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oj
Joined: 02 Dec 2016
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Location: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia USA
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Wow, great video! I hadn't seen it before, thanks. In watching them cranking I could hear the magneto not working right. It has what they call an 'inertia starter' as you crank there is a spring that winds up then releases with a distinctive 'snap' that gives the magneto a hard spin. If it was working you could easily hear it, it'd sound just like something broke. With it working you just give a halfturn on the crank and she's running.
Alongside the sparkplugs you could see the primer cups, you add a little gasoline to each of the 4 cups and then open them, the gas drops into the cylinder and then close them off - the valve has a handle. Crank it over a couple times, then add 1/4 throttle, retard the timing, engage the magneto and give it a crank, she's off and running so you have to hop around to the steering wheel quick like and add some timing, back off the throttle a little (a governor restricts RPMs to about 800 or so and don't want to engage that) then start opening the choke.
That engine has pressureized oiling, it's a Buda and they went on to become a bulldozer manufacturor - Allis Chalmers maybe? Its a great engine. |
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Peter_L
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Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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| Ho oj. Pleased to hear you found it interesting. There is a huge knowledge base to be tapped at OCC, whether it be personal knowledge or Search Engine expertise. BTW, where about in the world are you. ? |
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oj
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Location: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia USA
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| peterwpg wrote: | | Ho oj. Pleased to hear you found it interesting. There is a huge knowledge base to be tapped at OCC, whether it be personal knowledge or Search Engine expertise. BTW, where about in the world are you. ? |
I'm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, USA. The town I live in hosts an annual steam & tractor show that lasts 3 or 4days, a big event that draws hundreds of participants from eastern USA. |
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Peter_L
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Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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| oj wrote: | | I'm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, USA. The town I live in hosts an annual steam & tractor show that lasts 3 or 4days, a big event that draws hundreds of participants from eastern USA. |
Have passed not so far away on I 81. Beautiful scenery Thanks |
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oj
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Location: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia USA
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| peterwpg wrote: | | oj wrote: | | I'm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, USA. The town I live in hosts an annual steam & tractor show that lasts 3 or 4days, a big event that draws hundreds of participants from eastern USA. |
Have passed not so far away on I 81. Beautiful scenery Thanks |
Being from New Brunswick you'd know beautiful. My family had a couple pools on the Arustagoosh (I know I've spelled it wrong) and a beautiful old camp, I spent many weeks over the years there learning to fly fish for salmon, I loved the area. |
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Peter_L
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Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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| This is it.. The Aroostook River is a 112-mile-long tributary of the Saint John River in the U.S. state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. |
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oj
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| peterwpg wrote: | | This is it.. The Aroostook River is a 112-mile-long tributary of the Saint John River in the U.S. state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. |
It was the Restigouche, near the ocean. I am from Maine and lived on the Machias where it joined the Aroostook in Ashland. |
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Peter_L
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| oj wrote: | | It was the Restigouche, near the ocean. I am from Maine and lived on the Machias where it joined the Aroostook in Ashland. |
That was good, to combine two possible locations in one word.  |
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Hi
Seen by my daughter and family in South Africa, between Mafikeng and Krugersdorp.
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Dipster
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Location: UK, France and Portugal - unless I am travelling....
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That`s the remains of an old Thames Trader cab. I wonder why it is there.
Kiddo`s playground? Surely not. |
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Penman
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Just decoration (garden art), my S-i-L asked.
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Rootes75
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Location: The Somerset Levels
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Its surprising what's still about in parts of Africa. I have seen a few good write ups in the classic commercial magazines and plenty of British built trucks survive in one guise or another.
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Penman
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Just seen this in Knuzden near Blackburn.
According to the Dennis Society:
1960, Chassis No 4449, Body Type F12, Pump Escape, ex Staffordshire F FB, Leek.
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Dipster
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I like Dennis products.
About 40 (or more?!! how time has flown....) years ago I used to work on their lorries. I once had occasion to visit the Guildford works to collect spares that we needed urgently. I managed to make the visit last as long as I could as I found it a magical place. The only other vehicle plant I had ever seen was Ford's in Dagenham. The difference in the two was staggering of course. I felt that Dennis's was like going to a much larger version of my Dad's garage. Ford more like Gotham city!
Anybody else here like the buses Dennis sold to Hong Kong? |
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