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Dean my friend have a very happy xmas to you and your family thanks for all the videos for 2024. Looking forward to seeing what you have in store for 2025

Merry Christmas Dean keep well and all the best for the New Year.

All those bits will 'come in useful one day', that's always been my excuse anyway! Have a good Christmas Dean.

Merry Christmas to you & your whole family, and keep the videos coming in 2025. Some very useful stuff in those boxes.

Merry Christmas mate. And a happy and healthy 2025. Cheers, Peter.

Dean , have a terrific Christmas with family and friends and here’s to a ripper 2025. Take care 🎅👍👍

We will all be watching to see what kind of mischief you get into in the new year my friend. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Merry Christmas to you and yours Dean, have a good un" ATB Cliff

Merry Christmas to you too. I really enjoyed that. I thought you were going to show us the taps and dies as well. Very kind of someone to send all that stuff. I hope '25 brings more good fortune to you. I have struggled this year, what with one thing and another. I hope next year I can find some momentum again. Love to all of you from all of us.

Dean, Can I thank you for all the help and advice you have shared in your videos. You are my turn to Bantam guy. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you.

Looks like a veritable treasure trove you have there Dean. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and wishing you and yours a Happy and Prosperous 2025

Merry Christmas to you and yours brother.

Hello brother.

Hey Dean, I sure dig old tools, this saw is going to be cool and functional, enjoying your progress. Thanks, buddy, for the kind words, I do feel much better and am slowly getting back in the shop.

I can only say how grateful I am that you take the time to make these videos. They help me a lot.

Awesome Dean, man you're on the wrong side of the road...LOL, beautiful countryside. The D7 purrs like a kitten, well done my friend.

Great work mate.........Always a challenge pulling something apart you've never touched before. I thought some of the threads would be BSF but they looked whitworth. Well worth getting a coat of hammer tone green onto it.........I think it will come up really good. It's also a very handy thing to have in the workshop as well. Looking forward to the next instalment.......

Terrific video Dean , it’s really nice that Carl and yourself appreciate the guidance and passion your grandad imparted. Well done , take care 👍👍

Some things many users of these saws don't know ( in my experience) 1) The blade cuts on the forward stroke, so point the teeth forward (contrary to Wicksteed saw practice) 2) The way the motor runs is crucial. Viewed from the pulley side, the motor runs clockwise. 3) keeping the dashpot filled with appropriate oil, and setting the damper adjustment correctly affects cutting efficiency and blade economy. (assumes the damper components are still OK, after decades in use...) The reasons? 1) Put the blade in backwards, the pressure on the forward stroke is on the back of the teeth. Those square guides are angled the way they are for a reason... downward, relative to the material being cut... 2) with the pulley running in the direction described, the crankpin is "pushing" the saw bow downward on the cutting stroke, just like manual sawing. 3) the damper piston is rising a little in the dashpot on the forward stroke, and preventing, if set right, the saw blade remaining in contact with the material being cut, or at least minimizing the pressure on the blade on the return stroke. 4) fit the blade the wrong way round, cutting on the return stroke, and with the motor direction reversed, the crank's tending to lift the saw bow up when the blade's cutting... Somewhere, I have half a dozen machine hacksaw blades in the garage. 12" x 1" , I think... (possibly 14" ) they can be so useful for scraping, deburring, etc. (or opening up your wooden kitchen knife block for a new, broader bladed knife than previously occupied that space... ) Wicksteed saws cut on the return stroke... Experience taught me that whatever saw there is in the shop, you'll find the blade installed wrongly at some time... Wicksteed people put Rapidor blades in wrongly, and vice versa... Q&S I've used so seldom, I just cannot remember...

Brilliant film and not at all dry. Great to see you dismantling the saw. Good to see Grandads tools in use. I think you could make a new bush from black acetal if the bronze is too dear.

not dry at all. Keep em coming

Wonderful project Dean. I'm looking forward to progress on this. I still have a collection of Whitworth sockets and spanners from the days when I had my BSA A65L and Triumph 6T. I think my MGA still had a few BSW threads here and there. Cheers, Peter.

Cracking stuff Dean, its virtually the same as Pauls at Haxby shed, watching with interest! Phil

nice bit of striptease Dean😄😄😄😄👍👍👍👍 its going to make a great saw, can't beat the old Donkey saw I have that problem not just at an intro usally most of the time, dead from neck up🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍 see you next time atb Kev

A cool project.

Good to see your starting to tackle 'The Beast'.

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@ 13:30 "3rd Gear Detente"??? Surely that's the neutral detente? Wouldn't it be worth using some Loctite on the camplate mounting bolts?

Your videos are really good. I inherited my Grandfather's V10 and just started restoring it. Keep making these vids please.

Thanks for the trip! I think the mike worked pretty well. Bike seems to be going well too, so will be interesting to see how you go after a bit of a fettle.

The weeking off could actually be ditching up as 2 strokes tend to make more power the leaner they are 👍❤️

good ride Dean ..54 years since I last rode my D175

Excellent video, so good to see the Bantam out and about. Amazing to think of you riding it, given our history with those bikes. Great to see Cholsey again.

Many thanks for the ride, Dean. Lovely to be out in the country. Cheers, Peter.

Enjoyed the ride Dean nice one👍👍👍👍👍👍 regards Kev

Oh and you road on the wrong side of the road the hole time LOL.

Well you can ride LOL. She sounds good. Is that one. 1 down 3 up ? And what year is she?

That farm track looks about as good as most of Norfolk's main roads!

I wouldn't stand for that 2nd gear nonsense 😁😉

A word of warning on this kit . If you have to use an adjustable peg spanner holding tool , make sure the pegs aren't damaging the coils . I did and a stator is £114 , but at least they sell all the individual components. Also I recommend buying the removal puller and the holding tool with your order .

Another up vote 'f mill in't corner. Looking forwards to seeing a 'sympathetic' rebuild of the hacksaw. What blades does it use?

Another interesting video Dean. Regarding the compressor you could put it outside under the window and cover it with a purpose built covering . Kind regards to you your son and family .Mike

Hi Dean, hope all is good. A separate dirty shed is definitely the way to go, I almost got there once but filled it with bikes instead! I found a chest mount is the best thing for 'ride out' videos, got mine off ebay. Would love to see a video series on the hacksaw machine.

Great plan Dean, yes, the corner is a good place for your milling machine, should have plenty of room. I dig the power hacksaw. All old tools are cool.

Great videos. Why don't you give us an indication of how much the gas bottle setup costs

If you are building a new shed you should look a Composite Roof Panels I built an extension to my worksop with these,very easy to use cut's out noise never need's any maintenance keeps the workshop warm and use for roof and walls just build onto a steel or wooden frame to attach the sheets. If you can try use a 21inch front and 18 rear Trials and Trail bike's all use this size lots of options in tyres and having used Trial and Trail for well over 50 years the twitching is just an old wives tale on green lanes if you drop in a hole you will soon see a 21 inch is a life saver. You will all ready know do not weld with Propane just stick to brazing heating silver soldering etc welding will end up brittle. A full reno would be nice on the saw and thanks for another enteraining video.