Need more tools !

I have hit a snag with my new project, (Villiers MK 25 four stroke) - already - I’m now looking for recommendations for some new sockets as I can’t get the pull start ring/cooling fan or flywheel off - nothing I currently have will fit in the counter bores or flywheel nut recess !



…. ideas please - thanks Andy

Might have to turn down a socket to fit that recess?

Alan

Villiers used mainly Whitworth sizes on the earlier engines, not sure about the later ones like the C25.

A box spanner might be the answer to those recessed pulley bolts.

.... it's time to dig out my grandfathers tool box, sitting here I have just realized there may well be some of those in there and I am sure they will be imperial sizes - lets hope

Silverline do 'hobby' quality tools for reasonable prices.

Not done one of these for a long time, but it's possible that once the three studs holding the starter pulley are removed, then the flywheel nut will be fully exposed.

I sorted out my surplus AF & WW stuff recently for someone on an other forum, let me know if there's anything you could use.

….. dug out my grandfathers tool box (he was a wing rigger at Short Brothers Rochester during the war till it was bombed, he than had to move to Yorkshire, then Belfast and then went over to France attached to a Typhoon squadron, and later down to Greece) - in the box was a well used Gedore No. 25 box spanner that did the job perfectly





…. problem solved

And a lovely family heirloom! I had my grandad's cabinetmaker's chest - sadly very few tools left.