I want buy a stationary engine...

[Shox Dr]

Anybody know anything about Lister CS units

 

[the snooper]

Anybody know anything about Lister CS units

they hold their money run slowy supposed to be economical, look for frost damage / repairs if buying one

 

[normspanners]

I want buy a stationary engine...

Buy a renault then

 

[julianthegypsy]

They're easier to buy than moving ones...

 

[brightspark]

Buy a renault then

just ask bb hese an expert on em

 

[Shox Dr]

They're easier to buy than moving ones...

It wont be moving far once in place

 

[Wendelspanswick]

Try and get an English made one as I understand they are still being made in India but the quality isn't there.

 

[Shox Dr]

Try and get an English made one as I understand they are still being made in India but the quality isn't there.

Deffinatly not interested. Has to be BritIron (if there is such a word, if there isn't...)

 

[the snooper]

Try and get an English made one as I understand they are still being made in India but the quality isn't there.

the indian ones are called listeroid

 

[wookie]

they hold their money run slowy supposed to be economical, look for frost damage / repairs if buying one

Lister diesels are great engines, easy to start, easy to maintain, slow running and if your gonna bolt it down permanently consider building an exhaust pit, I've done that and the exhaust is virtually silent now, just don't be tempted by the air cooled engines, they are noisy compared to water cooled engines because of the cooling fan moving the air.

 

[squazy84]

Just been offered a little lister diesel generator set, I'm thinking ill be the coolest kid in town when it lands....or perhaps not,sometimes I'm wrong about these things

 

[Fintray]

Shox Dr try on the Navitron forum:
https://www.navitron.org.uk/forum/index.php?board=14.0
Plenty on Listers there.

 

[HughF]

I might have one going spare, let me ask the boss... We used cs 6/1 and 8/1 gensets for years...

 

[julianf]

I have a cs, but I'm no expert on them - what was it you wanted to know?

 

[Keith 66]

We had a lister single cylinder diesel at the boatyard in old leigh to drive the slipway winch. It was a big watercooled job with a great iron flywheel. Hand start only & once it fired you had to spin the handle off sharpish before the engine caught you up. One day the lad starting it did not get the handle off & everybody quickly evaporated. It came off & went vertically into the sky until it was nearly out of sight.
Of course what goes up must come down & it fell through Sea kings **** house roof next door. Fortunately nobody was in there at the time.
Starting the thing in the winter was dodgy as easy start was usually involved & then it was liable to kick back viciously.

 

[bletchmonster]

Main thing I know about Lister cs is that I want one. Don't need it. Don't have much use for it. Just want one.
Big oily chugging thing with spinning spokey bits. Heaven!!
Wife will have to watch Corrie with headphones while l sit watching it running in the middle of the living room .

 

[Wendelspanswick]

I do have a matched pair of flywheels for a Lister leaning against our kitchen wall, I bought them at auction with maybe using them as bandsaw mill wheels or maybe as wheels on a Shepherds Hut.
They are 600mm in diameter by 100mm wide and weigh a ton!

 

[Shox Dr]

Thanks for the replies.

Fintray Cheers I'll have a look of there

HughF That would ace, thanks. Didn't know about the 8hp, the 6would be man enough I think. I'm working not so far from you as well. Back down in August

julianf Whatever needs to be known I guess. And I guess not much to know, such simple egines they are.

bletchmonster Me too, although I'm going to use this to power a log saw, and maybe a 3ph genset (insert roundtuit)

 

[julianf]

Thinking about it, I was somewhere last week, and the chap had a quite rare cs pump. It had a base similar to the som, but customised for the pump. (It was factory though, so custom design, rather than modded)

I'm not much into pumps, but if you are, then it was an unusual example.

The unit wasn't advertised, but the chap mentioned that he was intending on selling it at some

 

[julianf]

I do have a matched pair of flywheels for a Lister leaning against our kitchen wall, I bought them at auction with maybe using them as bandsaw mill wheels or maybe as wheels on a Shepherds Hut.
They are 600mm in diameter by 100mm wide and weigh a ton!

Do you still want them?

If not, are they spoked, or the ones with the kidney shaped cut out?