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8_10 Brass Cleaner

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  1. Steve What sort of diameter is it? The boiler on a Bowman Jenkins E101 or M101 is supposedley 'drawn'
  2. and the chassis is likely the base off a mobile Chaff cutter
  3. Mike Ive no idea what the tags say, frankly I do not know a lot save these were spares after a rebuild of a 1922 CK22 by an old family friend. The restored CK22 was sold by auction some time ago following a death in the family. The parts were supposed to go with it, but an issue with the haulage firm meant that they did not. As a result of my posting I understand that these parts have been secured by a gent in Essex who intends using them to rebuild a wartime Daimler CB that he has. Basically he made contact with me on Monday, and bought them yesterday. He had been intending using a 6 cylinder Knight sleeve valve engine that he had. I assume this is a large car item??. These parts had been made known to a mutual friend of Messrs Gosling and ours some time ago, but I know the vendor was keen to 'get rid', and had given my father another prod to see what he could do. Given how useful they would be to you, and following a phone call from Tony I've sent you contact details of the purchaser via PM.
  4. Thats because a solid rubber is usable until the rubber comes off the band!
  5. Anyone know what became of this Daimler. Father tells me of a 22horse Daimler sleeve valve engine and rear axle from a later CK or CJ that is available for sale. May well be of use?
  6. Steve I'm not so sure. My understanding was that the speed limit for a vehicle fitted with resilient tyres was 20MPH. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/schedule/6
  7. Ed. Tom Varleys Foster wagon ended up with PU tyres. Martin Fagg gave it plenty of stick untill the recent fire. One issue is they are not as tolerant of being kerbed.
  8. how about a rotabroach cutter? You could rig up a guide using the 'centre', then small cuts and light pressure and it shouldn't wander too much. I've used them at an angle on flat plate which is the same idea and it worked well. Lots of coolant/cutting oil required however.
  9. Steve The engine is looking very good. But I do hope you do not seriouslt machine the markings off the heads of the bolts? I file them off, far quicker. I would suggest a varyation on the file for the king pin problem. Use the dremmell.
  10. Camping gas is Butane. Carbide lamps run on acetelene gas. Calcium Carbide is availible in the UK, as lamps that work on the same principle are used underground by pot holers etc. All you need to do is get a generator to work. Actually thinking about it, I saw a brand new replica 'Rushmore' generator on a Stanley Steamer fairly recently. So it is easily possible.
  11. Not sure is the stuff in this advert is of any interest. but if you dont see, you never know http://www.tractiontalkforum.com/showthread.php?t=33429 The seller has neglected to add contact details other than PM for registered forum users, which strikes me as short sighted. but there you go. I can send messages if necessary.
  12. They are steel, probably came off the roll at the steelworks with the ribs on then rolled and welded into hoops before the rubber was added. You can also tell they are steel when you cut them, and by the way they corrode and weld.
  13. I would have expected the diameter to be quoted also. It would follow that the load required to press them off was dependant not only the width of the tyre section, but its diameter. A friend of mine has a Foden D type steam tractor, it still has its original press on rings which have been recovered with new vulcanised tyres some 20years ago. The downside is that the rubber is like chewing gum and cuts up something rotten. He wants to do it again, but doesn't want to send the wheel to be done as it has to go in the autoclave and will bugger the paint. I've suggested turning the rubber off in a manly lathe, then pressing off the rings and sending them only for vulcanising. These wheels are over 4 foot diameter, and may be on the large side for Barrys press.
  14. The other option is to slit the rings with a disk cutter. They go bang just before you cut through, but with no drama. They fall off then.
  15. Is this military. Pictured in northern Spain, early 20's
  16. Who kerbed it? Its easy done mind, and all the paint comes off!
  17. Agreed, a very interesting machine indeed. I wonder if the engines in the 20's Austin tractors were based on the unit originally in these.
  18. Father reports the chassis he had went to a forum member. He also reminded me where I had read of the gearbox, in Old Motor!. There was a report of three chassis, and at least one gearbox and one engine. Obviously quite some time ago! Perhaps this is the result?
  19. Father had a partial chassis many years ago, I'll have to ask him where it went. I also recall reading about a gearbox that survived but was missing its lid and was consequwently pretty rusty. I do not recall where I read it however A very interesting vehicle.
  20. Nice Foden STG5 if im not mistaken in the background too.
  21. Thats it, had new tyres recently by the look of it. Also the bottom tank on the rad looked like it has gone porus. It started easily I noticed, was parked next to me for 2 of the 3 days
  22. There was a dealer at the Onslow Park steam rally in august, he had some tank road wheels. Anyone know who he was? A mate is looking for some usable Cheiftain (etc) ones to go on a trailer behind a steamer.
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