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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 ?

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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:
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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.
 
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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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