During the winter month's I have made a re start on refurbishing the helter skelter. My first job is to get all of the brakes working 100%, something they have never seemed to do since we took delivery of it. I suppose the previous owner leaving it stood in the corner of his yard for some five or six years didn't really help, with part of the linkages and cylinders pretty much seizing up whenever the ride was sat for more than a few days.
I have virtually all of the system freed off, well greased and working OK. On the final wheel I came to the small cylinder that actuates the brake shoes was absolutely seized solid. I spent all morning hitting it with a hammer to try and force the piston out of the cylinder to no avail. My problem is that I tend to hit something with no luck for a while, then hit it harder and break it. I was worried about doing this as the axles come from an Austin FG lorry which went out of production around 1968! On a hunch I typed the part number into Ebay, and promptly found out that new cylinders are available for the princely sum of £25, not worth spending all day trying to knock one apart to repair.
We are in the process of adding a new feature to our websites, the Google button below enables you to subscribe to our network of sites, with the idea that once subscribed you can type a search term relating to the fairground into Google and as part of the listings information from our site will appear. At the moment I am still playing around with the system but click on the button to subscribe, then type funfair games into Google search and look at listing number 4, it should contain a link to our side stall website along with an image of one of our games units. We will eventually expand this system so that it will not only lead you to the correct part of one of our sites for whatever you are looking for, but it will also lead you to information sources so if you type in funfair history, it will take you to a page with a brief history of the funfair industry.
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I have virtually all of the system freed off, well greased and working OK. On the final wheel I came to the small cylinder that actuates the brake shoes was absolutely seized solid. I spent all morning hitting it with a hammer to try and force the piston out of the cylinder to no avail. My problem is that I tend to hit something with no luck for a while, then hit it harder and break it. I was worried about doing this as the axles come from an Austin FG lorry which went out of production around 1968! On a hunch I typed the part number into Ebay, and promptly found out that new cylinders are available for the princely sum of £25, not worth spending all day trying to knock one apart to repair.
We are in the process of adding a new feature to our websites, the Google button below enables you to subscribe to our network of sites, with the idea that once subscribed you can type a search term relating to the fairground into Google and as part of the listings information from our site will appear. At the moment I am still playing around with the system but click on the button to subscribe, then type funfair games into Google search and look at listing number 4, it should contain a link to our side stall website along with an image of one of our games units. We will eventually expand this system so that it will not only lead you to the correct part of one of our sites for whatever you are looking for, but it will also lead you to information sources so if you type in funfair history, it will take you to a page with a brief history of the funfair industry.
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