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| DavidA:
Trying to get some pics on here. Be patient. Dave. I need to resize these pics. So I'll leave it as it is for now. Anyone recognise the make ? Click on the file name to get the expanded view. |
| awemawson:
oooh nice. :thumbup: I used to have a motorbike that colour of maroon. A 1954 BSA C11G 250cc ohv single - had the luxury of a sprung frame, no swinging arms then! |
| Bluechip:
Yep, nice little lathe and the colour suits it ... :bow: :offtopic: C11G ??? Awesome power compared with my once owned C10L ... that was green though .. sold it to a mate who ran it for donkeys years to and from his work. He bought it the Saturday before I went in the RAF on the Monday in August 1962, still running it in 1987. End of :offtopic: Dave BC |
| awemawson:
Mine dropped an exhaust valve, knocked a hole in the piston :( I pushed it from Hendon to Chelsea which was home, replaced the valve with one I had, couldn't afford a piston so I screwed an 1/8" plate of duralumin , filed to shape, on the piston crown with 4BA countersunk screws and araldite and drove it for several months like that. Sold it eventually to a school friend in the full knowledge of the repair. As far as I know it held up for at least a couple of years. It ran better with slightly higher compression and amazingly wasn't noticeably out of balance. (I'll go away now - sorry to hijack the op's thread :bow: ) |
| vtsteam:
Boy, that's a knock-out! More modern lathes look good in gray, but that red really does justice to such a classically shaped and finely finished lathe. A beauty! :headbang: |
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