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As its a restoration rather than a working machine I want the machine to be as it once left the factory and the modern pins have the grease nipple on the eye and are solid, where as the pins particular to this machine have the grease nipple in the pin itself, so to fit modern pins I'd have to drill ...

PS, I've just purchased a Colchester triumph 2000 lathe and this will be my first real project with it!

Brilliant Jeremy that exactly what I wanted to hear, I was just not confident in the knowledge I had!
Hope all is well, happy new year!
Morgan

I've sourced all new bushes which are the original spec spring steel design, the JCB has 1:3/4" diameter pins and my initial plan is to bar bright bar this size if possible so machining will only concern facing the ends putting a chamfer on them ,then boring a grease way through the middle and ...

Hi all, I'm looking for a bit of technical advice on which steel would be suitable to machine new pins from for my project JCB 3, I'm looking for a grade of steel ideally easy machinable yet hard wearing without heat treating if possible. I have spoken to a few engineers locally and they seem to sug...

Hi there Jurrie, So glad you posted these pictures and you have made a really nice job of the restoration! Looking at the sale brochure that you have posted it has 1966 written in ink on the cover, but your machine would surely be slightly earlier than that wouldn't it? How well does the shovel oper...

this machine was built in Southampton, England.And yes this was a Luff and Smith built machine. I also know of one other machine built the same local to me!

looks like prototype 3cx and similar era 3c models, great pictures! where do you find all these interesting images?
cheers morgan

The serial number is on an aluminium plate on the top of the offside rear mud guard, it's A4 paper size and never survives!

In Fred's pictures there is an Ingersoll Rand compressor, the trailer it is mounted on is an old WW2 search light trailer by Dyson, I have the very same model of this trailer in my yard and it's makers plate is dated 1939!