[jascha]

Thanks for your reply Richard. Yes the only solution it seems is to find a donor machine to take parts from and substitute. Shane though having to destroy one machine to save another.
I have spoken to a friend of mine who repairs clocks and he will rise to the challenge and try to manufacture a set of 4 springs for me and see if he can get it to work. One should never give up and from what you Des rive it sounds like they can just be fitted relatively easily. Mine got stretched and mangled and the only solution is to replace them rather than save them. I tried for hours but it’s impossible to refit springs when they have been abused by the machine itself.

Cheers