Thanks 38ac for the heads up. I guess old engines aren`t that interesting to young fellas. Doesn`t mean we can`t talk about them. Myself and Stef have put the challenge out to Glort to put up or shut up about WVO. I `m hoping and expecting that he comes up with the definitive instruction manual on how to clean, dry and inject WVO. I have offered my nearly complete CS as a test bed and am happy to follow his instructions and publish the results, I`m also happy to suffer the consequences if it goes wrong.
We need to find some way to preserve this knowledge, it took nearly a century to accumulate and could be lost overnight. God help future generations if this information is lost.
Bob
I think there may be limited interest from future generations? Over and again i see the treasure of the past ("selling these vintage engines which were my late father's treasures . . . ) passed in without a bid. In many cases they are items which would have attracted fierce bidding twenty years ago such as antique tractors.
New Zealand was the last country in the globe to have the dubious privilege of being colonised by the British; so our population was sparse and largely agrarian well into the 1950s. Consequently our hedgerows are littered with Listers and the (NZ-built) Anderson equivalents. You literally cannot give away an Anderson or a Lister petrol engine. I have refused offers of many such from folks who just wanted the heavy things gone
Although the information on here has been invaluable to me in playing with my CSs, it is the interaction with interesting folks with a range of fascinating skills, experiences, and different outlooks which is equally valuable
In another generation or two the CSs will be museum pieces but we shall be all far too dead to care
But as long as there is someone playing with them, and as long as the Indians continue to make parts and clones - then this information will be valued
I, for example, copy/paste/edited the 38AC valve-events thread in its entirety (cutting out the repetitive comments & tidying it up) then just printed it off so I can never lose it . . .
I'm sure those who value this stuff will continue to contribute to keeping it alive . . . it's just that I imagine there will be less of us as thee years go by