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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

Rescued a 1920s/1930s Eccles trailer from imminent scrapping today, more to follow ...

RJ (trailer fan)
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Rootes75 · Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 6:54 pm Post subject:

Sounds very interesting Rick.
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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

10 minutes following lunch were spent cleaning up a 1920s/1930s Wesco oil can that I retrieved from the skip next to the (new old) trailer that I picked up on Saturday. It works a treat, and around 50% of the paint remains. A few old oil pourers were also retrieved from an uncertain future at the same time, and given a once-over today Smile

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alastairq · Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1952 Location: East Yorkshire

Well done Rick...wish I could find some of those skips??
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Fiat 126 BIS
Cannon special [1996 registered. Built in 1950's]
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Ray White · Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6311 Location: Derby

Spent some time today cleaning up the brake pipe banjos and other brass connectors and began fitting the brake lines. I picked up a new set of armoured cunifer pies for the TC at a reasonable £95... but the flexible hoses are a different matter.! This morning I ordered a set of 3 stainless braided pipes from the club which set me back £75! (swings and roundabouts I suppose)

I also ordered a few other brake fittings as the original ones are missing from my car.

Rootes75 · Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2020 5:41 pm Post subject:

Wish I could find one of those skips too! Our local tip is just full of jobsworths who don't let you take anything!
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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

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MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2470 Location: South Cheshire

I've been stripping down an old Stromberg carburettor, in case it gives and clues to the starting problem I was describing recently. I've developed a taste for it now, and intend to strip the carbs from the car soon, if nothing else so that I can clean them up.

I did discover that there are some very fine holes in the choke / cold-start-assist area, and a couple of valves that could easily be clogged up. I also discovered that one of the chaps in my Vauxhall club was the person who worked at Vauxhall calibrating the size of the holes in the choke disc when the cars were new.

Unfortunately, other than the choke, there are no miniature holes that could have become clogged that might provide an instant cure.

HealeyV8 · Joined: 17 Oct 2019 Posts: 5 Location: Croydon Surrey

Well not today but Sunday I took my car to the Bicester New Years Scramble for the first time. It was nice to not be the only Jensen-Healey at an event I was joined by a nice Red one.

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badhuis · Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1390 Location: Netherlands

Beautiful Jensens.... Very Happy

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MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2470 Location: South Cheshire

Have you got a bigger photo? Smile