openspaceman
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If anyone buys it I still have the remains of one I cannibalised to repair a mate's tough some of the plastic parts got eaten by rodents.
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If you are impatient and the parts not valuable brick acid is fast. I recently used it to clean the rust off a Fuso canter fuel tank as it also acted as a flux for the solder I used to repair numerous pin prick rust holes. Also sulphamic acid found in descalers , the one I tried left a varnish like surface that did not rust much after.
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Smokey Waterford 100 ??
openspaceman replied to Haironyourchest's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Is the top baffle in place? it does need to be there and a good fit so the offgas is forced forward to meet the incoming air, else the two don't meet before the temperature drops and they pass unreacted up the chimney. I have a damaged jotul 602 which I have been contemplating repairing with vermiculite fibreboard for the baffles to up the firebox temperature a bit but have been so pleased with my morso 11 I haven’t bothered and have just put the jotul up for sale for spares. -
Probably as I doubt there was much change between the 300d series and the cargo. The six cylinder tractor engines changed with the TW engines in the ford 8100 I think.
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No just put a new driven plate in you should be able to take the top cover off the gearbox and see if the first motion shaft is turning
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How much do you pay for your stove wood?
openspaceman replied to BowlandStoves's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
At the moment I do a couple of days a month brash dragging and bring some of the arisings home in the back of the Vitara but that may dry up. one of the people on here has been good enough to let me cut some from his heap also. I was more thinking of when I get too decrepit to cut and split them but thanks for the offer. -
If you're lucky the centre will have ripped out of the driven plate.
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I see I had replied much earlier in this thread and forgotten about it. Anyway my experience of tractors parked up to a long while is that the clutch sticks to the flywheel and won't release so if there's grinding I'd suspect the gearbox.
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How much do you pay for your stove wood?
openspaceman replied to BowlandStoves's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Yes I will just rely on gas if I cannot manage to cut and split enough in my dotage, it's uneconomic for me to buy logs at local prices. -
Does the PTO still drive with your foot on the clutch? The County is IPTO and I hadn't considered that.
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Too late to use a verynear caliper (sic) on the width of both bearings I suppose?
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Wasn't that the 300D engine, basically a less well balanced ford 2714E industrial engine which was fitted in the County 1004 and 1124. if so the County clutch should fit.
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I thought it would make an interesting mobile hanging from the workshop ceiling in the same arrangement as on the grass.
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What size radiator
openspaceman replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
The heat pump of the type I suggested also acts as a dehumidifier -
What size radiator
openspaceman replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
I agree with you that as long as it has a thermostat 2kW will be okay for a small space, I also agree with @eggsarascal that a fan will help in quickly heating up the air space in a little used room. but do consider a reversible air conditioning unit that can take ambient air, cool it and dump the colder air outside whilst adding heat to the air inside. This can gain a bit more heat than a purely resistive heater in moderate temperature differences between out and in. It can also cool a small room in summer. A disadvantage is constantly as noisy as a fan heater. -
...and your bike has changed colour too. I sold my red one yesterday
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Too late anyway, where have you been?
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Yes I posted about my makita backpack blower, it ran fine for 20 seconds then stopped, rest a minute and repeat. I put it away thinking I would need a coil but by chance changed the plug a few moths later and it still runs fine now.
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Filed head and CastrolR? I never tried methanol myself in anything other than my model aero engine. Ran the LR110 V8 on propane though and wish I'd upped the CR on that. The engine was so reliable for 10 years that I never had reason to modify it.
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Yes the higher the octane (resistance to knocking) the lower the calorific value, to the extent that engines that ran very high compression ratios and had to use methanol to prevent knocking would have 70% bigger jets and much increased fuel consumption. The corollary is that diesel, which won't ignite with a spark and detonates if put in a spark ignition engine has 10% more calories than 95ron petrol
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I resemble that remark but know I missed out that way.
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Yes definitely, all the time it is lying and the moisture content is high the microbes that feed on the wood are reducing it's dry matter, and the volatiles that give a lively flame seem to go first. Also cherry bark is waterproof so the wood rots inside it, producing CO2 and water, thus it does not dry. It is similar to birch in this respect so best felled crosscut, split and stacked under cover asap. You also find this with old bits of stagheaded oak which are dry but not very exciting to burn
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Do you have a cite for that? I always thought that if you mixed high octane with low octane the resulting octane rating was the lower one??
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I can remember it from further back but it was too damn expensive all the time Monsanto had the monopoly, it has been available since 1976 according to Google. Yes just because the downward trend in insects occurred from about the time it became ubiquitous as a herbicide doesn't establish a causal relationship but it sure as eggs is eggs that it is something we are doing or have done. My main gripe is that it is used too widely, like a scattergun rather than targeted. I deplore its use as a desiccant.
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Funny you should say that, thirty years ago was 1989
