Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Equipment Shed => Topic started by: dave123 on May 13, 2009, 18:49
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PLEASE, PLEASE HELP ME
Hi I am new to this site and this is my first “I’m in need of help message”
Could anyone tell me what kind of rotovator this is please, I have stripped it down but I need a gasket for the manifold it is driving me mad?
Many thanks for your patients
Dave
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Welcome to the forums, dave
I've moved your post into the equipment forum as that's where you're most likely to get answers to your question.
Feel free to pop back into the Welcome forum, which is to introduce yourself and get lots of 'hello's back!
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hi dave, not got a clue what the machine is,but you can make your own gaskets,you can buy every type of gasket paper from any decent auto shop.
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thank you shaun i will give this a try and see what happens cheers
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Your machine is, I believe, a Shay Rotogardener...machines that dated from the 1950s..and perhaps just into the 60s.??
All the best,
"Dori"
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many thanks dorimower for the info about the shay rotogardner it fab to find out some info about it i knew it was very old as one suggestion said was "if anyone one knows what it is they are dead and buried , i did consider www.clairvoyant.co.uk but you have saved the day
thanks
dave and yvonne
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I have never worked on one but first came across a Shay about 20 years ago when a former work colleague had just set up in repair business...I called in one day and there was this interesting machine with petrol tank handlebar...
......back then it was already deemed an old curiosity...!!
One thing that I have pondered on is the similarity between the gearbox of the Shay and that of the original Mountfield M1...different chassis design...but the gearbox from a distance looks quite similar.??...never compared 2 side by side though...
....just more of my musings....or was that the development path..??
"Dori" the Dinosaur...but I'm only 45.!!...oops forgot....make that 46.!! ;)
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Shay I think used to make the machines in Basingstoke but was taken over by Lansing Bagnall.
If it was them I used to load loads of them on to trains at the station in 1960.
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Yes it is a Shay Rotogardener 120 with 120cc, 2-stroke engine.
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many thanks for all your comments everyone dont know what i would do with out you