Old Machine Start-up.

www.facebook.com/reel/1272329147546210

 

You know, that's sort of funny and troubling at the same time.

First off....  oh look at this. Using a motorbike to get an old engine started. 

But then, you wonder about what the old engine is doing and the manufacturing output from it.  And, then,  you wonder if we still have those skills or have they been commercially lost forever.

Same as all the machinery repairs and casting (etc) videos we get.

With the usual attention to safety boots. MILLAT any relative to Ivan

I put new rings in an old JP4 Lister ,and it had no compression......got it going with a motorbike on the flywheel.

I had to belt up my McDonald and my 8hp Lister to the PTO pulley to get them to start after rebuilds.

Might want to reword that Cob, Engine Protection Group might be onto you.

Not much evidence of them at tractor pulls.
David.

Na, I'll stand by the comment, it left no bruises

Among stationary engine collectors the method of a friction drive to the flywheel of a large engine to aid starting is not unusual. Larger stationary engine sometimes are fitted with high pressure air cylinders and the attached valves and pipework to get the engine started after rotating with compressed air. Where large stationary engines do not have air start then the starting method can be manual rotation of the flywheels until over compression when it may start. If the operator is unable to start an engine manually then an assisted method would be used such as friction drive,a donkey engine or with it belted up to a tractor pto puller such as Cobba mentioned, and not always just for large engines.
I am contemplating using an assistance method for starting a Lincoln Weldanpower welder fitted with a Lombardini diesel engine. I have had this welder more than twenty years but it is much older than that and still works well welding and generating. The starting method is using a rope on a pulley and then rocking the engine back and forwards until able to pull it over compression when it starts. All good when this happens but sometimes it doesn't. There is no compression release fitted and no starter or even a ring gear and starter available.As my age increases it is more difficult to start it first time. I think I will look at fitting a spare 12V starter motor with a friction wheel and battery where I can hold it against the starting pulley             with a lever setup. Open for ideas. I will add some photos of the welder and its instructions. Gerry. 

  Couldn't add some photos in previous post so will add them here. Gerry