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My thanks to Mr. Grimsdale for the brazing suggestion; the situation is that that the bits are en route (always bearing in mind I have to send them from France, by the lo-cost slow boat) to a specialist engineer in Leicester, (recommended by a friend who is ex Wadkin)........ I am hoping that...

Hi and thanks again to all who helped out with Startrite contacts. The good news is that the casting I need is available :D , the bad news is the price, apparently it is specially made now in small batchs and therefore costs about £200 plus VAT & carriage :( I am off to look at the bits again...

Hi Neil & Neil, (not sure of the etiquette here!) Thanks for the welcome and the extra possible spares sources; will try all tomorrow and report back; cheers and thanks...

thanks Alf, computers still frustrate me, and I am sure they conspire against me at times so I guess I am not surprised that you get better results than me for the same search! thanks very much for the tip about DB Keighley ... I'll get on the phone tomorrow morning.

thanks for the welcome Dave, it is nice to know that there are people out there! The casting is unfortunately well smashed, I kick myself for it but I had successfully collected the machine and was just getting it into the workshop when its top heavy nature became all too apparent! C'est la vie :?

thanks Jacob, I have been onto the Startrite website but couldn't find anything relating to spares or the past models, I will try them next week in office hours.

being more familiar with 'old technology' than computers, I feel like starting by saying...... ' is there any body there??' I have just been searching on the internet for 'Startrite TA/SP 175' and for the first time in my life I got only one result which was a posting on this forum. (I havent...