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Andrew Tinsley	16/10/2017 20:03:25
1817 forum posts 2 photos	Hello Peak4, I have just checked my bellows and they look brand new, bright, shiny rubber. I cannot quite believe how good a condition this Centec is in. The brown paint on the cabinet and guards is more or less pristine and must be original. About the only thing I am not keen on is that most of the machine is painted black. I think I will repaint it in Myford grey. Looking at the odd scratch it would appear that grey was the original colour, unless anyone knows better. Thanks again, Andrew.
Steve Pavey	16/10/2017 20:41:35
369 forum posts 41 photos	Posted by peak4 on 16/10/2017 00:06:24: The only immediate tip I have id regarding the bellows which protect the knee raising screw and gearbox. When it arrives, mine ere little more than a set of unconnected washers. I used a bellows shroud of an old after-market Landrover shock absorber; see also fork gaiters of some motorbikes Thanks for that little nugget of information - the bellows on my 2c looked fine until I poked my finger through them, so are obviously very brittle and fragile.
peak4	16/10/2017 23:28:49
2207 forum posts 210 photos	Steve, it required a little ingenuity, as the base of the bellows is a larger diameter than you would find on either shockers or bike forks. I made a reducer out of an ex-cashew nut tin, which fitted the gearbox end nicely. I then scribed a circle in the closed end and made lots of radial cuts, to allow the middle to open up like flower petals, to fit a short length of tubing which would suit the damper gaiter. A couple of jubilee clips at that end and one at the other and it's made quite a neat job of it; or at least it will do when I finally get round to painting the stepped adaptor. Bill

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