Member postings for Maurice Taylor

Hi would this type of bearing be ok,only needs your tube cutting and flanges welding on ends.Flanges would bolt to either side of bearing.

This is from front of a Discovery 2

Maurice

Hi,you’ve just recommend one “72-13440” which is only £7.84 sold by CPC.

Maurice

Hi,Clive. Thank you for your explanation .

Maurice

Hi,Why doesn’t a mains electric drill with no load go faster and faster and seize ? These have brushes.

Maurice

Hi, MichaelG , Is it possible to open the case of the unit ,if it is you could unsolder original cable and solder new cable in its place.

Maurice

Hi, Buy a lead with C7 on one end and C8 on the other . Cut this lead close to plug end ,cut flash head cable close to flash head ,solder wires together and use heat shrink to cover joint . Fit mains plug to other end of socket cable.

Maurice

Hi, Why not do it the easy way ,use a 2 pin garden equipment plug and socket cable joiner.

Maurice

Hi,When I got my ML7 ,I got an old oil gun from a steam rally for a couple of quid ,it did not fit the nipples on the ML7.

Then I used the ML7 to make a new end for the oil gun ,this fitted the nipples.

Job done easy, ML7 oiled.

Maurice

Hi ,It could have wasted spark ignition ,where the plug fires once every rev .This is used in most modern car petrol engines.

Maurice

Hi ,I had the same problem with a backplate for an ML7, I bought a tap ,tapped the hole and backplate went on ok by hand

Maurice

Would a 3 phase diesel generator 5.5kVA from Machine-mart be suitable

Hi,A 1/2 hp Brook motor on an ML7 takes nearly 50A for 100mS on start ,this will sometimes trip a domestic mcb but probably wouldn’t trip an inductive load mcb ,as previously mentioned .An earth leakage fault would trip the elcb not the mcb.

Hi ,please don't waste your time looking for faults until you've run the engine and then switched everything on and checked the battery voltage and that it's charging.

I think the lights used to dim at tickover anyway on a 6volt system.

Maurice

Hi, Search forum for “ml7 top slide angle limitations “. It appeared on the forum on 11/03/21.

Maurice

Hi, According to Motalita website taper is 8 degrees and 9.96mm long.

Maurice

Hi

Milton contains sodium hypochlorite as does Domestos , I use Domestos to clean spoons as it takes far less time to do the job.

Maurice

Hi, I’m not able to give any advice on how to do the job,but I think it would be best to practice what others have suggested on a piece of scrap .

Maurice

Hi,

Have you got a 3 leg puller,you could use it to try to push the shaft out .This might work ,it might not but worth a try.

Maurice

Edited By Maurice Taylor on 10/03/2021 18:42:51

Hi ,I adjust the center height on mine by fitting shims between toolpost and cross slide

Maurice