[SEL] Make 'em earn their keep!

Judge Tommy Turner lcjudge at scrtc.com
Mon May 5 05:05:56 PDT 2008


Mike,
    Check to see if the area where the wooden shoes grip is "slick" and 
shiny.  If so, take some 80 grit sandpaper and score this area good.  
Also, adjust the grip on the shoes to make sure they fit tight.  Make 
sure that all are gripping to about the same degree.  My guess is your 
engine has been in a dry shed and the wood has shrunk a bit allowing 
them not to grip to the same degree they did before.  If this is the 
case, a good wet down of the shoe wood might fix the problem.

Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY



>Howdy all,
>
>Because of all of the work building the house, we have not been able to 
>play engines since Portland 2006! Finally yesterday we latched onto the 
>Famous with my granddad's 1948 SC Case tractor and drug her out of the 
>corner of the barn so we could then roll her out to do a little work. 
>After a little tlc to get her running again we started sawing on our 
>huge pile of scrap wood. The goal was to cut the scrap wood up into 
>lengths that would work as kindling for starting our winter fireplace 
>fires. The Famous ran beautifully and were were able to easily saw a 
>bunch of the scrap into great kindling.
>
>I do have a question on how to fix a little problem. The clutch pulley 
>on the Famous is a regulation IHC clutch pulley with wooden blocks 
>responsible for engaging the pulley. On some of the bigger or harder 
>chunks of wood the clutch pulley would "slip" a little and even though 
>the engine speed was not phased the blade would slow down a bit. Is 
>there anything that we can treat the clutch wood with to make it more 
>"sticky?"
>
>See ya',
>Mike
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