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Woodworking Machinery for sale

Our local patternmakers are closing up, so the following remnants are up for consideration:- 1) Dominion wood turning l...
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posted by prepair
3 comments posted 22yrs posted by prepair

A little OT - Powder Metallurgy

What got me interested in this was the recent stories in the press about Sky Marshals and watching "Air Force One", whe...
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posted by kim.siddorn
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CROMPTON GENERATORS

I have what I believe to be a 240 volt dc crompton generator set up on a trolley and belt driven by one of my engines....
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posted by Mark.marlow
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The Norman twins

Just put a pic of T300 and T600 on webshots (infernal combustion album):- http://community.webshots.com/user/n_highfield...
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posted by n_highfield
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Stuck piston rings

The piston rings on my Ruston Hornsby 6PS are well and truly stuck in the piston can anyone advise on the best way to g...
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posted by liamhoskinAT
8 comments posted 22yrs posted by liamhoskinAT

OT- a mamod

hi guys- delving around in me dads attic i found a mamod steam engine on a red "meccano" type board. its at least 40-45...
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posted by Carl.Ray
5 comments posted 22yrs posted by Carl.Ray

From another group, but interesting

This has come from another source, but the search engine can be changed for different newsgroups:...
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posted by prepair
16 comments posted 22yrs posted by prepair

Pelepone diesel on e-bay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2453285563&category=36631 Regards, Kim Siddorn
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posted by kim.siddorn
15 comments posted 22yrs posted by kim.siddorn

New bits of Literature

Had three new items in this morning: A nice Crossley Brothers marine engines brochure, mainly for the smaller engines w...
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posted by diesel
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TVO

A chap on uk.d-i-y has posted about (vaguely) wanting to run a emergency stand by genset on 28 sec heating oil (because...
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posted by sylva
10 comments posted 22yrs posted by sylva

Cutting metal with petrol

Found this site posted on another NG. It looks interesting. Not sure if it's all that relevant to us though. Do may folk...
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posted by j.manders
10 comments posted 22yrs posted by j.manders

Barr & Stroud

The B&S was delivered from Edinburgh this morning,and am I chuffed or what!! On inspection the only thing missing is an...
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posted by hodgm
3 comments posted 22yrs posted by hodgm

Running In

Hi all, Nick's recent Norman post mentioned Rocol running in paste, which triggered a memory. In a long forgotten SEM a...
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posted by jeni
21 comments posted 22yrs posted by jeni

New enthusiast - club in Yorkshire?

An old friend of ours lives at Burley in Wharfdale in Yorkshire. He is no longer a young man, but has had a life long i...
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posted by kim.siddorn
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