How much for one of these?

100 quid give or take the odd groat.

Tom

Given that my dad was on £12 10s pw in the early 60's and an equivalent wage would be £25 000 now, then £150 would be quite reasonable!

Mark Rand RTFM

mainly

figure

Well when I bought a very similar one for my Pedrazoli Mecbrown cold cut off saw it cost £174 plus carriage plus the VAT . I was amazed that they still had them as the saw is late 1960's

AWEM

£3.51, as they blew 1" of dust off the package on the back of the top shelf and found NOS items

Peter

The RPI was 12.6 in 1960 and is 206 now, a 16 fold increase. Allowing just for inflation it should be about £60. Actually on cnc machines nowadays you could knock those out for a fraction of that and maybe the company hasn't allowed for only selling one a year. So the question is do I guess silly expensive or silly cheap? I'll say £40.

£37.50

Come on then. Spill the beans.

£240 ++ Or so I'm told, luckily I didn't have to fund it, even temporarily.

This is the engine:-

Kelvin T8

This is a later version:-

The gear is on a cross-shaft which drives two ram (reciprocating) water pumps, one for raw water and one clutched bilge pump. A nut had come adrift in one of the pumps and jammed under the end of the piston rod, causing the stripped gear & a bent shaft. All back together & up and running as of this evening.

I expect a new gear could have been made, even as a one-off, for less than that subject to finding someone with the right equipment & right size hob to do it, but not on a next-day delivery basis, plus there's always an element of doubt when working from a (knackered) sample rather than from a drawing.

Tim

right

there's

Fun looking engine, surely THAT'S not on a canal, or do they water ski behind narrow boats ? - or at least not a UK canal !

AWEM

Pro-stock narrowboats?

Mark Rand RTFM

Now if you had only asked me first ---------------- there you go another lost sale and mine were only £239.99 each ;-) Go on then what is the T8 driving? Just for interest, there is a T4 going into an old Tug at R.W. Davies at Saul soon. Replacing a big Mann Diesel.IIRC. BTW I am looking for an HR3 or something similar for a colleague currently building a 70 ft NB. If you know of anything please let me know.

-- Richard

Nb "Pound Eater" Parkend G+S "Governments are like Nappies, they should be changed often." (For the same reason)

I've got an HRW3 in bits, basically sound, no gearbox, open to offers.

Tim

A 200-ton capacity tank barge

Tim

Another thought, I have a Dorman 2DL looking for a home. This would make a very nice engine for a large NB, 30 bhp @ 1000 rpm, but there would be a fair bit of work to do in marinising etc. Open to offers, it's a bit in the way at present!

Tim

Hi, Just registered to ask about the Dorman 2DL. Where is it located an

what condition is it in. Is it a 2DL1,11 or 111.

Simon

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I had to think for a bit as to what the connection was

I wouldn't have a clue as to whether it's a I, II or III. Didn't know there were such things!

Near Warrington, Ches. Not run for a year or so, but believed to be in decent order.

Tim

Another RCgroups victim!

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He'll grow out of it....:-)

Cheers Trevor Jones