JRD77VET
09-03-2016, 8:11pm
First saturday of every month is work day out at Rough and Tumble. We are putting up a string of ten 500 watt DC lights and running them with GE DC generator for extra light during the evening of shows.
We're doing it "old school" with solid wire and porcelain wire posts. First pic is Bill ( close ) installing the porcelain wire posts and the solid wire. Tom ( back ) is wrapping the light fixture wiring and soldering it in place.
Second pic is Bill running the feed wires from the light bank to the generator. Notice the white porcelain posts.
After lunch, I installed cloth covered wires on my Associated Busy Boy hit and miss engine. I also fixed the knife blade switch on the battery box. The ground wire is black with red and the positive is red with black.
I also took the cylinder oiler home to replace the gaskets. Roger was kind enough to give me a Lunkenheimer cylinder oiler to replace the Penberthy bearing oiler that was on it. I have to make a new brass adjustment rod but that will be easy to do with my machines at home.
In the last picture is the old oiler showing the extra pipe elbow that was added to keep the cylinder piston movement from blowing bubbles in the oiler. The correct style Lunkenheimer is made for oiling the cylinder as it has a check valve to keep the oil only going down. ( see the ball and extra tube? That's what makes it work )
We're doing it "old school" with solid wire and porcelain wire posts. First pic is Bill ( close ) installing the porcelain wire posts and the solid wire. Tom ( back ) is wrapping the light fixture wiring and soldering it in place.
Second pic is Bill running the feed wires from the light bank to the generator. Notice the white porcelain posts.
After lunch, I installed cloth covered wires on my Associated Busy Boy hit and miss engine. I also fixed the knife blade switch on the battery box. The ground wire is black with red and the positive is red with black.
I also took the cylinder oiler home to replace the gaskets. Roger was kind enough to give me a Lunkenheimer cylinder oiler to replace the Penberthy bearing oiler that was on it. I have to make a new brass adjustment rod but that will be easy to do with my machines at home.
In the last picture is the old oiler showing the extra pipe elbow that was added to keep the cylinder piston movement from blowing bubbles in the oiler. The correct style Lunkenheimer is made for oiling the cylinder as it has a check valve to keep the oil only going down. ( see the ball and extra tube? That's what makes it work )