In my first post here I asked the question as to what is the front roller axle made out of as I have a brass axle that is magnetic, not so, just me being dumb. What the brass is, is the brass bushes out of the roller seized to the axle and the wooden rollers have been turning on the bushes, the magnetic properties is the steel axle inside the brass bushes. Dismantling a carby off a Villiers engine today and found the nut retaining the bowl quite tight, eventually got it undone only to find that tube in the centre of the carby had separated where the jet on the bottom of the tube is attached, unfortunately an earlier mechanic had round off the hex on this part so could not hold it to undo the bowl retaining nut. Attacked the nut with the hacksaw and got it off, so now have another job, make a new bowl retaining nut.
