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Hi Chris, thanks for asking and thanks for the offer of help. I'll post my reply here as it might help others. Yes I did get it going! At least a friend of mine did. After months and months, on and off, of me struggling and scratching my head over it he tried modifying the gate valve in the...

Still haven't got mine to work again yet. Done everything suggested just can't figure out the problem. I'm not giving up but I'll give it a serious hard stare in the Paddington Bear tradition when I have a bit more time. Wish I knew an enthusiast around here.

Have a look on eBay maybe or just google "Blake Hydram sale" or similar. There may not be one actually for sale currently but you may find a reference to a past sale somewhere to give you an idea of value.

That's interesting. Do you know any of the story behind it? Where are you and do you know what model it is? If you have the model number Allspeeds will probably have a record of it and can tell you the history of it. http://www.allspeeds.co.uk/products-services/blake-hydram/

Well, don't keep us all in suspense! What did Allspeed say about the hydram, Eric? Also, that compound ram - was that yours, Andy? Have you investigated further and have you any pics? I still haven't got mine working as yet; bit busy sorting things out after my o/h died last year and I've...

Is there anything I should do with the air taps - apart from close them? When I took off the waste valve last time I opened them both up and let any water completely drain out on the assumption that it was like bleeding a radiator.

Thanks JMM - I cross posted. I was doing that but only as a trial and error exercise, not because I knew what I was doing!! I'll go and have another bash at it.

These two pics show the central spindle in the 'tight' position and then wound out. When I first removed it, the spindle was more 'tight' than loose but, as I say, never having seen any others I'm not sure what position it's supposed to be in. It had been working so I'm assuming it should be...

Well, I've cleared out any silt from any pipes - removed the waste valve and flushed through the drive pipe. The attached pics are of the innards of the waste valve and I now need to know how this is supposed to work. Anyone know? This was put in Spring 2014, I'm told, by the chap who was...

Do you have a video of it working, Zetor?

Wow, is that a No 1? Mine's a 2, so Jenni from Allspeed told me. The little air valve in the side that squirts a jet of water out with every beat. If you play my video you can see it.

Unfortunately, since I filmed that, I stupidly ignored the age-old and well respected advice ''If it ain't broke, don't fix it'' and attempted to fix it, even though it wasn't broke. In my defence it could possibly have been working more efficiently, though, and I was curious to know how it...

This is mine: