Anyone know of a place to find out information on old sherwood brass works pumps? I picked up an old pump, mostly because I thought it looked pretty cool  . (I like old brass things)

On it:

sherwood brass works detroit
4601 or 4501 (hard to read)

Seems to have two impellers brass (kind of like an oil pump) shaft driven with a keyway, but appears that it was bolted directly to something (engine???) about 20lbs of brass! 1 1/4" NPT ports.

Didn't get very far with google and didn't want to bother sherwood (yet)

For those of that have made new fuel lines to the injectors where did you source the pipe? Looks like 4mm pipe with a 1mm hole. Can brass be used or do I need to use steel? Thanks

-Randy

Came home with a trailer of listers yesterday, one CS 12/2 and 3 Lister CE's....








The CS will be going to my brothers, while I'll be tackling the CE's 

Interesting two of the CE's have ring gears and places cast into the block for the mount. Bummer, I don't have the starters.

A neighbor approached me last week wondering if I was interested in a older diesel Kohler Marine genset that he was no longer interested in. It does need some TLC but nothing I can't handle. Normally I never think twice about marine sets usually the word marine = $$$, however having a brother that just recently lost power for nearly two weeks in an ice storm. Then I remembered being in New England during the ice storm 10 years ago and loosing power for nearly a month. These extended run times got the old noggin thinking about the law of thirds and how much energy is being tossed out the door.

Now a marine setup already has the heat exchanger and water cooled exhaust manifold all in place. It wouldn't be very hard to plumb this into an existing hot water and heat system. I was doing some reading about heat recovery at this link:

http://listerengine.com/smf/index.php?topic=2705.0

Soot buildup seems to be the issue as you cool the exhaust from the engine. Not knowing very much about marine sets and how this is handled in any marine application that uses water cooled whether it be propulsion or making electricity. I was hoping someone might be able to shed some light on this for me before I jump into something that might be doomed from the get-go. Pulling the heat from a water cooled engine is pretty simple enough it's the exhaust portion that poses the problems.

-RJ

For those of you that have added a rheostat for voltage tweaking or perhaps after installing a cap as is my case. What size rheostat have you used? I have a 12kw ST head and according the ST manual at http://www.utterpower.com/ST_manual.pdf they call for a 200w 5ohm rheostat. Is that correct or a typo? That's one honker of a rheostat. I have a few 25w 6 ohm rheostats that I had planned on using then I ran across that.   

-RJ