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The Beast lives
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 12:25 pm
by RalphM
Well every cloud even very black one as they say as a silver lining,
stuck in due to lock down I dragged the NG out of it's corner, it's
been there since I bought it and had sat in a shed for 30 years before
that and after a few hours the beast lives, a bit to do but hopefully
will be ready for the road by the time we get released.
Sounds like a canal boat engine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUsrZETSLqY
Re: The Beast lives
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 12:50 pm
by Steven.Carter
Lovely, must great to see it going after all those years
Re: The Beast lives
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 3:29 pm
by alan.moore
Well done.
Aren't canal boat engines normally diesels
Re: The Beast lives
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 11:38 pm
by Bob.Murphy
alan.moore wrote:Well done.
Aren't canal boat engines normally diesels
Semi-Diesels (Hot Bulb Engines) - e.g. the Bolinder single cylinder.
Nowadays they are modern diesels of course
.
Bob.
Re: The Beast lives
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:55 am
by RalphM
Just on with getting it charging that's today's job,
one thing I am wondering about is this stuff ok for the gearbox?
MILLERS OILS DELTA 000EP. SEMI FLUID LITHIUM GREASE
as I have a tub or two, it's the EP bit in the name that
makes me wounder.
Re: The Beast lives
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:25 am
by JohnnyBeckett
HI if the old EP oil and not GL5 it is ok and will not attack the gearbox bearings and bushes but GL5 WILL I use EP90 GL4 or GL3 in my old gearboxes
Re: The Beast lives
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:05 am
by RalphM
Thanks for that, this is a fluid grease supposedly non corrosive but I don't know a lot about it,
this is the stuff.
https://www.millersoils.co.uk/wp-conten ... -000EP.pdf
Re: The Beast lives
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:34 pm
by JohnnyBeckett
HI I think you will find that is the right oil you need that is the one i would use
Re: The Beast lives
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:57 pm
by RalphM
Well the dynamo now lights a bulb on a slightly raised tick over but still no charge
so a look at the regulator box is tomorrows challenge, it's a first kick starter but
now it's run a bit it has more compression than I expected and the last few singles
I have had were Velows so I am used to kicking over a high comp single.
Re: The Beast lives
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2020 10:40 am
by simon.holyfield
Bob.Murphy wrote:alan.moore wrote:Well done.
Aren't canal boat engines normally diesels
Semi-Diesels (Hot Bulb Engines) - e.g. the Bolinder single cylinder.
Nowadays they are modern diesels of course
.
Bob.
I've just spent a few minutes reading about Bolinder engines. Strikes me that we have it easy starting and running our Ariels!