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Thanks Tel, I will start snooping around and see if I can find some. Lance

Maryak, You are right, i had taken the 127 from the mm od of the 5'' gear by mistake. Lance.

Thank you all for your interest. I think I can change the shaft spacings to suit something more universal. As it is a 1/3 scale baler to run on a hit and miss engine as long as the lower bull gear stays around the same place the rest can be fiddled with. The pdf with the gear info is all I got...

Dave, I think you are right I will see if I can attach a pdf Lance

Pat, I was told that sash weights from older windows were often used for a supply of cast. My friend turned up with a weight as he was also told the same. We were going to make a small piston, NEVER again, it must have been the left overs from the foundry and was very poor quality, it even...

G Day everyone, I have a project that needs a few gears cut and the information is a bit short on detail. I have 12.5'' gears to cut with 74 teeth that mate with a pinion that is 2.5'' with 13 teeth and A 5" gear that has 127 teeth to mesh with a pinion of 2.250'' with 13 teeth...

G day Pat, Piston does look good and like you I learn so much from these pages. As the engine is oiled from a drip oiler the small groove is a way to get oil around all of the piston and also into the gudgeon pin through the tapered hole in the con rod under the hole in the piston...

Engine does look great George, being a farm engine nut it spins my wheels. Lance

Find more shed time and work less. (less than 60hrs/week) After today drive slower. ;D Lance

We were allowed into the workshop today, we ended up with only 5'' of water go through the place and spent most of the day with a pressure cleaner in hand and Judy (wife) and Sally (wifes friend) with mops and buckets etc. I had put a pump in the pit on the wash bay and as the water went down it...

Thanks everyone, I have had a friend call past to check on the business shed and we have 12'' of water in there at present but the water is not getting any higher now. I will still have a day or so to tidy up my home shed by the look of things, then I hope to have some time to put...

G Day everyone, Well Bundaberg is in the biggest flood in 70 years. The peak was to be 7.8m but last night it got to 7.9m and when I went to the creek crossing near our place the road is blocked by 5-600 mm with water backed up from the river and was slowly rising. My business has...

Pat, The tap on the pulley side is a decompression device. As you can see the hole goes into the cylinder itself. The way it works is that as the compression is considerable, you open the tap and as the piston starts its forward movement a little of the compression leaks out the tap, until...

Pat and Jason, I measured the flywheels on my engine while I took some photos for Pat and my flywheels are 27 1/4'' x 2 1/8 which makes it a 5hp I think, and the spokes were tapered 0.200'' over 9''. Lance.

G Day Pat, I have a full size Galloway that looks the same as the one in your first picture, it still needs to be restored. I would be happy to measure or take happy snaps of bits and pieces for you if you get stuck or would just like to see how things go on the full size engine. :) Lance.

G day Brian, I dont have much model experience with the model engines but have had a fair bit to do with the full size engines. It sounds like you are getting close to ideal with the timing and mixture, as the engine leans out they will pick up revs to a point. The speed is then...

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Brian, A lot of engines that were hit and miss just had a needle valve and it was mostly only the throttle (or volume) governed engines that had a butterfly, I reckon your on the right track with only a needle on a hit and miss emgine. Thanks Lance

G day Brian, On the full size farm engines I have found that as suggested a small spring under the head of the needle will do 2 things that help in tuning an engine. The first is that the screw stays where you put it and the second is in the older worn engines the thread is worn and...

Jason, The full size engine has a mica tube with mica washers under the head and as I restore old engines I have some of that but it is all too large and very flakey to deal with, I think it would have to be punched with a hole punch and not drilled. I had not thought of teflon, thats where this...