I'd like to try and do an HP Pump stripdown and refurb on the bench, with pics and a narrative for posting on here. To do this I need an old, preferably knackered, HP Pump (Forgive me if I state the obvious. It's a German trait according to my wife )
If anyone has a BX pump that would fit the bill, I'll happily pay any postage costs. In the (fairly unlikely event) that my first ever stripdown-'n-rebuild-on-film of this beast is a roaring success, then the donor will also get their (working) pump back by return for the cost only of the refurb parts (I'll pay return postage).
Hey Bob, I've got one here - in The Fatherland. It looks as though it's been around since the 'conflaguration' anyway but perhaps it's a bit too far gone? Post would probably be too expensive though to make it economical but if you want to come on a sentimental journey? You can sail all the way down the Rhine to us practically from The North Sea. Yes I know, I'm full of great ideas!
toddao wrote:Hey Bob, I've got one here - in The Fatherland. It looks as though it's been around since the 'conflaguration' anyway but perhaps it's a bit too far gone? Post would probably be too expensive though to make it economical but if you want to come on a sentimental journey? You can sail all the way down the Rhine to us practically from The North Sea. Yes I know, I'm full of great ideas!
Hi Todd, I had idly wondered whereabouts you were ............ nosey beggar that I am!
I'm from the grimy North - Iserlohn in Nordrhein Westfalen ..... the bit near where your lot did all that dam-stamping and railway-bending a few years back in that 'conflaguration' as you so delicately put it. (Don't forget we wuz runners-up)
I pop 'home' fairly often to visit family, but it'd be a long haul to your posh part of the world, up there on the border - even if it did involve a free pump.
I thought the 'faithful' had headed off to Brazil? Doesn't quite have the same ring does it? - 'The Boys from Anglesey' ( Photoshop job Phil?) Do you resemble any of these fellows then Bob?
French???? Now come on chaps! I eat garlic and onions and swill Rioja like an open drain - but it doesn't make me Spanish. I happened to live near Versailles for 3 years when I was working there, that's all.
Next time I let slip personal details on here, can someone please remind to keep my klappe shut?
(Tsk! Respect eh? Kids of today, etc, etc <Harrumph!!><grump><grump>)
Retards
Herman
PS: My Vati was Kriegsmarine, so no baggage in my family.
<Sigh......> I get the feeling the forum's just given me a virtual shoeing...........
Herself has now joined in and told me I'm certifiable and to wait until MOT time before I make any drastic decisions. As the Break's MOT'd until September and the Athena October, she reckons I can hedge my bets and see what happens when I bung the Athena in a month early. ........
Any further decisions I make will be carried out under cover of darkness, in full camouflage and in total silence.
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(Don't forget we wuz runners-up) 
I happened to live near Versailles for 3 years when I was working there, that's all. 
I get the feeling the forum's just given me a virtual shoeing........... 
