My week this week! My workshop videos

I am easily sidetracked, especially if things are proving frustrating, it is sometimes a good idea to put the job down and do something else untill you get the inspiration back. Sometimes however, you find that you need to use something that you have, and have rebuilt.........but didnt quite finish, and the dilemma is, do I stop, and finish it, then use it, or can I achieve the same result by another route? I will now write out 100 times "I must finish everything I start until it is COMPLETELY DONE"!

Phil, revelling in a warm workshop!

Some interesting bits and peices as I grasshopper around the workshop on my usual plate spinning act, very pleased with the way the drawbar turned out, and the vertical head fit up is all but completed. Although the brazing hearth could not produce quite enough heat to braze it, having it running is another leap forward in the great scheme of things, and I am very pleased with the way it works. Please give me a like or a comment, thanks for stopping by and watching, and please subscribe!

Phil

Enjoying pleasant October weather in East Yorkshire!

Another week of progress on the milling machine, you come to a point where it is more effective to crack on with making a machine universally usable rather than push forward with the job in hand and accept the limitations of tooling you can't use because of vital component shortages, Which is another way of saying I got sidetracked into making all the drawbars I need to use the Int 30 tooling I have! But at the end I get the job set up and then boring commences! I left the cock ups in on purpose, as they are quite amusing!

It is raining, and has done pretty much all week in East Yorkshire!

Phil

Edited By Phil Whitley on 28/11/2020 16:41:14

The last gasp up to the holidays, but I gopt far more dome than I thought I would, and have got even more ideas for after Christmas, I will be back in the shop in early January, unless it snows, in which case it is anybodies guess as the Langtoft road is particularly treachorous in snow, and it can block up and be impassable in less than 30 minutes! As I type this there is a storm brewing which will bring Greenlands weather straight onto the west coast of the UK, so snow could be a distinct possibility! Have a good holiday and keep safe! All the best!

Phil, in a distinctly colder East Yorkshire

Well folks, I dragged myself back to work after a pleasant Christmas break, got the air filter finished, and made progres generally, but then, the starter is no longer able to spin the engine! that will teach me not to to fit new rings, and grind the valves in! Too much compression for a starter that is designed to start a 15hp single cylinder engine! I think I have pushed the boat out too far, and too fast, and then tried to jump in, and the obvious has happened! The new starter arrives tomorrow! Thanks for watching, and a strappy new year to you all!

Phil

Slip sliding away on the ice in East Yorkshire.

Edited By Phil Whitley on 15/01/2021 20:54:37

Hi Tony, I am in Driffield, and the workshop is ower 't ward tops!

Phil

At last! The engine, mainly the carburettor, is sorted. multiple problems have been fixed, and now she starts easily, ticks over slowly and throttles up smoothly. I can now get on with the finishing off! Need new alternator bearings, they are noisy, and the new coil will arrive next week. If only I could find that ignition switch!!! Thanks for watching, please subscribe and comment.

Phil, East Yorkshire has snow and ice warnings!!

Is that a Weber 28-36 DCD twin choke carb. If so it seems a bit too big for that engine. Also why do you need a an adaptor on the manifold. Surely the carb would be ok directly onto the manifold. Those engines i worked on always had a basic single choke carburettor.

No Steviegtr it is a Solex 26/18 which was the original carb, the single choke carbs were an earlier fitment. There is no adapter onto the manifold, just an insulating block that stops the carb getting too hot. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Phil