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   Is the power still out in FL. and if so, how is your Gen set coping?

Made any new friends yet, meaning neighbors interested in your set up?

What loads are you seeing and what is your  fuel consumption?




Hoping all is well
Bluecometk



   




   










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Everything else / Re: A home built govener
« on: February 23, 2008, 01:15:34 AM »
 New modern Lionel and MTH model trains use a striped tape and reader on the motors flywheel.  They call this speed control. They have a very good governor on them. It can control the speed of an engine to 1 scale mph and keep it constant, if you do the math on the wheel rotation that’s about 10 revs per minute. That would take care of the controller part but I don’t know if you could get a servo to work in such small increments

Just thinking out loud. Disregard this post if it’s stupid.

bluecometk



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Everything else / Re: A home built govener
« on: February 21, 2008, 10:19:24 PM »
   Hi Doug Its funny, I was just discussing this on the Smokstak Forum. See generators, Subaru engine. At this time it’s about 5/8 way down the page. 
In the past I have used a Subaru cruise control for a gas engine pump governor but not a Gen governor. The pump had to maintain a certain pressure as to not damage the valving from valve surges. I had to install an orifice to dampen the actuator and then adjust the size from there. It held quite well but did have a bit of over swing. I didn’t need to adjust it any more so I left it alone.

I think with a little/lot of tinkering it could work quite well.

Bluecometk




     





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Changfa Engines / Re: Changfa 195 project (mostly) done - pictures
« on: February 08, 2008, 02:29:27 AM »
Nicely done. I’m a little ahead of you in the build project but way behind you in looks.

You have done a nice job and I like the compact nature of yours.
I took another route and am building it first and getting it all up to speed then I will take it apart and have it painted/powder coated.

Keep the pictures coming. They will keep us inspired to finish our own projects.

Someday I will learn to post pictures.



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General Discussion / Re: Whats your other obsessions/hobbies?
« on: February 03, 2008, 07:02:30 AM »
 I have quite a few other hobbies. Number one is nose picking  #2 seat picking #3 Odiferous gaseous emanation production, couch relaxation specialist but my wife calls it Lazy good for nothing waste of space specialist.

  First is my model trains in Standard gauge and O gauge. Next is restoring and using my 1950 40' Matthews custom sedan yacht, 1959 21' Chris Craft Cobra speedboat, 1947 18' Lyman Islander. Then come the cars, a Factory ordered 1969 Impala 427ci 390hp 4 speed .It now has a 572ci big block fuel injected with a progressive two stage Nitrous system and a titanium Lenco four speed with a blow proof bell housing and a slipper clutch. It’s a real sleeper on the street and really not eco friendly at 6 MPG at 55 MPH. The only thing that stands out or gives it away is the four-inch stainless exhaust pipes , mufflers and the  Vanity tag that says I WON. Yes I have all the number matching original parts. I also have a 1969 SS Chevelle 396 4 speed car that is a full on racecar. It now has a 496-inch Big Block with a nitrous set up also. At three thousand three hundred pounds it will still run an 8.20 168mph 1/4 mile pass. Hell if it had a good driver in it, it probably would go a lot faster. I enjoy the shooting sports, collecting Pennsylvania Rail road artifacts, collecting and building generators and Last but not least what takes the biggest amount of my time is, I work/ed as the crew chief on a professional NHRA drag race team. The SUBARU/ESX factory Drag race team for the last 5 years. We have 18 national wins in the last two years and 2 national titals.20 NHRA WALLEYS, and hold the NHRA MPH and ET records in our class, 6 NOPI wins, 3 IDRC wins, 12 number one qualifier times and all of this out of a little four cylinder SUBARU WRX STi. (3260lbs car with a 156ci 4cyl engine ran 9.01seconds at 165mph  1/4 mile passes on street tires and factory 90decible exhaust system). I almost forgot my wife and I collect rare Turkeys. We have 2 Blue Slate and 2 Royal palm turkeys. Whooo that was close I almost forgot to mention them; boy I never would have heard the end of it. ;D ;) Well I have spouted off enough so I i will let someone else have the stage.


Bluecometk

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General Discussion / Re: where is everybody from?
« on: February 02, 2008, 03:59:48 AM »
 I also am from South Jersey, a little town called Estell Manor (POP 1103) I’m exactly 18 minutes from everything (stores, gas,banks ) 22 minutes from the nearest Diesel station. We don’t have sewers, gas lines or water. When you look up at the power polls you see three wires two electric and one phone and I’m the last house on the grid. . We don't even have a fire station and it’s the middle of the Pine Lands. We do have mosquitos and the Jersey devil. ;D I wish it were even more remote. With all that I still love it here.





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Waste Motor Oil / NEWBE WASTE MOTOR OIL QUESTION.
« on: January 31, 2008, 12:47:08 AM »





I see a lot of discussion about processing waste motor oil and I was wondering why you cant just filter it. Why do you need to processing it?

If I were to use a vehicle remote oil filter assembly in line before a small centrifuge could I just use the oil that came out of the finished end to burn in a Diesel engine. Heating/ thinning and normal fuel system filtration taken into account?

