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Not quite in your league, but I got a black and decker hammer drill from a skip, just needed a small repair and I'm still using it years later, and a 1/2" drive socket set, complete apart from the 15/16" socket, which I had.
So I haven't done bad skip diving.
Thanks for reminding me.
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Arrived today after a low offer excepted on Ebay i never expected the dial to be so big !
Ally or iron block?
Alloy, I believe you could use an old diesel 1800 block to make a more robust one, but I never tried.
The good engine then like mine!
The engine was built for saloon car racing, same as the Vauxhall red top.
Only let down by a poorly designed oil system that trapped the oil in the head, it couldn't drain back to the sump quickly enough, leading to low oil level in the sump and that coupled with oil surge meant a short life for a lot of these engines!
With a few simple modifications this fault can be cured.
The later iron block engine didn't have the oil issue but it's a heavy lump of iron.
That being said a 306 GTI6 is on my car wish list!
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This oil retention is an issue for many 8V converted to 16V engines - Vauxhall small blocks suffer from it, so does the Rover M/T16 and I would guess many others.
I raced the Rover engine (now there's a heavy engine for you) for years, took me a while to realize how much oil was not draining back to the sump - in fact it was a session the dyno that proved it to me...
Vince Mosley had sold me a pair of 45 webers, I'd made an inlet manifold (from stainless!), but the carbs were fitted with 34mm chokes. Well this damn engine would not rev beyond 6500. So there was I holding the throttles wide-open, swinging the dizzy, when suddenly me, the engine and the old H&F dyno were engulfed in smoke. So needless to say I ran!
When the smoke had cleared the cause was easy to see - the "breather" pipe I'd fitted to the cam cover had emptied the contents of the rear cam box all over the exhaust..
So then you start thinking "how much oil must there be in the cam box to make this happen?" And why?
Of course, it comes down to insufficient drain returns, but these returns are also used to vent the crankase, meaning gasses are going up whilst oil is trying to go down. Turned out 2/3rds of the sump contents would be in the head....
Sorry for the long winded reply, but it's a story worth telling I think.
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That being a Craftsman drill, is it 240v? I know it has a 3 pin plug on it but Craftsman stuff, being Murican, is usually 120v.
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Apparently sold by B&Q in the 90's.
They do have 240V in the US, so not unknown to have 240v tools in the USA either.
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I've also decided bouldering isn't nearly as satisfying as trad and I'll probably never touch this book again.
I've also decided bouldering isn't nearly as satisfying as trad and I'll probably never touch this book again.
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I blame @MattF for mentioning biscuit jointers and putting the idea my head, then 123HotChef beats to one listed on here so a quick search of Marketplace and a barely used Bosch GFF22-A for £40, glad I didn't pay the new price. It won't get a lot of use so I'm happy to have corded, better if it was red instead of blue though but this Bosch stuff keeps creeping into my tool collection.
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You're welcome. Saw a 205 rally car and somebody had built a unique 1600 ally block Mi16 for it. Had done some clever re engineering on the head to sort the oil problem.
Never saw it in action but it was a real screamer. Even hearing it revving in a garage it sounded awesome.
Didn't get a full demo of it because it was sold and heading to a new owner in rally mad Jamaica.
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Well, I didn't know that.
But I did know that
, though typically for higher load stuff like tumble driers etc in domestic installations. In fact, my first ever compressor was a Craftsman. 240v 6.5 HP 60 gallon vertical tank. Bought it in South Carolina in early 2001 and flew it home in a C130 (perks of the job 
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The mower deck for my Toro Wheel Horse 522xi garden tractor had a distinctly Swiss cheese appearance after weathering 24 years of outdoor storage (and TBH, I should have cleaned it more often). I was initially thinking about cutting out the rust and welding in new metal, until I pressure washed it, which knocked out the thin spots and revealed the real scope of the damage. I decided it was too far gone to bother repairing it, as I have other more interesting projects to work on.
So I began searching for a replacement deck. I found a few that were several hundred miles away and astronomically overpriced, but finally found one a short drive away that was still very solid, with NO rust holes or deep rust...just some flaking paint and minor surface rust. It needs some maintenance and a few new parts, but I was happy to get it for a very decent price. It's a 48-inch deck, which is four inches wider than my old deck.
And the deck came with a nice 'accessory': a New Holland GT18 garden tractor in very good shape for its age, and with very low hours. The GT18 was made by Toro, and other than cosmetics, it's the same tractor as my Toro 522xi, except that my Toro has a slightly bigger engine, power steering, and cruise control. I believe that the mower deck, as well as all of my other implements (rototiller, plow, snow blower), should fit either tractor.
These are very heavy (and heavy duty) garden tractors, and I hope to keep them running for a long time.
I plan to post the overhaul of the mower deck, probably next week.
So I began searching for a replacement deck. I found a few that were several hundred miles away and astronomically overpriced, but finally found one a short drive away that was still very solid, with NO rust holes or deep rust...just some flaking paint and minor surface rust. It needs some maintenance and a few new parts, but I was happy to get it for a very decent price. It's a 48-inch deck, which is four inches wider than my old deck.
And the deck came with a nice 'accessory': a New Holland GT18 garden tractor in very good shape for its age, and with very low hours. The GT18 was made by Toro, and other than cosmetics, it's the same tractor as my Toro 522xi, except that my Toro has a slightly bigger engine, power steering, and cruise control. I believe that the mower deck, as well as all of my other implements (rototiller, plow, snow blower), should fit either tractor.
These are very heavy (and heavy duty) garden tractors, and I hope to keep them running for a long time.
I plan to post the overhaul of the mower deck, probably next week.
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