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Old 31st January 2021, 08:29 PM
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Old 31st January 2021, 08:45 PM
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There was one on ebay a couple of weeks ago.
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Old 31st January 2021, 08:46 PM
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I’ve got one......
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Old 31st January 2021, 10:31 PM
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There was one at Brunel College in 1984 but I think it's gone now.
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Old 1st February 2021, 10:21 AM
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I have seen people dispense with the variator on a chippy and use a vfd instead also makes it 240volt

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Old 3rd February 2021, 11:57 AM
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There is a bloke somewhere down Bristol way on seems to collect them..
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If it is the man i am thinking of you won't get nowt out of he, tight as
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Old 3rd February 2021, 07:13 PM
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I enjoy these threads enormously. And without spoiling the fun, will the punchline suggest that John Fowler was an ignorant man or that Sea Scopia will somehow variate the speed of the lathe?
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Old 3rd February 2021, 08:04 PM
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I reckon that Colchester must have worked for Fowler, he started off as a student.
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