 

Thank you for your answers in advance and sorry for the remedial question.


bluecometk







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Original Lister Cs Engines / Re: Automan Diesels
« on: January 27, 2008, 03:19:57 PM »
Quinn That was funny as sht.(ask him for a URL) ;D :D :P

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General Discussion / Re: How'd You Get Here!
« on: January 06, 2008, 04:38:47 AM »
My trip to this sight was a winding one. I was at work one day taking to the guys about some old engines and tractors I had when one of them spoke up and said they had a diesel engine that was mistakenly dropped off at the shop he worked at in the evenings. He had said UPS wouldn’t take it back and had to pay them for the engine they lost. He said it was new and he offered it to me for fifty bucks I told him to bring it over and I bought it. It looked like an air-cooled Briggs on steroids. I went on line to see what I had just bought. I turned up nothing. I cleaned it up and changed the oil and put some fuel in it and tried to start it. It fired off and ran all over the shop floor with me chasing it. Another drag race buddy of mine was there and he took down the only numbers on it and went back to work. Three hours later he emailed me a picture of it and a Chinese sight. I found out it was a Chinese Yanmar clone.
When I got home I looked up Chinese Yanmar clone on the net and found this post of a guy who put one of these engines in a micro car a Chevy I think. Well I explored the sight, which took me to the Utterpower sight. I explored that sight and found a ST head for sale on Ebay in my area Cheap. I went over to purchase the head and when I walked into the place the guy had a Lovson 24/2 and a marine 2cyl water-cooled Petter along with numerous John Deer tractors. We got to talking and I told him about my stuff and he told me about his and four hours later we loaded the ST head into my  car. I got home and couldn’t remember the name of that big green engine but I remembered he called it a Listeriod or something like that. On line I went again and that’s when I still didn’t find this sight. I found the sight that had the that guy that made a museum Quality engine display out of one of those engines and then that sight led me to this sight.
This sight has a world of knowledge on it thanks to the men and women that make it up.

Thank you for all the information you have provided all  usand for all the information you will provide us in the future.
I hope I can return the favor in the future.

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Everything else / Re: Tig, Stick, Plasma: Combo welder worth buying?
« on: December 19, 2007, 03:58:39 PM »
 OUCH!!!! That's not even funny that had to hurt!!. I have a 1936 Forney A/C Welder that was my dads.
I cant weld very good. I make a lot of pigeon shit on the metal. So I asked a pro to come over and see if the darn thing was broke. He used it for about 10 minutes and said he wanted to buy it. He said it welded like it was D/C instead of A/C.I can still get parts for it .It ways in at 250lbs and its only a transformer.

I have two Snap on welders at the shop. They are all fancy with dials and frequency knobs. The guys said they were the bestest mostest.  They are at the repair shop more than at our shop And I have to bring in the 1936 Forney for them to use. Since it was new the only things that were done to it were leads and power cord replaced and I put a fan in it to help it stay cool. It was just a hunch but I figured the insulation is 70+ years old and might be getting thin and brittle

Moral of the story I think simpler is better. End of stupid story.

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 Thanks for the info. Its always good to here from someone with actual experience.

The use of liquid thread locker is a good idea and a little extra insurance. Thread locker is good for many different applications. If you ever want to get a bolt loose, put thread locker on it when you install it, nine times out of ten it will come loose easier than the bolt with anti seize on it.

Bluecometk

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Generators / Re: Basic Gen/Electric Question?
« on: September 29, 2007, 07:05:59 PM »
 rcavictim Thank you for your time. You state in the second half of your reply If I was clever. Well, I'm not so I have another dum question.

I have a three hundred amp service that comes into the house as two separate boxes. One box (200 amp feeds) the general lights and utilities. The Second box (100 Amp) feeds the Geo. thermal heat unit.
Could I split the Gen power like you had suggested for the out building the same way.2/3rds house box, 1/3 heat box?

Thank you for your answers in advance.

Bluecometk.

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Engines / Re: Changfa-type head defect
« on: September 29, 2007, 06:35:57 AM »
 My dad used to weld old flat head Hercules Heads and manifolds And I always had to go out to the sand pit and light a fire and bury the head in the sand and coals for what seemed like 3 to 5 hours and then he would drag it out of the fire and weld it with an old Forney welder. The machine was about 50 feet away from the welding sand pit. And he would call out the heat/voltage numbers and He would constantly ask if I was sure I had the welder on DC over and over. Then he would weld for about 3 minutes and then back in the fire pit for about another hour and this would repeat until the job was done. I don't remember him peening it though. That's not to say he didn't just I don't remember it. I cant remember what rod he would ask for. I cant remember if it was High nodular iron or high nickle.I hope this mess of a story helps a bit.

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Generators / Basic Gen/Electric Question?
« on: September 29, 2007, 06:09:49 AM »
 I have a friend who has a Onan 13.5 kW Diesel Gen to sell me Cheap.

It is so he says, 208v 3phase/110v. MY dum question is. Can I in some way use this Gen on a house that has 230/240v single phase house current?

As you can tell I don't know anything about electric. The only thing about electric I do know is I don't know anything about it.

Some guidance from you Gentlemen would be great. Thank you in advance.

Bluecometk.




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Engines / Re: forced induction & torque converter
« on: September 09, 2007, 06:10:07 PM »
  You guys are all washed up and a little behind in your reading. DON'T YOU KNOW THAT RECTANGULAR PORTS ARE THE WAY TO GO.  DA! :)

No seriously, we in the race world have gone to rectangular contoured ports and runners.
They have proven time and time again to out perform cylindrical runners by giving us lower drag loss numbers due to less surface actually acting on the air flow.

I have been flowing cylinder heads and intakes for 20 years and don't know much about the true engineering numbers side. What I do know is very little. All I know is when the numbers are higher or lower for said application on the flow bench, it is a good thing.

Seems to me that at the extremely slow air flow speeds of these engines that increased velocity would take a back seat to better turbulence factors inside the runners and cylinder. I've always been taught that getting the air there is only half the battle.

In the lister world I am just a baby. I am just voicing my opinion. I mean no disrespect to any of you ladies and gentlemen.

Bluecometk.





 

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