I’m restoring and modifying a pillar drill. It’s pretty hard to find information about this drill, RSB seem to have made a few lathes and were based in Leeds.
The drill has been repaired a few times but I feel it’s worth making into a good machine - it’s got big capacity and it only cost me...
You have to hit it with a wood chisel or something like an old power hacksaw blade made into a scraper. It’s a plug, it will come out but dried oil will hold it in.
Glad you like the thread, I made it so people could restore theirs easily as at the time there wasn’t much reference material out...
Good progress. JAP 600 head cleaned. Lots of oil residue around the plug and earth in the fins. Wasp nest stuff too. All gone. Inside was a lot of carbon and lead buildup, also gone. Looks a bit naughty. We would have called that a chode at school!
Workshop pottering. No real progress. Went to visit the man who sold me the rotary hoes, he said they last ran some time before 1999, he was amazed to see it running again but said there’s problems with the timing, so the head is off, the chains’s off, all the oil lines are off, oil pump is off...
Here’s an interesting one for you. I thought it was a frankenvice, two made into one, but I think it’s original.
Will be going on Trademe soon. No need for a twelfth vice here…
Had to bite the bullet and fork out $410 for two new tyres. Annoying. Great place and I like the guys there, they didn’t charge labour and bought using their discount. Things just cost money.
I noticed the exhaust is a bit gone, so I went into the garden and recovered a spare I dumped there...
I’ll post anything. I have a Colchester bantam guard here all boxed up waiting for a guy from Kuwait to agree on a shipping price, it’s been five years. $150 was too much. Ok dude, it sits here :laughing:
So found out why the tractor wasn’t firing. The air filter was completely filled with emulsion. This was cleaned out and so was all the packing, mesh and felt. Job done, back together.
Wheels have gone off to a tractor specialist to get new tyres.
The crank handle gave me a blister today...
Update time.
No progress on the Allen scythe.
Diesel engine went to the scrapyard. Too many broken bits, rust and alloy bloom.
The crawler has been out and about working in the garden, that’s good. No issues.
I cut up the second Howard Gem for scrap only keeping the engine and gearbox, plus...
Well I only overhaul so I don’t have the personal sting of the cost, but the price of the machine to cut our seats was about 20x less than the cumulative cost of parts on an engine that threw a rod!
Doing it right ends up being cheaper.
An hour would do nothing but damage imo. These are new inserts, we blued the valves and gave them a light contact. New valves and seats need hardly anything.
You’re not so much going for contact but a sealing ring.