Gidday all.
Ive been browsing this forum for a few months, and im impressed with the knolwdege and hepfullness of the community. Ive worked several decades as a maintenence engineer and have a broad knowldege of things mechanical, machining and welding and repairing and reconditionong allsorts of machinery but im a total noob to the whole lister world.
Ive recently gone off grid and built up a reasonable sloar panel array, with a large bank of batteries feeding an inverter to my house, as backup and for larger loads , like running a welder, i bought an electric start chinese diesel. it does the job, but i was looking for something a bit less furious than a 3400rpm direct injection screamer.
I discovered listers and their hypnotic, rythmic, unhurried way of running and after reading a bit about their logevity, and decided to take the plunge. I bought a very nice looking cs6/1 a cuople of months ago. The head had been off recently for a decoke and water galleries cleaned and also a valve reseating job. It was built in 1953 and had spent its life driving a vacum pump in a cowshed here in new zealand.
The guy had done a great paint job on it, polished the brass and mounted it to a nice looking sturdy wooden skid type base. I got it running on the first day and had it quietly ticking away on the lawn. I have suspicions that its in need of a bit of fine tuning (continuous smoke out the exhaust) and i had issues with the govenor not holding constant speed. It would either go up to an excessive speed, or slowly fade and stop.
I read up on tricks and tips to improve stability of revs on this forum, and ive made some changes to try in the future. It will be a slow project as poor health limits the time i can work on it, but its going to happen.
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I have a 6.5kw generator on order and it s 4 weeks away. Ive bought bits to convert to thermostat water temp control and a kit to add a spin on oil filter.
Am looking foreward to interacting with people in this forum as i felt an instant connection thru our love of old listers. plus i need to figure how to post photos.