Wind/diesel installation....

[wyleu]

You realise M15 will want to know about this meeting? a couple more people and it will constitute an illegal gathering.

[frotter]

So i suppose we should make some sort of ramshackle table affair to stick the enginey gubbins on then? Crappy ancient Clarke Mini Mig duly fired up.....





Eh? Blimey! - its only the Mystical "Ken". Now y'see "Ken" has magical eyes wot dont need retinas. He can weld all day without so much as plastic 99p comedy sea-front shades! Right - you just stick all that together then an me an SpeccyBloke will slope off fer a cuppa - yay!





SpeccyBloke is such a WIMP he has to wear a great antimatter-proof diving helmet affair. Them sparks are nothin! I mean, are YOUR eyes stinging looking at this picture? - NO.
PFF!!




Laters.
C'mon view this thread loads of extra time to bump me to the top... you know you wanna...
Mwaahahaahhaa   etc.

 

[jason]

Hi frotter
briliant thread and getting beter by the day, you mus set up a webcam as it would be good to see what the wind is doing on the other side of the hill.
oh yeh how do you set up a webcam?
regards jason

[Ivan]

It's getting desperate now - Pictures of people welding?... I don't know.

We want to see lard generating electricity. Let's get some proper stuff on here. Get that webcam sorted!

[KenB]

Ivan,

You ought to know more than most (as a Staromatic owner),  that behind every successful RE project there are the hours of mundane hard graft - even welding.

Mind you with my Lister - most of the recent acts of welding have been involuntary - and something to do with the 125Vdc supply I insist on using.

As a kid I had a wall poster of a monkey hanging on the end of a Heath-Robinson banana peeling machine, with the caption

"Ideas won't work unless we do"


We can do the lard thing when I come over next if you wish.....


Ken

[Ivan]

I think I need an in-hose specky-bloke and frotter!

[stephen]

I think we all need a specky bloke.
I am gob smacked at the amount of "tinkerin" that gets done in your house frotter.
well you said it in another post "frott tv and side kick specky bloke" it must be worth a watch. I would even pay a subscription. 1 pint of oil = 15min of frott TV. or would you prefer hard cash lard. 

Keep it up. I will keep logging on just to bump your numbers Up.


Stephen

[frotter]

Heh! Lard generating electricity??  Well i was at that stage about two weeks ago then the s*ddin alternator fried itself didnt it? Come on now, do try to keep up!
I must confess to being slightly daunted by how far back we have slipped from the joyful 'lard generating electricity' scenario. 
Aiming to be back on the cheesey stuff asap...... 

Progress could be described as sedate atm as 'real life' keeps butting in. But here is Speccy Bloke (Yes, yes OK!! He DOES do ALL the work and all i do is loiter about eating Jaffa cakes!! Happy now?) making the rubber-suspended frame the engine will jiggle about on atop the steel Table O' Doom.
Bless him....







There - lookit them super cotton reels! I luvs 'em, me.





Trial fitting of the di*sel start/stop tank. Looks like summat you see at a steam fair dun't it? Can i be Fred Dibnah?? Must have an old waistcoat and fob watch somewhere.
"Oh aye, 'appen t'chimley'll need pointing lad! Reet, up wi't big ladder, like. Put t'kettle on, lass. Pass us me climbing clogs and asbestos cap an' i'll see thee at tea time.... er.. 'Appen..." 




More soon i should tink.

Respect.

XXXX

[frotter]

meanwhile.... back at the 'yeah but how are we going to make lectric now the alternator's fried' dept - The dept has aqcuired two 70 amp 24volt truck alternators.
Oooohh!




These are going to each charge half of our battery bank. On application of grey matter it became apparent that this would mean the negative of one alternator (ie the case..) would be different to the other alternators case to the tune of 24volts. 24 volts of scary 800 ah forklift cells... It was thus decided to try and bring the -ve of each alternator out of the case INSULATED from it so we didnt cause very big spark and magic smoke misery.
So yeah lets just whip this orf and have a bit of a 'look in'...




Wont go into the full details for fear of everyone becoming asleep... but it is a bit of a fiddle finding all the ways the negative is earthed to the case and changing numerous washers/spacers/screws and thingys to isolate it. Just hope i have got it all right......




Back to Chernobyl - a trial fitting of Steel Table O Doom complete with weeny enjin sittin as perky as you like....! (phones arent quite as good as cameras at being cameras are they? Well mine int any road up.)

XXX

[frotter]

Well its been a while since the last update, sorry! We have been tinkerin though so a catch up is in order i feel.

Look a Speccybloke in its natural habitat! Shh, dont scare it.....



Doesnt our wee Kubota look dinky after seeing all these 'real' men's enormous throbbing Listers..? Some sort of compensation going on here maybe...... Ken...?   

Meanwhile back in the 'what the feck do all these do again?' dept. The old genny control panel is being stripped of anything useful.




Here, thrilllinglly, we seem to have our temporary exhaust fitted. There will eventually be a multitube heat exchanger on the zorst for to steal all the heat away to take the edge off the chill in the dusty corridoors of Frot Towers.




Crazy looking tubage snaking away out of Chernobyl to wall mounted external radiator. Again eventually this heat will be stolen away blah blah....




A radiator, on a wall, outside, yesterday.
Yes the eagle-eyed of you wot are still awake may have spotted electric fan lurking in there somewhere.




More tomorrow hopefully!

CYA! Wouldnt wanna BYA!

XX

[Ivan]

Hi Frots,

The rad outside will be great in the summer, but how about a rad inside your building for the wnter, perhaps with some crude manual change-over valves. You'll get cold in there soon!

[martin]

if you mounted it like a "ventaxia" with a grille to the inside of the shed, you could put the fan onto "suck" instead of "blow" for winter........

[frotter]

Scratching our heads we realised we have a LOAD of gubbins to be mounted near the wee motor. Fuel valves, pump, filter, throttle control, fuel heat exchanger, wiring and MANY relays! Brilliantly our original generator box had a thick steel frame with lifting eye bolted over the engine. Oi Speccy bloke - whip that off and bosh it on there willya??
Perfect for filling with techno thingies and keeping beer bellies away from rotating hacking chopping wotsits.




See, you turn your back for a minute or two and the magical gay piskies have installed a charging regulator, a fuel filter and some lectric string!!
Blimey!!




Ideal! Lets chuck some solenoidy doofers in and some other stuff and see how we go........




Oh yeah, and then blimmin' Speccy bloke comes along and makes a right mess of things by cramming up all the space with great rows of relays and trips. Bast*rd.




...and worst of all Speccybloke; youve let YOURSELF down......




Yours Lardily

Frot the magnanimous.

[KenB]

Gosh Frot,

You have been busy. Where can I get my own Speccybloke, they don't sell them in shops around here, and I need one that can weld properly, just like yours. Perhaps you can rent one from a hire shop?

Sideshow Bob has been making a gasifier all weekend and hardly had time to help me mangle my manifold.

No neighbourly complaints yet, but the cloud of mist at 9am might at least have had them worried. 

I'm still trying to use up that 25kg of lard you let me have. It gets a bit boring having it on toast every morning. 




Ken

[frotter]

Boring? Lard??
Shome mishtake.. etc...