class. Also known as Midge. A build series was in ME in 1936 by George Gentry. Recent castings and drawings by Jim Vass but now with Horley Miniature Locomotives.

A strong engine and not 'PUG' ugly in my view!

http://horleyminiaturelocomotives.com/

Edited By Old Elan on 16/08/2016 09:49:10

Edited By Old Elan on 16/08/2016 09:50:25

Wouldn't like to go into production, would you?

I could do with a few more but not at Dixon or Bison price!

Pressure washers and cars, bikes and cycles do not mix well in my estimation!

Modern car paints seem somewhat delicate and thin compared to old fashioned celulose or two pack.

There is no substitute for elbow grease and a bucket and cloth after a good rinse down with a garden hose spray. Don't forget your 'grid' in the bottom of the bucket to stop the wash cloth or sponge from picking up grit. Dry off with a microfibre fleece. Separate stuff for your alloys. Take the alloys of twice a year to properly cleen off the brake and tar debris. Use a good wheel sealer all over.

Still trying to convince a cycling chum not to use a pressure washer on his bike. He has gone through three sets of bottom bracket bearings to my one! Same applies to motor cycles.

I must admit to being very anti the pressure washer! They disturb the quitness of my weekend in the garden. The constant drone does my head in! It's also bad for the patio grouting!

Grumpy Me!

On a more serious note, unless number 22 has been updated from its original 1994 publication I would suggest it too long in the teeth for today's use.

Backup all your files. Format the hard drive and buy 7. Clean install.

That's what I would do. Oh, and don't use that shop again. They could have offered a new box with 7 on it already.

I think I've been told not to do this especially without eye protection!

However, I am a beginner......

I understand that cubic feet per minute is more important than pressure depending on what you want the compressor to 'drive'.

Ah, yes. The man seen recently using emery to polish a smokebox dart on a lathe with his long hair quite close to the chuck.....

Oh well. As a Colt owner I will certainly watch that episode. Strange delivery aside, the content of his progs are not too bad if a tad simple but then they do need to have non-geek appeal...

It might make for a more interesting read than the last issue!

Just the welding and lathe articles had any interest for me (partly because I have met Gary and seen his workshop) although I found even that slightly confusing as I wasn't sure if I was reading about the Delux or the original lathe! Then a reference to a Boxford turned up!

Do MEW use a proof reader?

Here you go!

I had made attempts at school (50 odd years ago!) to build something after mucking about with a Mamod but nothing was completed.

So my first proper effort was just last year when I attended the SMEE Polly course.

Roy

'Given the right circumstances, wood can be stronger and lighter than metal. I remember seeing just recently wooden framed bicycles and somewhere a wooden motorcycle'.

Just being facetious! Plenty of wooden bikes about and a few motorcycles too.

A wooden framed motorcycle?

Wouldn't have thought that a good idea!

The clue could be in the heading......

Yes, the older they get the more bits you have to make.