[SEL] O.T. Test now question about touch paper

Ray And Erica Freeman plb at iinet.net.au
Wed Aug 12 17:02:39 PDT 2009


Arnie,I think thats the way to get bitten.The old bloke whom I got mine off
sold them new and went through it with me.We stood either side of this 4
foot long handle and he put some muscle into it and me being nervous held
back a bit so's I could jump out of the way when it got stuck. I got a
bollocking anyway and he told me to put everything into it and get it over
that compression and the handle will do the right thing.So I learned the
lesson and never had a handle stick. If they did it would be a fearsome
weapon spinning in there at 5 or 6 hundred revs.
Starting the Lanz tractors was a lot less strenuous and safer.Just grab hold
of the flywheel and rock it between compressions and away it goes nice and
gentle.
Ray Freeman

-----Original Message-----
From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Arnie Fero
Sent: Wednesday, 12 August 2009 8:34 PM
To: The SEL email discussion list
Subject: Re: [SEL] O.T. Test now question about touch paper

Hi Ray,

I vividly remember a bloke at the Lister-Petter rally who was cranking one
of these.
 He watched the progression of that cog along the spiral track VERY
carefully and
made DAMN sure the crank came out before the end of the spiral was reached.
8-))

See ya,  Arnie

On Wed, August 12, 2009 7:49 am, Ray Freeman - Portable Line Boring wrote:
> The main flywheel on the right hand side had a coarse thread on the
outside
> edge.There was a steel wheel an inch or so in diameter that was connected
to
> a normal looking poppet valve down in the head via a wire cable. For crank
> starting you sat the wheel in from the edge three threads.The idea was
that
> in 3 revolutions of the cranking handle you had enough momentum built up
> that when the wheel dropped off the flywheel and closed the valve the
engine
> would get over the compression and fire.Now and again it would fire half
> hearted and bounce off the next compression and start running
backwards.For
> cartridge starting the wheel was put in just one thread and there was a
mark
> on the flywheel to line up to ensure the piston was in the correct spot.
> Ray Freeman



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