Still sorting out the odds and ends for the engine. First getting free of the ball and chain of the workshop gas cylinder was of prime importance.
My friend the bin man gave me a dead gas blowlamp so I made a 20 tpi left hand adaptor for it to take the regulator and we are in clover. the only problem is when you are near the end of the gas it will only run at tick over so I simply let it run until all the gas is used.
Second problem was the small amount of oil splash from the big end lubrication system, not a lot but just enough to require cleaning up after a run.
Now I racked my poor brains over this one in the end I decided on a curved metal cover just to catch the lube thrown from the bearing.
So first I had to make a pattern, having a piece of thin plastic from some packaging handy I formed a piece to clip into place under the oilers. and that was it, I got no further it was perfect, not only did it do the job the big end was in full view.
The engine now runs perfectly clean. I am not shure what the moral of this story is but there is one in there somewhere???
When I took the photos the clear plastic did not show up to well so I have put a piece of card under it so you can see.
Slowly getting there Brian
My friend the bin man gave me a dead gas blowlamp so I made a 20 tpi left hand adaptor for it to take the regulator and we are in clover. the only problem is when you are near the end of the gas it will only run at tick over so I simply let it run until all the gas is used.
Second problem was the small amount of oil splash from the big end lubrication system, not a lot but just enough to require cleaning up after a run.
Now I racked my poor brains over this one in the end I decided on a curved metal cover just to catch the lube thrown from the bearing.
So first I had to make a pattern, having a piece of thin plastic from some packaging handy I formed a piece to clip into place under the oilers. and that was it, I got no further it was perfect, not only did it do the job the big end was in full view.
The engine now runs perfectly clean. I am not shure what the moral of this story is but there is one in there somewhere???
When I took the photos the clear plastic did not show up to well so I have put a piece of card under it so you can see.
Slowly getting there Brian
