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Having them on one side allows you to run the pipework neatly down the frame if you go for plumbed in drains particularly if you use angled cocks.It's coming along.
The piston is 19.05mm thick and the piston rod on one drawing only shows 16mm of thread and no locknut, the other shows a longer piston rod and a lock nut. Jo