Gentlemen,
I would like to sing the praises of David Harris, Stat Eng help line, Dan reminded me about him so last Sunday I wrote David a letter regarding my broken valve guide for my Lister M and by almost return of post received a nice letter with possible suppliers of CS guides and drawings of the original valve guide to modify or make originals. I am now looking for some cast iron bar 1.5 in od to make them.
Martin P
Is the CS diesel guide somewhere near? we have some new ones here....
Peter
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So near that only two dimensions need changing to suit. Do you have two in stock please :-))
Mart> >
I'll have a look and bring them along tomorrow if we have them.
Peter
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If the CS guides are no good, could you find some wieghts from sash windows, I was told these are a good source of cast bar. I`m sure if you ask some local firms of window suppliers they will have/keep you some Martin.
It may sound like a daft question, but have you tried a Lister agent? Peter Thompson in Uxbridge, for example? Guides are, or were *very* recently, still available for the JP engine, I had the idea that one reason why is that production of some CS models continued well after the JP/JK ended & that the parts are common to both. My memory and/or the information may be less than 100% accurate, but I did get new JP guides off the shelf last year.
Some sash weights are OK for this sort of thing, others are complete cr*p.
Cheers Tim
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Gentlemen,
My good friend Peter Forbes gave me two brand new CS guides this morning which will be duly modified next weekend. The barrel still has to come off so that I can remove the broken bit and fit the new.
Mart> >
We had a pair of new guides that we were able to let Martin have, in return for...... see other post :-))
Peter
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