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  1. The band is the cheapest 0.001mm genuine leather over cardboard you can get out of China, so I will look at a nicer replacement. A stitched leather one is my usual preference, but a nato strap also looks nice on these I think, there were later black dial army issue ones that eventually came with those when they were invented. I have some info about the previous (who bought it new in 1948) owner that I will compile and post later on
  2. Wore it all yesterday, quite like it. Shows that yea it's about 3min slow in 24 hrs. Seller said the ballance movement looked slow, but I don't think so, just based on seeing actually slow gunked up watches. Today I gave the adjustor a slight bump and ran it against a timing app on my phone, but the app seems to be hit and miss, probably down to general noise in the house and old watches often being all over the place but averaging out over 24hrs. Will wear it for another day and check tomorrow, that's a fine way to adjust when time isn't a worry. Gave the crystal a quick polish and it came up great here's the before
  3. I believe they are called track mounts. 1999 ford Explorer has the same thing. You can look up rhino leg track mounts
  4. Here's a example of heat and rust stuck rings These ones made a ping when they came loose
  5. Apply heat till the atf heats up You will know it's hot enough when your eyes burn and it hurts to breathe
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    PAINT THREAD

    Yeah it's just low grade thinners
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    PAINT THREAD

    I get 20L at a time from PBS, last a long time as you don't need all that much. About 80bucks I have an old stainless steel sink. That drains into the previous 20L container
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    diesel spam

    It amazes me that image search can telle that's a land rover enginebay.
  9. You can clean all thr shit out of them, that one might be a bit far gone if it's fully stuck out. Il let you look into it. Key part is don't disassemble the spring part. I don't think you have to worry about explosive bits in that one Generally it doesn't take that much gunk for them to stick
  10. Jumping forward a war I just picked up an "anzac". Welsh built between 1947 and 1950, a cheap, reliable, and austere watch for the average man of the commonwealth. The Morris Minor of watches, who wouldn't love one. This one is a single owner, the gentleman's first watch in fact. They have a 5 jewel pin escapement, which is a fairly low cost but serviceable movement. Certainly there are many still running today with next to no maintenance (Morris minors) and still getting within a couple of minutes at the end of the day Also It matches my morrie too
  11. What a workhorse. How good
  12. Give the blades a sharpen by applying valve paste and spinning them backwards with a drill, with the bar adjusted as close as possible. Will glide like a dream m8
  13. This is just the worst Congrats Looks like the sparkplugs have been kept well oiled
  14. Oh damn, maybe a covid victim. I had his number somewhere. If you look for the Honda XL parts on amazon, Ebay, or aliexpress you should find the same parts
  15. Il get it out of the shed one day, don't rush me
  16. Hey this one has a cut down 2nd gen tray too Almost had a look at mine today, geeze I think il just make it a rpu at this point
  17. Jialing one will work/it's the same thing. Otherwise look at Xl185 ones
  18. deck block, machine pistons to suit and smooth out the dome and valve pockets for better flow and to prevent hot spots. All of this would have been avoided if the pistons were correct. I wonder if it's like my GN, with the dome and the squish bands it gets a weird flame front and "pings", improved with higher octane, and then again with modding the squish areas
  19. There's a couple different decal sets for these. Straight blue seems pretty common. The white is a little less common Decided to go with blue on these spare covers I want to get some mellow yellow livery for it with the old logo
  20. Wanted to tidy up the plastics a bit. Got some white and blue vinyl ages ago but got time today
  21. Wipe off with lacquer thinner and copper gasket spray
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