Micro CoGen.

Hello all I know and remember, and all whom are new since my last visit.

I'm sitting on Flying Cloud up in BC with my little Perky-Cat-Volvo purring away charging my bats. It hit me that I miss this forum and how much it added to my life and my project development. So I worked at it and finally was able to log-on.

To say hi all...hi.

Life has been good ...but just recently got bad news....the big C, and its terminal.....but such is life...live what you got...make the best of the time you have left....LOVE LIFE & Friends & Family..as well as country.

lloyd

i am going to hang out a little more

http://www.stationaryengineparts.com/Thermostat-housing-kit.html

Not being  an L&P guy, i happened on this site, and see that someone is trying to become the source.

You L&P guys decided.

Lloyd

ps it might be old news

Flying Cloud is a cover girl.


They shot this while we were cruising this past August. We got an email from them in late September, asking for our permission.

Lloyd

Hi All,

I have about 30 plus gallons of used diesel oil. Here's the story, none of it has more then 150 hrs run time, it's all delo 100 30W, some of it has less then 50 hrs run time.

The oil is from my twin perkins 6.354's I change the oil twice yearly. The fall change usually gets 25 -50 hrs run time, the spring change gets 125-150 hours run time.

It's all in 1 gallon jugs, and most have settled some as much as 2 years.


If anyone wants it, it's free for pick-up in Seattle.

Lloyd

If it's not the same car it's built by the same. The only dif.,  is this pic has a Hemi, and we had a 427 GM.

I remember it  like yesterday...I had a 11.32 1968 GTO, my buddy had a 11.20 5-7 chev.

His uncle Carrol Shelby said here ya go, ....we spent a year building it, always arguing who was going to drive it.
Then after we drove it, we argued who was not going to drive it.

I was firm it wasn't going to be me, John was just as firm it wasn't going to be him...

We sold the car at just below a loss.

Lloyd

Hi all,

I have a couple of vintage 1968 diesels , as a matter of fact they are PERKINS 6.354's. 8 years ago I did a major on both, new cylinders(ie: liners, including being line bored), pistons, cranks, cams, lifters, new heads ..well valves, seats, springs, and guides.

Now I find myself not being able to find the proper lube oil.

I manage about 150 hrs a year on these marine engines, With what I invested in them they should do 40K hrs, and that would be a couple of lifetimes for my physical self.

But now due to our governments(well educated public service employees), and the save the worlder's....now it seems that I can't buy off the shelf LUBE OIL that will allow me to see the investment, so most likely these diesel will never see the 40K hr potential, nor my remaining life accuracies.

So now I have to officially become an OIL BLENDER, to achieve my goals.

So I have settled on Shell Rotella T 15w40 which is made from a type II base oil, it use to have a good TBN, but now that it clogs cat, and diesel particulate filters no more.

So I found Rislone ZDDP

So here is my formula each engine holds 13 quarts. including filter. it's a twin engine.

7 quarts Shell Rotella T 15w40
2.5 quarts Shell Rotella T-1 30
1.5 quarts. Rislone ZDDP concentrate
1 quart Marvel Mystery Oil.

Lloyd

Look here boys, and the few girls,

Surplus Center has the 26.4 HP CATERPILLAR C1.1 DIESEL ENGINE 49 instock.

This is a great little engine at just above 50% of wholesale price. http://www.surpluscenter.com/item.asp?item=28-1833&catname=engines

Not as Cheap as the little baby cats but what a power plant.

lloyd

add= One of the new Remy International 12 volt 420 amp 80% efficient HVH High Voltage Hairpin Alternators, and a Balmar Controller and you got a real charge source.

http://texasindustrialelectric.com/relays.asp

Just found this site, if you need a big dc relay, they have it.

Lloyd

Ok so here's the deal, I see this site growing in new membership, but I don't see but a few decide to participate once they join. We also have many old guard that don't participate anymore...or at least seldom.

I know I'm in the same boat..just lack the time sometimes.

I want to change how we, old and, new members interact with this site. So I got this wild idea, that we all post up a trick from up our sleeves, both old and  new members.

It can be anything related to this site.

Here I go.

How do yo take a 24 hr resting, specific gravity reading from a flooded lead acid battery bank, that you cant take off line?

It's a very simple procedure. It requires a turkey baster style battery syringe, and a real float style Hydrometer.

Modification of the hydrometer makes it easy, remove the bulb from the top, and the suction tube from the bottom. Now replace the suction tube on the bottom with a rubber stopper.

Now take the syringe, draw out enough electrolyte from your pilot cell, and fill the modified hydrometer, wait 24 hrs to take the reading, then remove the electrolyte back to the cell from which it came.

Lloyd

If ya want to know what a pilot cell is, then ya have to post up a trick of your own.

Hi all, it's time to go to the well again.

