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One of those days to day not having the right taps and dies for the farm boy so have changed the majority of the fixing sizes to BA as to buy some of the very small sized taps and dies works out expensive when they may not get used again or if they are only once or twice. I have plenty of taps and dies in many forms.

I checked my BA set and found that for some reason the 8BA did not have a bottoming tap which is a must. This was discovered after spending over an hour sorting through all of my loose ones so job one was to sort those out just need to label the box to make it easy to ID which is which.


Now this did not leave much time for working on the farm boy so all that was achieved was this simple square head screw, before ordering more bolts and other bits and pieces.


And those that like a laugh I did order some brass balls OK they are for the governor. And just in case I ordered two pairs:whistling:


Good penny for scale and there are smaller pieces to make yet


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