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Yes but i have found a replacement head and barrel for i think less than the cost of having it done. Going to have a pop at getting the other one running later now i have found the ignition timing advance figure.

Stripped the engine down on the Gadabout Mk3 Deluxe. As you can see from the picture one head bolt is bent, the sprung steel pin is rusted into two pieces, The whole thing had been in the rain with no spark plug fitted at some point in its life, as there was rust coloured orange oil and staining everywhere, The barrel is pitted, possibly unsalvageable as the head is in the bin due to bad fracturing, made a start on cleaning up what i can and have spent a couple of hours trying to find parts, The difficulty is there are so many variant's of this engine that most parts advertised are incorrectly

Swam in the Cut as kids, Sewage farm was only a field away over the trainline, Use to collect jam jars of Mercury from the bearings on the pisswhips, Ratted there and the local landfill site, spent hours going through the rubbish that was dumped in that site Lol,

Schools are great for giving kids germs Lol

The trouble is nowadays kids are far more sanitised then we ever where, They don't go out anymore so do not get the exposure needed to build up a natural amount of antibodies.

Just a quick update on progress so far, The little PW50 is now running, Just needs a final few bits sorting and its finished, All the parts have arrived for the KH100, I have been doing some investigations into one of the Phillips Mopeds i picked up last week, I incorrectly assumed that the engine was a Villiers Type 3 K series, once i had removed it and placed it on the bench i spotted the Rex Logo on the casing. This could be an issue as i have found out that when \rex went into liquidation, Due to the owner gambling away all the money, Villiers purchased the rights to there engine designs,

There is a KE100, same bike but the MX version, For sale locally that one is later. early 1980`s i believe, its in roughly the same condition but does have a major mechanical issue "Its Seized solid" Lol, He is asking for £1600. In my view its well over priced even if it was a running, ridable example, I watched the October auction by H&H auctioneers at The National Motorbike Museum the other week, The usual Ducati 999RR`s were achieving really strong bids as were other rarities but the bread and butter RD`s LC`s, KH`s, and GT`s were not reaching there reserves neither were a lot of Full

Decals on,

Todays impulse buy, Collecting tomorrow Lol 1950`s Phillips Panda`s

Got a 1975 KH100 all original here already.

I have done the miles over the years, for all types of sports. I always found something more satisfying when doing it on my own doorstep. Walk out the front door and within 100yrds i was on permission that stretched for miles and plenty without permission that went even further Lol All changing rapidly now though.

Old age and old injuries coming back to Haunt, All my fault and all self inflicted. Lol.

Not round here they aint, Be lucky to see half a dozen in a night, As for getting rid of stuff, its hard, i have all my match feeder fishing tackle. spent literally thousands of pounds on it, Now i don't think i will ever be able to use it as it should be used ever again, Problem i, with fishing tackle the longer you keep it the more value it looses until it becomes worthless as tackle improves, its not until it becomes an antique that it regains any value.

Progress so far, Decals are on the way as is an OEM oil tank and fittings as the Chinese one i purchased is somewhere in the field over the back fence, Piece of crap Lol. Once thats sorted just to start it get the oil pump bled and running then just the usual fannying around with brakes, Throttle and that, Then starting on The little 1975 KH100.

"Artic" on here use to keep a fair few different breeds, Not sure if he still does or indeed if he still comes on here.