Bobsticle
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As anyone who has a bust one will know they don't make em like they used to 
After my recent blurgalry I was left with a smashed one and the price for a replacement was more than my weak heart could cope with.
Time to get creative with my new spectacles.
The newer model (SSB301) for those pesky modern 90s and one hundred and tens omitted the pull stop and installed space aged solenoids and the like to kill the diesel supply. Where will it stop
It fits, its the same size and shape but can the two be cannibalized to something resembling the original.
As you can see they almost match and in this photo I have borrowed the wifes dremely thing and started hacking at the 'new' panel to have a butchers inside.
On the old one i'll hack at the casing as this will be scrap.
Looks like it has the right slots or at least some slots
The new panel is crimped in place but the old one has pins.
Looks like this might work
Problem The old pull stop actuator/locker lever has to loop under the whole new cam shaft and that wont split while inside the new casing
That roll pin'll have to come out to release the barrel, and we all know how one duz that when all your tools are over at the lockup
Next issue is the floating pin that is fixed in the cover. It seems during its trauma the old ones housing was knocked off. Now this is fitted from the outside and the entry hole filled with a dowel and crimped in. I have no idea why it wiggles about but is made that way. Only having a couple of tubes of Araldite to hand and losing the pin out of the new unit during extraction, the new bodge wont have a wiggle.
Aint a clue where the pin went so out with the dremmel and once the precision shaft was epoxied into place, final fitting and dressing could be expertly expedited.
The only other modification to the new casing was removing a small portion of the lip where the levers work on the pull stop.
Just chopped it out with the dremmel, now I was already in the dog house for not asking.
Didn't crimp or pin it back on but mixed up another splash of epoxy and wacked the panel back on.
Ta darrrrr. A working unit
After my recent blurgalry I was left with a smashed one and the price for a replacement was more than my weak heart could cope with.
Time to get creative with my new spectacles.
The newer model (SSB301) for those pesky modern 90s and one hundred and tens omitted the pull stop and installed space aged solenoids and the like to kill the diesel supply. Where will it stop
It fits, its the same size and shape but can the two be cannibalized to something resembling the original.
As you can see they almost match and in this photo I have borrowed the wifes dremely thing and started hacking at the 'new' panel to have a butchers inside.
On the old one i'll hack at the casing as this will be scrap.
Looks like it has the right slots
or at least some slots The new panel is crimped in place but the old one has pins.
Looks like this might work
Problem
The old pull stop actuator/locker lever has to loop under the whole new cam shaft and that wont split while inside the new casing That roll pin'll have to come out to release the barrel, and we all know how one duz that when all your tools are over at the lockup
Next issue is the floating pin that is fixed in the cover. It seems during its trauma the old ones housing was knocked off. Now this is fitted from the outside and the entry hole filled with a dowel and crimped in. I have no idea why it wiggles about but is made that way. Only having a couple of tubes of Araldite to hand and losing the pin out of the new unit during extraction, the new bodge wont have a wiggle.
Aint a clue where the pin went so out with the dremmel and once the precision shaft was epoxied into place, final fitting and dressing could be expertly expedited.
The only other modification to the new casing was removing a small portion of the lip where the levers work on the pull stop.
Just chopped it out with the dremmel, now I was already in the dog house for not asking.
Didn't crimp or pin it back on but mixed up another splash of epoxy and wacked the panel back on.
Ta darrrrr. A working unit
