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Engines / Re: Changfa DRAG RACING
« on: April 07, 2023, 02:38:03 PM »
I didn't think they were diesels because not much smoke. Usually racing diesels pump out black clouds of smoke.

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Engines / Changfa DRAG RACING
« on: April 07, 2023, 12:43:24 AM »
Posted in Engines for better exposure

I'm trying to figure out if they are Diesels or converted to Gasoline.......Alcohol.....Nitro??
https://youtu.be/N4p-mOf3PFU

Wild stuff

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General Discussion / Re: It isnt all about engines
« on: February 23, 2023, 03:31:07 PM »

Nice.  I've recently thought about building or buying a used one. Seems like it would be satisfying to produce lumber, not to mention cost savings.

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Listeroid Engines / Re: 12/2 Gib key will not budge
« on: January 13, 2023, 04:22:49 AM »


My 6/1 Ashwemeg had thick paint over sand in the crankcase. The needle scaler easily broke thru it to reveal the surprise pockets of grit.

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Listeroid Engines / Re: Over speed
« on: January 02, 2023, 02:43:49 AM »
Looks and sounds like a 1000 rpm twin at the rated rpm

The flywheels are 5 feet tall.

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Listeroid Engines / Re: Over speed
« on: January 02, 2023, 02:04:17 AM »

More examples of overspeed?
In this video at 1.00 and at 3:10 the 2 big engines seem to be running quite fast.
https://youtu.be/c1eiuw3tsTE

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General Discussion / Re: 4 days in ICU
« on: November 25, 2022, 11:25:36 PM »

Best of luck to you as well Bob!


Hi Guys, sorry to hear about the heart attack. I had mine about 4 years ago. Like you I had no serious pain, just a weird feeling that something wasn`t quite right. My Wife has blood pressure issues and has a blood pressure testing machine, she took my blood pressure and the machine advised that I was having a heart attack. I was rushed to the local hospital where they announced that I was perfectly healthy and were going to send me home, fortunately one junior doctor asked for a blood test. After a heart attack the body releases an enzyme into the blood stream and there is a test for this. My test came back positive.
Three days later they got me a bed in Lismore hospital in Northern New South Wales, they ran tests and announced that I was perfectly healthy, fortunately one junior doctor suggested doing a stress test. I was hooked up to every piece of monitoring equipment available and put on a treadmill. They slowly increased the speed until, guess what, I had another heart attack. They revived me and sent me to the catheter laboratory where over the next few weeks they fitted three stents in my cardiac arteries, two of which had 90% blockages.
The reason for my arteries becoming clogged is almost certainly due to the 5 months I spent immobilized by a broken neck.
After returning home, I had to attend cardiac rehabilitation, this is where they introduce old people to gymnasium equipment, what the point is of putting an 80 year old disabled woman on an exercise bicycle still mystifies me. They also give you the lecture on your lifestyle and diet: no alcohol, no smoking, no cheese, no butter, no bacon, no animal fats, the list is endless basically you are expected to live on green tea and boiled cabbage, you won`t live any longer it will just feel like it!
I too was prescribed statins which I took for six months until the bush fires and covid made it impossible to access a doctor to get repeat prescriptions. I`m still going strong, I drink lots of red wine, I smoke and work seven days a week. I don`t expect to live forever but am trying to get as much done as possible in the time available.

So good luck with your recovery, try to find yourself a good doctor, my experience suggests that some of them don`t know what they are talking about. A small piece of encouragement is that my Father in Law lived with a stented heart for 10 years plus before dementia got him at 84.

Best of luck, stay well,

Bob

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General Discussion / Re: 4 days in ICU
« on: November 25, 2022, 06:23:21 PM »
Glad to hear yoybare OK. Yes the low carb diet works for most people. I lost 50 lbs on it 4 years ago and went off it due to being tired of eating same things. Back on it now to shed a few punds gained back.

Thanks Butch. I agree completely about Keto getting boring taste wise. I do cheat a bit, life is too short to not indulge once in awhile.

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General Discussion / Re: 4 days in ICU
« on: November 25, 2022, 05:39:30 AM »
What a wake up call for you and your Family. Good advise about not ignoring pains/discomforts especially as we age. I bet they are now directing you to a dietician and advising to change your wicked ways in life. I had to when I got diabetes.
Glad to hear that you have survived and that you are on the mend so take care and take on all the suggestions they make, it really isn't that bad.

More and more people are learning that the health care industry is not necessarily interested in your health. I will not take the Statins they prescribed. Or the blood pressure medicine prescribed 'matter of factly' without consideration. I am pre-diabetic, yet the food they brought me was all Carbs and sugar! I didn't eat any of it, my wife brought me the proper diet (which includes red meat and fat). A year ago I went to a Keto diet, lost 17 lbs in 4 weeks, and my BSL went from an average of 155 to 105. Very little Carbs and as little sugar as possible. To 'take on all suggestions they make' is a fools errand I'm afraid. The drug companies need to keep you sick and treat the symptoms to keep you buying their pills....

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General Discussion / 4 days in ICU
« on: November 24, 2022, 11:09:45 PM »

A heart attack does not always come as pain in your left arm. Mine was between my shoulders in my back. Last Thursday 11/17 After some time of denial, and increasing discomfort, I decided it was time to go to Urgent Care (they were closing and getting ready to lock the front doors) where they hooked up the wires and saw problems on the Electrocardiogram. An ambulance ride and 45 minutes later, I was at the hospital, in the Cath lab getting 2 stents installed (one artery 100% blocked) in an expedited fashion. Then 3 more stents installed yesterday, (another artery 90% blocked) 4 days in ICU total. Funny thing, that Thursday morning I was in the middle of no where picking up a cement mixer from Marketplace. I worked pretty hard getting it on the trailer and was worn out from using the come-along. Shortly after I got home with it, the discomfort started. Discomfort NOT pain. Pressure. Uncomfortable feeling, not pain. So very lucky it happened here at home. Doing much better now. One of the doctors said, 'With heart issues "Heart Attack pain" means any pain from your navel to your head, not just sharp pain in your left arm".

My message is, do not ignore it or brush it off.

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Other Slow Speed Diesels / Re: Bamfords shop work
« on: November 24, 2022, 11:04:43 PM »
Always great to hear about an engine that's commissioned to do important work.

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Changfa Engines / Re: Chang-chai and ST head, deal? Or no deal?
« on: November 14, 2022, 11:41:31 PM »

Thanks for your reply.

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Where is Cardiff?

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Listeroid Engines / Re: Over speed
« on: November 12, 2022, 05:37:32 PM »

I thought at a couple points in the video it was turning excessively fast, over 1000. Maybe not.

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Listeroid Engines / Over speed
« on: November 12, 2022, 06:13:34 AM »

Besides 'too fast'.....can anyone guess what RPM this unlucky engine achieves?

https://youtu.be/6jwA38XaUXM

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