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Oil nipples

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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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wristpin Thu, 25/05/2017

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?

mattwalton Fri, 26/05/2017

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

Edda Sat, 27/05/2017

My old Ransomes Certes Mk 6 (circ 1934) push mower has 3/4 BSF threaded oil nipples.

 

Geoff