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Terry B	07/08/2018 18:36:50
22 forum posts 5 photos	I have followed the Post in the Forum with interest for several years. This is the first time I have added a post. The Posts on Alligator belt fasteners was interesting as when I started work it was in a granary and Alligator fastners were in use but the most common type were the types in the photo. You could judge if the machine was running at the correct speed by the clicking of the joints as they went over the pulleys.
George Clarihew	07/08/2018 21:16:55
80 forum posts	Posted by Terry Balaam on 07/08/2018 18:36:50: I have followed the Post in the Forum with interest for several years. This is the first time I have added a post. The Posts on Alligator belt fasteners was interesting as when I started work it was in a granary and Alligator fastners were in use but the most common type were the types in the photo. You could judge if the machine was running at the correct speed by the clicking of the joints as they went over the pulleys. Fitted many of these and also hammered in the alligators, we preferred these bolt on types as they could be slightly adjusted to run true by careful tightening of the bolts but if you got an alligator ever so slightly squint the belt would not run happily with the fast and loose mechanism and the pin wore and broke quicker. Back to the colours, chalky feeling pink for the woodwork with red metalwork or an orangey/creamy/yellowish woodwork with black painted metalwork but this was on a restored thrashing mull
JC54	14/09/2018 23:52:57
154 forum posts 14 photos	My late father built a model Clayton Threshing Drum and it is painted a yellowish beige with pink framework. He helped with a real one until after WW2 so should have got the colours correct. Small world Adam we are in Grantham area still....

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