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From my Grandfathers workshop I have a lathe that needs a new home. The lathe is fully working screwcutting machine with a full set of change gears. It uses a single phase motor (normal 13amp plug) and comes complete with stand and tooling. (lots of hand ground tool steel and spare chucks) It has been lightly used for model engineering for several years and used very little over the last 15 years other than the little jobs that I have used it for. It is currently in Nyewood near Petersfeild West Sussex. I would need to be partially dismantled (removed from base and base dismantled) to be removed from the workshop. I guess it would fit into a large estate car or small van - I have not seen it dismantled so I dont know exactly how small it would go. Drumond M-type details Photo Name Plate end and motor As I need to set a price, lets say £300, as I am obliged from an executor point of view to get a fair price, yet the house is being sold in six weeks so it needs to go. Nick

This was what I was looking for Silicone blades in Aero package - but £20 ☹️ maybe I will see how rich I am feeling later

I used the PIAA silicone wiper (inserts as I am cheap - they wanted £20 for one wiper assembly £7 for insert) and think they are excellent. Its like Rain-X that you never need to re-apply.

I guess good as it lasted a long time Fk would have to be a bad one.

As an aside I have found a Meths soaked rag is excellent for applying Rain-X, I think it breaks the surface of any remaining Rain-X and allows the new stuff to stick, which because it is thinned it spreads around nicely. Nick

I keep meaning to get one of those oil drainers to empty the gear box, but usually only remember when the engine and gearbox are half out an I have just slipped on the oil that has pissed on the floor 🙆🏻

If you have a 4speed presumably you have a live axle which has its own power limitations - check the search function at the top of the page to look for more details. The Toyota may be a good engine, but very rarely used in Caterhams you would not for example be able to get an off the shelf exhaust for it as you can with the other engines mentioned.

You should practice making rice crispy chocolate cakes

The foam / epoxy mix is also used as cavity wall insulation, they spray in the balls and the epoxy, coating each ball as it goes. Which is the concern I have about this method - how do you make sure that each ball is coated with epoxy 🤔 I suppose you just add it all together and mix it around, but can you get foaming epoxy 🤔

The Low-Viz doors have a Horizontal top edge rather than the slightly Vulcan pointy bit on the high Viz doors. I think this reduction in height followed over to the hood and maybe the hood sticks, I dont know how that would impact an FIA bar for example. Nick

40mins RE Gearboxes I had a quaife straight cut box which I changed out because it was a) LOUD - in a really annoying way b) had a 2.04 1st gear which a x-flow struggled to get away from standstill briskly, the novelty of doing 0-65 in 1st gear is shortlived. Now have a BGH gearbox without long 1st and regret not spending the extra £75 it would have cost at the time.

Jon It is a Weber Alpha ECU with Weber 40mm TBs It was one of the few options back in 1992 🙅🏻‍♂️ My only complaint is that I would like to access the map to tweak the cold start, other than that is has been faultless.

Tony, are you going to Dunsfold? I am booked in with my injected x-flow if you want to compare. Nick

The other thing that may change the economics is that the engine is not worth £9000, it may owe someone that amount in parts and labour but when you can get a modern engine with more power for a small fraction of the price no-one will pay that much for it This engine K2RUM may or may not have sold for the 8k asked for and it included ecu dry sump etc and produced significantly more power. N

"Processing Speed too slow Sounds like a poor workman blaming his tools for a bad mapping job 😔 I bet my first generation Weber Alpha from 1992 has a slower processor and it is mapped just fine.

Yes 😬 I got mine from Think Auto - they do a non-injection one. Nick

A bit of progress and a bit of dissapointment last night. First is the discovery comparing what is in the Caterham fitting pack to some extras that I got from Soft bits. The softbits popper for the lift the dot fastener has a longer stem which does allow it to be fitted through the metal bar. It did take a bit of faffing including drilling a small recess in the bar for the tab that sticks out behind the fitting to sit in. But I am not happy 😔 The basic problem is that the poppers were placed in the scuttle and tonneau a decade before half doors were invented so the half door does not look right 🙆🏻 I think the front needs to be a little higher it is 16cm above the scuttle base but the door only looks level when the bar is a couple of centimetres higher than that. So I marked out where the popper for the front lower tonneau needed to go - fine, but it clashes with the rigid part of the half door. I am rapidly reaching a point where I am going to have two sets of poppers, one to fit the tonneau and and another set slightly offset for the half door, not exactly what I had planned

And I am nearly in that position I have replaced the popper base on the scuttle with one for a DOT base. I was then lining up the door to see what looks nice and it does fit quite well with the bar a little above the popper which would allow the popper to be fitted through fabric only. - which would solve the problem but I would only consider this if I also fitted a further, normal popper that went through the bar, which would likely have the same problem. The only other thing I noticed was with the old poppers that I drilled off the tonneau. The popper female part has a flat top when unfitted but the fitting process makes it domed allowing more of the 'rivet' to poke through, If the hole in the bar was countersunk it may allow a mm or so more rivet to be used. I think I am grasping at straws for that one.

But all else is not equal because the tyre is wider 🙅🏻‍♂️ The only way to keep all else equal is to increase the profile. or got to a softer sidewall Avons CR500 are supposed to have a softer sidewall (have not tried them myself) and I dont think they are available in 14 inch

They have A021 in 70 profile, good for a fast touring holiday. Nick

I would have thought that moving from 185/60 to 195/60 would make the ride worse Changing to 185/70 would make the ride better, but on a 14inch wheel would be large diameter and change the gearing. I would change for 185/70/R13 which keeps the gearing/ground clearance the same as before but has more sidewall to deflect, lots of tyre choice. Nick

but you would need to add delivery to the CC price and I just got a set delivered to Surbiton last week - aargh N

Resurecting this I was looking to order some peel rivets and some ordinary rivets from e-bay This would be to attach a couple of popper bases that have worked loose from the scuttle and to add some new poppers for the front lower tonneau popper. I dont have a popper base with me - is it 4mm? N

The LED bulbs are not legal because they are neither e-marked or have the correct wattage, the direction the LEDs are pointing is irrelevant (to their legality). As Foggy mentioned there are also multi directional LED bulbs using 120 degree superflux LED, but these are not e- marked either and only a few of the LEDs do point in the direction you need and there is no efficient reflection from within the lamp unit.

Horray Direct Debbie set up so I dont have to remember to forget and get cut off again next year