I have been unable to connect to the micro co-gen forum today, since about 4:30 pm eastern time, anyone else having a problem accessing that forum today?

  Scott R.

I'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!! I realize not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving, being that is more of an American Holiday. It came about after a very hard year in the first sucessfull european colony. Lead by John Carver, the colonists arrived in the new world in early November, 1620 to an early winter. On the way over from Europe they had made the Mayflower Compact, an agreement that all would work together & share equally in the fruits of thier labors.  Whatever they made or built would belong to all. if they built a building or grew a crop, all would have an equal share in it. That first winter did not go well & many, including the wife of the colonies 2nd govenor William Bradford, died. Many died from starvation, some from exposure, but about half survived. govenor Carver died in the spring of 1621. Seeing that the previous months had not gone well, the new govenor Bradford decided to change things, he assigned plots of land to each family & allowed them to keep the fruits of thier labors, to do with as they wished.  Over the next year the colony prospered with the help of the local Wampanoag indians who taught the colonists to fish for Cod, plant corn & hunt for the local game. That fall they had a great feast to celebrate & thank the indians & God for thier success. that feast has carried on & become known as Thanksgiving.
 
      Scott R.

Finally have a little time to work on the 20/2 so i started the disassembly. Started by using a set of number stamps to mark the cyclinder head & block with the corresponding number stamped on the connecting rods, the cylinder closest to the cam gear is marked 00 & farthest is marked 11. I removed head 00 & the first thing I noticed was dimpling in the copper foil of the head gasket from dirt debris stuck to the bottom of the head.

The gaskets are stamped with the VICTOR name, at least the gaskets are made by a good manufacturer.
 
The top of the piston has a thin coating of greasy carbon built up on it, the exhaust valve has made an impression in the carbon on top of the piston even though it is vary thin, it appears the exhaust valve on this cylinder is adjusted too tight. After wiping the carbon away, I can see small dimples in the top of the piston where something has been caught between the valve & piston crown. I took a picture but you can't see the dimpling so I see no reason to post it here.
  Measured the cylinder liner protrusion immedeately after removing the head, it measured .012 at four points, inline with & across the centerline of the crankshaft. I will check it again after removing the liner o-rings & reinserting the liner. The liner itself has almost no crosshatch pattern inside it, most likely the rings would never have seated.
  The small cooling passages on the pushrod side of the cylinder block are nearly filled with casting slag


Found a nickle sized chunk of casting sand in the cooling inlet passage , better there than in the crankcase.

Cylinder 11 was nearly identical except there was no dimpling in the top of the piston, there was however a piece of string from a rag wrapped around one of the cylinder studs. it even had casting sand in the cooling inlet port.  cylinder liner protrusion  was .015 on this liner.
Both of the con rod bearings show wiping  & the piston ring gaps are all lined up down one side of the piston. not good for compression.


It looks like the crankpins will polish up nicely.
the inside of the crankcase has a coating of fine grit covering everything, not to mention a piece of waxed string, a thread from a plastic "burlap" bag & a couple of small metal flakes. all in all the case looks pretty good , no voids or pockets of sand, & it came very clean with a washing of purple stuff de-greaser.
 the Idler gear seems to be a mess, it wobbles back & forth on the idler bolt, not sure what the issue is with it yet as I havent taken it apart yet.
 more tomorrow if I have time.
Scott R.

The site is acting very strangely tonight sometimes the Icons next to the topic ares are not showing up, the section at the top of the page in white is blank except for the words "lister engine forum"  & the box below the words "simple machines forum" though the box is there, it is emply, the lever Icons to the left of the topic catagories are just the box with an "x" in it like when I improperly post a picture in a post, so what's going on? are we infected with the new Confocker work? Should I quit accessing the site for fear of damaging my computer ? does any one have any ideas/suggestions?  Thanks,
                                                                                     Scott R.

The history channel has a great show about Nickola Tesla whom without, life as we know it would not be possible. Probably one of the greatest & wierdest people to have ever lived. It started at 7:00 pm eastern time, but they usually re-run programs 4 hours later on history.

   SR.

 Does anyone know how to or what else I may need to install one of these, It is a frequency meter from a consolidated diesel electric generator. most likely a military surplus unit since it is marked for 50 & 60 Hz. I got a few really cheap when I started this project. One of them has a sticker on the back with 200 ma written on it. the teminals are labled + & - only. if the image did not come thru (i have never been able to post an image, obviously i'm doing something wrong) they can be seen at my lister engine gallery page,  Scott Rutherford, they are labled, "lister generator accesories 001 & 002 "
    Thanks, SR.

Here's the latest from "old style listers" .
 "we are no longer fitting engines with oil pumps due to the new roller bearing design within the engines crankcase"
 "only use synthetic 50 weight transmission oil in all 2009 engines"
            wad du ya thank bout dat ?
http://www.oldstylelisters.com/oil_pumps.html

        scott r.

saw this on the CNN.COM home page as "cell phones woo india". it shows a few seconds of a lister/listeroid with what look like SOM flywheels being started  . not sure if the link will work as i have never cut & pasted anything,   
much less a video link.
 so here it is good luck to us. scott
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2007/12/18/kapur.india.cell.phones.cnn
 huh, didn't light up like most links do im sure you guys can cut & paste it. scott.