Going to Work on an Egg

[Billhook]

Just resurrected the old JCB swing shovel 806C. About 15 tons with a Perkins 6 cylinder engine. Not been used for over ten years and had a ten year old ash tree growing out of the hydraulic compartment!

Filled it up with diesel, checked oil, found a battery and then put a hose in the rad to fill it up.

There my problem started as the water came out of the radiator faster than it comes out of me after a night on the beer.

The old radiator firm has packed up and the nearest place is 30 miles away

Set about rad removal only to find that the bolts with the rubber mounts were turning inside the rubber. This would mean cutting them off and finding replacements. On top of that the bottom hose was nearly impossible to access.

 

So I have read about it and seen a few videos on youtube and I thought that I would try it as I only had one job to do with the JCB which was an afternoon's work.

I bought a dozen eggs from Sainsbury at £1.80 and cracked them all into a bowl then fished out the yolks with a spoon. So I now had about half a pint of white.

Started the digger which proceeded to lose all its water in about ten minutes.

Made sure the engine was hot so kept topping it up. After the last top up, when the water had just disappeared down the matrix I poured the egg white in and the leak nearly stopped straight away.

I did ten minutes work and the radiator was still full. So did three hours work and although some water was gone it was still half way up the header tank.

 

I now will have a very rich omelette for my breakfast every morning next week!

[Stubby]

Yea . Done the same in the absence of " Barrs Seal " "or Rad Weld ".

[Watercourse management]

Brilliant.

[Khriss]

Man fr the job Kx

[Billhook]

I thought that it might only work on a small leak in a car radiator, sort of dribble leak, but not on an industrial machine with a big old radiator.

 

Hope it may prove useful to some of you one day if you just need a quick temporary fix.

I see on youtube that people put the whole egg in but I would have thought that it is the white that does the sealing.