This is a recent EBay win, not to far from me
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The seller saved it from the pit at the local tip and bought it from the Tip staff, LUCKY !!
It is fairly complete just minus the front wheels, recoil starter and the original fuel tap, I found out quite soon that the points and condenser were also missing.

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The engine was free and had very good compression, I put some oil in through the plug hole to lubricate the bore so as to make it easier to pull over. No spark so I removed the points cover to check things out, no points or condenser present. Luckily I had spares and the small rod that operates the points was still there. Fitted them up and with a turn of the starter there was spark :-). Nice when things go right for a change !

Cleaned out the fuel tank/tap and then removed the carby and rinsed out the fuel bowl, fuel bowl was nearly spotless. Put it all back together and tried to start it up, it would start and then die off. Fitted a new CJ8 plug and it roared into life :-)


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I have seen Alwil's beautifully restored example and noticed a few minor differences

Mine has a very nice Turner Industries badge clipped to the front of the cowl, located between the Turner and Automatic

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Mine has Turner in raised lettering on the height adjustment knob

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Finally a rather long instructional decal fitted to the cowl which states the fuel mix and starting/stopping procedures

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I have a few spare cowls so I will repaint one and fit a replacement decal to it, keeping the original decals intact. Sorry about the photo quality, I took them with my phone as I went. I can take much higher quality ones for the Records if required :-)