Muskoka,Ontario,Canada.....i wouldnt be living in this cold snowy frozen village if my grandfather would have known how a compass worked when he came off the boat....
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Just how much authority does the inspector have when you are not plugged into his recepticle ?

The ESA will paperwork you till you die...then paperwork your next of kin...
Ive always wondered if i pissed off enough goverment people if i could heat my house with the paperwork..
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Tug

Yes, you need an ESA inspection done for anything above 24 volts in ontario....

The Good, the Rad and the Narly..

Found a Petter AV1  5.5hp  1800rpm engine generator in a friends garage...
A few cases of cheap canadian beer where traded an i was off with a new toy..

The Good

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a5/tuginator/thegood.jpg

Once it was home, my engine guru and i both agreed that the handcrank was not for the AV1, and figured if the engine ever did start it would beat one or both of us to death...
But with new fuel added and a bit of team work i could spin the engine up to speed then remove the handcrank then the guru would drop the compression relief...
3rd try  it started...woohoooo

The rad

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a5/tuginator/therad.jpg

The rubber rad mounts are all destroyed allowing the rad to rub on the fan...(Scraping noise heard)
Even with huge dents the thing holds fluids...

The Narly

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a5/tuginator/andthenarly.jpg

This big piece of metal is a motor/generator...
When 24 volts is applied it spins the motor fast enough to start the AV1 (this is cool)
The generator part has me a little stumped at the moment...
Would anyone have any info on a :

Hopkinson Motors and Electric Co.Ltd.
NO:06617-21
3KW
60Cycle
1 Phase
1800rpm
CON Rating
110 volts
27.3 amps

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Just mentioning my 12/2 listeriod to a friend...
His dad has had a Petter engine in his garage for 20 years collecting dust..

AV1
ser#638156
1800 rpm
5.5 hp
3kw generator..
would i be right in assuming it was built in 1956?
engine turns over..kinda..i turned it 15 degrees and heard scraping sounds ..so i stopped..
Are parts available for this engine?
Would anyone know the value of this engine?
Price quoted was.."Ill help you get it the f*&^ out of my shop and you can have the damn thing"
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Tug

My tank is 16 inches in diameter by 48 inches high....
My 12/2 will start boiling the water 3.5 hours under heavy loads...
I have 22 feet of 1/2 inch copper tubing running through the tank...
I run 60 degree water in the bottom of the tank and out the top.
It lowers the tank temp by 10 degrees in 2 minutes..
This fall i will try heating my infloor hydronic heat system using the copper tubing as the heat source...and post the results..
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Check out the cheap muffler system i installed with 24.99 cherry bombs....from Canadian Tire....
They work well in the order they are installed now...i dunno if it would be quieter if they were reversed...
Still need to weld drains into the bottom of the lower 90"s...its on the list...does the list ever get smaller??
http://files.filefront.com/listermov/;7776997;;/fileinfo.html
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29 hours of laundry done...
48 litres of diesel...
i wonder how much fuel i wasted trying to prime the damn thing...
Fuel tank needs tobe much bigger....it just getting really warmed up when it needs more fuel...
Heres a link to a short video...
http://files.filefront.com/listermov/;7776997;;/fileinfo.html
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