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pedrobedro
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No they'd just moan about being tired and the price of biscuits nowadays like all us other old farts
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I used one of those forty tears ago, and it was ancient then! The good news is that it was a cracking drill then, and it won't have got worse. Great bit of kit!
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Hi,
That's what I call a bit of kit fizzy; it's beauty and will last 100 years or more with a drop of oil. The vice alone probably weighs more than a modern machine. I was taught on these old machines 55 years ago. A novice would get into trouble with dangling shirt sleeves because little will stop it other than the stop button. Is it MT3 on the spindle nose? It's most likely fitted with a Brook motor; I worked at Brooks for 24 years and the company supplied most of the machinery manufacturers with motors.
Kind regards, Colin.
That's what I call a bit of kit fizzy; it's beauty and will last 100 years or more with a drop of oil. The vice alone probably weighs more than a modern machine. I was taught on these old machines 55 years ago. A novice would get into trouble with dangling shirt sleeves because little will stop it other than the stop button. Is it MT3 on the spindle nose? It's most likely fitted with a Brook motor; I worked at Brooks for 24 years and the company supplied most of the machinery manufacturers with motors.
Kind regards, Colin.
Thanks for the very kind offer.
It's Leicester so 180 miles each way!
I REALLY need to finish my trailer. It's the £500 for the custom wheels purttng me off.
bigegg
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Take the doors off the vw, and have it hang out the back?
I followed a little (vw golf?) Hatchback on the m62 last year - he had a more modern pillar drill hanging out the back: trailer light plate strapped to it.
Or hire a lwb sprinter for the day? (Or a lwb pickup if it makes loading easier?
I followed a little (vw golf?) Hatchback on the m62 last year - he had a more modern pillar drill hanging out the back: trailer light plate strapped to it.
Or hire a lwb sprinter for the day? (Or a lwb pickup if it makes loading easier?
bigegg
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"Never let "perfect" get in the way of "good".
Stick some steelies on it, and get it used!
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Normally I'd say that 180 / 360 miles isn't a long trip but I'd probably need a decent set of ear muffs. Maybe there can be arrangement, @8ob gets his **** in gear - finds the correct bell housing and palletises the 6.2 V8. You collect it from him and bring it down to me. Whip that engine into the gearbox (Bob reckons it simples with a nut and bolt conversion
) and then we can go off and collect your drill...
Those ARE steelies!
I thought I had found a trio off the shelf but sadly they had no offset. The ONLY solution - and trust me I have spent 3 years looking - is from aspect wheels. They are the cheapest around but still expensive.
I am guessing about 1920 to 1930 - perhaps even WW1 era. Yes the mind boggles.
Imagine a company these days making something with a 100 year service life
If they did, no-one would buy it at the price they would have to sell if for . . . so give it a year or two, and there would be a post on here about there being houses or an Asda on the site . .
