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If it stopped as in the photo on tdc or bdc it wont start again.

flicking the flywheel may help?

The steam may be too cold by the time it gets to the cylinder - insulate the pipework

Just don't burn test suspected celluloid without a lot of care, it burns very fast

However,

From your link it appears any German parentage including the factory, was phased out before 2001.

In 1992 Black & Decker introduced the brand Marke deWalt, which up until then had only been rederved for radial arm saws, for the field of professional power tools. The power tool, which has been distributed in Europe under the brand ELU, have become increasingly similar in construction to the deWalt models.

In 2001 the brand ELU has been completely replaced by deWalt and the former production site in Europe has been closed.

Dave,

There lies your problem. Dewalt were born in the US in 1924 bought by our old friend B&D in 1960. They were never German.

Is it just a matter of fitting a pressure switch in the line somewhere?

Sadly no, it's not designed for it. You would need to insert a modern unloader in the large copper pipe and the pressure switch will need a new oulet from the tank + the old system may interfear.

Edited By Dave Halford on 03/09/2023 23:57:41

What do you expect, some BBC morning news presenters don't what what a Blue Tit is so they dumb it down to the level they they understand.

Wasn't that Hi Alumina Cement High Alumina Cement - Manufacturing, Pros & Cons (civiconcepts.com) the link imples this stuff is still great even though roof beams in a school collapsed back in 74.

It reminds me of a recent contributor on here 'Drawings are for dum people and toymakers'

Buildings are built using drawings, do they burn / shred them in case they may be held liable later?

If as Howard says the tension is set by elongation of the blade why would a broader blade need more elongation to have the correct tension? Steel will only stretch so far regardless of cross section so though it will take more force to produce required extension the 0.05 to 0.07mm is still valid.

The exchanges have big UPS units and generators so the copper still works. Street cabinets only have enough power to safely shut down

The old trunk twisted pair cable network, most of which terminated in B'ham Telephone house on it's way to and from both ends of the country was ripped out 10 years ago. The coax may still be there as there's not much metal in it.

I had some pleasure ripping out the fruits (90 tons of cable) of 23 years spent putting all that Transmission into service. Strange to see that 20 years after leaving the record cards so carefully filled in were still there. The building is now stuffed with fibre kit that needs no-one there permanently to look after it.

I've used a calibrated 2lb lump hammer over a brick as an anvil.

If you lean on the handle after already miss-treating it due to bending the tines in the first place you may need to find a new handle as well.

If you can't shift sometime without bending tines get a pickaxe.

However spray on stone chip (but not the Shutz stuff) certainly withstands grit blast cleaning. Stone chip stays slightly rubbery which takes the sting out of blade driven projectiles.

Yes depending on the motor spindle size matching.

Clive,

Doing the due diligence thing and checking the feedback none of those units have ever been sold by that seller.

All the similar sellers have similar low feedback and sell the same gun related gear, but no electric motors so far. it's likely you would end up waiting a long time for them to ship.

Picking up on what Robert is saying the connectors appear to be quite lightweight for what would be UK 4A or US 8A if fed straight off the mains so the controller must be pushing significant DC voltage.

Oh er missus, a wedgie

Watch the roughing up, Neodymium is very prone to rust hence the plating on them.

I have gently used the horizontal arbor in the vertical head

I did a 6" dia by 3 5/16" wide out of 3mm steel with a 300mm 3 in 1 roller, cutter, bender.

You do it in very small steps as the gears don't reach each other. You do not need to use tools on the roller wingnuts to get drive and don't extend the handle. You might get away with twice the length as yours is only 2mm.

If it won't work nothing is lost as long as you didn't force it.

No Tony it's just that you can't write any form of Chinese properly and I wonder how that XS 650 got built without drawings.