Excellent news

And I thought it was the red arrows going over !

pennymachines wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 02, 2019 8:21 pm

As you say, it's a terrific (and still underrated) bandit. As you're going to repaint, I trust you'll preserve the Union Jacks on the sides.

It only has a union jack on the opposite side to the handle. Think I might have to make a stencil to replicate it once I respray the cabinet.

Paul,

My lever is not even threaded where the grub screw should be!

Think I must be missing the latch bar.

Geordy you never explained what holds the handle in place? What's to stop it falling off once you clean and lube the machine and play with vigour? Maybe that latching lever already described by others has gone missing? Well actually nothing was holding it in place, I can only assume that the woodru...

Ok, a little update. My extra long Allen keys arrived this morning, so I started in trying to free the handle. After getting nowhere, I decided to see if I could lever it off and low and behold it flew off like greased lightening. Not sure if I freed it up or just didn’t realize the technique to get...

Well my machine is at work so will have to wait till Monday now before I have another go. Plenty ideas to help me though, thanks.

Happy to have been some kind of inspiration

Well one extra long 1/8” Allen key on order. Still not 100% convinced it is a grub screw holding it in place but there’s no real other possibility.

Hi TF, there’s nothing on the handle externally whatsoever.