Oil nipples
Good Evening.
I am looking - but probably in the wrong places as I can't find them - for replacement oil nipples for the cutting cylinder carriage bearings for a Ransomes Minor Mk 7. I suspect these are probably common across the entire ransomes range?? I had found the ransomes code but was hoping there was a generic size description that I could use to search for them.
As a side note - did they ever do a Marquis with an alloy roller - having picked one of these up recently - but suspecting that it has been a collection of parts from other mowers including a auto-certes.
Thanks for your help (& thanks for the many interesting queries that I enjoy reading on the forum!!)
Cheers
Matthew
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Everything else looks like
Everything else looks like marquis spec - wooden rollers, standard blade cutting cylinder, marquis height adjustment lever, absence of cutter sliding cog-like isolation lever (whatever the proper term is...)
Cheers
Matthew
My old Ransomes Certes Mk 6
My old Ransomes Certes Mk 6 (circ 1934) push mower has 3/4 BSF threaded oil nipples.
Geoff
To the best of my knowledge
To the best of my knowledge the Marquis only ever had corrugated cast iron roller sections. If yours has plain alloy rollers I think that you are correct in your assumption that they may have started life in an Auto Certes - or do you have an Auto Certes with a Marquis cutting cylinder? What is the front roller set-up, wood or steel?