MY 1991 Ford Exploder is at it again. I have 240 k on the truck, and 40 on the re-man engine, and about 12k on the re-man auto-tranny.

It's been running rough on cold start-up for the past month & half, it 's fine as soon as it warms up. I took it in for a tune-up, gave em the symptoms, and asked em to change the oil.

Quote for oil change was 19.95, and tune up was 97.5 plus parts. When I picked it up, they said no tune-up, because their exhaust analyzer said antifreeze in the exhaust, well at least they didn't charge me for a tune up. Guess is I have a leaking head gasket, or worst case a cracked head.

Final bill for the day 176.76 dollars

add anti freeze 1/2 gal                   18.13
Engine analysis                             97.50
Oil Change                                   19.95
Filter                                              5.00
Oil                                               10.00
Haz. materials                                 7.00
Supply Charge                                3.77
tax                                               15.41


Now for the estimate for R&R Head gaskets

Labor                                1,400.00
Plus parts,
Plus machine shop charges.
OR PLUS new heads if they're cracked

Lloyd

http://store.marinebeam.com/contolling-emi-in-led-bulbs.html

Hi Bruce,

You are my go to guy for this topic, what say you?

Thanks,

Lloyd

http://www.enotes.com/topic/Magnetosphere. This region protects the Earth from cosmic rays that would strip away the upper atmosphere, including the ozone layer that protects the earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation.

which way is north, I'm assuming the opposite is south.

I say "Need some help from our European brothers or sisters" only because the Bosch Regulators for a Dynamos were hardly ever used in the states.

So whom I am looking for is most likely an Heavy Truck/Bus Mechanic from the 50's and 60's and either has a good memory, or an old repair manual. For Bosch Dynamos and Regulators.

The boat I rewired stem to stern, the owner decided he wants it all original. Which meant removing the alternators and replacing with new old stock dynamos and regulators.

The start circuit is a pair of 24 volt Delco now as originally installed, rebuilt gennies and new regulators, I flashed the fields (I Circuit, flashed the same as A Circuits, just has an Isolated Ground) and both are charging.

The House bank circuit now as originally installed a pair of 12 volt Bosch 80 amp gennies, one old regulator and one new old stock. I flashed the field (B Circuit) which also has an isolated ground....no charge to the bats.

Starboard side which has the original regulator is putting out 14.5 volt at the gennie, but it does not pass through the regulator to battery, that means the  cut out relay needs some adjusting...but I have no specks.

The Port side put out 16 volts when I full field pole shoes bypassing the regulator, which means the point on the field coil needs some adjusting, but just as the Starboard side the cut out relay does not pass gen voltage/current through to the bats.

So I need a manual to set the point gaps...other wise I'm just taking a shot in the dark, and if the regulators get fried there is no replacing them.

I am attaching pics below.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Lloyd


Restoration of a 1964 15 meter Italian built Bagietto

Regulator Re-Install....sorry the picture seems to vibrate....it must be the vibrating coils in the regulators

12 volt 80 amp Bosch Dynamos

One of the original toasted regulators

Same as above different view

same as above different view

Pic of the charge circuit

Hi Gang,

I have a Q about laser tacs. I just bought an Exteck non-contact laser tac. I understand how they work, but my confusion comes from how to actual measure true RPM. If I put the reflector on the timing mark of the front pulley, then won't the RPM be each time the mark comes up?

As apposed to when #1 hits top dead of the compression stroke. Do I factor in and divide by number of cylinders, and is there a factor between 2 stroke and 4 stroke?

Help.

Lloyd

This is a great white paper on UPS static or rotatory. It was produced by the Dept. of Arm, our tax dollars at work, so hope you get some value out of it

http://webbooks.net/freestuff/UPS.pdf

Lloyd

Hey All,

I found this site by accident, but think these might be of some use.

Lloyd


Off the Shelf T-Stat and Housing

http://www.atomic4.com/thermostat.htm



Tube bundle Heat-X, dual circuit, & Header tank.



Electric Coolant Pump

After a topic that included talk of RUM on the forum last night.

I've got this hankering for "Brer Rabbit Pure Ribbon Cane Syrup" man I miss that stuff.

Living here in the North West, we just don't get any ribbon cane syrup. Does anyone from this form, eat or know where some that stuff is.

I'm a willing buyer.

Lloyd

I've been preaching that efficiency is measured end to end, as is costs measured end to end.

Annual maintenance effects efficiency, as well as ROI(return on investment). ROI can be measured both in capital, and in labor.

Doing things twice, more then double's costs, and labor.




CHEAP IS Expensive

Everything you might want to know about the various of automotive alternators.

Don't forget to download a copy to your HD

http://kb-kbh.dk/shipslib/el_ombord/alternatorhandbook_ocr.pdf

Lloyd