That 8 is a 10! So nice to see a stove of that age in such good condition! Great pictures too!
Hi Ken There is a second SRV bucket or what I'm calling a "piston" that works differently to the one in the NRV. This one has a narrow tubular...
Well done! Your persistence paid dividends! Great chase and capture!
Brilliant John! Are you going to try wall-papering your front hall through the opening in the letter box?!:clap: My thought was whether a single...
Having previously dissected the mini-pump cap from my 8R, I now set about putting it back together. Here's where I left off......
Magnificent old stove and a fantastic expose! Really enjoyed the post!
Another little gem of stove information! Great work @Tony Press and @Trojandog! Great question @acr!
Functional and aesthetic! I thought it might have been the museum's way of displaying the tools. Using the same logic what would a fishmonger's...
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The 535 is one of my favourites! Nice to see the 535a variation in action! Very classy!
Brilliant! Do the tools mounted on the drawers indicate what might be inside or is that where they live for easy acces? Neat idea either way!
Hi Alec Assuming you have the burner out and you can see the teeth on the spindle, can you lift the needle, wind past one tooth and re-insert it...
Box of stuff looks like a box of fun!
I can't wait to get my hands on another stove with a stuck valve!!! Assuming a week or two of soaking with penetrating oil did not help, I think...
Very interesting...five years is a long time to be holding stock of tanks but who knows what might have happened in the factory at the time. I...
Good looking flame straight out of the box! Well done!
Here's an additional picture of the seal the goes in the cap for the SRV. It is around 7mm wide and 2mm thick. The inside hole is approximately...
@phaedrus42 Sounds like great advice! I will follow those steps next time I have this problem. Removing pump tubes and drilling out stuck...
I finally solved a mystery (for me at least!) of what was going on inside the mini-pump cap that allowed it to act as both a non-return valve...
Here's what was left of two NRVs that I forcibly removed. After drilling and filing; in the first picture a screw driver tapped into the drilled...
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