Thanks Andy!!

Guess it just takes a little persistence in sorting through all the data on a web site to find the nuggets of gold, sometimes?? I found the document  giving the specs for the pulley form. I have access to all the machines and tooling to make those pulleys. Made from scrap vs 90 to 130 dollars per sheave is  a pretty easy decision for me. The QD bushings are only 14 bucks each so I'll gladly buy those. Lookes like the only tedous part will be grinding the cutter.

If I recall, the taper on the sheave and bushing is  a morse taper (3/4" in a foot) my lathe has a taper attachment so I am in like "Flynn"! Lookes like a Machine Shop 101 project!!

Many thanks, compadre!!

Mike

I really admire Mike's efforts. I kind feel like he really got dumped on overly hard. Nervous critters or those feeing threatened can lash out pretty visciously.. I figure we are critters like the rest,  and not exceptions to the rule.

As someone who was associated with the federal govt bureaucracy for most of my adult life, I think that  if it is exempt now it will be grandfathered in under most any set of circumstances. Remember what the US  Constitution says about Ex Post Facto lawmakingAarticle 1 Section 8 as I recall ( (right up ther with Bills of attainders (whatever the hell  THAT is))!!!??

Besides, the under 19 Kw, stationary, class of engines is, I'm sure, a very, very, small subset of CI powerplants in service. The under 19 Kw non-road  mobile stuff is huge by comparison... How many small Kubota tractors do you know of?? A bunch eh? Statistically, we are a SMALL blip. Even rampant bureaucracies have only so much interest in trivial pursuits!

That's my opinion for what it is worth.  Wyou know what they say about opinions... they are like a$$holes, everybody has one and they ALL stink!!

As for me, my EB300D Kubota is at the freight terminal for pickup this evening. The 160 amp alternator and charge controller are ready and I have  a welded up bed frame ready on shock  mounts ready for final drilling  and erecting the major sub assemblies.  I still have to turn up a big pulley to mount on the units flywheel for the Poly V belt.  I got some 6 inch diameter 6061 Aluminum that I can spin off a bunch of swarf to make a nice flat pulley. Unit even has a little control panel that has Start/Stop, glowplug, and vernier throttle built in. If it works for me pretty good, I have 3 or 4 neighbors (off the grid like myself) itching to have one for themselves.  I might have a pretty busy Spring up here on Finley Hill!! If not it will make a helluva water pump or log splitter.

Cheers, have a good week folks!

Mike

Good song, Doug.  Add a little tin whistle and bohdran and it would be perfect!

Mike

Well put Jack!

One shouldn't under estimate the "opposition". At the same time, the powers that be, derive a lot of their "power" from citizenry who overestimate the effectiveness of government. As long as you let them, they willl run your ragged. Intimidation tactics die pretty quickly under "put up or shutup" when the intimidator is try to blow smoke up yer ass!!

All Hail, Wallace and Gromit!!

Hip Hip Hoorah! Hip Hip Hoorah! Hip Hip Hoorah!

Mike

Brothers bob, doug, and dave!!!

I got some crazy cool snakes to play with!! Wanna come over and have us a little RE-vival?

I'm  a  feelin' the spirit!

Mike

Just to add a little to the mix, Yanmar make a similar unit  they call their FS series.

Kubota has a  some horizontal twins two The ones I have seen were 400 and 600 cc units (the ZCs), again, looks like far east sales only.

I'm pretty hep on a 8 hp petteroid for my "big boy" to drive a 5 kw ST head and hydraulics for the woodshop machines plus a little Kubota for battery maintenance.

What size is your Petteroid, Doug?

Mike

In designing a place from scratch just remember the natual laws of nature and try to work WITH them and not against them. Water will naturally flow downhill.  Hot air and water naturally rises.  Things go wrong at the worst of times.

And Murphy was an optimist!!

(Sorry Jack, couldn't help myself!)

Mike